• More privacy in your network with pihole

    “Just set up a PiHole and look, what is going on”. Since my home is not massively IOT’ized I didn’t suspect much traffic going to analytic servers; but a relatively free weekend offered the opportunity for a small side-project. The setup is very simple. I used a spare Raspberry PI...


  • Alpine and Oracle Java

    So, finally we got an Alpine Repository running. “Let’s build a Java image on top of that, like, right now!”, I greenly said to my colleague, not knowing, that it will not be that easy. Let’s start with some basic details about Alpine Linux. It is a Linux distribution built...