Focused on open-source software and Linux. I engage in ethics of tech and its impact on society. Whether it’s exploring new note-taking apps or advocating for transparency in data collection, my goal is to promote freedom and autonomy.
Sharing privacy and security setups, the digital equivalent of leaving a detailed map to your treasure chest and then wondering why pirates are interested. True privacy, as a concept, becomes a rather slippery thing when you attempt to explain it publicly. It’s a paradox, isn’t it?
I’ll share a “true” secure setup. Four laptops: secure communications, normal communications, a decoy, and an “airgap” (a computer that had never gone and would never go online).
So use no messenger? Any decentralized options?
Alternatives to Signal that prioritize decentralized communication.
The presentation of this information feels… curated. It’s difficult to dismiss the possibility that it’s been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail’s previous Mastodon activity – a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving – lends a certain cynicism to the matter.
Here are two reasons you might not want to use Signal: Your contacts, your settings, your entire Signal experience is tied to a Signal account managed by Signal. Metadata—who you’re talking to, when, and how often—can still be collected and analyzed. Question everything.
Upgrade your friends. But don’t abandon the soundtrack of your life. It’s a vital piece of the narrative. 🎧
James May added: “The thing that really bothers me is road sectarianism. Quite a few people in cars seem to be somehow offended by people riding bicycles because they’ve paid all this money for a car and think therefore they should be rewarded for it, but often they’re just not using the car very intelligently.” 👍
I like Liquid Prompt[1] (A useful adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh) Examples:
θ70° 2z termight@zone51:~ $ vi .bashrc
θ71° 2z termight@zone51:~/docker/invidious master(+34/-17)* ±
I did this a year ago, and as @[email protected] & @[email protected] mentioned: “if I blurred it, it would stick out” or “one blurred house on a street of unblurred houses probably creates more intrigue”. However, others may have seen my blurred house and applied the same level of privacy. Now the map has four blurred houses, again possibly because I did it first. “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ ”
No single organization should be trusted. “Emails paint an intimate narrative of ourselves — the people we talk to, the books we read, the politics we practice. This information is powerful. When we lose control over it, it can do great harm to ourselves and our loved ones.” https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-should-all-care-about-encryption-really/
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Meditation is about a fundamental shift in the mind. Aim for a transformation, a steadying, a stabilization. Think of it as mental recalibration – a process called samadhi, a perfected state of meditative focus.
This focus breaks down into two main avenues: Shamatha, the ‘calm-abiding’ meditation, which cultivates stillness, and Vipassana, the analytical meditation, which seeks insight. These aren’t separate practices but tools designed to administer your mental actions. It’s about gaining some control over the internal monologue that insists on narrating your existence.
The most interesting part is that in the absence of external stimuli, the mind reveals its true nature. Like discovering the map isn’t the territory. It implies that the path to enlightenment isn’t found, but rather emerges when the search itself ceases. Meditating on the state beyond meditation leads to… well, sublime Enlightenment.