Cristi Constantin 🕸 @croqaz@social.privacytools.io
- Blog
- https://crlf.link/
- Github
- https://github.com/croqaz/
Joined Jul 2019
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Stop 👏 Using 👏 Facebook
So many reasons, why you should consider closing your #Facebook account. Here is a nice documented list:
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Here is the presentation for Stingle Photos. (Alternative to Google Photos)
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More ethical alternatives to common services, find yours now. 🧡
https://ethical.net/
Just discovered an online text editor as powerful as Photoshop: https://www.photopea.com/
And most of the code is open source at: https://github.com/photopea
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ping @neauoire
TwoFold is written in #nodeJS
The testing suite is pretty huge, especially in the lexer/ parser, I really wanted to make it stable.
It took me around 2 years to bring TwoFold to a more or less stable app.
And.. I'm trying to understand WHY it takes me sooo so long to finish stuff.
I have no idea, but I have a few intuitions:
* I'm defocused, because I have many other things to do in my spare time
* I'm demoralized, because I'm mostly alone in all my projects
* I'm tired, because I can work mostly after 10PM when my family goes to sleep
I'm really glad that I launched this, though 😁
I'm a senior software dev and in my spare time I write small apps and libs that nobody uses.
I released TwoFold.js (2✂︎f) stable and I wrote this article about it:
https://crlf.site/log/articles/191121-twofold/
I took me almost 2 months to write, because english is much harder than code 😓
tl;dr;TwoFold is an app that makes plain text files behave like dynamic files. Use-cases include: auto updating documentation, text based dashboards, text virtual assistants, text spreadsheets, turn based games, etc.
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How to preserve data indefinitely:
1. Slice and checksum your data.
2. Store it on redundant hard drives, manufactured by multiple vendors, kept in redundant locations.
Then, periodically have a human being:
1. Check that the data still matches its checksums, restoring from redundant copies as necesasry.
2. Copy the data onto the latest modern long-term storage media, cycle out obsolete storage media.
3. Do regular maintenance on the software necessary to read and interpret the data.
4. Translate data requiring the interpretation of natural langauge into modern dialects and languages.
Set up a fund to pay for the ongoing maintenance of the data. However, be aware that it will always be up to future generations to decide what data is worth preserving.
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"Do you have something to hide?" is a manipulative rebuke to those that use #encryption.
It would help us all turn this conversation around. Because, the answer is: YES, we do have something to hide.
Things that we should hide, and must question why a government or business NEEDS access to:
- Medical history.
- Sensitive conversations with employers, children, spouses.
- Billing and banking information.
- Purchase information.
- Web search history.
And more...
BTW here's the list of colors: https://crlf.site/log/notes/191119-1/
My website https://crlf.site/
Before and After
I changed the gray theme, into something nicer.
I hope so.
Do you like the previous theme, or the new one?
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Security should not come at the expense of our privacy, but the opposite: privacy is security, and if we lose the first we cannot have the second.
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https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3278 https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1196307044938080258/photo/1
Worked on (2✂f) again. I said I'll take a break, but somehow the challenge was too interesting to ignore.
I added caching for HTTP request tags and updated the weather tags.
Eg: {darkskyWeather latLong='53.45,-6.21' /} returns `Mostly Cloudy, 5.18° C, feels like 2.84°`
And {openWeatherMap where='Dublin,IE' /} returns `Broken clouds, 4.36° C, humidity 93%`.
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To #India and other #newbies: How to find people and be found.
ENGAGE. Toot, respond, boost.
The best way to see, be seen, and engage, is, well, to get out, look for things, and be visible.
DON'T over-share. 1-10x daily? Pretty good. 10-100x daily? Excessive. Less than a few times a month? Where'd you go?
Hashtags. Use them AND search them. Search tags you used for others with like interests.
Be human. Self-promotion, rudeness, single-topic obsession, goes badly.
Started using analytics from https://getinsights.io/ (a privacy-focused Analytics Platform) on my personal blog https://crlf.site/ because I'm just naturally curious about the number of page views.
Nice experience so far, it's a good platform!
I believe I'm the only one making traffic, because I check my old notes from time to time to remember some events.
Updated the documentation on 2✂f and Overseer projects.
I received an issue on Overseer and I noticed some features were not documented, so that's solved now. It's nice that with each issue, I add a bit more documentation, which hopefully helps other people and saves me time in the future.
- Blog
- https://crlf.link/
- Github
- https://github.com/croqaz/
Joined Jul 2019
