I was interested in knowing what kind of threat model people had when using XMPP, so I asked on the newly created XMPP-related community forum – which uses Lemmy! A decentralized alternative to Reddit using Activity Pub. I had an idea for myself, but I didn’t realize it was going to be this long an answer. So I decided to write it down here instead. I’ll be posting the link there. Read more

People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have you. Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. Read more