Starting over: Digital Self-destruction

Background A friend of mine recently approached me and asked for advice on how to start over online. He’d been going through some changes in life and he wanted a “clean slate”. That’s an interesting problem to me so I started thinking about it. I came up with a list of steps and recommendations. I don’t know if it’s complete or even effective, but I thought it might be worth codifying in words somewhere more permanent than in a Discord PM. The Problem Persistent digital accounts, particularly as one ages and their interests and priorities change, tend to pile up …

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Encryptic: Dropbox fun

Overview I had to do some rewriting on the way that we handle dropbox authorization per their requirements. Hopefully the method I’ve gone to will suffice. We have a kind of strange relationship with Electron, so it’s not really straightforward for us to do things the way they want us to, but I think I found a compromise that I think will satisfy them as well as not require an entire overhaul on our part. This should hopefully solve #63. I’ll report back when I heard from Dropbox. Background Dropbox development status allows for 200 users to be connected at …

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