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The EU's Digital Overreach: CBDC & Chat Control – Convenience for Whom?

From Sysadmin to CISO: The Complete Hell of IT Specialism

When the Cloud Falls, the World Trembles

Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Tattles? The Latest Step in Corporate Surveillance

The Systemic Trap: When Corporate Pressure Turns Deadly

The Ultimate Guide to Self-Hosted Containers in 2025

Docker vs. Podman: Which Container Runtime Should You Use?

Beyond the Hypervisor: Essential Companion Services for a Robust Proxmox VE Setup

FreeBSD vs. Linux: The Eternal Open-Source Showdown

Ansible Automation Ecosystem: Tower, AWX, Semaphore, and Rundeck Compared

My ZSA Voyager Journey Part 2: Initial Impressions and Early Weeks

Farewell to Remote Work? The Future is Trust, Not Control - A Deeper Dive

Midnight Commander: The Linux Terminal File Manager That Beats the Rest

You Blocked ChatGPT? That’s Cute. Your Data Still Leaks.

That Cybersecurity Alarm Bell? It's Ringing for All of Us in the Netherlands.

NCSC's Late-Stage Panic: BYOD Is Risky? No Shit.

Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: Time for Real VOC-mentaliteit

Consult the European Vulnerability Database: Another Damn Database, or a Real Step Forward?

My 'Poor Man's CMDB': An Ansible Throwback and a Modern Refresh

Vendor Lock-In: Why Every Company Needs a Microsoft Exit Strategy (But Almost None Have One)

Beyond the Hype: Navigating AI's Power and the Critical Privacy Line

EU Sells Out 450 Million Citizens: Israel Gets OUR Data While Fining TikTok for the SAME THING? What the Actual Fuck?

Dutch Gov's 'Sovereign' Cloud Fantasy: More Hot Air or Finally Growing a Spine?

Microsoft's Latest Shakedown: Pay Extra to Patch Their Bugs Faster?

Burnout in Cybersecurity: The Crisis We're Still Ignoring (Now With Data)

The Human in Cybersecurity: Liability or Asset? My Take.

Taming the Log Tsunami: My Quest for an Open Source Syslog Solution

Community-Driven Anti-Spam Arsenal: From SpamCop to Modern Defense Networks

Building a Proper CI/CD Pipeline for Ansible Roles (Because Manual Testing is for Suckers)

Building an Open Source Security Fortress: A Blueprint for Sovereignty (and Sanity)

My Top Ansible Modules for Everyday SysAdmin Tasks

The Update Obsession: Are We Really Opening the Front Door to Cybercriminals?

Ditch VMware for Proxmox: It's Time to Break Free!

The Digital Driver's License: Convenience or Control?

Cloud or Bare Metal? My Case for Control, Sovereignty, and Sanity

Let's Build an Ansible Role for Basic Linux Hardening

Navigating the Ergonomic Landscape: Exploring Split Keyboard Options in My Quest for Comfort

Contributing to Open Source: Why It Matters and How to Get Involved

My Favorite Tech Tools of 2025 (So Far)

Unlocking Your Inner Creator: Why Every Techie Needs a 3D Printer (and Why I'm Obsessed)

My Personal Take: Company Laptops - Security Ain't Everything (But It's Still My Job, Damn IT)

The Sleep-Deprived Sysadmin: A Personal Journey Through Burnout and Recovery

The Paradox of Excessive Security Measures: When Does 'Safer' Become 'Overkill'?

A Critical Look at Messaging Apps: Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and Matrix

Why I Decided to Move My Weblogs to Hugo

Run Llama 3.2, DeepSeek and Interact with Open WebUI Locally with Ollama

My Quest for Ergonomic Bliss: A Journey to Find a Split Keyboard that Works with Tietze's Syndrome

My minimal desktop (Hyprland) installation on a fresh Archlinux

Taming Virtual Machines on Arch Linux: A QEMU-KVM Adventure

Taming the Beast: My Arch Linux Install for a Clean, Mean and Secure Work Machine

From FreeBSD and Debian to Arch: A Daily Driver Transition - Initial Impressions

Error: externally-managed-environment when installing via pip3

Yum Remove duplicate packages

find and mv files in bash

Postfix IPv6 capable + RBL + BIND9 as DNSBL

Migrate IMAP accounts from server A to server B

Unattended Security Updates in Ubuntu

Converting kvm guests from lvm to qcow2, base images and snapshots

How to monitor Bind with Munin