Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@misslav @todd Chat had a brief issue but should be back now.

I just wrote a post that talks about user empowerment and how that influences how @purism designs its products, from hardware to software to security to services to social: https://puri.sm/posts/with-purism-products-you-are-in-control/

@dekkzz78 Check out my follow up reply to this post. Upon examining the block list I found some Google sites that aren't also on the unblock list (some are on both, I assume unblock takes precedence), so I should have said "many" instead of "all".

@okennedy I honestly don't know. I consider Microsoft an expert at selling software and even they have given up on it and moved to a services model. At smaller scales maybe a Patreon-style donation model?

In honor of another Open Core company moving to the Extinguish phase of Embrace/Extend/Extinguish for their #FOSS code, here are some of my thoughts on Open Core: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/some-thoughts-open-core

@freakazoid To be fair, disconnect.me explains on their site that they don't accept money to unblock sites.

I'm more wondering how effective tracker blocking is, if most of Google's domains are on the unblock list...

To follow up, *some* Google sites are on the block list, but many more are on the unblock list. The complete list of blocked sites is here: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/blocked and the list of sites they allow through is here: https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/unblocked

Mozilla announced "Enhanced Tracking Protection" to protect people from tracking (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/), but if you check out the https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection list of trackers, all Google trackers are still allowed through. #privacy

@erlend Welcome!

@mikemac They followed up on twitter--turns out if you view the *HTML* email you can see a "not my receipt?" link at the bottom you can use to opt-out.

I paid a contractor w/ a credit card over the phone. I wanted a receipt, gave him an email. He uses Square, they linked that CC and email, now every purchase w/ that CC at a Square kiosk generates an email receipt. I have no account, how do I opt out/unlink? #privacy

@neb How long does a typical tapestry take you?

@f1337 It came with the kit! Made it really easy for him to learn the feel of picking the lock before he slid on the cover so he had to do it blind.

@f1337 yours doesn't either on my side.