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July 5, 2020

You should own your email too

I’ve been on your back in regards to owning your words for quite sometime, advocating quitting social media, and outlining how I aim to tread that not at all uncomplicated road.

But what about email?

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In chronological order

• How to move your Switch files to a new microSD card on macOS

  July 11, 2020 / Games

• July 11, 2020 journal entry

• Are your apps crashing today? Blame Facebook

  July 10, 2020 / Privacy

  The Facebook SDK is crashing a bunch of iOS apps today, including popular ones such as Spotify and Pinterest. Luckily you can do something about it, by enabling a VPN or a firewall app that blocks the sneaky code that tries to talk to Facebook. The Verge swears by Lockdown Apps, a free firewall for iOS, so if you’re having issues, give it a go. The VPN costs money, but there’s a trial. It’s likely Zenmate – which I like – will get the job done too, although I haven’t tried any of these for this particular problem as I’ve yet to experience it.

• July 10, 2020 journal entry

• July 9, 2020 journal entry

• Gary Larson’s back

  July 8, 2020 / Culture

  Well I’ll be… This is great news, and all thanks to a clogged pen:

  So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet. I knew nothing about these devices but hoped it would just get me through my annual Christmas card ordeal. I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.

  Be sure to read the whole story, and then check out the new stuff from the creator of The Far Side.

• July 8, 2020 journal entry

• July 7, 2020 journal entry

• July 5, 2020 journal entry

• You should own your email too

  July 5, 2020 / Privacy Tech

• June 30, 2020 journal entry

• June 27, 2020 journal entry

• June 26, 2020 journal entry

• June 22, 2020 journal entry

• Hey, Bye

  June 22, 2020 / Tech

  Basecamp’s hyped email service Hey, which is invite-only and costs at least $99/year (because shorter messages carry a premium price), has a very manifesto-like website. Check it out.

  Now, if you – like me – are pissed off about not getting an invite yet, there’s always Bye instead. Bye takes a slightly different approach:

  Hey everyone—

  It’s 2020 and we need to talk about email.

  Fuck it.

  Bye is the first email service to automatically respond with an insult, and then delete every email sent to you.

  Bye is our erotic letter to email, and we’re sending it to you on the Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, McDonald’s kiosks and Android.

  I love things like this. Hat-tip to my buddy Alexander for sharing this gem with me.