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Things I DON'T want in my tech 
• Spying
• AI
• "AI"
• Lies
• The thinnest touchscreen
• The largest touchscreen
• An app that is 15 apps
• An app that does things I don't know about
• A popup asking "Now?" or "Later?" without a "Never!" option
• An update that makes it all worse
• Exploding batteries
Things I DO want in my tech 
• Privacy 🔒
• Security 🛡️
• Repairability 🛠️
• Pretty interfaces 
• Buttons 
evacideThere is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things:
1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.
2. Do not give advice you haven't tried implementing yourself. Eat your own dog food.
3. Get feedback on your guide from your target audience before publication.
4. Incorporate that feedback. This is not an optional step.
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarWhat the fuck. Stop finding ways, nature. At least not into the living room.
abadideathere’s two “theys” relevant to encryption:
the government: the US government has fired all its scientists and defunded all its research. “they” are not about to crack all cryptography.
Silicon Valley: they’re all busy holding bacchanalias until the LLM money runs out, at which point half of them will have forgotten how to program. “they” are not about to crack all cryptography.
y'all, my husband (not a tech guy) just managed to stumble innocently into Windows' biggest, deepest, darkest black hole of legacy hacks:
"I was making textfiles with explanations of different D&D stats, str, dex, etc, but it wouldn't let me name a file con..."
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