Yeah man.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feds-unmarked-vans-portland/

Sarcasm is a type of irony.

I always look on itch.io and GoG first!

I don’t think that they were being ironic…

Yes the article says to leave your phone if you can, and to use a burner phone otherwise.

$1 $2 per month is expensive? 🤣

[edit: I can’t do simple math]

For many years it was just that I didn’t trust anyone not to hand my data over to someone else, whether that be governments, companies, or (unintentionally) hackers.

Nowadays I would probably trust Proton Mail, since they have pretty good encryption. But as you point out then I would be dependent on a provider.

Currently I mostly have problems when I lose power or when my ISP renumbers. Probably I should just migrate and save myself pain from Google and Microsoft making it hard to send mail to their users (which is most people on the planet).

I’ve been running my own email for 25 years and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. 😔

I feel personally attacked.

No matter how much I try to convince Android not to, it insists on killing Voyager sometimes when I switch to another app. This happens a lot when I’m trying to find a link to post in a reply, but also basically at random any time I switch to another app and back.

Voyager loses all state and just dumps me in my start page again. This is not fun if I’m replying, to say the least.

Contrariwise, Tusky (Mastodon app) drops me in exactly where I left off.

When I lived in Virginia we had Lee-Jackson-King Day:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee–Jackson–King_Day

That was 25 years ago, and I had hoped that such blatant racism was gone for good. 😔

Why would this type of service be different from anything else under capitalism? 😔

I don’t think that they meant legally wrong, but rather morally wrong.

Yeah but some prices double and the 2024 bar is less than 2× as high, other prices that are also double have 2024 bars more than 2× as high. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it’s electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

Maybe up until they stopped having “don’t be evil” as their company motto?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil

Stock options and grants are a tool to trick you into accepting lower pay and conflating your interests with those of the capital class. (Speaking as someone who has received both!)

From RFC 2804:

• The IETF believes that adding a requirement for wiretapping will make affected protocol designs considerably more complex. Experience has shown that complexity almost inevitably jeopardizes the security of communications even when it is not being tapped by any legal means; there are also obvious risks raised by having to protect the access to the wiretap. This is in conflict with the goal of freedom from security loopholes.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2804/

This was written in 2000 in response to US government requests to add backdoors to voice-over-IP (VoIP) standards.

It was recognized 25 years ago that having tapping capabilities is fundamentally insecure.

Hm, maybe. I know that de Tocqueville found Americans to be obsessed with money in the 1830’s. Nothing seems to have changed in the past 200 years in that regard. 🤔

I use it when shopping online because DuckDuckGo is shit for shopping in Holland.