Blog
Topic: Privacy
10 posts on this topic.
Who Owns Your Identity Online?
Accounts are borrowed: why the Fediverse, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid and the EU's digital wallet are building identities that belong to people, not platforms.
Passkeys Instead of Passwords: State of Play and Pitfalls
Passkeys are ready for daily use in 2026. Where the switch gets tricky - recovery, ecosystem lock-in, password fallback - and how to do it right.
Smart Home Without the Cloud: Why My Home Runs Locally
1,744 entities, one server in the house, hardly any vendor clouds: a field report on why my smart home runs locally - and where compromises remain.
Local LLMs on the Mac: What Apple Silicon Realistically Delivers
Language models without the cloud: why Apple Silicon is suited for it, which model sizes run on 16, 32 and 64 GB of RAM, and where the limits are.
How CLAUDIO works: the architecture behind the privacy
A look under CLAUDIO's hood: sources as plug-ins, privacy as architecture and on-device computing - from a solo developer who uses the app himself.
The best podcast apps for iPhone: Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro & CLAUDIO
Overcast, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Castro and CLAUDIO compared - which podcast app fits you, and which one works without an account or tracking.
No-Tracking Music Player for Your Files
Free music apps get paid in data. How to read App Store privacy labels and play your own files with no account, no ads and no tracking.
What Spotify Knows About You
Listening history, location, mood: what Spotify collects according to its own privacy policy, who it shares the data with, and what you can do about it.
What Is Private Cloud Compute?
What Private Cloud Compute is, how its architecture works, what Apple's security whitepaper proves and what the move to Google servers changes.
Why I Built CLAUDIO - a Making-of
Four sources, four apps, none of them left my data alone. How CLAUDIO came about, what I deliberately left out, and what turned out harder than expected.