It is done. I finished my PhD. You can find my thesis at the server of University of Hildesheim and my defense presentation on Youtube.
Category: General
In this post I want to write down what I learned during my PhD and what might help you too. It is my opinion on the stuff, but I used all of the techniques I described and they helped me. I split this up into four parts: Before you start, finding a supervisor, writing and […]
Categories
Free as in freedom
This week Mozilla laid off one third of their workers. This (sadly) supports the claim that tech is right now not really capable of maintaining non-profit structures for their main services. Free software works quite well for backend, but not really for frontend. I just stumbled upon this interesting piece of a guy who used […]
Categories
Sustainable Software
When we are talking about free software, the point is often that this is more sustainable than proprietary software because everyone can edit the code and even if your company goes bankrupt someone else can take over and go on coding. Actually, in many open source projects there is only one person doing most of […]
Categories
Personal state of linux
In this post, I want to give an overview over the linux distributions I am using right now and why I use them. I am since quite a lot of time using Xubuntu on every computer that is a little bit older or has limited resources. Xubuntu is fast, easy to install and uses litle […]
Categories
My musical discoveries 2019
It is the end of the year and I want to use this time to look back at cool new music that came out and cool music that is maybe not so new, but I discovered new. It is kind of hard to tell what was the best new stuff, so I decided to make […]
Twitter and social media are everywhere. It also seems that political discussions are mainly driven by Twitter and other platforms. Let’s just have a look who is on Twitter in Germany: Only 8% of Germans do have an account on Twitter. Probably this population is even screwed to people who are young, do have higher […]
Categories
Minimalism/Frugalism
I would not consider myself a big minimalist, but after living two months on stuff I could fit into one suitcase and watching some videos about it, I am quite confident to talk about my experiences. I also try to have a quite minimalist lifestyle back in Germany, though. First, what does it mean? Basically, […]
Nextcloud offers some great functions when it comes to sharing data in your local network. I mainly needed a tool to sync a calendar on my network with my devices. I was also thinking about a lighter software like Baikal, but the installation of most of the others seemed more difficult to me than nextcloud, […]
Categories
My Audio setup
In this article I will give a little big of background to my music system and why I use the certain components. First, the speakers: I use some speakers which enable me to give input via USB. This has the great advantage I can use whatever computer I want to push the music signals to […]