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Author: vanitasvitae

I Love Free Software Day 2019

Today is I Love Free Software Day! Time to thank the developers of your favorite free software!

February 14, 2019
Brussels Day 1 and 2

The XSF summit is over. Next will be FOSDEM.

February 2, 2019
WordPress Anti Spam Measures using Fail2ban

I’m taking on the fight against Wordpress spam using fail2ban

January 29, 2019
Quick Note: Backdoor in ES File Explorer

Backdoor discovered in popular proprietary Android app.

January 18, 2019
Unified Encrypted Payload Elements for XMPP

An envelope hiding the original message – Image by Bru-nO

This is a proposal to extract the element encryption principle from OpenPGP for XMPP to make it applicable to other encryption protocols.

January 17, 2019
Join the Fediverse!

vanitasvitae’s blog is now part of the fediverse!

January 12, 2019
Kuketz Blog about Blokada

Mike Kuketz blogged about Blokada and FDroid.

January 10, 2019
On Independent Journalism

Independent, reliable journalism is very important, but cannot be taken for granted these days. Let me explain what I expect from the media and how I think we could save truthful news coverage.

December 29, 2018
Searching for changelogs of F-Droid apps

I describe my workflow for adding changelogs to fdroid app metadata files.

November 30, 2018
Setting up a Planet

Planets are a thing of the 90s, but still they are quite cool as they can bring a community closer together by helping users to exchange ideas. I hope this will also work out for the F-Droid community 🙂 For that reason I proposed to set up a planet for F-Droid / FOSS Android development…

November 20, 2018