Privacy and Offline Writing

I've been reading the various phlogs
on privacy, surveillance, and getting
off the grid. The three things go
together, of course. The more time you
spend off the grid, the less you're
subjected to surveillance and the more
privacy you have. dgold, your rant[1]
was spot on.

I've been working on a piece on the
history of privacy over the last
little while. The history is
interesting in itself, but I'm not
happy with the piece, so it will stay
buried for now.

#ROOPHLOCH

Today I'm phlogging on Palm OS, with
my LifeDrive. I don't have a treo and
I'm really bad at Palm Graffiti, so
I'm using the wireless infrared
keyboard. It's not ideal. The
LifeDrive's slippery sides don't make
for a very stable 'cradle' experience.
I also hit the hinge in the middle of
the space bar with my thumb a lot.
It's a really bad folding keyboard
design.

Sadly, this ROOPHLOCH post is not
coming from anywhere exotic. I'm on my
back porch... and I just realized that
I don't know how I'm going to get this
post off of the LifeDrive. Maybe I can
sync it with an ancient Linux program.
I'm not sure.

Edit: I copied it over to Documents
to Go, saved it as a text file on an
SD card, and then transferred the card
to my laptop. Easy. Next time I'll
just write it in Docs to Go in the
first place.

Narrow Column Widths

It's nice to see that other phloggers
(Palm users like Yargo and Jynx[2])
have started formatting their phlogs
for mobile. I enjoy reading phlogs on
my old BlackBerry and it's great when
there's no side to side scrolling
required. Solderpunk is currently
surveying users about their favoured
column-width[3] for Gemini purposes
and mine is 38. It seems to work on
everything I own. I don't find the
narrower width awkward on my laptop,
but apparently opinions differ.

Tomasino's Zine

Tomasino extended the deadline for the
first zine issue (theme: Hammer) and
I'm glad that he did. Shortly
afterward, an obvious connection
struck me and I wrote up and submitted
a piece. That was also an off-the-grid
bit of writing.

Social Media

A few weeks back, I created a Mastodon
account. I'm still not sure that I
like it, for all the reasons that
other people have stated over the
years. I feel like my involvement is
limited to knee-jerk reactions and
that I 'check in' for completely
ego-centric reasons. That describes my
reddit account too.

Anyways, September is here. Work life
moves back to the fore. Another season
begins.

Let's be careful out there, phloggers.

[1] gopher://ascraeus.org/0/phlog/029.txt

[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7eyargo/clog/xw-palm-privacy-unix50.txt
   gopher://leveck.us/0/Phlog/20190826.post

[3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/files/text-wrapping-experiment.txt

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