Sparky J @jon@jonspark.com

@jon @writefreely Yep, in fact many people use it for that.

You can set your blog to "private" so no one else can access it, and then the only thing to do is make sure to hit "publish" after editing a post, if you're keeping notes across devices.

Anxiety is fake news you come up with about yourself

Choosing a VPN service is a serious decision at https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/19/Your-VPN-is-a-serious-choice.html - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/y5iztm8ix2 #freepost

#Mozilla #Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping #Tracking By Default | #privacy https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-firefox-to-enable-hyperlink-ping-tracking-by-default/

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? A look at the available evidence

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/

Have you checked out our website lately? We've added a few sections covering what's new in Juno, the workflow, parental controls, privacy, and more. It's the best resource to share with friends to show them what's special about elementary OS. https://buff.ly/1GyE9bG

Just switched my personal web site https://ar.al from nginx to Indie Web Server.

Took a few seconds.

What’s Indie Web Server? Check out a two-minute introductory video here: https://ar.al/2019/04/16/set-up-a-live-static-personal-web-site-in-seconds-with-indie-web-server-8.0.0/

#IndieWebServer

Where did LibreOffice come from? What happened to its predecessors, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice? Discover the rich history of the software on our timeline! https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

RT @Pinboard@twitter.com
The New York Times fancy new 'Privacy Project' homepage is stuffed to the gills with third-party tracking scripts. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html

endlessh looks like a nice tool: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/

@Tanuki three days after we started dating, YouTube started showing my now-spouse very specific ads for metrology equipment that I'd been getting. On a different computer. At work.

You may need a VPN.

Dame Susan Devoy, former NZ race relations comissioner

https://thespinoff.co.nz/news/16-03-2019/hatred-lives-in-new-zealand/

<< Most of us just pack our kids’ lunches as we prepare them for school. My Muslim friends prepare their kids for hatred before they step out the front door...

If the police and other intelligence agencies monitored white supremacists as closely as they monitored other extremists or criminals, no one would be saying that yesterday’s murders came as a surprise. >>

@grainloom

Imagine if no hardware vendor could distribute a software on a certain hardware if the user cannot easily replace it with an existing alternative that actually run on it.

It's the concept of #DeviceNeutrality invented by Stefano Quintarelli but on steroids.

No UEFI/SecureBoot to annoy open source developers! Less shit on your smartphone... hardware makers incentivated to fund Free Software to get alternatives!

Fuck the arsehole who thought it was a good idea to come to my fucking country and walk into a peaceful mosque and kill people. Fuck you, you're the scum of the earth and you don't deserve to be called Human. You're an evil fuckwit who has robbed people of their loved ones.

RIP to those who met their untimely end today in Christchurch, New Zealand. ☠️

RT @MuslimIQ

My request as a Muslim & fellow human:

The New Zealand terrorists live streamed their terrorist attack with specific hopes you watch it & share it.

Do Not Give Them A Platform.

Suffocate their hate. Suffocate their hate. Suffocate their hate.

Thank you.😓

#NewZealandShooting

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/1106417434632904704

The antidote to #BigTech is #SmallTech: a must-read by @aral, footnotes included... https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/
Or, as @ton puts it, "Small Tech Provides Agency, Big Tech Takes It Away".

Researchers find backdoor in Swiss online voting system that would let someone replace all ballots with fraudulent ones. “No election system should have a backdoor that allows the people running the election... to undetectably modify the election outcome.”

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmakk3/researchers-find-critical-backdoor-in-swiss-online-voting-system