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Marcel Waldvogel
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  • Domains for Digital Sovereignty

    Whether digital services work for you is no longer independent of where these services are operating from. This also applies to the Internet Domains. Here is a table of country dependencies of all the 1595 top-level domains.

  • Autistici/Inventati Sanctions Status

    This documents the current WHOIS and DNS status of the autistici.org domain and their seemingly conflicting message as of 2026-09-05.

  • Intel BE201: Getting Bluetooth to work on my Vivobook 14 Flip with Linux

    While trying to connect a Bluetooth device to my Asus Vivobook 14 Flip running under Debian Trixie, I noticed that Bluetooth did not work. Here’s an easy way to fix it.

  • Tablet mode unrecognized on Asus Vivobook 14 Flip under Linux: Workaround

    My recently purchased Asus Vivobook 14 Flip (TP3407SA) does not flip into tablet (aka “slate”) mode when flipping the lid over. Here is a workaround for Gnome under Debian Trixie.

  • No sound on Asus Vivobook 14 Flip under Linux: Fixed

    I recently purchased an Asus Vivobook 14 Flip (Model TP3407SA) for use under Linux. One of the obstacles I ran into: Playing sounds resulted in no audio, the device remained mute. However, it had worked under Windows. Time to investigate.

  • Obtaining TLS certificate information on the command line

    Here are a few helpful commands if you want to inspect and dump certificates for analysis or debugging:

  • 50 years of microprocessor trend data

    I recently wrote a (German) article including this graphic (in German). Here is an English version of it. Have fun!

  • Compact Archive for WordPress

    The default WordPress «Archive» block becomes very long and narrow, when months accumulate. Here is an easy way to make it more compact.

  • DEFCON Voting Village 23 Panel

    There was a DEFCON Voting Village panel «If I can shop online, why can’t I vote online?» which I found extremely important to read or listen to. Not just for me, in fact, for anyone talking about electronic voting. Here is a transcript for those who prefer reading (or searching for keywords).

  • Counting like a computer

    Computers are very good at counting. But usually only within narrow limits. Here is an insight into where these limits come from and what goes wrong when they are exceeded.