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cimm | 1 year ago | on: Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back

I like the idea, but I wonder how this works in practice. If I grant ACME Inc. access to my “profile picture,” for example, won't they just copy the file and store it on their own servers (be it for performance reasons, tracking, ease of development, whatever)? How does this keep me in control?

cimm | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Best offline-only eBook reader?

Another vote for the Pocketbook (~€100 on online stores in Europe). As the parent above, I never connected it to the internet, not once. I use a USB cable to add new books. The Pocketbook is also recommended by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included list as the most privacy-friendly e-reader. I wrote a blog post about my Kindle → Kobo → Pocketbook experience: https://suffix.be/blog/search-perfect-ereader/

cimm | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services

> ethically sourced: opt-in only data collection

Good on them but how does this work? If my neighbour scans my WiFi network and uploads it to BeaconDB I didn’t exactly opt-in, did I? The privacy policy mentions you can add ‘_optout’ to the WiFi name, so it’s more opt-out instead of opt-in?

cimm | 3 years ago | on: Koch method to learn Morse

On iOS there is Morse Machine, similar idea for single characters. There is also morse.camp, a PWA that focuses on recognizing English words.

cimm | 3 years ago | on: Schluss – A secure vault for personal data

I still don't understand how one can retract access once given. If I share my purchase history with some financial web app and later decide to retract access the web app will no longer get new data, but how can I be sure they don't keep a copy of my old data around? Same with GDPR. I often ask companies to remove my data, and legally they should, but I highly doubt many of them do indeed scrap all my data. I still need to trust the other party to honor my wishes (and follow the law) which makes me wonder if Solid or Schluss can help removing my data.

cimm | 6 years ago | on: Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial

Thanks. Linephone does support push notifications, problem is I don't have a way to tell Twilio to send push notifications since it's not "their" mobile client. Any idea if you can send push notification to an iOS app that isn't yours? As in: Twilio receives a call, how does it (or my server) send a push notification to to, say, Groundwire?

cimm | 6 years ago | on: Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial

As am Twilio as the backend with Linphone as softphone client to get started. Easy enough to set up and seems to work fine. Only problem is the lack of push notifications on iOS, inbound phone calls only work when Linphone is the foreground app. Android even has a build in SIP client.

cimm | 8 years ago | on: Privacy implications of email tracking [pdf]

I simply stopped reading HTML emails and read everything in plain text. Works fine for most of the emails I receive, the ones that don't are almost always marketing emails anyway.

I do realise clicking tracking links still works but they are way more visible in plain text mode and it's not that hard to copy & paste the relevant part of the link.

Too bad most email clients have removed plain text rendering these days. I also haven't found a good mobile plain text email client yet.

MailMate has a really nice feature when you can read your mails in plain text by default and toggle the HTML version on a per mail basis with a shortcut.

cimm | 9 years ago | on: Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

I am a freelance developer and added footnote to my invoices explaining I donate 1% of the amount to an open-source project used for the assignment. I ask them to propose the projects they prefer but almost no one does.

cimm | 10 years ago | on: Webpass

I use an ad blocker because I hate the idea being tracked. Hiding ads is simply a plus. I like the idea behind Webpass but they do nothing to prevent the tracking part of the whole ad blocking discussion.
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