At the suggestion of some Mastodon friends, I started a Ko-Fi page if you’d like to support my work. I hadn’t thought of doing this mainly because I’m not good with money, but I am hoping to upgrade my dslr setup to mirrorless at the beginning of next year and this might help. It’s not required or expected, so don’t feel bad if you don’t donate; I’m just glad to have people to share with!

https://ko-fi.com/jgbird

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

Came across this elsewhere, and it seems a good reminder of how the Civil Rights fight was actually won.

Successfully fighting for civil rights requires multiple parallel strategies, *and those "lanes" can't overlap*. Someone who's protecting people, for instance, needs to be squeaky clean, legally, so the baddies don't have a pretext to come after them and the people they're protecting--which means they can't be showing up to disruptive protests in person.