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Month: March 2025

  • Recommended talk: Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status

    This week I came across a post recommending the talk from Molly White (@molly0xff) at SXSW, talking about “Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status“.

    The abstract of the talk is: “The real power move for creators is ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two fediverse futurists how decentralized social media facilitates better publishing, community, and business models. These speakers will cover the theoretical and the practical, including how the landscape is evolving in 2025, where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without “walled garden” social platforms.”

    It’s an interesting talk, where she’s talking about how (and WHY) she keeps her content mainly on her website and federates it to some social networks for discovery.

  • How to set up Navidrome for MP3 Streaming on a RaspberryPi

    Recently I noticed that I hardly ever listen my MP3 music collection – mainly because I don’t like my music players (both on mobile and on the desktop). So, let’s look for a nicer player!

    I had only two constraints: 1) it should be able to use the files from OneDrive/NAS and 2) it should be able to cache them (in case of no connectivity). And as I went through the candidates, I stumbled across Navidrome:

    Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.

    Navidrome also supports Playlists and Internet-Radio! Nice. So why not let it run on a RaspberryPi at home and make it available through my VPN? But would I have enough RAM left? I just tried!

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  • Casino Data Jackpot – For Hackers: Merkur’s API Disaster

    A couple of days ago, I saw a Mastodon post from Lilith Wittmann in my timeline. She linked to an article on her Medium page detailing a catastrophic security failure at Merkur AG. You can find the original Mastodon post here.

    The casino company Merkur AG and its service providers have made almost all the data available in their casino systems publicly accessible. This includes payment data, gaming sessions, and copies of the ID cards of over one million players.

    Lilith Wittmann’s Medium Post (German)
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  • How MS Edge’s Immersive Reader Helps Me Slow Down

    We all probably know the drill of a typical workday: back-to-back meetings, side conversations in team chats about some other topics, drafting & scanning emails, creating Jira issues, and juggling multiple project threads. The sheer volume of information coming in such a short time can be challenging.

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