Let’s PESOS Passive Posts with Trakt and Last.FM
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Let’s PESOS Passive Posts with Trakt and Last.FM
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Recommended read: Your Website is Your Castle https://desmondrivet.com/2020/01/05/website-castle
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Open Request to Spotify About Data Requests and Spotify Wrapped Data (2 mins read).
A copy of an email I've sent to Spotify to request my full Spotify streaming history.
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The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
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This is a great read about the things that being in the https://indieweb.org/ (Independent Web) can empower you with, and the ownership and agency that it affords you.
I'd recommend a read of https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/22/why-website/ and https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ for a bit more info, too.
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In the Beginning was the Website
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A great writeup of a huge event - when I went a few years ago I was bowled over by how much time I'd need to spend to see everything I wanted to (hint: it was more than the few days I was there)
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Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours
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Reckon accounting software crippled to force subscription upgrades
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Google Has My Dead Grandpa’s Data And He Never Used The Internet
This is a very interesting read - privacy and data ownership is quite familiar to those of us who have been using tech for some meaningful amount of our lives, but what about those who've never touched the Internet, but have suddenly found their data is being collected and owned by someone, somewhere?
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Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin
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