A review of the electric cargo bike Douze G4e

Introduction I am reviewing the “DOUZE G4e” two-wheeled electric cargo bike (“long-john”) which I have been using since February 2021. I am writing this review to drive forward the development of the DOUZE G4e model in particular and electric cargo bikes, which I consider the future of (sub)urban transport, in general. The review may also…

AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial for Admins

1. Introduction Here, I provide a short tutorial on how to install a low-cost, light-weight, open-source, cross-platform, anonymous, secure, self-hosted social network based on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) technology [1] using DOCKER containers [2]. The current software stack provides a low-cost solution to build a social network with anonymity for clients and servers (via the…

AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Complete Tutorial for Admins

1. Introduction The following list contains all tutorials in the AEREEnet tutorial series: [Users, Tutorial] Igl, W (2025). AEREEnet: Using a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial for IRC Users. https://biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=4776 [Admins, Short tutorial] Igl, W. (2025). AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short…

Installation of an XMPP-based messenger using
Movim as frontend and PROSODY as backend
on Linux Debian 12 – A tutorial

1. Overview The following tutorial is a complete, detailed and tested set of instructions to install an XMPP-based messaging service (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) [1, 2] using the PROSODY [1] server as a backend and the MOVIM [4, 5] client as web browser-based frontend. This installation corresponds to company-owned social messengers, such as the…

Install custom packages on a QNAP NAS

Introduction To install custom packages which are not available in the App Center of the QTS 5.x operating system for QNAP network attached storages (NAS), the options are described below. All tests were performed on a QNAP TS6-653A NAS. QNAP support recommendation: Install QPKG applications from the app center. See Tutorial [1]. Installing qpkg via…

A (subjective) overview over high-quality, progressive news media

“Kindness, honesty and science are partisan, if some parties are spreading hate, spin, and lies.” – Anonymous Introduction Here, I have compiled a list of international news sources and news apps, which I have subjectively assessed as progressive and high-quality (ie, following standards of good journalism and advocating the public good, ie democratic ecosocialism) based…

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