💾 Archived View for 0gitnick.flounder.online › page › 4 captured on 2022-01-08 at 14:53:23. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2021-12-17)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
_ _ _
_ _ (_)__| |__ ____ __| |_ ___ _ _ ___
| ' \| / _| / /(_-< '_ \ ' \/ -_) '_/ -_)
|_||_|_\__|_\_\/__/ .__/_||_\___|_| \___|
|_|
Hello and welcome to my journal! Here I write about my own ideas and promote others' ideas. I mostly talk about computing, philosophy, spirituality, privacy, and society but this journal is not limited to those topics.
Don't Record Others Without Permission
Date: 29 March 2021
Read time: 9 minutes
Summary: We've lost the right to personal privacy to a large extent thanks to the ever-expanding corporate surveillance state. The surveillance state we all live under is getting increasing attention from non-mainstream media sources. However, something that doesn't make the non-mainstream news is the privacy we voluntarily take away from each other by recording people without their permission.
Date: 19 March 2021
Read time: 4 minutes
Summary: Git has a privacy problem. Here's how to fix it.
[Video] Monero: More Anonymous Than Cash
Date: 18 March 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: No one should be using Bitcoin. Use Monero instead. Monero is what people think Bitcoin is: an anonymous, untraceable digital currency.
Date: 12 March 2021
Read time: 5 minutes
Summary: It's time to rethink what counts as malware.
[Video] Is Your Keyboard Spying on You?
Date: 09 March 2021
Read time: 3 minutes
Summary: Your keyboard is one of the most important things to secure in desktop and mobile environments, yet it is often overlooked. TheHatedOne has some suggestions on which keyboards are safe to use.
Date: 04 March 2021
Read time: 8 minutes
Summary: My answer to the question: What is the meaning of life?
[Video] Don't Talk to the Police
Date: 01 March 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Professor James Duane tells viewers why you should always use the 5th amendment and never talk to the police without an attorney present, especially if you're innocent.
Date: 21 February 2021
Read time: 2 minutes
Summary: Find out what's new on my blog.
[Video] You Should Delete Your Whatsapp ASAP
Date: 07 February 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: TheHatedOne tells us why no one should be using Whatsapp.
Date: 06 February 2021
Read time: 8 minutes
Summary: Thinking is the world's most common addiction and the first step to recovery is recognizing there's a problem.
[Documentary] The Norden: Prison
Date: 03 February 2021
Read time: 11 minutes
Summary: The Norden is a documentary series made in 2014 first aired by Finland's national public broadcasting company YLE. It presents the Nordic welfare model from an outsider's perspective. The first episode looks at the Norwegian prison system. It captures so much of what's wrong with "tough" prisons like those in America and most importantly it shows a better alternative. It promotes a prison model based on rehabilitation, not revenge.
Date: 31 January 2021
Read time: 1 minute
Summary: Find out what's new on my blog.
Date: 29 January 2021
Read time: 3 minutes
Summary: Waking Up is a refreshing, rational middleground on spirituality avoiding both denial of spiritual experiences by skeptics and mystical woo-woo peddled by Deepak Chopra and other pseudointellectuals.
Date: 27 January 2021
Read time: 10 minutes
Summary: The dead man's switch is a powerful self-defense tool that is automatically triggered when the human operator dies. It is your insurance policy that contains digital dirt on your aggressor.
[Article] You Should Be Using an Old Computer
Date: 22 January 2021
Read time: 6 minutes
Summary: There is a war being waged on general-purpose computing. Every year manufacturers come up with new ways to make your computer harder to repair thereby increasing e-waste. Every year software companies make their ecosystems more locked down giving you less and less control over your own devices. To not use an old Thinkpad is to be on the wrong side of this war.
Unless otherwise noted, the writing in this journal is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Copyright 2019-2021 Nicholas Johnson