Had AI agent pick up the phone at local store today. Drove me nuts, but with a combination of „escalation“, „talk to staff“, coughing & „urgent call back“ I could somehow evade that nonsense and talk to an actual human being. Maybe made life easier for the store, but not for me.

I don’t have Schadenfreude over the #AWS outage. Issues can happen and I feel with their admins. However, it shows us also how important it is to have the option to self-host services and not be forced to use a cloud. Choice matters, #digitalsovereignty matters.

I really love the versatility and flexibility of #MikroTik devices. Had a switch broken (external circumstances) at the office and could easily setup a wifi-to-ethernet bridge with an old wAP ac. Took just few minutes - kudos!

#digitaleSouveränität bedeutet für mich ganz persönlich auch, dass ich Dokumente, Rechnungen und Verträge auch per E-Mail erhalten kann und Support ebenfalls per E-Mail erreichbar ist. Die Nutzung von proprietären Apps, Messengern und Webportalen darf niemals verpflichtend sein.

Reflecting on 21 years in #opensource and free software in my talk this November at #SFScon in Bolzano: www.sfscon.it/talks/why-op...

#Gemeinnützige #Stiftungen und #Vereine müssen viele Regeln beachten und diverse Meldepflichten erfüllen. Einen ersten Überblick gebe ich in unserem Forum: community.documentfoundation.org/tags/c/board...

Am kommenden Montag, 13. Oktober, trifft sich die deutschsprachige #LibreOffice #Community um 18 Uhr zu einer Videokonferenz. Mehr Infos unter listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/2...

My presentation slides about the #foundation behind #LibreOffice from the Luxembourg #OpenSource Conference are now online: effenberger.org/en/talks/

Heading back from the #OpenSource Conference #Luxembourg. An excellent conference, extremely well organized, and several hundred attendees. Gave a presentation about #LibreOffice and had good conversations. Will definitely be a must for next year! Up next: #SFScon in November.

Really nice morning at the Open Source Conference Luxembourg. Learned about how LibreOffice is widely used, and how governments and public agencies embrace free and open source software. #OSCL2025

Arrived in Luxembourg and looking forward to tomorrow‘s open source conference! Honoured to give a talk about TDF. conference.opensource.lu

Happy Birthday, #LibreOffice community.documentfoundation.org/t/happy-birt...

Proud to be a speaker at next week‘s Open Source Conference in Luxembourg! blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09...

Opening speech of the #LibreOffice Conference 2025: youtu.be/P0GNevAzvgM?...

The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind #LibreOffice, offers a paid developer role with a focus on #macOS: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08...

Happy #SysAdminDay!

As a second article on how to run a #nonprofit #foundation I‘ve published TDF’s board onboarding howto at community.documentfoundation.org/t/tdf-board-... #LibreOffice

As a first article on how to run a #nonprofit #foundation I‘ve published TDF’s budgeting howto at community.documentfoundation.org/t/tdf-budget... #LibreOffice

Any of my followers knows a contact at #instagram to review an impersonated account of a public entity? Name and logo are copied exactly from the genuine account. Reporting in the app is pointless.

Have been struggling with the #Nextcloud app lately on #iOS which told me „unsupported browser“ and didn’t login. Problem seems to be related to 2FA or encryption. If you experience the same: Workaround seems to be an app password - login works fine again with this.

Too short to make the final call, but it seems the #iOS Mail app issues with #Dovecot and IMAP IDLE could be related to Apple’s privacy and IP masking features. Disabling them client-wise for now seems to solve the problem

I despair. Almost every mobile mail client you get these days is either „AI-powered“, comes with a subscription model, or both, with one justifying the other. I now use Roundcube in the mobile browser and am quite happy. It’s an e-mail client - heck, I don‘t need AI…

The newest version of #ChatGPT has an important feature improvement: it seems it can finally create proper images of Kässpatzn („Swabian Noodles“). 😁

#iOS 18.4 released and this utter annoying Mail app bug is still not fixed. WTF. #Apple

Mein Vortrag zum Thema "Was die Open Source Community für mich bedeutet" ist jetzt online: effenberger.org/dateien/2024... #opensource #community

Happy Birthday The Document Foundation! blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2012/02... #LibreOffice

