Cristi Constantin 🕸 @croqaz@social.privacytools.io

8 years ago, my digital life was almost entirely stored in Google data centers.

Today, I self-host a handful of services on a Raspberry Pi on my LAN and use privacy-friendly services. Small tech feels good.

I wrote a few words about the moving process 👀
https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/moving-away-from-google-services-8-years-in

cc @aral: I'm a big fan of your work. I donated to the Small Tech foundation recently, and you + Laura are an inspiration in this space. Keep up the great work!

I've been quite inspired recently by finding a ton of cool personal websites and wikis and thought I would share my views on how freeing it is to make your own: https://ritualdust.com/craft/make-yourself-a-website/

AI Text-to-Speech models have accents too - https://blog.waleson.com/2021/07/text-to-speech-models-have-accents-too.html

EleutherAI One Year Retrospective - https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/

Dear Mom and Dad, please stick with me - https://grownandflown.com/letter-from-teen-to-parents/

The Phoenix Checklist for Framing a Problem and Its Solution - https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2019/08/10/the-phoenix-checklist-for-framing-a-problem-and-its-solution/

Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB - https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html

Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636743

Free antispy tool for Windows 10 - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

DUR: The Debian User Repository - https://dur.hunterwittenborn.com/

Buy, Borrow, Die - https://www.peoplestaxpage.org/buy-borrow-die

Using Paper for Everyday Tasks - https://christine.website/blog/gtd-on-paper-2021-06-13

It used to be that when you read a newspaper, the newspaper did not also read you. When you watched TV, your TV did not also watch you…

Today when you read theguardian.com, over two dozen organisations whose trackers are embedded on the site also read you. When you watch YouTube, YouTube also watches you.

This is not some tin-foil hat conspiracy theory, it’s simply the business model of mainstream technology. I call this business model people farming.

https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/

The Lola Programming Language - https://lola.random-projects.net/

Internet in a box
http://internet-in-a-box.org/

Dutch Consumer Union sues #TikTok for 1.5 billion(!) euro for illegally profiling children and processing children’s data. This is how the #GDPR and the #Wamca (sort of Dutch class action) work together.

https://www.consumentenbond.nl/acties/claim-tiktok/tiktok-confronted-with-dutch-legal-claim-over-privacy-issues

#privacyMatters

WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted:

WD: "At this time, we are recommending that customers disconnect their My Book Live devices from the Internet to protect their data on the device."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/

Welp, it looks like the iMac is as doomed as the iPod and iPhone - https://www.macworld.com/article/349267/macalope-24-inch-imac-doomed-expansion-design-dongles-crooked.html/