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  <title>Tim Kicker</title>
  <subtitle>CS student in Austria. Notes on geopolitics, computer-science, self-hosting and whatever else is worth writing down.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
  <author><name>Tim Kicker</name></author>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/08/09/social-media-ban-kids/</id>
    <title>Think of the children!</title>
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    <published>2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Austria&apos;s under-14 social media ban, read as a computer scientist: what the draft actually says, what Australia, Britain and South Korea measured and where the ID documents end up.</summary>
    <category term="Privacy" />
    <category term="Digital Rights" />
    <category term="Civil Liberties" />
    <category term="Data Protection" />
    <category term="Austria Politics" />
    <category term="EU Tech Policy" />
    <category term="Age Verification" />
    <category term="Social Media" />
    <category term="Digital Identity" />
    <category term="ID-Austria" />
    <category term="Online Safety" />
    <category term="Child Protection" />
    <category term="Adolescent Development" />
    <category term="Zero Knowledge Proofs" />
    <category term="DSA" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/04/25/european-federalism/</id>
    <title>I Still Believe in a United Europe</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/04/25/european-federalism/" />
    <published>2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>I Still Believe in a United Europe</summary>
    <category term="European Federalism" />
    <category term="EU" />
    <category term="Austria Politics" />
    <category term="Geopolitics" />
    <category term="Foreign Policy" />
    <category term="Defense" />
    <category term="European Integration" />
    <category term="United States of Europe" />
    <category term="Digital Sovereignty" />
    <category term="Capital Markets Union" />
    <category term="Swiss Model" />
    <category term="Democratic Reform" />
    <category term="Treaty Change" />
    <category term="Trump" />
    <category term="Russia" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/03/08/coffeeshop/</id>
    <title>CoffeeShop - What Modern Wii-U Homebrew Development Looks Like</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/03/08/coffeeshop/" />
    <published>2026-03-08T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>CoffeeShop - What Modern Wii-U Homebrew Development Looks Like</summary>
    <category term="project" />
    <category term="wiiu" />
    <category term="homebrew" />
    <category term="cpp" />
    <category term="sdl2" />
    <category term="nintendo" />
    <category term="reverse-engineering" />
    <category term="gamedev" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/02/21/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/</id>
    <title>Nobody Wants to Burn Out Anymore</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2026/02/21/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/" />
    <published>2026-02-21T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Nobody Wants to Burn Out Anymore</summary>
    <category term="Work" />
    <category term="Labor Shortage" />
    <category term="Gen Z" />
    <category term="Millennials" />
    <category term="Employment" />
    <category term="Great Resignation" />
    <category term="Workplace Culture" />
    <category term="Mental Health" />
    <category term="Work-Life Balance" />
    <category term="Workforce Expectations" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/11/12/podliner/</id>
    <title>Podliner - The Player I Built for My Workflow</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/11/12/podliner/" />
    <published>2025-11-12T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-11-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Podliner - The Player I Built for My Workflow</summary>
    <category term="podcast" />
    <category term="tui" />
    <category term="offline" />
    <category term="cli" />
    <category term="csharp" />
    <category term="cross-platform" />
    <category term="project" />
    <category term="linux" />
    <category term="opml" />
    <category term="terminal" />
    <category term="mpv" />
    <category term="macos" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/10/05/voter-quiz-gate/</id>
    <title>Democracy, But Make It a Pop Quiz</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/10/05/voter-quiz-gate/" />
    <published>2025-10-05T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-10-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Democracy, But Make It a Pop Quiz</summary>
    <category term="Democracy" />
    <category term="Elections" />
    <category term="featured" />
    <category term="Voting Rights" />
    <category term="Privacy" />
    <category term="Austria" />
    <category term="EU" />
    <category term="Thought Experiment" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/09/21/kindergarten-teachers/</id>
    <title>Playing with Kids All Day (And Other Lies About Kindergarten Teachers)</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/09/21/kindergarten-teachers/" />
    <published>2025-09-21T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-09-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Playing with Kids All Day (And Other Lies About Kindergarten Teachers)</summary>
    <category term="Kindergarten" />
    <category term="Childcare" />
    <category term="Austria" />
    <category term="Education" />
    <category term="Workforce" />
    <category term="Burnout" />
    <category term="Gender Inequality" />
    <category term="Mental Health" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/09/14/flip-phone/</id>
    <title>Surviving Modern Life with a Flip Phone (Barely)</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/09/14/flip-phone/" />
    <published>2025-09-14T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-09-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Surviving Modern Life with a Flip Phone (Barely)</summary>
    <category term="Flip Phone" />
    <category term="Digital Minimalism" />
    <category term="Smartphone Detox" />
    <category term="Offline Living" />
    <category term="Tech Burnout" />
    <category term="Productivity" />
    <category term="Digital Balance" />
    <category term="Screen Time" />
    <category term="Anti-Smartphone" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/04/25/austria-surveillance/</id>
    <title>Austria Plans to Become Europe&apos;s Favourite Playground for Hackers</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/04/25/austria-surveillance/" />
