Privacy as a journey and "digital minimalism" w/ Techlore

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This week, I got the pleasure of sitting down with Henry from Techlore to chat about digital minimalism, privacy education, and some of the tools and projects that Henry recommends for taking back control of our privacy and data in an ever increasing world of data capture, tracking, and sharing.
More about Henry:

Henry's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/henry/

More about Techlore:

Main website - https://techlore.tech/
Videos - https://techlore.tech/videos.html
Surveillance Report - https://surveillancereport.tech/
Techlore Matrix community - https://matrix.to/#/+techlore-official:matrix.org

Henry's recommended tools to opt out:

Simple Login, an email aliasing service - https://simplelogin.io/
Privacy.com, a payment card aliasing service - https://privacy.com/
MySudo, a phone aliasing service - https://mysudo.com/

This week's project to help you opt out - Matrix:

More about Matrix, the protocol - https://matrix.org/
Element, a cross-platform Matrix chat client - https://element.io
A quick guide to joining the Monero Matrix homeserver via Element - https://forum.monero.space/d/79-how-to-join-the-monero-core-team-matrix-server-web
Installing your own Synapse server for Matrix (ADVANCED) - https://upcloud.com/community/tutorials/install-matrix-synapse/

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. What was it that woke Henry up to the need for personal privacy? (00:01:20)

3. What about privacy makes it such an important topic for you? (00:05:47)

4. What is "digital minimalism" and why is it a focus of yours? (00:10:28)

5. Why did you decide to start Techlore, and what has running that been like for you? (00:17:27)

6. What are some of the tools you use regularly to opt out that you’d recommend others take a look at? Why? (00:21:53)

7. What is Surveillance Report? (00:27:53)

8. What advice would you give to someone starting to realize the need for personal privacy? (00:33:39)

9. How do you battle burnout and defeatism about privacy being futile? (00:43:15)

10. The importance of helpful community during your privacy journey (00:45:50)

11. How to follow Henry and join the Techlore community (00:49:47)

12. This week's project to help you Opt Out - Matrix (00:51:53)

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