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Sure, and here is my social security number as an added proof. Also, would you happen to need my fingerprints, iris scan and a sample of my DNA?
And thx a lot for preserving my privacy dear (undisclosed) website.

• I use pen and paper. I don’t fear someone reading it, I just don’t want any corporation or anyone feeling entitled in reading it without asking for my permission first.
  As a kid, in order to avoid mi inquisitorial mother surveillance, I quickly learned to change words (verbs and nouns) and I started writing in English as soon as I was able to since she could not read it and I knew she would be too afraid to ask anyone to read her my personal journal…
• On my computer, using full disk encryption, I run GNU/Linux and use LibreOffice writer. No phoning home is happening as far as I can tell.

And suddenly nudity becomes pornography.
And also, looking at one’s own body becomes something looking a lot like a sin one should not commit.

I suppose the next logical step will be the reintroduction Victorian-like anti ‘self-abuse’ devices for young people? Have fun, kids

What a wonderful world we’re building.

Interesting! What do you use to open it on your phone?

In the same boat as you.

I don’t like how it’s changing, I also don’t like how the UI is changing and, sadly, as a EU citizen I can’t trust it any longer since it is made in the USA.

But I’m no hurry to switch. I mean, I won’t rush or worry about paying one more year subscription if I have to. I’ll try alternatives as long as I have too. So far, there is

• the Canadian 1Password and
• the non-synced/local but free to use KeepassXC that are standing out.

Both work with Linux.

(like many communities around here) not the most active one but feel free to post questions/share your experience/doubts over there: the more people will do the more people will be likely to participate.
!pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone (https://sh.itjust.works/c/pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone)

It’s an amazing tool. And I would love to see for much more younger people give it a chance.

If you want to give it a chance, the only things I would advice you to keep in mind are:

1. be ok with spending enough time using it… in slow motion. New habits take time and practice before they become natural, even more as far as writing goes.
2. Keep it as simple as you can. You don’t need to make it bulletproof/perfect before you start using it, quite the opposite. It’s an organic system that will grow and change at your pace, don’t force it into any preconceived direction because someone told you you should do it like that, or because it’s trendy. Don’t worry about categories or tags, or even about devising the ultimate numbering and indexing system. It’s wasted time. The system is devised for evolving naturally (one of the reasons I don’t fancy many of the digital apps: too rigid in their way) without ever needing to rebuild everything from scratch. To give you an idea, in my own system co-exist multiple numbering systems that I used and abandoned along the years, without any issue. My index(es) also changed a few times. But I never had to rewrite a single index card. Ever. Really, it’s amazingly efficient provided you don’t try to make it be the ‘ultimate’ and perfect system.

I don’t, sir. It’s a gift from my late dad.

More seriously, I’m half-expecting some stupid shit like that to happen. To have some sort of control on who is allowed to use pen and paper… Unsurprisingly, this would happen at the same time people are considering the very notion of educating children has an obsolete and useless thing, since we now have AI to do everything for us, why even bother sending kids to school to learn to read and write?

You’re right, save that search is nothing without a great index and it happens I have made one… If you want to know how an analog index works search for more info on what is a Zettelkasten, as my own ‘system’ is very close to that. Using that index I can find any book I’ve read (and my notes about it), any notion I’ve ever written about (be it a book or mere vague ideas),and I can find them in a matter of an instant. No matter how old it is, how short or how… flimsy it can be compared to other and much thicker parts of my notes and research.

Edit: https://zettelkasten.de/overview/ (it’s in English). To get a glimpse of a 100% analog version (like mine), check Luhmann’s work (the one who formalized the idea, an idea people had been using centuries before he formalized it): https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/nachlass/zettelkasten (this one is in German).

At my humble level, my system has become my second brain as well as a precious companion allowing for deeper conversations with… a better/smarter version of myself.

I tried digital mind you, I started using a computer in the very early 80s and must have tried a lot of those digital tools (even contributing money and suggestions to a bunch of of them), but as far as I’m concerned nothing beats pen and index cards and the most essential part linking them all: indexes (plural, as I use two different ones).

Your thoughts are yours. Your notes should be too.

100%. And one of the two reasons I take all my personal notes using pen and paper. 100 % the analog way, as there is…

• no AI,
• no tracking,
• no ads,
• no subscriptions,
• no user account required,
• No (forced) updates & no upgrades,
• no bugs,
• Also, no matter how hard they might want to, there will be no law to make it so that paper now has to check my age when I’m using it, or for my wooden pencil to report everything I write down.

