Librem One: Escape Google Increase Privacy
Puri.sm is starting a campaign to create a suite of online services and apps to help you regain some privacy. OMGUbuntu ...Delta Chat is a Whatsapp or Telegram type messenger that is based on email so it works across all platforms. If you want to avoid the messenger silos this may be the way to go. Open source. I’m going to test this.
Todays Mail:
- Notice from my health insurance about switching to new company to manage prescriptions. Only I don’t get any prescription benefits on my policy, so thanks for nothing.
- Safety Recall on my car. Brakes.
- Catalog.
Mail a Letter Online you send them an email, they print it, stuff it in an addressed envelope, affix postage and mail starting at $1.52. I can see this for sending to: parents and grandparents, and kids who don’t have email, to people who rarely check their email (you know who I’m talking about) and for instances where you need the impact of a real snail mail letter. I can see this being used by people who travel a lot and are never in an office.
Source: BoingBoing
I think I’m one of a small minority of people that have never watched Game of Thrones. I’m sure I’ll binge watch it, several years from now after it’s all completed.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a Marvel The Avengers movie or not. I did see the first Wolverine movie many years ago. Is that part of the franchise? I get my superhero lore confused. I guess I’m not part of the hip crowd.
Dawn. I’m sitting on the front porch, just out of the rain, listening to the bird sing and watching the neighborhood feral cats head back to their nests after a night of prowling around. Bunny rabbits are making themeselves scarce due to rain and cats.
War Plan Red: The U.S. Contingency for War With Canada & The UK This seems quiant today, with NATO but is made more sense back in the 1920’s.
Today, I’m sure we have contingency plans on how to defend Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in case of war with Russia or China. Preparing these plans is how you keep your military staff at the Pentagon busy during times of peace.
I firmly believe in Capitalism, but a well regulated Capitalism. Unregulated Capitalism leads to all sorts of Bad Things, like over consolidation in markets to where you only have one, two or three choices in vital products. That isn’t competition. That’s oligarchy and destroys competition.
Mornings on the Internets are best faced with coffee and a stout club.
Right. I spent a good good chunk of the afternoon after recieving this e foundation newsletter twisting myself in knots trying to decide between an eventual Linux based phone, an E Foundation version of Android phone or a frellin iPhone blinking XR deep in Apple’s walled garden.
Why is it so fricken hard to get one smartphone, that works on American networks that is not packed with Google spyware?
Wikipedia: Zombies Ate Burns Harbor, Indiana
I’m saving an old post of mine from a personal blog I had on Blogger, preserving this for posterity. The following...The real world is way weirder than anything out of fiction.
Bees living on Notre-Dame cathedral roof survive blaze All Creaures Great and Small…
New Life for Webrings
Webrings might have some life left in them if a new generation adopts them. Here is a new boilerplate for hosting your o...📚 I recommend the books by Eric Sloane. Particularly the Early American history books about wood, barns, and life in general. My favorite is Diary of an Early American Boy which contains lots of info about the life of settlers in 1805.
Murder In, French TV series
I’ve been streaming the French murder mystery series “Murder In…” each episode is set in a less...CIA spy Virginia Hall is about to become everyone’s next favorite historical hero Sounds like Hall was an amazing spy.
Back in the day, we used to get only blurry-cam photos of UFO’s, Bigfoot and USSR tanks. Okay so USSR aside, now that everyone is running around with a good camera, you would think we would be getting more and better UFO and Bigfoot shots. Instead nothing except selfies.
Tuxphones.com looks interesting if you want to keep up on the latest on Linux on phones news.
Is the EU Democratic?
Structure: The EU Commission: Commissioners, one per state, are appointed by each member state’s leader. They are...Om Malik: The Scourge of Robocalls The last paragraph is spot on.
My thought: Who shall guard the guardians?
Google and the Android Monopoly
This remains a problem: Google has locked up all the Android smartphone OSM’s with contracts restricting what othe...In reply to Charlie: Webrings If you are looking for something old school as a webring host try Webringo I’ve made a couple of experimental webrings there and everything works even though the site is very quiet. Good place to try out ideas. Webringo does not spam you either.
The cool thing is you can opt for good old HTML ring code and customize it if you want. Love me some HTML. Good luck!