https://www.zachary.com/ – posting infrequently about technology and its impact on me/society.

thanks – I’ve been enjoying this series.

“you are not an individual” kind of messages can be offending, but this time, it seems that it is for a noble cause: make people react and claim their individuality, rejecting systems that abuse them.

Even me was offended, as indeed, I use the web from time to time, I connect to servers (web browser) without a VPN so I give them my address and cross-referencing enable companies to have an accurate profile of me.

Even the least “techie” person use the web by necessity and get affected.

Presence of advertising everywhere means it does actually work, otherwise, companies would have gave up, so let’s claim that we are all guided by what advertising tell to us, making us nothing more but data off an ad sense hard drive, that evolve according to messages that appear in a small square at the right of the article we are reading.

I wish syncthing allowed for an easy directory-based filtering of the stuff you want to sync. I want to be able to tell all my other syncthing-enabled devices “Here’s all my things”, and pick and choose what I want to synchronize based on my current need (in some cases, music, in some cases, photos, in the case of my backup server, all the things).

In a sense, what I’m missing is very much like how in torrent clients you can pick a subdirectory or other, and/or cherry pick files.

I’d also like a solution that enables me to paste a link to one of those things to a friend so that he can access a file I have in all of my giant data bag.

Essentially, I want to have the first promises of “upspin”:

When did you last…

download a file just to upload to another device?
download a file from one web service just to upload to another?
make a file public just to share it with one person?
accidentally make something visible to the wrong people?

Syncthing does almost all the things I need. I just want to not start synchronization automatically for my ginormous collection of digitized pictures, movies and songs.

I’ve been using Syncthing for well over a year now in a similar configuration. It definitely feels “invisible”, I basically do nothing to maintain it.

I love the world Peerkeep (née Camlistore) is trying to create, but we’re still too far out, and I don’t see why businesses would want to adopt it.

That’s actually a great diagram where it gets the point across with a more interesting style than say Visio stuff.

Thanks for this. I’ve posted a job opening there.

A few years ago there was a (successful) class-action lawsuit resulting from the collusion of Apple, Google, Adobe, and other bay area companies to not poach each other’s workers. This seems similarly full of opportunity for a class-action lawyer… IANAL….

In addition to all of the wonderful organizations listed, can I also humbly add two with which I am happy but sad to be very familiar:

Usher Syndrome Coalition and Usher 1f Collaborative

Both groups are doing amazing work to raise funds and awareness to directly fund research into Usher Syndrome, which is the leading cause of deafblindness. Cochlear implants (think DSP hooked to your auditory nerve) have helped enormously – now we just need to cure the blindness…

1Password now have a CLI, which is somewhat cumbersome to use, but does run on Linux, *BSD, etc. It still requires a net connection to access the hosted, encrypted data. I wrote a wrapper for it – see 1pass – which caches content locally, encrypted by PGP. I find this gives me the best of 1Password and pass (though 1Password is obviously not an open source product).

how does this compare with quasar?

This seems okay, but the proliferation of dependencies is worrying.

Required: f.el, s.el, dash, cl-lib, ace-window, pfuture, hydra. Optional: evil, projectile, winum.

This requires hydra? Yikes. ace-window is a strange one to need as well.

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took too much clicking to find this:

TBox is a glib-like cross-platform C library that is simple to use yet powerful in nature.