Buy nothing
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The author of Set of Principles takes part in the “Buy Nothing Project”.
🔗 Links
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
“Why I still use RSS”
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Marc reminds why RSS is still a great solution, especially during this difficult times.
“A Day in the Life of Your Data”
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Honestly, I don’t quite believe Apple is that altruistic and actually cares about the privacy of their customers and users, rather I think it’s driven by a desire for even more profits. Apple has jumped on the privacy bandwagon because it’s financially rewarding.
“On the security of WhatsApp and Telegram”
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I wrote a lot about Telegram and messaging services already, but here’s another (long) article worth reading. This time taking a closer on the security aspects of both messengers.
“The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML”
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Terence Eden has written memorably why it is important to write simple HTML. Especially for pages that might be important to some people.
hckr news
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Half a year ago I introduced an alternative site that provides RSS feeds for Hacker News. However, I banned this feed from my feed reader some time ago and another alternative feed shows me the top links of the previous day the following day. Sometimes, though, I check the site manually.
A decentralized social network based on WordPress
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I got a webmention from Alexander Kirk, mentioning one of my recent posts.
“The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)”
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The New York Times has published a (very) long list of Trump’s Twitter insults. I’m curious to see if the internet becomes a little less toxic in the future, but I have little hope.
Maddy Mail Server
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It’s already been a while, but I once (successfully) ran my own mail server for some time. I did this using the open source Mailcow project, which does all the configuration work for you and wraps everything nicely in Docker containers. There are also a few posts about it here on the blog.
Generics in Go
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As someone who properly learned to program using Java and still works with Java almost every day, I am used to generics. Flexible parameters whose constraints do not yet have to be set during definition. The fact that there are no generics in Go took some getting used to.