I know how tempting it is to share things you absolutely hate on social media.

But I challenge you to instead share things you absolutely love.

People will often ask me (mostly in-person) what my top privacy-related tip is. It's a tough choice because there are so many things that the average person can and should do, but probably doesn't. But I almost always land on "delete old accounts that you no longer use." It's something that literally anyone can do, and although it's time-consuming, it also has a massive impact on your privacy hygiene and your overall online footprint. Data can't be abused if it's not there in the first place.

#privacy

I'm taking a break from using Mastodon. The experience here has been less-than-great the past few weeks, and I am tired of this cycle repeating.

In an effort to stay in touch, I've launched a newsletter at veronicaexplains.net. Future blog posts will go there as well.

I explain more in the inaugural post: https://veronicaexplains.net/launching-ghost-on-new-domain/

I have also turned on ActivityPub for this blog, you can follow it at @veronica.

Beim #39c3 wurden gerade mehrere Nazi-Dating-Websites live gelöscht, das war durchaus spektakulär.

Vorher waren die Daten runtergezogen und Recherchen über die Betreiberin angestellt worden.

Infos dazu: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber

Update:
Das Video: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/958d3055-3929-56b8-b71c-25b3a64f1902

I love people like this 🤩

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