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Dog + elections + getting rid of Google
Sep. 11th, 2014 08:06 pm1) We have a dog in the house! \o/ It belongs to one of my housemates who brought her here from India at great effort and cost and now he and his ex-girlfriend have shared custody of her. Her name is Safid, and she has big sensitive ears, and is slightly skittish but very friendly and curious. Also she likes to lick ears. Here she is in my room (she wanted company while housemate was away):
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2) Sweden is having elections this weekend. I had a hard time deciding between the left party and the feminist party, which was balancing on the edge of getting into parliament, but I finally went with the left party. Now let's see how it goes...*frets*
3) I am now Google-free! Or I will be soon, anyway. I have:
- Changed my search engine to DuckDuckGo, which was remarkably easy: just install the DuckDuckGo Plus addon if you're using Firefox. I am quite happy with DDG so far--I like the thing where you can add !w to a search to just get wikipedia results, and similarly with other sites.
- Joined a Swedish democratic organization for email. Basically, you pay a membership fee and get an email address, they own their hardware and everything is decided democratically (not that I have the time to engage much in it). I'm under no illusions that this means my internet traffic is not being spied on, but at least it's not going through Google, which is a start.
My new fannish email is: luzula at fripost dot org. Obviously it will take time to phase out my old gmail addresses, but use that one if you want to reach me. : )
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2) Sweden is having elections this weekend. I had a hard time deciding between the left party and the feminist party, which was balancing on the edge of getting into parliament, but I finally went with the left party. Now let's see how it goes...*frets*
3) I am now Google-free! Or I will be soon, anyway. I have:
- Changed my search engine to DuckDuckGo, which was remarkably easy: just install the DuckDuckGo Plus addon if you're using Firefox. I am quite happy with DDG so far--I like the thing where you can add !w to a search to just get wikipedia results, and similarly with other sites.
- Joined a Swedish democratic organization for email. Basically, you pay a membership fee and get an email address, they own their hardware and everything is decided democratically (not that I have the time to engage much in it). I'm under no illusions that this means my internet traffic is not being spied on, but at least it's not going through Google, which is a start.
My new fannish email is: luzula at fripost dot org. Obviously it will take time to phase out my old gmail addresses, but use that one if you want to reach me. : )
