hammerron @hammerron@mastodon.technology

I found out only yesterday that #Jitsi has dropped #GoogleAnalytics from their public instance https://meet.jit.si/ , which is a great improvement for #privacy ! (They still do analytics, as documented here: https://jitsi.org/security/ , which is a good read for any Jitsi user.)

I find your lack of faith... Disturbing.

The Meetings Candle...

Hurm.... Seems quite relevant to my recent life....
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DRM is bad news for all consumers. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/defective-by-design-a-resistance-to-restrictions

It's beginning to look a lot like Yule!

I used to be a "Googly" person. I had Gmail when most people asked "Is that like email or something", and I was heavy into Google Plus when it was peaking.

Two things turned me off, aside from the now obvious reasons. When they started providing those creepy auto-response buttons on your emails; felt like they were reading right along with me.

Second, with location turned off on my Android phone, I get asked to rate my trip to "business x" when I wasn't even there, but was nearby.

@claudiom scroll down to #5 of https://opensource.com/article/19/10/signs-linux-user and see if you recognize any of the screenshots

The author clearly has excellent taste. (Also wasn't sure if you wanted credit and/or how to list you, so let me know)

We all have some of these tiny instruction sheets that came with some device, like a digital photo frame or a poor man's watch. 3 yrs from now when I change the battery, I won't remember which of the 2 buttons to hold down for 5 sec and press the other 3 times to change the settings.

I scan all those little sheets to PDF and keep them in a Manuals folder in my Documents. Zoomed, easier to read, and most important, I know where they are.

#paperless #digital

RT @biglesp@twitter.com

Urgh!! Just been asked to be a contributing writer for a tech site and when I asked about payment, there isn't any.
Freelancers: Please be upfront and ask for payment. Sure it might be scary to ask, but do it! Don't work for exposure, we can't pay bills with exposure :(

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/biglesp/status/1183755577069051904

And the best teachers are those with the confidence to *not* be the subject authority... they're the ones with the chutzpah to learn alongside their learners, and show them that learning in a digital age is its own set of skills...