HiramFromTheChi

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

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.

Synology NAS. Had it for a few years. Comes with Synology Photos, which is like Google Photos in terms of functionality (but local, of course).

I’ve heard good things about immich too, but haven’t tried it yet.

I’ve tried Ente and that’s also a good solution for how turnkey it is.

Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim

Probably for adding articles to my open source project, idcaboutprivacy

I’ll answer for the 99% of people in my life: Hiram

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I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.

Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.

This is why enshittification might be a good thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