If it’s a “smart TV”, it already scans the content you watch and phones home about it.

That’s why vscodium exists brah

Outlook is garbage. Everything Microsoft does is garbage and consumer hostile, except for visual studio code. Anyone who’s used Google business apps knows this. Teams is such an unproductive joke I refuse to work for any company that uses it. It’s evidence a company is cheap and values cost cutting more than efficiency.

I had a family 365 account to backup my parent’s shit. Even though their PC’s were logged into their fucking Microsoft accounts, and backed up to OneDrive, Outlook displayed ads and couldn’t be linked to their subscription without changing their account emails. Ads were also re-inserted into their OS, even though I already ran multiple scripts to disable them all previously. Complete joke. Cancelled that shit.

or their “super privacy friendly” services aren’t as privacy friendly as they claim.

I would bet real currency it’s this one.

I have zero doubt that many core proponents of anti-privacy laws are pedophiles — that’s why they always add measures to ensure it’s illegal to invade their own privacy.

100% this. It would also prevent them from changing prices based on predictive analytics of the individual customer standing in front of the label — they will do this sooner or later, I guarantee it.

You don’t “give” your *biometrics to any of them. Your biometric data is used to encrypt and store each services password hash or auth token on your device.

*At least when it comes to login authentication. Nothing stopping them from acquiring your biometric data from a hundred data brokers.

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Standard Notes went out of their way to make it harder to self-host extensions a couple years ago, which IMO was pretty tasteless on its own.

I didn’t dig into this change exhaustively, but it looked like the old approach wasn’t very secure or scalable?

They could have charged for the convenience of providing a syncing server with extra storage, but instead they were basically repackaging and selling subscriptions to JavaScript code which was mostly made by third parties who weren’t even aware Standard Notes was using their stuff.

I dunno if you’re aware, but 95-99% of the Javascript that has ever run in your browser is open source frameworks or packages, or their sub-dependencies, or their sub-dependencies sub-dependencies, ad infinitum… That’s how open source came to dominate the web!

And then, more recently, they decided to shut off web app access to third-party servers entirely.

As in, you can no longer load the web app and point it at your own server?

“FOSS” only means so much when they dictate what goes into the source code. Unfortunately.

All FOSS projects have a team of dictators that decide the direction of the project and what gets merged. If you don’t like it, you can fork it or move to another product.

I’m not a huge fan of SN, but nothing you described is different to Proton, who don’t let you use your own servers with any of their clients, and have no extension functionality whatsoever.

It sounds like they were unnecessarily courting legal trouble with how they digitised and released records during the pandemic, but why are they wrong here?

Standard notes is FOSS, E2E, and user funded. Why distasteful?

Checked the gnuton builds?

You will tell the AI all of your most private thoughts and feelings. The AI will be your closest friend, lover, and confidant.

If you refuse to let the AI know everything about you, you will be considered a terrorist pedophile… a TERROR-PEDO!

Lol. Considering it was senior management that ignored staff, this statement is even fucking dumber than it sounds.

It’s like crack for ADHD as he goes in-depth, down many of the rabbit holes other informational shows gloss over, if they would even cover the subject to begin with.

NOTE: do not follow any of the tips without checking your own dishwashers manual and testing its cycles. I found that my 1.5hr cycle cleaned better than the 2.5hr, during the 1.5 it instantly releases the detergent so I can just dump it anywhere, and that the difference in cost between the cheapest powder and tablets (locally) was negligible (thanks Aldi!).

PRO TIP: get the tablets that have a water soluble wrapper and feel like you’re living in the future.

I always expected us to never address our ecological destruction or climate change in any meaningful way, and instead devolve into some techno-feudalist, fascist dystopia before the civilisation collapses into a death spiral… But man… I’ve never wanted to be wrong more in my entire life.

Watching the EU regress in unison, back down the auth path, is not how I expected it would go down.

The entire company was a pump and dump scheme. They’re gonna continue the pump until dump or bankruptcy.

All you need is to use ZFS or BTRFS locally to prevent master version bitrot and provide failover/redundancy, manually sync that to a separate “offline” HDD periodically, then setup a simple pi with tailscale + HDD at a family member or friends house, and rclone all your data to it (encrypted) as a cron job every night or week. This performs the function of a cloud provider (offsite backup); alternately, just manually sync the offline HDD once a month.

With this approach you’re covered for accidental deletion, hard drive failures, bitrot, ransomware, and fire; possibly many natural disasters, depending how far away the offsite is.

Then you can just keep your most important data E2E encrypted in 1 or 2 cloud storage providers.

Jesus. It’s crazy to learn that tons of cops are as comically corrupt and incompetent as Chief Wiggum.

PGP? Have you ever dealt with any banking or financial corporations? You’d have better luck getting the money handlers and decision makers to authenticate transactions with magic.

Hong Kong and Japan are the absolute worst I’ve experienced. Their online banking UI’s and processes are stuck in the late 90’s to early 2000’s.