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It’s not strictly necessary to run Linux, there’s also the BSDs, PonyOS, 9front, etc.

Tbh, there are some horny people here too, Miisha for example, but they have soul. Soulful horniness.

We should all switch to using one-time pads. Sure, it’s not as convenient, but I assume everyone will understand.

Why only AIs? The internet is full of people, I’m sure we could find someone who shares an interest for example?

I also would like to see a CEO who is more on board with fighting big tech. I dislike that reddit is their go-to forum, that the linux drive client has taken forever, etc. Andy seems more interested in the business side and less the stated values of the foundation. I don’t know how much of that is necessary vs detrimental

“10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys. But today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.”

In retrospect, it was obvious that Trump would side with Big Tech in the end. And the quote is a bit kiss-ass-y. It’s also noting that the Dems didn’t do as much as the Republicans. That’s critique against the Dems, and well earned. Personally, I think we all have a moral obligation to point out that Trump in total has made the world worse in so many ways, but I also don’t think Andy is a fascist and all those things people write about him.

He supported Gail Slater, who has a track record of trying to break up big-tech monopolies. She was appointed by Trump. And he pointed out that the Democrats could have tried too, but when they were in power they didn’t. Of course, when she actually tried to break up big-tech she was stopped, got into a fight with Pam Bondi, and quit her job in protest.

“Our aspirations are our possibilities” - Samuel Johnson. But in this sense, less so.

It was nice, thank you. Did an escape room with friends, a lovely dinner and some wine. I was dressed as a hunter and my girlfriend as a deer. How was your halloween?

I also see a possible path forward, this “bump” being what sets the course. I am a paying Proton subscriber, and the important thing for me is how this gets resolved. What they learn. If they say “this or that feature won’t be implemented any time soon, we’re going to focus on QA and cleaning up our repos for a while” then that is exactly the type of thing that I’m willing to pay for, for example.

The quicker we can reduce dependency on the US the better.

I also see it in General. In the interest of factualness and truth maybe you should edit your submission to make that clear?

Outside of the fediverse and the magazines reporting on this, I doubt it will impact Proton that much. If they actually make the CEO step down, they’d need someone with a focus on community and Doing The Right Thing, whatever that means in practice. Maybe a social contract, Debian style?

How long has it been in closed beta?

I use cloud storage (lots of files), email, password manager, and vpn. Sometimes collaborative writing in documents. I’d like to not have lots of subscriptions. Maybe managed nextcloud + separate email provider? Idk.

Hah, that describes it well. I guess it works for more “announcement”-type posts that aren’t meant to be discussed much. I can scroll through it and see that there’s an upcoming conference, that someone wrote an article with a link to it, that someone made a pizza, that someone is upset over a recent event, etc. It’s like reading the news.

I also use mastodon, but I find that I rarely reply to people there. Am I thinking about it wrong, it’s like whatever I write will be on the same level of visibility as top level posts, but everything mixed up in a big pile? I don’t really get it.

If I remember correctly, they used KenC to bootstrap the Go compiler.