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I like the idea, but I wonder how this works in practice. If I grant ACME Inc. access to my “profile picture,” for example, won't they just copy the file and store it on their own servers (be it for performance reasons, tracking, ease of development, whatever)? How does this keep me in control?

Another vote for the Pocketbook (~€100 on online stores in Europe). As the parent above, I never connected it to the internet, not once. I use a USB cable to add new books. The Pocketbook is also recommended by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included list as the most privacy-friendly e-reader. I wrote a blog post about my Kindle → Kobo → Pocketbook experience: https://suffix.be/blog/search-perfect-ereader/

> ethically sourced: opt-in only data collection

Good on them but how does this work? If my neighbour scans my WiFi network and uploads it to BeaconDB I didn’t exactly opt-in, did I? The privacy policy mentions you can add ‘_optout’ to the WiFi name, so it’s more opt-out instead of opt-in?

How should one take a turn in a swimming pool with this?

This year, I discovered "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem (after seeing a video of the game based on the novel).

I got myself a https://paperd.ink: a 4.2″ screen with battery in a printed case for $90. I wrote a small calendar application for it to replace the paper calendar at home: https://suffix.be/blog/eink-calendar

On iOS there is Morse Machine, similar idea for single characters. There is also morse.camp, a PWA that focuses on recognizing English words.

I recently got into Morse and was so proud I could send a message via your tool. Thanks!

I still don't understand how one can retract access once given. If I share my purchase history with some financial web app and later decide to retract access the web app will no longer get new data, but how can I be sure they don't keep a copy of my old data around? Same with GDPR. I often ask companies to remove my data, and legally they should, but I highly doubt many of them do indeed scrap all my data. I still need to trust the other party to honor my wishes (and follow the law) which makes me wonder if Solid or Schluss can help removing my data.

I always wondered if this is US specific. In Europe, as far as I know, the package would simply be delivered by the neighbor, they return the next day, or you have to get it from the local convenience store or some centralized lock-box.

I found this months ago, lost my pinned tabs and spent _hours_ looking for this. This will teach me to not bookmark interesting stuff. Thank you!

I have been using Prowl (https://prowlapp.com) for years now as the generic push notifications app. You pay a $3 one time fee and send notifications via a webhook.

I tried Acrobits Softphone today and it works! Thanks for the help!

Thanks. Linephone does support push notifications, problem is I don't have a way to tell Twilio to send push notifications since it's not "their" mobile client. Any idea if you can send push notification to an iOS app that isn't yours? As in: Twilio receives a call, how does it (or my server) send a push notification to to, say, Groundwire?

As am Twilio as the backend with Linphone as softphone client to get started. Easy enough to set up and seems to work fine. Only problem is the lack of push notifications on iOS, inbound phone calls only work when Linphone is the foreground app. Android even has a build in SIP client.

I simply stopped reading HTML emails and read everything in plain text. Works fine for most of the emails I receive, the ones that don't are almost always marketing emails anyway.

I do realise clicking tracking links still works but they are way more visible in plain text mode and it's not that hard to copy & paste the relevant part of the link.

Too bad most email clients have removed plain text rendering these days. I also haven't found a good mobile plain text email client yet.

MailMate has a really nice feature when you can read your mails in plain text by default and toggle the HTML version on a per mail basis with a shortcut.

I am a freelance developer and added footnote to my invoices explaining I donate 1% of the amount to an open-source project used for the assignment. I ask them to propose the projects they prefer but almost no one does.

I use an ad blocker because I hate the idea being tracked. Hiding ads is simply a plus. I like the idea behind Webpass but they do nothing to prevent the tracking part of the whole ad blocking discussion.

What about a Jabber client?

ChatSecure and Monal are both excellent Jabber iOS clients that support encryption with Adium on the desktop? You can run you own Jabber server (ejabberd) or use one of the free ones out there (DuckDuckGo, https://xmpp.net/directory.php). It's not as nice as Telegram or iMessage but it works.