#Irreal: Why #RSS Is The Right Thing
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13323
RSS as well as the more modern #Atom feed standard should be used by everybody to follow web page sources without exposing your data to algorithms.
After working with #Microsoft #O365 #Word today, I'm really puzzled how anybody actually thinks that this is a tool ready to be used in an actual professional environment.
I've faced various bugs, annoyances, and limitations of the online version within the browser.
What a drag.
Now I need to find somebody with a normal (local) Word version to fix all the things I could not do properly. 
With my article from https://karl-voit.at/2025/09/14/fix-wrong-34-TFT-resolution/ I published an engineering task via my blog.
Independent of the content, this is an example how I typically write down notes on almost everything I have to deal with on a computer.
I almost did not do any extra work for the blog article. This is, how I do it for myself.
Notes like that are often called an #engineeringdiary.
It serves many purposes. One of the most important: when you get the same issue after a while, you can look up what you did to fix it in the past.
Furthermore, it helps you when you have a long-running task where you can't do the whole thing from problem analysis to solution in one go. With my notes, I may continue any time with minimizing the amount of effort I lose because of remembering where I left off.
It's a habit that needs to be learned and practices but when it sticks, it's some sort of superpower. A #PIM tool like #Emacs #orgmode helps that you can write as much as possible with minimal manual effort.
HTH
Wow, it looks like that the #DigitalPaper #eink-device by #Montblanc is not only heavily overpriced but also way worse than almost everything on the market right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWIPBKoFfQ
https://www.montblanc.com/en-us/digital-writing/digital-paper
Don't buy that. My recommendation would be a #Boox #NoteAir device. Learn about them in other videos by #MyDeepGuide which I highly recommend for anything related to e-ink.
I'm surprised that many people just seem to realize that the golden cage by #Apple is actually a golden cage!
What have you thought when you decided for that (overpriced) #lockin situation?
Of course, an #iOS device doesn't really belong to you. It's not up to you which apps you may install. You can't decide on delayed update slots. It's Apple's #cloud only. And Apple's history of business decisions is full of statements that are purely for the benefit of excluding alternatives for political and economic reasons.
Apple will never be on your side. It will always be on the side of it's shareholders and - of course - any US dictatorship that will be in power.
If this doesn't fit your set of requirements, get rid of Apple devices and use something else as long as Google hasn't destroyed #Android as well. With #Pixel (8+) and #GrapheneOS, you have the most power over your device+data, at the moment.
Geeky hardware setup for a train ride using an external double TFT extension via USB-C. 
Any recommendations for an Android app to read (only) and search through ten mid-size to large #orgdown files I currently sync via Syncthing?
#Orgzly revived does kill captured data (in my setup situation) and #Orgro can't even open my larger files.
Edit: logseq Android is not good with large files + search results. Unfortunately, this doesn't work either.
Edit: Emacs without physical keyboard and being on the go is not an option to me.
Don't Buy An #Apple #Watch! Here's Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMJ21m027tM
The #MadWatchCollector is hilarious 
According to him, the #AppleWatch is a "fruit-based #notification wristlet". I think, he's got a very good point here.
I even turned almost any notification off on my #Android (except few Signal chats, SMS). No #email, no #Mastodon, no group chats, no business message tool, no fitness recommendations, ...
Do so with your #smartwatch by simply not wearing it. 
@bsi Nett und hilfreich aber bei weitem nicht ausreichend, wenn man beispielsweise #Outlook nutzt.
Da wird viel zuviel vorm Anwender versteckt, sodass man eigentlich immer den Source prüfen sollte.
Am besten Outlook dort verbieten, wo durch #Ransomware und Co Schaden entstehen könnte. Gilt in ähnlicher Weise auch für #Exchange, #AD, #SharePoint und weitere beliebte Angriffsvektoren.
Es ist schließlich der Job von sehr viele Menschen, auf ungefragt zugeschickte E-Mails mit unbekannten Links und Attachments zu klicken (HR,...). Wer diesen Menschen nach einem Incident die Schuld zuschiebt, hat meiner Meinung nach nicht verstanden, wie die Realität der Menschen aussieht.
Risiken muss man nicht immer managen, man kann manche auch einfach vermeiden. Dieser Aspekt geht mir in Diskussionen oft unter.
I'm sending a digitally signed and encrypted #email with somewhat sensitive data to an external party.
His thank-you-answer with the full quote of the while conversation came back signed and unencrypted.
Oh boy. 
@awoodsnet While I can fully understand most of your arguments, the switch to Vivaldi is a great present for #Google.
#Vivaldi is using Google's #Blink engine. With every additional user, you're strengthen Google's market position. It it reaches a critical point, they own the #WWW with their engine.
