If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.
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Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone
If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”.
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AWS, Azure, Cloudflare – who’s next?
On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?).
I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage I remember(!) was end of February 2017 with the big S3 outage (The great Amazon S3 outage of 2017, Amazon And The $150 Million Typo).
Then not even 10 days later, Microsoft Azure‘s Frontdoor had a wide spread service disruption on October 29th, that affected a lot of Azure clients (Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage Analysis: October 29, 2025)
And today, on November 18th, Cloudflare experienced an outage that affects large parts of the internet (Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT, Cloudflare outage: Services globally disrupted)
As if we wouldn’t be talking about digital sovereignty enough … These incidents just show the dependency of large parts of the internet to just a small amount of companies. Not exactly what was intended when the internet was built.
Can we just count days until GCP follows? For Google, I hope that they won’t have an outage in the christmas shopping period.
Update Oct. 19th: heise online nailed it pretty well:
After a series of comments about why we find it stupid to rely on the cloud, we’ve now reached the point where we find it stupid to have to write a comment about it every week.
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The Future is Federated – but not necessarily (fully) Self Hosted
It’s not a secret that I am quite a fan of the #Fediverse and getting more independent of a few Big Tech Companies and getting control back.
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DNS4EU: a private, safe, and independent European DNS resolver
Recently I switched my DNS Resolver to one of the European public DNS resolvers | European Alternatives mainly for privacy reasons after reading Cloudflare’s blog post about analytics in their free-tiers.
But I missed the malware protection. But today I just got aware of DNS4EU For Public!
DNS4EU is an initiative by the European Commission that aims to offer an alternative to the public DNS resolvers currently dominating the market.
https://www.joindns4.eu/aboutIt offers 5 different flavours:
- Unfiltered resolution
- Protective resolution: Blocks access to known malicious and fraudulent websites
- Protective Resolution With Child Protection
- Protective Resolution Ad-blocking
- Protective Resolution With Child Protection & Ad-blocking
And also with some step-by-step guidelines for configuring DNS settings on a variety of platforms.
Update 23.06: The article Datenschutz: Wie viel EU steckt in DNS4EU? analyzes the technical setup. which unfortunately shows quite some US-corps involved. On the other hand, DNS4YOU does not aim to analyze the traffic.
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How to delete all content from LinkedIn
As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!
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Myown #UnplugTrump to more digital sovereignty / digital independence
If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m gradually moving away from “classical” Big Tech social media, focusing more on Mastodon and my own homepage.
On Mastodon, I came across Elena Rossini and followed her journey toward greater digital sovereignty. Inspired by her example, I decided to give up my YouTube channel in favor of a self-hosted PeerTube instance.
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