Mike Harley 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 @obsolete29@indieweb.social

New blog post --> You want Tor Browser ... not a VPN

#privacy #vpn #tor

https://obsolete29.com/posts/2021/10/21/you-want-tor-browser-not-a-vpn/

Happy Wednesday. Here is some is some heavy metal for you. :)

#NowListening #Music

https://song.link/xdncj6zkncnbf

Hey #fediverse, my dream machine pro comes with cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and google (8.8.8.8) as the dns resolvers configured. Are there better options. I'd really rather not use either.

Is Lemmy broken??

well first impressions aren't great for me... looks like they're pushing some crypto wallets or services or some shit. i had to hide like 6 panels of the shit.

Is this how they're monetizing?

brave rewards 😑

Oh ffs what is all this token bs in brave.

New blog post --> The Decentralization Fallacy

#decentralization #mastodon

https://obsolete29.com/posts/2021/10/20/the-decentralization-fallacy/

Now if I can figure out how to set onion brave search as the default search engine for tor...... 🧐

Plus it seems they're a for profit company. Will they have the same moral hazards as Apple? They build up their brand on being private etc but then the fiduciary responsibility to share holders start to out weigh their responsibility to users/customers. Are these people just looking for a big payout at some point when they sell to Yahoo or Facebook or whatever?

Kind of hate that Brave uses chromium. Maybe I should stop resisting and just use the dumb thing though? I'm testing Tor on the desktop and I've found it tolerable.

Well this news seems timely.
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Brave ditches Google for its own privacy-centric search engine https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/brave-ditches-google-for-its-own-privacy-centric-search-engine/

New blog post --> On languishing and trying to see the positives

#life #personal

https://obsolete29.com/posts/2021/10/19/on-languishing-and-trying-to-see-the-positives/

Am I misremembering, or did I see a feature request for Mastodon to add the ability to automatically delete toots after x amount of time?

Oh neat. The NY Times offers an onion service for their site.

Are there really no FOSS people/orgs working on a search project?

Hello. I do not have an opinion on TouchBar. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Hey #fediverse, I'm interested in your thoughts on fitness trackers. I used an Apple Watch 4 series to track my walks, hikes and bike rides. I used the Strava app and it worked really well IMO. I'm interested in using something other than Apple. Any recommendations? Hard requirement is no Fitbits (google). Otherwise, pretty open to something. Would love it to integrate with Strava. What do you like?

Oops, didn't escape the nunjucks in the code snippet correctly.

New post --> Updated social sharing (open graph protocol) images for my personal site

#blog #eleventy

https://obsolete29.com/posts/2021/10/18/updated-social-sharing-open-graph-protocol-images-for-my-personal-site/