    <published>2025-04-25T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-04-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Austria Plans to Become Europe&apos;s Favourite Playground for Hackers</summary>
    <category term="Privacy" />
    <category term="Cybersecurity" />
    <category term="Civil Liberties" />
    <category term="Digital Rights" />
    <category term="Data Protection" />
    <category term="Austria Politics" />
    <category term="Messenger Security" />
    <category term="Government Surveillance" />
    <category term="Encryption" />
    <category term="State Surveillance" />
    <category term="Backdoors" />
    <category term="EU Tech Policy" />
    <category term="SPÖ" />
    <category term="WhatsApp Security" />
    <category term="Signal Messenger" />
    <category term="ÖVP" />
    <category term="NEOS" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/02/24/eol/</id>
    <title>Rethinking Open Source Responsibility</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2025/02/24/eol/" />
    <published>2025-02-24T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-02-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Rethinking Open Source Responsibility</summary>
    <category term="Open Source" />
    <category term="Software Ethics" />
    <category term="Digital Responsibility" />
    <category term="Free Software" />
    <category term="Technology and Ethics" />
    <category term="Ethical Open License" />
    <category term="Licenses" />
    <category term="Ethical Licensing" />
    <category term="Software Freedom" />
    <category term="Responsibility" />
    <category term="Civil Liberties" />
    <category term="Surveillance" />
    <category term="Capitalism" />
    <category term="Sustainable Open Source" />
    <category term="Tech Philosophy" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2024/06/26/the-selfhosting-experience/</id>
    <title>The Selfhosting Experience</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2024/06/26/the-selfhosting-experience/" />
    <published>2024-06-26T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-06-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>The Selfhosting Experience</summary>
    <category term="selfhosting" />
    <category term="homelab" />
    <category term="open source" />
    <category term="docker" />
    <category term="linux server" />
    <category term="privacy" />
    <category term="digital ownership" />
    <category term="server setup" />
    <category term="remote access" />
    <category term="media server" />
    <category term="automation" />
    <category term="web dashboard" />
    <category term="monitoring tools" />
    <category term="secure downloads" />
    <category term="personal cloud" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/08/02/digital-nomad/</id>
    <title>The first digital nomad</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/08/02/digital-nomad/" />
    <published>2023-08-02T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2023-08-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>The first digital nomad</summary>
    <category term="digital nomad" />
    <category term="remote work" />
    <category term="technomad" />
    <category term="Steven K Roberts" />
    <category term="behemoth bike" />
    <category term="work from anywhere" />
    <category term="digital history" />
    <category term="remote lifestyle" />
    <category term="mobile technology" />
    <category term="early internet culture" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/07/25/beautiful-internet/</id>
    <title>The internet has become soulless and i hate it</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/07/25/beautiful-internet/" />
    <published>2023-07-25T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2023-07-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>The internet has become soulless and i hate it</summary>
    <category term="web1.0" />
    <category term="digital nostalgia" />
    <category term="personal websites" />
    <category term="internet history" />
    <category term="creative web design" />
    <category term="retro internet" />
    <category term="neocities" />
    <category term="online communities" />
    <category term="social media criticism" />
    <category term="decentralization" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/07/18/telegram/</id>
    <title>Should it really be Telegram?</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/07/18/telegram/" />
    <published>2023-07-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2023-07-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Should it really be Telegram?</summary>
    <category term="telegram" />
    <category term="messaging apps" />
    <category term="privacy" />
    <category term="open source" />
    <category term="encryption" />
    <category term="digital security" />
    <category term="signal" />
    <category term="threema" />
    <category term="matrix protocol" />
    <category term="secure communication" />
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  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/05/18/whatsapp-analyze/</id>
    <title>Data about data</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/05/18/whatsapp-analyze/" />
    <published>2023-05-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2023-05-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>Data about data</summary>
    <category term="metadata" />
    <category term="data analysis" />
    <category term="messaging apps" />
    <category term="whatsapp" />
    <category term="privacy" />
    <category term="surveillance" />
    <category term="statistics" />
    <category term="data patterns" />
    <category term="user behavior" />
    <category term="encryption" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/03/30/diplomarbeit/</id>
    <title>HTL Diploma Thesis - A universal smart-switch</title>
    <link href="https://tim.kicker.dev/2023/03/30/diplomarbeit/" />
    <published>2023-03-30T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2023-03-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <summary>HTL Diploma Thesis - A universal smart-switch</summary>
    <category term="hardware" />
    <category term="embedded" />
    <category term="esp32" />
    <category term="project" />
    <category term="ble" />
    <category term="iot" />
    <category term="csharp" />
    <category term="wpf" />
    <category term="maui" />
    <category term="mvvm" />
    <category term="htl" />
    <category term="diploma-thesis" />
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