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Ronny Roethof

Ronny Roethof

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Hands-On or Handcuffed: An Engineer's Choice
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The EU's Digital Overreach: CBDC & Chat Control – Convenience for Whom?
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From Sysadmin to CISO: The Complete Hell of IT Specialism
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When the Cloud Falls, the World Trembles
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Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Tattles? The Latest Step in Corporate Surveillance
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The Systemic Trap: When Corporate Pressure Turns Deadly
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The Ultimate Guide to Self-Hosted Containers in 2025
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Docker vs. Podman: Which Container Runtime Should You Use?
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Beyond the Hypervisor: Essential Companion Services for a Robust Proxmox VE Setup
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FreeBSD vs. Linux: The Eternal Open-Source Showdown
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Ansible Automation Ecosystem: Tower, AWX, Semaphore, and Rundeck Compared
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My ZSA Voyager Journey Part 2: Initial Impressions and Early Weeks
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Farewell to Remote Work? The Future is Trust, Not Control - A Deeper Dive
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Midnight Commander: The Linux Terminal File Manager That Beats the Rest
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You Blocked ChatGPT? That’s Cute. Your Data Still Leaks.
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That Cybersecurity Alarm Bell? It's Ringing for All of Us in the Netherlands.
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NCSC's Late-Stage Panic: BYOD Is Risky? No Shit.
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Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: Time for Real VOC-mentaliteit
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Consult the European Vulnerability Database: Another Damn Database, or a Real Step Forward?
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My 'Poor Man's CMDB': An Ansible Throwback and a Modern Refresh
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Vendor Lock-In: Why Every Company Needs a Microsoft Exit Strategy (But Almost None Have One)
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Beyond the Hype: Navigating AI's Power and the Critical Privacy Line
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EU Sells Out 450 Million Citizens: Israel Gets OUR Data While Fining TikTok for the SAME THING? What the Actual Fuck?
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Dutch Gov's 'Sovereign' Cloud Fantasy: More Hot Air or Finally Growing a Spine?
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Microsoft's Latest Shakedown: Pay Extra to Patch Their Bugs Faster?
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Burnout in Cybersecurity: The Crisis We're Still Ignoring (Now With Data)
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The Human in Cybersecurity: Liability or Asset? My Take.
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Taming the Log Tsunami: My Quest for an Open Source Syslog Solution
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Community-Driven Anti-Spam Arsenal: From SpamCop to Modern Defense Networks
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Building a Proper CI/CD Pipeline for Ansible Roles (Because Manual Testing is for Suckers)
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