Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@misslav It's an RV built on a 1995 Dodge cargo van chassis. Pre-ODB2. Minimal computer. Main computer is my FOSS entertainment system: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/diy-rv-offsite-backup-and-media-server

After a string of delayed/cancelled flights where I realized I could have gotten home sooner by car, I've made a personal rule that if driving is a real option, I take it. I bypass all the security theater, can pack what I want and am in control of my own departure times. #lifehack #vanlife

By the way, I know all of this because I've been handing out custom per-use email addresses for years. Makes it easy to find when someone sells you out.

Follow up: in the brief time that my email was in Square's system, they opted me into ads from a local merchant I used the card at a month before Square got my email. So I get to opt out of those now too... #privacy

@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