Wave Motion Digital @wavemotion@wmd.social
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Privacy-focused web development and hosting.
Joined Oct 2021
#DigitalOcean gets a lot of things right. And at WMD we can attest to that. We were considering fully switching over to Vultr because they offer AlmaLinux (and also Windows) VPSes. In several calls with DO we mentioned our preference for AlmaLinux over Rocky (though they are essentially the same). They listened!
The Digital Ocean Quest Towards New Lands – Digital Ocean SEO Analysis
@benjedwards penned a great article on the frontier days of BBSes at ArsTechnica.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/my-secret-life-as-an-11-year-old-bbs-sysop/
keith@WMD still runs 2 Commodore BBSes from his house at tfcbbs.com (tfcbbs.com port 6400 for the Supra 128 board, port 6464 for the Color 64 board, if it is up (it is temperamental))
See how wmd.dev stacks up under The Blacklight:
We have quietly launched our new site!
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/
"It really is that simple: No one trusts Google. It has exhibited such poor understanding of what people want, need and will pay for that at this point, people are wary of investing in even its more popular products."
WMD Password Generator creates passwords 8 to 100 characters with your choice of UPPERCASE, lowercase, numbers and characters. Bookmark it!
Your Router Is Collecting Data. Here's What to Know, and How to Protect Your Privacy
Wi-Fi router companies say they don't track the websites you visit, but all of them collect and share some user data.
Yet another reason to avoid the plague that is TikTok:
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
"The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent."
In at least 2 cases, the team planned to collect location data of a U.S. citizen who never had an employment relationship with TikTok
Self-linking. Testing a cool new feature :)
Google search results without the intrusive tracking!
Setting up the new WMD site with some exciting new tools to provide more transparency and control for our clients. This is going to be HUGE!
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.
Google Analytics Now Illegal in Austria; Other EU Member States Expected to Follow
The Austrian Data Protection Authority (“Datenschutzbehörde” or “DSB” or “DPA”) has ruled that Austrian website providers using Google Analytics are in violation of the GDPR.
https://matomo.org/blog/2022/01/google-analytics-gdpr-violation/
France rules Google Analytics non-compliant with GDPR
https://matomo.org/blog/2022/02/france-google-analytics-gdpr-breach/
Google complicit in greenwashing the worst polluting corporations on the planet while at the same time claiming all of its servers are/will be renewable-energy driven.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40778511.html
By design. :/
> Google’s “complex web” of settings obfuscated whether users were sharing their location at a given moment. Furthermore, they allege Google pushed Android users with “repeated nudging, misleading pressure tactics, and evasive and deceptive descriptions” to share more information either “inadvertently or out of frustration.”
Matomo responds to Austria banning Google Analytics. More countries to follow:
https://matomo.org/blog/2022/01/google-analytics-gdpr-violation/
"Google cannot provide an adequate level of protection under Article 44 GDPR - a clear violation of European data protection guarantees."
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/
Which is why WMD offers Matomo.
The EU doing things right:
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/10/a-new-coalition-for-competitive-digital-markets.html
"If we’re unhappy with one supermarket, we can just cross the street and go to another. It should be the same online. We work so that #BigTech can not lock us inside their world, and we can keep our choices open."
"France has now made a historic decision to ban its ministries from using Microsoft 365. The reason is simple and it has to do with the possible sharing of your data with the US government."
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Privacy-focused web development and hosting.
Joined Oct 2021
