Just published my first lil JavaScript Library. What, why and how it came about and what @anhdres has to do with it, read here:

If Nobody Does It, Do It Yourself - pdf-encrypt-lib

I published my first JavaScript library: pdf-encrypt-lib brings AES-256 PDF encryption to pdf-lib, filling a gap that most PDF libraries leave open.

#javascript #library #encryption #pdf #password #monerokon

Everyone is talking about the European Parliament’s extension of the “Chat Control” law, but the war is being fought on other fronts as well. I’m reporting from the German front, where the government has NOTHING more important to do than to water down the Freedom of Information Act, which allows citizens to hold the state accountable, in order to effectively undermine and abolish it. #chatcontrol #privacy #transparency #government #blog #eu #germany #ifg

How Democracy Abolishes Itself - Again - and Slides Into Authoritarian Rule

The German government is working to effectively abolish the IFG, while the EU is once again pushing to extend and expand Chat Control.

Cheers, Alexander

250 Years of the Declaration of Independence, Democracy Gone Astray

The USA celebrates 250 years of independence and democracy. But was the country ever a true democracy? A critical assessment from Roman roots to fi...

Happy Independence Day, the best thing about it might be the BBQ. Anything else is basically a lie, an illusion at best. Peace out!

A topic nobody likes to deal with, but one we will have to face sooner or later. The digital legacy, or the question of how we pass on access, our passwords, the credentials to all our digital data to our descendants, without them getting hold of it too early, or a third party obtaining and misusing it. Trust no one, verify. Naturally I do not have the one-size-fits-all answer, or any answer at all, but what I can contribute is a small piece of this larger puzzle. More on that in my latest blog post:

The Digital Estate: Seed Phrases and/or Passwords Could Drive Your Family to Despair

Between 2.3 and 3.7 million Bitcoin are gone forever - not hacked, but because no heir knew the keys. Shamir Secret Sharing fixes that.

#bitcoin #monero #secret #shamir #legacy #privacy #credentials

Oi! Mates, for almost two weeks now I've been building small, useful #browser #tools with the help of #AI. Ok, whether they're useful, honestly I don't know, that's for you to decide. But small, above all ad-free, without tracking and offline usable, that is definitely a giveb. Well, after nearly two weeks, a bug finally bit me. The #Stegofile #tool got an update because decrypting hidden data was sometimes failing. And today the bug was found and eliminated! What exactly went wrong and what was done about it, you can read in my blog:

Why Our Stegofile Tool Failed With Brave

Brave Shields protects against canvas fingerprinting but breaks pixel-accurate canvas operations in the process. How the Stegofile tool was affecte...

#privacy #javascript #browser #steganography #alice #bob #fingerprint #secret #encryption

gm fam. As you may know by now, German has countless compound words. Here is one: 'Medienbruch'. How do you translate that in a single word? What it means sits somewhere along the lines of: media discontinuity, break in media continuity, maybe media gap or format barrier. Anyways, it is all about, how do we get from one medium to another, and whatever stands in the way of it, that is the 'Medienbruch'. That is what my latest blog post is about, introducing two small helpers. Read more at:

From Pixels to Characters, from Characters to Pixels

Two new browser tools on ascend: the Asciifile-Creator turns images into ASCII art, the QRcode-Generator creates QR codes with no account, no track...

Happy Monero Tail Emission Day Today marks the fourth anniversary of the tail emission coming into effect. The current inflation rate is below 0.86% and continues to approach zero over time. This means the number of new coins generated annually (<160,000) is lower than the estimated number of lost coins. Consequently, the supply remains stable and miner rewards are secured. To celebrate the occasion, I am releasing the design seen at Monerokon under the GPL. Have fun printing it on merchandise.

