Inspired by This Week in Matrix and This Week in F-Droid, I was thinking about Privacy Guides putting together a weekly blog based on community contributions. Basically every week we’d open a forum post for people to submit suggestions, and then every Sunday I’d put together a short blog post based on categories like this:
Privacy Guides Updates
New Recommendations
Privacy News Around the World
Community News
Basically just a low-effort, high-impact(?) way to keep privacy on people’s minds between updates or major news stories. I’m thinking we can try it out for a month or so and then see if we feel like it has an impact or want to continue doing it.
So our first update could be on the 10th and look something like this:
Privacy Guides Updates
We’re looking into budget Android hardware more closely. We all know Pixels are the way to go, but they can be tricky to find with a <$200 budget. Are there any good options in this space? We’re not sure, this discussion is ongoing on our forum: ~$150 Budget Android Hardware [Suggestions Needed] (submitted by @jonah)
Simple Mobile Tools was acquired by ZipoApps. This company is well known for acquiring popular apps and adding advertisements, tracking, and subscriptions. F-Droid paused automatic updates for the suite for the time being, and we’re monitoring these developments within our community: Simple Mobile Tools to be bought by ZipoApps (submitted by @Parish2555)
Members of our community are excited to try out Beeper Mini, an “iMessage for Android” platform which actually works natively on your device, unlike Nothing’s ill-fated cloud iMessage offering. Beeper Mini / native iMessage for Android (submitted by @Valynor)
And then in the future, creating these posts will be even easier because people can submit topics specifically for this weekly newsletter.
I got into this whole mess because of him. Then he closed his forums. IIRC I learned of this site from their forum (back when it was still the original PT).
His topics dried up and it kind of became lonely when it was a one man show. Banter is almost always valued especially if its insightful, witty, and sometimes funny.
The best days in my eyes, were in the early days when Justin Carroll was cohosting the podcast. I really enjoyed the dynamic the two of them had. Much preferred it to Michael on his own, despite them getting more wrong back then, and being a bit less technically informed, that was still my favorite era, and I really enjoyed the longform interviews with notable people in the privacy space.
If you haven’t already, I’d suggest you check out ‘the opt out podcast’
I’m looking forward to listening. Audio is my one of my favorite ways to stay informed.
What niche do you intend to fill with this podcast? How do you see this fitting between the other information streams you publish or contribute to (e.g. the PG website, Techlore talks, etc)?
I don’t know, for the next month we’ll be publishing these updates on the blog and live on YouTube, and then we’ll see how it goes from there. There’s often a few interesting topics related to whatever I’m working on with Privacy Guides which I can’t discuss on Techlore Talks, and don’t warrant a standalone video like the VPN+Tor one on my channel… stuff like talking about the advantages of an extension like uBlock Origin Lite, for example.
I don’t expect I’ll find anyone who can co-host these weekly shows, so I’ll just be experimenting to see if it’s even interesting at all.
I see PG as guides/recommendations, TT as an opinion show, and this show as news, basically.
The show will basically just be re-hashing topics like these in audio format though, nothing too fancy beyond that. Probably.
I was just beginning to refresh my memory on the broader topic of Manifest V2 and V3 (beyond Google’s misuse of MV3). Pros/cons of V3, as well as differences between Google, Apple, and Mozilla’s approach to it. If you have read up on this, I would enjoy hearing your thoughts about Manifest V3 broadly, either as part of the uBOL video or on its own.
nooooo I was saying I won’t be making a standalone uBOL video
Maybe I’ll talk about it on the stream tomorrow though when I talk about why we are adding uBOL to the site recommendations. I also posted 4 replies to this thread in Techlore’s community about MV3 if you want to read, but this’ll basically be what I cover in the stream.
I’m watching your latest Techlore Talks right now and I must say, you should probably wishlist for a fancier microphone for Christmas
You should probably copy what Henry is doing with his setup, particularly his audio processing/post-processing. There are times where your voice is clear but it sort of clips(?) when you are talking louder.
As I recently reminded myself and everyone else in another thread: