Privacy and Offline Writing

I've been reading the various phlogs 
on privacy, surveillance, and getting 
off the grid. The three things go 
together, of course. The more time you 
spend off the grid, the less you're 
subjected to surveillance and the more 
privacy you have. dgold, your rant[1] 
was spot on.

I've been working on a piece on the 
history of privacy over the last 
little while. The history is 
interesting in itself, but I'm not 
happy with the piece, so it will stay 
buried for now.

#ROOPHLOCH

Today I'm phlogging on Palm OS, with 
my LifeDrive. I don't have a treo and 
I'm really bad at Palm Graffiti, so 
I'm using the wireless infrared 
keyboard. It's not ideal. The 
LifeDrive's slippery sides don't make 
for a very stable 'cradle' experience. 
I also hit the hinge in the middle of 
the space bar with my thumb a lot. 
It's a really bad folding keyboard 
design.

Sadly, this ROOPHLOCH post is not 
coming from anywhere exotic. I'm on my 
back porch... and I just realized that 
I don't know how I'm going to get this 
post off of the LifeDrive. Maybe I can 
sync it with an ancient Linux program. 
I'm not sure.

Edit: I copied it over to Documents 
to Go, saved it as a text file on an 
SD card, and then transferred the card 
to my laptop. Easy. Next time I'll 
just write it in Docs to Go in the 
first place.

Narrow Column Widths

It's nice to see that other phloggers 
(Palm users like Yargo and Jynx[2]) 
have started formatting their phlogs 
for mobile. I enjoy reading phlogs on 
my old BlackBerry and it's great when 
there's no side to side scrolling 
required. Solderpunk is currently 
surveying users about their favoured 
column-width[3] for Gemini purposes 
and mine is 38. It seems to work on 
everything I own. I don't find the 
narrower width awkward on my laptop, 
but apparently opinions differ.

Tomasino's Zine

Tomasino extended the deadline for the 
first zine issue (theme: Hammer) and 
I'm glad that he did. Shortly 
afterward, an obvious connection 
struck me and I wrote up and submitted 
a piece. That was also an off-the-grid 
bit of writing.

Social Media

A few weeks back, I created a Mastodon 
account. I'm still not sure that I 
like it, for all the reasons that 
other people have stated over the 
years. I feel like my involvement is 
limited to knee-jerk reactions and 
that I 'check in' for completely 
ego-centric reasons. That describes my 
reddit account too.

Anyways, September is here. Work life 
moves back to the fore. Another season 
begins.

Let's be careful out there, phloggers.

[1] gopher://ascraeus.org/0/phlog/029.txt

[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7eyargo/clog/xw-palm-privacy-unix50.txt
    gopher://leveck.us/0/Phlog/20190826.post

[3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/files/text-wrapping-experiment.txt