Why does Germany support Israel so much?

Introduction In the current crisis in Gaza, opinions are sharply divided in the UN between a large global community who condemn Israel’s actions as occupation, apartheid, war crimes and/or genocide on the one side and Israel with staunch allies like the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, and France on the other side. Since the reasons…

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…

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

Source: https://xkcd.com/1782/ 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 –…

Using IRC for massive civil resistance:
A simple, scalable social network

Source: https://xkcd.com/1782/ 1. Introduction To mobilize a growing number of activists an open-source, self-hosted team communication & collaboration platform could be used, which is implemented in the InspIRCd software (Internet Relay Chat technology, IRC). IRC technology has ultra-low requirements on bandwidth and is recommended in world regions where IT hardware has low performance or internet…

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…

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…

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…

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