I believe one of the best things the privacy community can do, is help our friends and families unplug too!

100%. at least help them realize it’s still an option in quite a few circumstances and the ‘drawbacks’ aren’t that bad, if there are any.

I love tech! But I hate techno-surveilance.

Great summary of my own stance.

What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation?

Since the day I realized I could not trust (high) tech to respect my privacy, I decided to use tech as little as I can.

There is not much I can do to change tech beside using Free/Libre software that do respect my user rights, or to resist that dystopia our leaders seem so willing to make our reality (probably thinking they will able to escape it for themselves, their families, and their friends), but I still have the choice to not actively contribute to making it a reality by not using the very tools they’re using to eradicate our privacy.

• Moving back to analog, wherever I can. Things like pen and paper, print instead of digital, and so on. And also to physical media I could fully own, instead of streamed ones I don’t own.
• Moving back to low-tech wherever we could too. And yes that means not using a lot of things one may want to use. There is no smart gizmo at all in our home, none. And we try to keep tech at bay as much as possible everywhere. For example, we barely use our phones and store nothing personal on them.
• Also, rekindling in-person encounters/chats/etc. instead of doing those online.
• We also constantly try to improve our ‘de-reliance’ on high-tech. I mean, my voice recorder is now a 90s Sony thingy that works wonder, that do not spy on my personal memos, needs no Internet, no subs and comes AI free.

Small things like that. And there are a lot available.

Edit: typos/clarifications

I would like no smart glasses at all.

‘Privacy focused focused smart glasses’ sounds as credible as ‘your friendly stalker neighbor’.

1. Depends the email provider, I 'm not sure (quite certain they’re not) all are offering that.
2. Yes. The moment you stop paying as it will most likely be sold for cheap. One of the oldest domain I owned (from the 90s) and got rid of a few years ago is now used by someone hosting porn… Which is kinda funny. Maybe one can also lose it in a trial? But that would be very specific… Say, you own StarWarsSucksHard.com you won’t probably own it for long the moment Disney’s armies of lawyers focus their attention on you ;)

uBlock Origin can do so much beside blocking ads, like replace extensions (like Consent-OMatic or the many small ones I sued to use to protect my privacy) or block specific parts on any webpage.

Your purchase it from some registrar.

I’m from France so it probably won’t be the same as you, it will cost you a small yearly fee. Like, for example I do own the domain ‘thefoolwithapen.com’ (my blog) among a few other domain names. So I can use libb@thefoolwith… with either my own email/hosting or most third-party provider, I don’t have ti use their own name/domain. Sorry for the lack of specificity in my explanations, I’m everything but an expert ;)

Edit: clarifications

but truly private AND secure is a must.

Remember that email is none of that, unless both people use encryption.

Tuta and Proton both are encrypted, which is great, but the moment you exchange with someone that is not using encryption (aka, the vast majority of people), they’re not anymore.

I always considered email like sending a good old postcard: something anyone could read without being invited, just by looking at it.

so I can have control

Be it Tuta or Proton, or any other commercial offering, you won’t have real control without owning your actual domain name. Owning it means you can change email provider if/when you wand (and if you don’t feel like using your own).

Mullvad are like a drop of hope in humanity in a sea of shitty and shady business practices.

Alas, VPNs are quite high on the endangered species. Largely thx to countless clueless, when they’re not plain full dishonest and working in their very own interest, representatives doing their best to make our societies a much shittier place for the rest of us.

(from France)

My phone is not rooted. I barely used it, like barely at all (I only have the required apps I need to access to, not a single app more), so I don’t need to tweak it in any way.

I show my ID when I’m required to.

Sorry I cannot help you more than that.

That, or enroll into some local class, if you live nearby some campus check if there aren’t students offering private tutoring for their own native language.

Also, if you already speak French, get an Assimil book for whatever language you want to learn. The older the edition the better (pre-80s) but even the more recent ones remain a good self-learning method, they’re just not as great as the older editions which were really great. Those books can be purchased (with or without accompanying audio recordings, highly recommended) or they can be had for much cheaper on the used market (also, most people have no idea how much better the older editions are so they can be found for even cheaper but the audio files (LPs) will often not be available). These books are 100% privacy-respecting: you’re alone without any tracking happening, there is no ‘login’ required either. Just you and your book (plus the audio files, if you want them)