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I might just be getting curmudgeonly in middle age, but I don't like this. I want it to be harder for services to share information about me. My address and pho
by kej 3y ago
I might just be getting curmudgeonly in middle age, but I don't like this. I want it to be harder for services to share information about me. My address and phone number are also "public" but that doesn't mean I want every site to keep a copy of them.
- edent 3y agoThe nice thing about this is that it is optional. I am not the Internet Police; I can't force you to adopt this. But, take for example your Keybase URl https://keybase.io/kej https://keybase.io/kej - why can't all the services that you've linked to from it pull in your avatar from there as well as your public key?
- koliber 3y agoYou could use this in style, and return this image: https://www.safetysign.com/products/9050/get-off-my-lawn-sign https://www.safetysign.com/products/9050/get-off-my-lawn-sig...
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoGoogle+ was a boon for finding people by their phone number. So is to this day, to some extent, facebook. Add a number to your contacts and the social network will helpfully fill in the blanks.