I recently saw someone asking why they should trust this blog, if it’s just some hidden promotion, or where I get my information.

:)

i’ve just read your new about page. It’s alright now. Still no background information but you’re clear about why that’s the case.

x.com ?

no, thanks.

you’re posting about your blog here. This is the 2nd link to your blog. There are no sources, links, referrals on your blog. Why should we trust you? Where do you get your information from?

I’m an introverted individual who prefers solitude. Reading and writing are my favorite habits. I read about tech, online privacy, digital minimalism, philosophy, etc. This blog is my personal corner where I express my thoughts and reflections.

“i read and i write about what i read” isn’t enough for me.

I wrote a blog post about encryption.

who are you?

most of my apps have automated backups. That backup folder is synced to my laptop by syncthing. This way i always have an up to date backup of my mobile. Might indeed be what you’re asking for.

title [ARTICLE]
or
[ARTICLE] title
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2nd one is easier to sort in list view.

one question though, lets say my phone did get lost and I got a new one. Would I just put syncthing on the new phone to send it all back?

you will need to import those exported backups to your newly installed apps. You can’t sync android’s protected directories.

A compendium of source material confirms that Stein may have been able to save her life and sustain her lifestyle through the protection of powerful Vichy government official Bernard Faÿ. Stein had met Faÿ in 1926, and he became her “dearest friend during her life”, according to Alice B. Toklas. Faÿ had been the primary translator of Stein’s work into French and subsequently masterminded her 1933–34 US book tour, which gave Stein celebrity status and proved to be a highly successful promotion of her memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Faÿ’s influence was instrumental in avoiding Nazi confiscation of Stein’s historically significant and monetarily valuable collection of artwork, which throughout the war years was housed in Stein’s Paris rue Christine apartment, under locked safeguard.

Although Jewish, Stein collaborated with Vichy France, a regime that deported more than 75,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps, of whom only three percent survived the Holocaust.

In an essay written for the Atlantic Monthly in November 1940, Stein wrote about her decision not to leave France: “it would be awfully uncomfortable and I am fussy about my food.” Stein continued to praise Pétain after the war ended, this at a time when Pétain had been sentenced to death by a French court for treason.

During Faÿ’s tenure with the Vichy regime, 989 Freemasons were sent to concentration camps, where 549 were shot. In addition, about 3,000 lost their jobs. All Freemasons were required by law to declare themselves to authorities. In 1943 Faÿ produced the film Forces Occultes, directed by Jean Mamy, which depicts a worldwide Jewish-Freemason conspiracy.

Despite his anti-Semitism, Faÿ, who was suspected to be a Gestapo agent for much of the occupation, protected Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Following the liberation, Stein wrote a letter on Faÿ’s behalf when he was tried as a collaborator. In 1946 a French court condemned him to dégradation nationale and forced labor for life, but he managed to escape to Switzerland in 1951, funding to facilitate his prison breakout coming from Alice B. Toklas.

what makes them “failures”?

i hate windows and i don’t use Ubuntu but it’s difficult to consider Microsoft or Canonical as failures.

I’m the invisible man
I’m the invisible man
Incredible how you can
See right through me

No it’s not. He can rush it through before the election. No political benefit for him, he can’t get reelected.

He is not alone there. Others around him would have prior preoccupations. I agree with quadrature on this:

Pas content, Macron a déjà annoncé qu’il demandait au gouvernement de revenir avec une nouvelle loi interdisant les réseaux sociaux aux jeunes. Une annonce qui ne sera sans doute pas suivie d’effet, tant le calendrier parlementaire français est bouché d’ici aux élections présidentielles de 2027. Mais c’est par l’Union européenne que cette mesure pourrait revenir. La Commission européenne planche toujours sur une loi européenne pour instaurer une interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux jeunes.

from https://www.laquadrature.net/2026/07/22/le-parlement-vote-linterdiction-des-reseaux-sociaux-aux-jeunes-de-moins-de-15-ans/#censure

Macron responded to the ruling by instructing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to rework the legislation to address the court’s concerns, with the government now targeting spring 2027 for a revised law.

spring 2027? it’s the end of his presidency. His ban is practically dead.

Every day? Must be hard if your year consist of 4-5 days total. Because that’s how many eclipses are technically possible in a year.

incredible indeed. Multiple eclipses even, every day!

how i wish i had to imagine that

Or are you seeing eclipses every day?

yes and that’s what i would comfortably call “incredible”.

is it also incredible that you have 5 fingers on your hand? It may even be incredible that you have a hand.

It’s incredible how obtuse you are…

figuratively obtuse, literally incredible.

or is it “figuratively increbidle, literally obtuse” ?

fuck ICE, fuck tasers but then why did tasers become insufficient and they had to invent electroshock gloves?

fuck compliance too

It is quite incredible that the Sun and the Moon have the same apparent size and being in the right place at the right time I can just look at the Sun’s corona.

not “incredible”, i would say, but serendipitous.

also “The Moon is spiraling away from Earth at an average rate of 3.8 cm (1.5 in) per year, as detected by the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment.”

🤣