We are going to move soon. Since our new home is not as close to the supermarket, train station and school, my wive also needs a car. She wanted a very small and cheap one, but with at least four seats. For the whole family it was quite clear that it can’t be one that… Continue reading My wive has a car now
My most special RunAndFly
After I wrote the article for the SwissGlider magazine about my RunAndFly adventures, I thought that I should have written also about the most special of them. It happened last autumn, but I will write about it now anyway half a year later. It was a Saturday in September. The alarm clock rang as usual… Continue reading My most special RunAndFly
Why was second factor authentication watered down?
As far as I can remember, two factor authentication was used since the first time I used online banking with BBS like text interface over a 14.4bps modem. Back in the day the second factor was a printed list with numbered codes. The idea of using different factors is to prevent hackers form accessing your… Continue reading Why was second factor authentication watered down?
Why I am sending back my Librem5
After paying 0.163 BTC for a pre-order, I patiently waited two and a half years for the Librem 5 to finally arrive. Now after half a year with the phone, I finally lost patience. For some more context, please read my former blog posts The Librem 5 phone is still at an early stage and… Continue reading Why I am sending back my Librem5
A decade of blogging
Yesterday it was exactly ten years ago, when I published the first post on my personal blog. Before that, I kind of blogged on the old, old version of ParaEasy about flying adventures. For our adventure in South America, we wrote our diary on a manually edited html page. On my personal blog, I still write… Continue reading A decade of blogging
Our temporary tree house
I have been fascinated with tree houses for as long as I can remember. I don’t know if everybody is fascinated as much, and I don’t remember how it started. It might have been Peter Pan or the Evok bear folks in the Star Wars movie. In my teenage years, I built a simple tree… Continue reading Our temporary tree house
Working from home during the Corona shutdown
Like many people these days I currently work from home. Due to the corona pandemic, everything that is not essential is closed in Switzerland. Since I work in software development, it is possible to work at home. Most if not all people in my team do so. What is great about the new situation is… Continue reading Working from home during the Corona shutdown
Could somebody please compete with Tesla
I am a Tesla fan boy. The first stock I ever bought was TSLA. And it is still my second biggest position after Bitcoin. So, of course I am delighted by the recent rally. But speculation was never the primary motivation. I only buy stocks or cryptos, if I see a benefit to our society… Continue reading Could somebody please compete with Tesla
The Librem 5 phone is still at an early stage
When I learned that Purism was going to develop a privacy respecting and security focused smart phone, I was immediately very excited. So far the only real open source phone was the OpenMoko, and that was almost a decade ago. I ordered one as soon as they opened the pre-orders. A quick look in my… Continue reading The Librem 5 phone is still at an early stage
Flying AdHoc Network
The first time I heard about FANET was at a gathering of some paragliding friends last year. They mentioned that they can display each others position on their flight computers. While that sounds cool, I don’t often get to fly cross country any more. Thus this feature was not of particular interest to me. Then… Continue reading Flying AdHoc Network