With the debate over #Microsoft #Windows vs #GNU #Linux raging on, I look at why Windows is unquestionably the top choice in the foreseeable in terms of ease, #accessibility, and #ethics. Noble as #FOSS advocacy is, can it really compete, especially among #women, going forward?
I TURNED MYSELF INTO A SOCIAL NETWORK, MORTYYYY!! I'M MASTO RIIIIIIIIICK! https://mastodon.technology/media/JiFE3_hfTBQeXyWNJKQ
OnionShare is an open source tool by Micah Lee for securely and anonymously sending and receiving files using Tor onion services.
The newest version adds anonymous dropboxes, supports new Tor addresses, and is translated into a dozen new languages.
https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/
He's back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBQfSAVt0s #lastweektonight 🎺 🎺 🎺
Want to read this book in 2019
High Performance Browser Networking
https://hpbn.co/
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
"Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you. - Emily McDowell
After nearly a year of work, Onionshare 2 is released! https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/
Lessons from this great article by Jeff Atwood: building your own little cloud infrastructure is probably 1/3 of the price of renting it from a big provider. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-cloud-is-just-someone-elses-computer/
#cloud
So I just bit the bullet and here are the results. Here's what a fresh/non-cached page from #OneDrive gets from the mothership.
513 requests. 82MB.
I don't know if I want to laugh or cry.
Holy shit! This is disgusting. Obviously I knew Windows 10 was collecting telemetry but the scale of it is shocking. 😱 🤬
#privacy #switchtolinux
This is my #ThoughtWorks account.
I post more geeky stuff on this account than the other one.
Functional Programming, FreedomBox, Ethics in Technology