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First of all let’s get one thing out of the way. If you think this will be a blog post about Keanu Reeves starring in his A-role you are wrong. Although I love The Matrix, and I’m talking just about the first movie, this blog post will be about setting up your own homeserver of matrix.org. Matrix…

As I’m forced to work from home on my laptop with no external screens at the moment, I have taken a moment to take a look at my tmux and vim configurations. What bothered me most was switching between tmux panes and vim splits as I had to remember which key strokes I need to…

And here we go again. The second year in a row I find myself on a train directed to Bruxelles, Belgium. I will join the mass of hackers a professionals grouping at the Université libre de Bruxelles for this year’s FOSDEM. I went through the schedule and bookmarked the most suited talks for me, while…

Having spent three days in Amsterdam attending HashiConf EU 2019 we were able to meet interesting people and learn loads of new features in the HashiCorp product suite. Some extracts and interesting facts to look into have been collected here for anyone who has not been able to participate in this event. Consul https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-consul-1-6 Consul…

The Document Foundation (TDF) announced today that Adfinis SyGroup – a Swiss FOSS company headquarted in Bern, with offices in Basel, Zurich and Crissier (Vaud) – has joined the project’s Advisory Board. Adfinis SyGroup is using LibreOffice for office productivity, in addition to providing professional consultancy to customers with SLA contracts to support migrations from…

Together with our friends from Collabora we’re delighted to announce the porting effort of LibreOffice to yet another important platform: Apple iOS. Find the announcement from Collabora as well as a sneak peak video here. Where we came from Our collaboration on this journey began in early 2018, as we realized, that for one of…

Jitsi is an easy and simple video conferencing solution which can be self hosted. I refer here specifically to the product Jitsi Meet, comprising jitsi-videobridge and jicofo. It uses technologies such as webrtc and libjitsi. In this way, Jitsi offers an open source alternative to other video conferencing solutions, e.g. Google Hangouts or Skype. Jitsi…

When it comes to SSL/TLS configuration, the focus tends to be on web servers rather than on mail servers. But mail servers should also benefit from a strong SSL/TLS configuration with valid certificates. Mail servers that have been configured completely incorrectly quickly become apparent in IMAP and POP3 protocols, but insufficient standards are often set…

Various companies currently rely on the proprietary Enterprise Password Vault from CyberArk to securely manage sensitive access information, certificates and SSH keys. This software allows, for example, user IDs and passwords for an application to be stored through a web interface. But in an age when automation, provisioning and configuration management are cornerstones of every…