Recently, I have been inundated with a significant number of spam calls every day. At its peak, I was receiving 5 a day at semi-regular intervals. I'm down closer to 2-3 a day now. I never answer unknown phone numbers, but it is clear they are spam. No
I recently stumbled across the Linus Tech Tips video series about how to "De-Google your life." These videos resonated with me and, coincidentally, shared my intention behind my The Best Platform is No Platform blog post. I wanted to continue this theme by recommending my current setup for
The last few years though have disabused me of the notion that the internet is a public commodity. Large corporations dominate the tools and applications that we use now and these platforms have empirically proven that they're businesses first and will often choose profits over user experience.