Thaaaat was my plan

(Okay, that’s my last one.)

Isn’t that part of the problem? There shouldn’t be that many links. That’s sorta the point.

In reality, if they were all catalogued, there would be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.

Also: The most important part of this page is the essential reads section. That part doesn’t change.

Whether you read em yourself or send em to your person to read—that’s up to you.

But the point of that is to gather arguments and POVs that you might otherwise miss and apply to your offline life.

I, for example, really like Schneier’s essay. It’s very concise and powerful in translating the “why.”

I sent this to an old family member who doesn’t know the first thing about technology, and they understood it.

If it’s not helpful to you, then it is what it is. Might be to someone else.

idcaboutprivacy

I’m no expert, but that sounds pretty baaaad

Or raaaad, depending on how you look at it I guess

Agree with @huppakee@piefed.social comment here about the importance of setting a north star and seeing the big picture.

I started idcaboutprivacy for exactly this. It’s an open source repository of articles and discussions to surface the importance of privacy how it affects our lives.

I’ve found that connecting the offline to the online is really helpful in translating concepts and answering the “Why should I care?” question.

On a more tactical level, I like to start off recommending Privacy Guides. Though not everyone agrees with 100% of their software recommendations, it’s a really solid starting point, and they also provide justifications for each one.

This journey that you wanna put your parents on is also endless, and we gotta adjust as necessary as things change. It’ll never be static. So consider that. Stay lean, open minded, and willing to adapt when necessary.

Nah it’s not stuffed with bread, it’s just bread up until you get to the cheese and sauce up top.

And yeah, Pequods is always poppin. Lotta Chicago transplants go for their deep dish, but their thin is better imo. It depends on how you feel about crust, too. Some people really like their crust.

Native Chicagoan here. Something that always gets glossed over is understanding that there’s two types of deep dish pizza: stuffed (what you see here) and pan.

Stuffed pizza (from bottom to top) is dough, cheese (plus vegetables or meat or whatever else you wanna “stuff” it with), another layer of dough, then the sauce on top.

Giordano’s or Gino’s East is most closely associated with stuffed, even though it’s often only referred to as “deep dish.”

Pan pizza is almost the same in shape/dimensions, but instead of it being stuffed with cheese/vegetables/meat, that part is just bread.

Lou Malnati’s is most closely associated with pan pizza, even though it’s often only referred to as “deep dish.”

The differences are incredibly important, and anyone who’s tried both can concur.

Anyways, they both have cheese so idk what this dude talking about lol

Thanks for comin to my TED Talk.

Video DownloadHelper sounds like it would meet your needs. It’s even recommended by Firefox.

“I heard practice makes perfect, but then I heard nobody’s perfect, so then I stopped practicing.” - Steven Wright

It’s great to see ethical basketball winning. 👍

Item 11. 🫠

Downsides:

1. Most sea turtle species are endangered
2. Only 1/1000 turtle eggs hatch and make it out to sea

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One of my ideas for increasing GrapheneOS market share is to market GOS as the minimalist phone so many crave.

In recent times, I’ve stumbled across a handful of articles about how dumbphones are back, and how people crave more minimalist phones to curb smartphone addiction or otherwise.

GrapheneOS is a great minimalist phone that’s still “smart,” yet secure and private.

GOS is a way better option than dumbphones because:

1. Chances are you’ll need some sort of smartphone functionality. For example: Digital “live” tickets that you can’t screenshot and need to be opened on your phone directly (Ticketmaster, MLB, etc.)
2. Using a dumbphone reverts you to older technologies and protocols, like cell towers and SMS. These are inherently insecure and shouldn’t be used anymore. So even though you might “feel” like you’re better off, your communications (text, audio, video) take a huge leap backwards in terms of privacy and security.

Might be overkill (since it’s a Figma alternative), but try Penpot.

I’m waiting for the day someone decides to challenge the behemoth that’s Canva with an open source alternative. That’d be dope.

FWIW, GrapheneOS is in talks with phone manufacturers to also reduce/remove reliance on Google Pixels.

Also: You can technically put GOS on some non-Pixel devices, but it’s not officially supported (and thus not recommended). Just FYI.

It’s barbones Android, without the Google. You can add the Google stuff if you want, but by default, it comes completely de-Googled.

It also comes with some extra features, like granular app-level permissions, sandboxed Google Play Services (which a lotta apps use), duress PIN, and more.

Widely regarded as the safest and most private “commercial” mobile operating system.

Disclaimer: I run SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS/custom ROM installation service.

Hello from GrapheneOS 👋

Tech savvy Lemmings don’t need SwapMyOS, but for more non-technical folk, it’s there just in case by demand.

AMA.

Everything is so enshittified now, that we need to redefine the concept of “free”

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