Smart Home and Privacy
I got sucked into home automation without considering the privacy implications because that was back before I know how bad internet privacy was. It was also something my wife was […]
Dustin
My private email solution
Since email is really the backbone of all internet communication, it really is important. It’s also a source of valuable information about you, including all of your purchases (receipts and […]
Why worry about online privacy?
Some of my reasons are are likely not the reasons you would have, but the rest should be. When I was 18 I was diagnosed with mild anxiety and mild […]
Privacy and email
Anything you try to do to take control of your digital life will be determined by values, pragmatism, and budget. Email is older than the world wide web and it’s […]
Ardour: Yes, it is stable
The Internet as a Town
Maybe I’ve been looking at this all wrong. Could it be that the metaphor we should be looking at this as is more like a town than our papers? If […]
Privacy as a Myth
I can search for something on Duck Duck Go running on Firefox on my Galaxy S7 and see YouTube recommendations based on that. This has happened twice. Yes, I checked […]
Privacy as a Privilege
As I’ve already written about, I don’t trust the big tech companies and I’m not comfortable with being the product. Unfortunately the solution is to spend money and like many […]
The cost of online services
Developing, maintaining, and supporting online services costs money. If you look at how much paid email mailboxes cost, they seem to average around $5 per user per month. Online office […]
Internet Values
Life on the internet in 2018 is a game of weighing competing values against each other and finding compromises that you can sleep with at night. At least that’s what […]