I don't know whether you would like to disclose the whole source and what you would do if the product takes off, so didn't explicitly ask you to open source. But yeah, show users what was sent would be helpful, better if there's some way users can verify.
Instead of asking users to download data and reupload, maybe animations using actual CSVs and query artifacts (graphs) are more illustrative for people in a hurry or people who cannot come up with a query question atm?
And the privacy bit would be more convincing if people can see that part of code.
I've used {GNU |X}Emacs intensively for over 20 years and never thought about doing a thorough study of many of the things it provides like you do in Emacs Solo. Your work is inspiring to me in showing me what dedication and thoughtfulness can achieve, even when it seemed at the beginning as trivial as one tending their own homestead. Many, many kudos.
I am learning to be an independent content producer if that's a thing. But I have family and there's constant self-imposed pressure to pursue a regularly paid job. I am juggling between job applications and making things at the moment. I guess I really need to talk to people and think it through.
Your kind words give me a lot of support I need. Thank you.
I seldom talk about my financial status online. But I have been searching for jobs on Glassdoor and talked with people on WeChat and a few social networks in China regarding my job seeking.
Thinking that just that could make me a target of these crooks ... wow, just wow.
On large, generic platforms like Facebook and YouTube, I sense the possibility that these ads that are essentially spam can drive a much higher conversion than the legal businesses' ads, and eventually drive out other types of ads. Those are not nigeria princes asking you for "hlep", you can tell the guys behind it put in a lot of efforts and serious money, some made it like a trailer of _The Pursuit of Happyness_. There's no way Google or Facebook's AI could tell that they are suspicious schemes.
I am unemployed for 6 months now, and I watch YouTube from time to time, and search for all kinds of things. From a human viewer perspective, the ads were more related to my YouTube watching behaviour than my browsing history. I use DuckDuckGo but let Google Analytics see me.
Recently I decide to start doing video essays. I searched for a ton of medieval history stuff and watched a ton of related clips. I notice that YouTube began to show ads of at least 2 "I get rich from millions in debt" self-help workshops/courses to me, which I've never shown any interest in.
I have watched audio equipment review videos as well, and that's the only possible connection I can establish between the ads and my online behaviour. Are a lot of unemployed people seeking to enter audio/video making? Or are the snake oil ads showing on many people's screens because of the dire economic situation many of us are in?
Emacs Org-mode's org-babel functionality. I have a few org-mode files storing all the dotfiles, put under version control. I can update and deploy them from within Emacs.