ConsiderateWebUser

Quote of James Williams, from a talk "Is our attention for sale?" For me this means: a careful choice of which books I read, podcasts I listen to having my phone on silent most of the time turning off almost all notifications keeping the visible information in my room to a minimum not viewing advertisements practicing meditation walking and running with just my thoughts minimizing my exposure to recommendation algorithms (seeking info. manually) very low habitual news-consumption having time a...

I am not a product Recently I set some personal life goals. One was to reclaim sovereignty over my personal hardware, software and data. The infamous tech companies have been steadily eroding that sovereignty for years, taking advantage of a vast information asymmetry and my inclination for convenience. So in the last month, I: bought a barebones mini-pc Cost: ~350E all-in (already had monitor, peripherals, sit-stand desk) attached it to the back of my monitor so it's invisible (if it wasn'...