Four Years of Tail Emission

Monero celebrates four years of tail emission. What it is, why PoW consensus without a permanent miner incentive is structurally fragile, and why t...

gm fam. Honestly the first time I write or say that, always wanted to though. Nothing really new, just the announcement that the FuKyu beta tester phase has been live for a couple of days now and I wrote a little explainer blog post about it. The fewer than 1 people who are interested in filling The Void, read more here:

FuKyu Beta Is Open

FuKyu, a new browser-based strategy game about conquering space, is in beta. How the game idea came about, what 普及 means, and where to try it now.

gm fam. Honestly the first time I write or say that, always wanted to though. Nothing really new, just the announcement that the FuKyu beta tester phase has been live for a couple of days now and I wrote a little explainer blog post about it. The fewer than 1 people who are interested in filling The Void, read more here:

FuKyu Beta Is Open

FuKyu, a new browser-based strategy game about conquering space, is in beta. How the game idea came about, what 普及 means, and where to try it now.

Leviathan and giant kraken are tall tales. But #data kraken and the #AI tsunami are upon us, and we risk losing not only ourselves but also the souls of our visitors / users (better: their data) – betraying them and selling their profiles and meta-data. Therefore in todays blog post: Don't feed the #kraken.

Don&#039;t Feed the Kraken

On tracking pixels, passive revenue schemes and why I release everything under GNU GPL v3. A rant about the web, data aggregation and Big Tech.

#copyleft #open-source #opensource #privacy #rant #monetization #betrayal

Breaking News: Alice and Bob Now Lawfully Under Surveillance? Due to suspicious behavior and repeated encrypted data transmissions over open networks, an unnamed authority (a "TLA"—Three-Letter Agency) is now monitoring Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob are known to be avid users of #open-source #software; indeed, through numerous examples and use cases, they have utilized this "harmful, freely accessible software" to persuade other law-abiding citizens to engage in this economically damaging behavior. But now we’ve got them right where we want them! We know they are using encrypted communications, a fact that renders them suspicious and necessitates close surveillance. Finally, the state is taking action. If you don't want to end up like Alice and Bob, read more to find out why #encryption alone is not enough.

Alice and Bob are now lawfully under surveillance by the three-letter agency

Why encryption makes you suspicious, what steganography is, how LSB embedding works, and how Stegofile-Concealer hides AES-GCM-encrypted data insid...

#crypto #steganography #concealment #png #open #private #ascend

Does the Babel Fish speak #Klingon? I was going to write this at #42 translations. Then thanks to #AI the translations outpaced writing this blog posts and here we are. Oh and my webpage now does come in Klingon as well.

Does the Babel Fish speak Klingon?

A follow-up to the first post about AI and me - this time with Douglas Adams, Klingons, and the question of why 45 AI-generated languages are simul...

In hindsight I'm also wondering, could the Babel Fish survive in DJT's ear? Well too late. Opinions welcome though. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #hitchhiker #hhgttg #StarTrek #star-trek #ascend #languages

oops I did it again! You'd think I'd know better by now. I've made countless attempts to start my own #blog, and those attempts have all disappeared into the nirvana of the internet... oh well. I'm doing it again... I just published my first post on my umpteenth new blog. Good thing no one reads it.

AI and I

A full-stack developer on AI as tool, not threat - on productivity, historical acceleration, and why engaging with new technology is unavoidable.

And I did it in German too: oops I did it again! man sollte meinen ich sei ein gebranntes Kind, zahlreiche Anläufe habe ich genommen einen eigenen Blog aufzuziehen und die Versuche sind im Nirvana des Internets verloren gegangen ... was solls. Ich mache es nochmal ... habe gerade meinen ersten Post auf meine x-ten neuen Blog veröffentlich, nur gut dass ihn keiner liest.

AI and I

Ein Full-Stack Developer über AI als Werkzeug, nicht Bedrohung - über Produktivität, historische Beschleunigung und warum neue Technologie unver...

#opensource #ai #tools #copyleft

Just set up my own wee #nostr #node, see how that works, put it in my ring of #relays but have no idea if it already works. Maybe you try it out: wss://node.kommonzenze.de Put a 21-bit PoW spam protection on it. Would love to hear from you if that is noticeable on your device. Too much, too little? What is your take on that? The relay is now #open to use and #free of charge. No guarantees. If it is abused or even if I just feel like it, I will shut it down again. #peace out