I dunno. I keep remembering what my old Pebble did, and how well it did, and nothing more… And yep, I want it back.

Basically, a dumb watch, with an HR monitor, accelerometer, and could sync that data to my phone app.

Its API let me do cool things like pause/unpause my music while running, which was nice. But, it required the apps to be have an API for doing so.

Battery? The thing went an entire week between charges.

Thunderbird and neomutt.

Watch the intro video when you first turn on the mac book. REALLY.

If you miss it, or whatever, find the current vid to watch. Before I did that, it felt like the touchpad was insane, and just doing random shit.

And get iTerm2. Its better than stock.

From there, its just a UNIX with a funny window manager.

guids like these: https://guidgenerator.com/

A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.

Oh, yeah, I guess I kinda tossed that out there, as they do host a ton of servives. However, its very welcoming as an onboard ramp to learn about *nix stuff. Just ease yourself into that, while exploring Disroot and RiseUp :)

Tildeverse.org

Disroot.org

Riseup.net

Instead of self hosting, why not try better offerings?

Most anything you probably use Google for, you can do with a disroot account. Riseup is a great group, with many similar services (not all). The tildeverse also has myriad replacement services.

Just try to support them, financially.

The flea market I go to has none of that.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors on ebay and other commercial marketplaces?

Very little.

Its standard across the industry. Artists get paid very little in per unit sales of media.

The bulk of money they earn comes from tours (which they cover the bill for, and cut some of the profits from), and merch (which they take the largest cut from).

Ask any artist: they make most of their money from merch and ticket sales (depending on venue).

I would disregard, at least, that line of thinking. I mean, Tor was heavily funded by the CIA… However, it’s secure. Linux kernel is largely funded by the US government. However, it’s secure.

What dessalines is doing is called “poisoning the well”.

However, I’ll find some more, as I recently was looking into this.

Like this?

https://www.opentech.fund/security-safety-audits/briar-security-audit/

Or more a techie in-depth review?

I can attest: Briar requires no PII to create an account, operates over the Tor network (Your device becomes an onion service, basically, for chat). And, it integrates with Ripple, an emergency wipe button app (As does signal).

I like it, because you can keep a blog, create forums, group chats, and a few other really cool features. It sucks down your battery life, though (It’s the notifs, and keeping an always-on server running).

Briar is… Signal if you turned security up to 11. It comes with drawbacks, like if you are offline, you miss messages. You can get around it by using their mailbox, but that brings other issues (Securing a server).

Andrew Jackson was a literal psychopath, and came up with the ideology of just ignoring court rulings.

There has never been anyone like him before as anyone with his type of childlike behavior would have been dismissed.

I’d like to introduce you to Andrew Jackson…

September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren’t as important as revenge.

Yes, and its pretty great on devices you can install it on.

Problem is? Its not possible to install on most phones.

seems to be the ONLY industry where these religious nutjobs pretend to care about workers.

Nah, they dug in with it in the healthcare field, when “fighting for nurses” who were idiots and thought vaccines killed people.