Es gibt sicher wichtigere Probleme, aber: Wer hierzulande zB einen Onlineshop betreiben will, sieht sich mit so vielen schwachsinnigen Regeln konfrontiert, dass das aus meiner Sicht den Wettbewerb zugunsten großer Anbieter verhindert. #Bundestagswahl2025 #BTW2025

Unsere Digitalisierung hängt auch vom Zustand unserer Netze und Gesetze ab. Der Glasfaserausbau kostet Geld, ist aber unerlässlich, damit wir den digitalen Anschluss nicht verlieren. Die Störerhaftung ist ewiggestriger Nonsens und gehört gestrichen. #Bundestagswahl2025 #BTW2025

Die künftige #Regierung muss sich vielen Herausforderungen stellen, viele sicher derzeit wichtiger als #OpenSource. Dennoch, mein Wunsch wäre aktive Förderung und Einsatz von offenen Standards, Unterstützung von Organisationen im eigenen Land und Abbau hemmender Bürokratie.

Cleaning up my recordings, I found a nice video of a walk through the University of Luxemburg at this year‘s #LibreOffice Conference, that I just uploaded: youtu.be/gVhWtd9nYic

The Playstation CDN amazes me. Big German ISP DNS results in an A record that delivers very few MB per minute only. Switching to ECS-capable DNS returns different A record with a significantly faster download speed. 🤦

What the #opensource #community means to me - some very personal thoughts on why contributing can enrich your life. Thanks to #SFSCON for having me and for publishing the video! vimeo.com/1029652432

Good to be back at #SFSCON in Bolzano! Many new and old friends around and the organization is excellent, as usual.

Mein Vortrag auf den Tux-Tagen zum Thema Open Source Communities ist jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPf...

„Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.“ Absender: noreply@ Genau mein Humor.

Happy Birthday #LibreOffice #opensource #community

Proud that my talk for this year‘s #SFScon has been approved. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in Bolzano again! www.sfscon.it/talks/what-t... #opensource #community

Online: „Glasfaserausbau noch nicht geplant.“ Selber Anbieter im Supermarkt: will jedem beim Rausgehen Glasfaser andrehen. Genau mein Humor.

Every other network vendor now offers some AI-powered magic whatever protection, but then the majority of switches does not even support filtering of DHCPv6 and RA packets. 🤦

Die Straßen bzw. Gehsteige ums Büro wurden in den letzten Monaten gefühlt zwanzig Mal aufgerissen. Ratet mal, was das einzige ist, das nicht gemacht wurde - richtig: #Glasfaser. Soll dann irgendwann ab (!) 2027 kommen. 🤦 #Digitalisierung in Deutschland ist echt zum Fremdschämen.

Voting in free, democratic elections is a very important right our ancestors fought for very hard. It is a privilege that still too many people unfortunately cannot enjoy. Therefore it’s even more important to vote and exercise your right today.

Looking forward to this year‘s #LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg. Thanks to all the local organizers for making this possible! blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05...

As I look into more „professional“ network equipment, I get increasingly unhappy about all this cloud-based, AI-driven, subscription-requiring voodoo magic…

Worked on my mail server documentation the past weekends, now getting back to network stuff. Updated my MikroTik configuration, revamped my UniFi setup and maybe looking into some Aruba devices soon. Communication tools just fascinate me, it’s one way to bring people together.

In open source projects it's like in other professions: Being compassionate, open, thoughtful, considerate, honest and caring is the best way to happiness and peace of mind. Shared knowledge is a gift we must absolutely treasure. #opensource

Proud to have been invited to contribute as author to #LPI. Just a small contribution, but I am always happy to share knowledge - learning, growing and sharing is what open source and free software are about! learning.lpi.org/en/about/lm-...

Worked on my mail server configuration. Seems Outlook (at least the classic Mac version) neither supports TLSv1.3 nor it seems to honour the predefined archive folder, unless I got things wrong.

Happy Birthday, TDF! #LibreOffice

#ilovefs because it enables millions of people around the world to participate in a digital society, make new friends and grow personally by having access to knowledge that was unthinkable 50 years ago. It might not solve the world’s problems, but makes it a better place for sure