The other baking attempt this weekend were drop cookies.
They looked great, but they never set. I took them off the sheet last night, after putting them in the fridge for at least 6hrs, and they aren’t anything like the drop cookies I remember growing up.
They were Kimberly’s recipe.
Something these recipes rarely include is the quantity and other details. I have to wing it.
Maybe next week I will just make Danielle’s oatcakes again, they were delightful.
I know, grilling is not “BBQ”, but it is close enough to kick off the BBQ season. It’s at least in the same family.
I will post my BBQ progress on @kamadojeff and will come up with a cool hashtag to share. For now you can check out another Jeff’shashtag or just follow my @kamadojeff account
Over the last week we have been eating great. Batch cooking some days, and scratch cooking others.
Yesterday we had no idea what we were going to have and that turned into this. Roasted pork shoulder from the freezer, corn fried in pork fat, onions, garlic powder and some herbs, canned black beans and a little bit of feta.
A year or more ago I started use brave browser as my main browser. It was a rocky start, but it appears the majority of wrinkles have been ironed out on the browser side.
I initially downloaded it because of the built in ad-blocking and the idea that I could reward publishers of sites I visit with tokens directly. This was back in the crypto-bubble.
I keep using it for the blocking. It makes a huge difference, and if you follow me on twitter I share and re-tweet a lot of digital privacy content that I find. Today I ran into a perfect example of WHY blocking is important. I came across this headline on Fark and clicked it – How the fark is this considered a “news article”? https://fark.com/go/1072983
Initially I get this data warning. This is a great example of a warning. I check the little shield at the top and it hasn’t blocked anything yet.
Why does any single page on the internet need to track you with 39 separate trackers?
Lets take a closer look at what all these are for.
21 of these are for vidible.tv, I’m guessing it’s for tracking what videos you watch on the page, how long, etc. Building a profile for you so they can entice you to spend more time on the site watching inane videos.
There’s one for Facebook so they (and Facebook) can build a profile for you so they can target you there too.
They are all related to advertising in one way or another. Marketing has a habit of ruining all the things, because attention is where the money is. Technology follows money because it costs money to develop technology.
Brave browser allows you to browse the web with a tiny bit more privacy. There are lots of ways to track you like IP address and DNS records that Brave can’t help you with.
For example, if you use public wifi there are also companies that use MAC addresses as an asset to sell to advertisers.
Other things you can do.
In future posts I will show you ways to further protect yourself from online browsers.
I will start with the simple ones Gom[2] can do like using Brave over Chrome, and build up to the more technical solutions like building your own DNS server.
Footnotes:
1 – They were all very long, so I just showed the first part.
2 – The name of my grandmother, that I gave her, when I was a wee-one
A little after bedtime snack