Like they currently turn #Android into a golden cage just like #Apple did with #iOS and more, Google will be in the position to decide what your browser is going to show you. What's working and what not. Eliminating anti-ad methods, making our whole experience a very insecure and unpleasant one until it's too late for counter measurements.
As shitty as some #Firefox decisions are, you NEED to stick to their engine. Otherwise, we will lose the internet.
It's far more important than some cool tab management features or an IMO questionable RSS integration (IMO it's better to separate it from your other tools).
Just switch to #LibreWolf or other Firefox forks.
Interesting. For ~90% of the people who use #Syncthing, they don´t seem to have any issues at all or they don't realize that they've got issues as of them ~20% are somewhat unsure.
Maybe the issues are only growing with larger setups? 
I was thinking of stopping to recommend @syncthing to people because of the severe problems I face in recent time with Syncthing Desktop between Linux hosts as well as in combination with Synthing-fork for Android.
Too bad that there aren't drop-in replacements around. Maybe I'll go back to #Unison file synchronizer with all of its issues with version dependencies. I think I don't want a public #NextCloud server exposing >4TB of my data ...
Is there somebody who migrated a fairly complex #Syncthing setup to something else like #NextCloud?
I've got 4.4TB in ~100 different shares with ~40 Linux/Windows/Android hosts.
As Syncthing getting more and more unreliable not just on Android (using the fork) but also the desktop, I need to replace this very important part of my software stack to something better and I'm unsure what promising candidates there are for me ...
Quick brainstorming on my requirements:
- global discovery service (sync between hosts of two different private LANs)
- direct/fast sync on same LAN
- no need for public IPs or port forwarding
- multiple shares/host even for small shares
- reliable sync within a deterministic time frame
- appropriate handling of sync conflicts
- FOSS
- works with Linux and Android (I don't care about Windows any more)
- runs as a service in background
- no particular issues with SW updates
@ellane I agree.
Therefore, I (1) emphasize the importance of a proper requirement analysis on https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ (subjective preference being one of many thinkable requirements) and (2) I coined the #LawOfToolUsefulness on https://karl-voit.at/2024/09/27/Voits-law-of-tool-usefulness/ which is "Any tool can be a perfect fit for a given set of requirements."
Notice the similarity with #LawOfWorkflowUsefulness from https://karl-voit.at/2024/09/27/Voits-law-of-workflow-usefulness/ "anybody is able to come up with a management concept she/he finds useful while everybody else doesn't find it helpful."
In a couple of hours (8am UTC, 10am CET), I'll be live on the #screwtape channel by @screwlisp on https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos
We'll be talking about #Markdown and #Orgdown because I recently published "Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead" https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/
I've summarized my settings and customization of my desktop using #GNOME48 (from #Debian13 #Trixie) on https://karl-voit.at/Gnome-Setup/
Including:
- my choice of #GNOME Extensions
- custom scripts in "Files" (#Nautilus) incl. keyboard shortcuts
- most settings can be easily set by gseetings in your shell without requiring Settings or Tweaks UI
- list of current bugs relevant to me
Es sieht leider danach aus, als ob die #TUGraz fast alle Freifächer wenige Wochen vor Semesterbeginn gestrichen hat. Schon wieder. (Keine Ahnung weshalb, da Lektoren wie ich ohnehin kein Geld bekommen.)
Wenn das so bleibt, ist wohl meine #PIM Lehrveranstaltung an der TU endgültig Geschichte:
https://karl-voit.at/pim-lecture-tug/
Falls du eine Idee hast, auf welchem Institut der #UniGraz die LV gut hinpassen würde: bitte kurz melden. Falls das mit der KF was wird, melde ich mich wieder frühesten kommendes Jahr, wie's aussieht.
Interessenten an der LV (VU, 2 ECTS) sollen sich via E-Mail (siehe Artikel oben) melden.
Würde irgendwann nochmal gerne einen kleinen Vortrag + Workshop zu #IPv6 #multicast routing zwischen #Freifunk communities und hackspaces (via #PIM und #dn42 und Freifunk IntercityVPN) machen, jetzt wo das in der Gluon Firmware und in @batadv soweit laufen sollte. Frage mich aber, was dafür der beste Rahmen wäre. Bei der @nook im November? Oder in kleiner Runde beim kommenden Chaos Communication Congress im Dezember? Oder online vor einem Gluon Meetup? Gäbe es überhaupt Interessierte?
Please, don't use any #LLM service to generate some report you don't plan to check really carefully yourself in every detail.
I've read one with clearly hallucinated stuff all over it.
It doesn't push your productivity, it really destroys your credibility.
This technology is no productivity miracle, it's an answer simulator.
