Before you spend $59 on that iPhone strap, consider giving the same amount to the World Central Kitchen. They help feed people in a humanitarian crisis around the world.
Many thanks for considering my request.
This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it.
They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.
Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use
has no venture capital investors
has no shareholders to answer to
has no growth targets
with a web interface with zero tracking cookies
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
Supporting older boomers / seniors with ever increasingly complex modern tech can quickly highlight tech that has bad edge cases and confusing user experiences.
All companies shipping devices need to include boomer QA people I think.
Offering up my parents to test tech if any companies need.