moonwriting
moonwriting
moonwriting
Personal and thought-provoking essays about privacy, technology, and blogging.
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Dear reader,Robert Birming published a blog post recently, where he encouraged bloggers to stop limiting themselves by only writing about a niche topic.Don't go niche . . . The only thing that matters is that you feel free in your...
Dear reader,A few months ago in January, the FBI seized the phone, laptop, and smartwatch of a Washington Post reporter, Hannah Natanson. While the case was yet another demonstration of the U.S. administration’s hostile attitude towards...
Dear reader,In 2021, I found myself in the middle of a privacy dilemma. Apple had announced it would start scanning users’ photos for CSAM, and all the talk and marketing they had done for privacy lost all its meaning in my eyes. After...
Dear reader,I recently read Terry Godier's thought-provoking essay about RSS readers. It challenges the concept of an unread count that for most of us appears natural and necessary. Email's unread count means something specific: these...
Dear reader,Turns out that maintaining an up-to-date privacy tools list is more work than I was expecting, so instead of continuing with that, my plan is to begin a yearly tradition of sharing my current privacy setup with you. I got...
Dear reader,Have you ever found a cool or interesting website, a blog, or anything that you bookmarked, but realized months or even years later that you hardly ever visit it? Or maybe you have a habit of checking these sites regularly?...
Dear reader,After reading Olly’s (the developer of Pagecord) blog post about custom domains, I was finally convinced and moved this blog to a custom domain: moonwriting.blog. It certainly sounds cooler than moonwriting.pagecord.com but I...
Dear reader,When I was scrolling the internet some weeks ago, I encountered this article by MakeUseOf, where the author boldly claims that people don't really want privacy even though they might think they do. As a privacy-advocate, I...
Dear reader,I have some news to share with you.After a lot of consideration, moonwriting is moving from Mataroa to Pagecord, where I will continue my writing. Even though I have enjoyed my time with Mataroa, and would still recommend the...
Dear reader,The Techlore forum has for years been my favorite place to discuss privacy-related things among like-minded people. Unfortunately, the time for that has now ended, as the forum is shutting down next year while being read-only...
Dear reader,This is the second article of the two-part series, where I challenge the popular argument asserting that people shouldn’t put all their eggs in one basket. The first part dealt with the question of 2FA, which you can find...
Dear reader,I have grown tired of websites blocking my access just because I use a VPN. Streaming sites are notorious for this, but this year, sites like Reddit and YouTube have joined in, which has made browsing feel miserable. You can...
Dear reader,1Password announced last week that they will enter a partnership with Perplexity, an American AI company, by making their browser extension available in Perplexity’s Comet browser. For those of you who may not know, Comet has...
Dear reader,This article kicks off a two-part series, where I challenge the ever-present argument of: ”Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket." Today, I will consider the question if you should avoid storing 2FA together with your...
Dear reader,I’m planning to leave WhatsApp at the end of this month, and switch fully to Signal, a much more private and ethical messaging app. The decision wasn’t easy, and it has taken me years of consideration, but it feels like the...