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Category: Blog

Big Microsoft 365 price increases coming next year

2025-12-052025-12-05 Danie
Floating app icons with vibrant gradients, including Microsoft Word, against a soft blue background.

This should also be a call to those of us (personal or organisations) who have been using free and open source alternatives such as LibreOffice, FreeOffice, ONLYOFFICE, and many others for the last decade or […]

Blogopensource, technology

The Rest Is History has received the 2025 Apple Podcasts Award for Show of the Year

2025-12-042025-12-04 Danie
Artwork featuring classical busts with the phrase "THE REST IS HISTORY" in bold, presented by Hive against a textured red background.

“The Rest Is History does a phenomenal job in taking a subject as vast as human history and captivating a global audience,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Podcasts, Apple Music, Apple Sports, and […]

Bloghistory, podcasts, technology

Been waiting for this! Proton now has a Google Sheets clone with end-to-end encryption

2025-12-042025-12-04 Danie
Screenshot of a spreadsheet titled "Q4 Financial Analysis," showing empty cells and formula bar with a saving status indicator.

Spreadsheets are finally rolling out over the next few days for Proton users. I actually use spreadsheets more often than documents, for product comparisons or purchase decisions. So this is something that has been holding […]

Blogprivacy, spreadsheets, technology

[RAMBLE] offers privacy-respecting user forums similar to Reddit

2025-12-022025-12-02 Danie
Screenshot of a forum page on Ramble, discussing topics like mesh routers, tech tools, and a new OS proposal for I2P.

You may have seen many Reddit alternatives popping up on the Fediverse over the last few years, and some of them are pretty busy. I’ve done posts over the years on BeeHaw and similar sites […]

Blogalternativesto, privacy, socialnetworks, technology

How Tor Can Help You Be More Anonymous on the Internet

2025-12-022025-12-02 Danie
Close-up of the Tor Browser app on a smartphone screen, displaying its logo, rating of 4.4 stars, and download size of 92 MB.

Whilst a Tor browser can access normal HTTPS websites, it can also access onion websites and the dark web (where there is no age verification required). The linked article is quite comprehensive in that it […]

Blogcensorship, darkweb, privacy, technology, tor

5 Docker Compose tricks that made my home server more reliable

2025-12-022025-12-02 Danie
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This was an interesting article. I did not know about the limiting of restarts up to a defined number of failures. That is pretty useful to prevent a container continuously restating, and then sometimes showing […]

Blogcontainer, docker, selfhosting, technology

5 open-source projects that secretly power your favourite apps

2025-12-012025-12-01 Danie
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“You’ve heard that the world’s infrastructure runs on Linux, and how important Free and Open Source (FOSS) software is to just about all the technology we enjoy every day, but there are some (to bring […]

Blogopensource, technology

Filedropshare uses WebRTC for local peer-to-peer (P2P) file transfers without the cloud

2025-11-292025-11-29 Danie
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This is not the first service to do this, as Pairdrop does something similar. It should not be confused though with Localsend, as Localsend requires the apps to be installed on each device it works […]

Blogfiletransfer, privacy, technology

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are better to use for major social network services than their mobile apps

2025-11-282025-11-28 Danie
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Yes, you do lose a few things like instant notifications and some performance, but the benefits are no app in the background that tracks your location the whole time, sometimes storing masses of data on […]

Blogprivacy, socialnetworks, technology

The Astrion smart remote is a game-changer for Home Assistant users

2025-11-272025-11-27 Danie
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“Every once in a while, some piece of smart home tech launches that’s genuinely different to those that came before it, and one that I came across at this year’s Maker Faire in Shenzhen is […]

Bloghomeassistant, selfhosting, technology

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