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How much is data ownership worth?

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  • Published: 2019-04-11 19:29 UTC

From email to chat, cloud storage to social networking, there are personal financial costs to self-hosting your own information services infrastructure and freeing your data from centralized platforms like Google and Facebook. Looking at those costs may show you how much your data is worth to the companies that siphon it up.

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Stepping into the light (theme)

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  • Published: 2019-03-23 16:14 UTC
  • Updated: 2020-05-26 15:28 UTC

When it comes to terminal and text editor themes, I've always been a "dark theme" kind of guy. Recently I took a personal "light theme challenge" and after a very brief adjustment period I found my preferences surprisingly inverted.

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