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 […]
Tech
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
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 […]
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 […]
Taking back control of messaging
I’m a 34 year old dad, so I don’t do a lot of messaging, at least not with a lot of people. In high school there was Yahoo Messenger. In […]
Sandboxing Social Media
The concept that I finally latched on to restructure my online life in a meaningful way was sandboxes. This is a software concept for protecting data by isolating processes. An […]
Making sense of my online world
I’ve had a growing sense of unease about how I’ve handled my online life over the last several months and to a lesser extent the last year or two. In […]