David A. Harding @harding@mastodon.social

All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

In Firefox's addressbar, you can limit results by typing special characters before or after your term

^ for matches in your browsing history.
* for matches in your bookmarks.
% for matches in your currently open tabs.
# for matches in page titles.
@ for matches in web addresses.

"A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS" by Lin Clark https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/

We're so lucky to have Mozilla in the browser ecosystem. They're doing some of the most innovative privacy work right now. (And Lin Clark is great at explaining this stuff!)

I saw the best cpus of my generation destroyed by patents, starving hysterical cache-misses,
dragging themselves down to ring zero at boot looking for an angry bios... the machinery of night,

conference idea:

snooze fest
like rust fest, but instead of two days, it's two months long

- there's no talks
- there's nothing new
- we just listen to old talks
- while fixing broken software

https://github-contributions.now.sh/ is interesting if you do open-source stuff on GitHub.

Confirms my feeling that 2017 was a year of rest and relaxation for me, although 2018 is starting to ramp up again. https://toot.cafe/media/sVF5pRLCU2SrnLM01WY