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How to get simple DNS Protection
Malware sites are the plague of the century! And it’s so easy to fall for them. Phishing, hacked website content, or malware-ads – one click and you are on a website you shouldn’t be. One way to deal with the issue is to block malicious domains at DNS resolver level. The advantage is that you…
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Toxic Positivity and Whitewashing in Tech
What I’ve been noticing and disliking more and more lately: All the whitewashing and toxic positivity!
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Love it, Change it or Leave it
The picture shows a CleanUpBag from LOWA GmbH that I once won in a promo from LOWA including the litter that I found (and collected) on a mountain hike. The reactions on social media were either “thank you” or anger at the people who leave the litter on the trails. And I can understand those…
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Audio and Video Quality in Online Meetings DOES matter
We’ve all been there – endless online meetings, squinting at grainy screens, wondering if our colleagues are even awake. Seriously, how many online meeting does it take to realize that audio and video quality matter more than we want to admit?
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Why we need Feedback on the Feedback
“Feedback is important!” – We’ve all heard this before. It’s an old adage. I guess we also agree that feedback without any following actions is not only useless but demotivating. People will learn very quickly that “giving Feedback” is obviously useless and thus will not give feedback anymore. – End of Feedback culture.
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The most important things about dailies …
… and what you’ve never read about them: So, one of the most important reasons (besides the buzzword stuff), for me, is that I hear my colleagues. Not just WHAT they say, but HOW they say it.
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20 Years of OpenStreetMap, 14 Years of Contribution and counting
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap! “In just twenty years, OpenStreetMap grew from a small UK-based mapping project into the largest crowdsourced and crowd-worked geospatial project of all time.” [Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap – Celebrating 20 Years] I can’t even remember how I came across one of the best projects that we have. But I am super happy that…