Website terms
I will try to collect as many typos as possible and write down some of the things I may or may not think are important for nobody to read.
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so, with that out of the way, let’s get to the meat of it.
The short version
- This is a personal website. One person, his projects, his opinions.
- Nothing here is advice. Not technical, not legal, and definitely not financial.
- Everything is provided as-is. It is allegedly working.
- If you own it, it is yours: open it, fix it, change it, break it.
- Your opinion about any of this is noted and ignored. Your question is welcome and will get an answer.
Who is talking
This site is run by Mario Hennenberger, a private individual. It is not a company, not a shop and not a service. Everything written here is my personal view at the time of writing, which may have changed since, and does not claim to be the “truth” of any matter.
Privacy
Your data is yours. This site has no ads and does not sell, trade or rent anything about you to anyone. Fonts and assets are served from my own servers, not from data-hungry third parties. The boring details are on the privacy page.
Ownership
If you paid for something, you own it. Not a licence to use it until someone changes their mind, not a subscription to your own hardware. That is how it works for anything I make, and how I believe it should work for everything else.
The texts, photos and projects on this site are mine. Quoting, linking and sharing with a link back is welcome. If you want to reuse something bigger, just ask, the answer is usually yes.
Right to repair
Things are meant to be opened. Screws are not a security feature and “warranty void if removed” stickers are decoration. If something breaks, you have every right to fix it yourself, have it fixed by whoever you want, and use whatever parts you can get your hands on.
Right to engineer
Taking things apart to understand how they work is not a crime, it is how anyone ever learned anything. Reverse engineering, modding, re-purposing and improving things nobody asked to be improved is encouraged here. Most of this site is exactly that.
Right to compute
A computer you own should do what you tell it to. You decide which software runs on it, which operating system it boots, what it sends home and whether it sends anything at all. Blocking ads, trackers and scripts, on this site or any other, is your right and not something you need to apologise for.
No warranty, no advice
Code, schematics, how-tos and everything else on this site are shared as-is, without any warranty, as far as the law allows. If you follow along, you do so at your own risk: check twice, measure three times, and keep a fire extinguisher nearby. Mains voltage, LiPo batteries and production servers do not care about good intentions.
Posts about trading describe what I do with my own money. They are not financial advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and past results say nothing about the future. Trading can and will lose you money.
Opinions and questions
To make this very clear: I could not care less about anyone’s opinion on how I do things, what I write, or how this site looks. Complaints, outrage and “you are doing it wrong” go straight to /dev/null.
Questions, on the other hand, are always welcome. If you are stuck, want to know how something works, or need a hand with a project, ask. I will always try to help, no matter how basic the question is. The contact page is the way in.
Changes
These terms may change whenever I feel like it, without notice. The version on this page is the one that applies.