Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

After quitting #Firefox

Just my laptop in normal usage. I didn't even realize that it was using swap. Maybe because of the SSD.

Setting up the FreedomBox Pioneer edition at home!

#FreedomBox

So many #FreedomBox stickers!!!

Using containers in self-hosted home servers feels like hauling your groceries home in multiple shipping containers - one for each item. 🤐

#selfhosting #containers

Tor Browser is proprietary software, according to Gnome Software Center.

The Growth Imperative

Individual:
I have to increase my income year by year or the inflation will get me

Corporation:
I have to increase shareholder value quarter to quarter or they will pull out their investments

Government:
I have to show a growth in GDP or people will not vote for us again

We're all like hamsters running on wheels whether we like it or not to satisfy an invisible growth imperative which is centuries old and nobody knows why we're still following.

What We Should Learn From “Facebook Research”

Once again, Facebook has broken the trust of its users—this time, through reportedly paying people to give up their privacy by installing an application that sucks up huge amounts of sensitive data, and explicitly sidestepping Apple's Enterprise Developer program rules. In doing so, the company has...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/what-we-should-learn-facebook-research

If parallel universes exist, there must be a version of me in one of them who became an electronics engineer and won't shut up about self-hosting electricity using solar panels.

#SelfHosting #SolarPower

Image from PBS Crash Course Engineering #30

What our obsession with over-celebrating weddings, birthdays, and now even divorces says about us

As December draws to a close, I’m certain most of us have been subjected to similar ungodly, and painfully boring, number of pre-wedding and save-the-date videos.

https://qrius.com/what-our-obsession-with-over-celebrating-weddings-birthdays-and-now-even-divorces-says-about-us/

I have Kiwix on my phone now with a 5.8 GB dump of some select articles from Wikipedia.

I hope to have the full archive someday when phone storage gets big enough.

Installed after watching one of @art 's videos.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/2d5c81ac-d0cc-44b9-8b7d-00ef9fde1941

#kiwix #Wikipedia #Android #Offline

When Debian system updates says "no limit", it ain't kidding.

#Debian #updates

Manipulation therapy!

Dear #Mastodon,

#Technology #Ethics

Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/08/07/firefox-offers-recommendations-with-latest-test-pilot-experiment-advance/

#mozilla #firefox #privacy #meme

The most dangerous place to be for activists

https://qrius.com/the-most-dangerous-place-to-be-for-activists/

#climate #activism

Awesome lists

The GitHub repository of #Mastodon has 14000 stars now.

Found on @aral 's blog called "Casino Data"

dat://bfb2eeb077826ecee6c1105d419755d5d8e0893d653d3ce39e50aee2c00b7701/2018/07/06/casino-data/

#privacy