shipstain

Yeah you can encrypt your connection to the server where you store your mail. But don't think about encrypting your mail.

It's strange that plain old html and media files are so shunned for simple sites.

Buying a domain name, buying web space, pointing the domain name to the web space, uploading files. Does seem ever so simple compared with a million other complex workflows.

And yet, it didn't really catch on.

Give someone a one-click installer and the bottleneck will still be content creation and design by committee.

Opera browser had a feature at one point where you could basically have it as a server and browser. And if we all had transparent addressing on the network you could do that. I have the ability to host at home, but I'm not too keen about having my personal address on the Internet. I know that's an oxymoron, but I'd rather have someone attacking a cloud node than my personal network. And I still value my anonymity in places.

Bubbles are odd, and you forget they are even there. It sometimes only becomes evident went you stray into an unfamiliar one.

Personally I like some cross-pollination. It can take me by surprise when I'm subjecting to the vagaries of the public.

People tend to protectively double down, and get very defensive, even over very benign topics. Some thrive on that friction, some just would rather leave it alone and drift towards those with similarish outlooks.

People also have a tendency to believe what they want to believe.

I got a load of stick off a friend, because he thought I held a particular political persuasion. Just because I mildly challenged him. Well I'm not even sure as to why he thought the way he did. He just put me in another box/bubble that wasn't his, and lashed out at me. Quite ugly behaviour in my mind. As soon as he realised we were on the same page on the topic, he vaguely apologised for his outburst. To me however, I was left thinking, well what if I hadn't seen eye to eye. Nice guy in the main. Just like racist Grandma.

Anyway I think what I'm trying to say is that I expect differences of opinion. And can accept them (outwardly at least, up and to a point, maybe..). I like a bit of healthy discourse. But the subtleties and lost contexts can be horrible pain points of misunderstanding. Some just can't stand a difference of opinion.

We used to keep rats, and they are pretty delightful really. I discovered later that they are such sociable creatures, they really need friends of their own kind. Ours got lots of attention, could pretty much run free for most of the day, but they do get lonely.

Thanks, F-droid looks interesting.

Stuff like this just baffles me:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.metabrainz.android/

Ver 2.4(27)

read phone status and identity Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.

I'd run a mile from that app if I saw those perms listed on Google Play.

And something like Google Calendar being > 50MB.