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2019-11-25 11:12 #

Privacy is a group inoculation. Even if you self-host, there’s nothing to prevent your information from being inadvertently gathered by your friend who hasn’t taken the same steps. Not to mention that self-hosting is really hard! At its simplest, you need to know how to use command line tools (or, if you’re using shared hosting, be comfortable with FTP). At its hardest, you need to have some server administration skills. For those reasons, I don’t think self-hosting is a real solution to the problem in itself. There are lots of other great reasons to self-host: having full control of your web presence and data, if you have the means and the skills, allows you to better represent yourself online. — Escape from Google

2019-11-25 11:09 #

I had felt since the 2016 US election that Twitter had spiraled into a worse and worse condition; the site felt engineered to drive more and more “engagement” at the expense of human misery. So making a clean break dramatically improved my mental well-being. — in which we get socially rendered

2019-11-25 10:33 #

Guess who forgot to bring that dish (butternut squash with spices) to the table last Saturday?

2019-11-25 10:29 #
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hugo-easy-gallery: Interesting template to display a directory full of images.

2019-11-22 15:29 #

  Nick Cave & The bad Seeds, The Abattoir Blues Tour.