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Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡
  • Unlike some I'm not here to insult other people :)
    Yeah you have a point there and I totally get how my comment was a bit shortsighted on that end, but I was just weirded out by the fact that a CEO's political position is supposed to be indicative of the future actions/positions of a company. Sure it's not entirely unlikely that it might affect the company in the future, but OPs post just felt a little like fearmongering to me.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡
  • Yeah you're right, I hadn't considered that because I never paid a single cent for anything Proton, that's a mistake on my part. Sometimes I forget capitalism is still a thing.

    A comparison of singing the praises for a modern proto-fascist movement with "secretly loving Windows" is... certainly something.

    If that's the takeaway you had from reading both of my comments then I honestly can't help you, but I can try to spell out my intent a second time:
    I deliberately chose Linus Torvalds because he's basically Jesus of Lemmy but I didn't expect to be called a fascist over a dumb analogy I used to show that OP might be overextrapolating a CEO's standpoint onto a whole company. I agree that there is a not insignificant risk of this affecting the company, don't get me wrong, but this post just feels like fearmongering.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡
  • I agree that my analogy is fucked up and a little stupid, but I was just applying OPs logic: Andy Yen doesn't do any more for Proton than Linus Torvalds does for Linux; they're just stand in figures that people project their love or in this case hate onto. I doubt he personally wrote a single line of code for Proton. In that case Linus Torvalds is actually way more involved with Linux than Andy Yen is with Proton; Andy Yen might have more power over Proton but afaik and like you said Proton is owned in majority by its foundation, which I hope does get a say in what they do.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡
  • Protonmail has been my main email provider for the past 7 years, and unless its CEO decides to sell it to Trump or Musk I honestly don't see how his stupid private or not so private opinions are worth the hassle of changing my email for the million things I use my main and all the other emails I registered with Protonmail.
    Most rich people have very dubious or outright awful political opinions and unless you're rich enough to have someone build you an alternative or deconnected enough from society/only exist in programmer circles and are able to live entirely on FOSS software I don't see why the average user should care about the CEO's political stance. Maybe that's my ignorant opinion as a European, but would you stop using Linux if you found out Linus Torvalds secretly loves Windows? Probably not.

  • Rule-level vision test
  • I know I'm somewhere close to aphantasia, you didn't have to rub it in!
    (Genuinely though, you might wanna consider providing some links like the VVIQ or a general definition of aphantsia before throwing around terms like "low-level vision" because otherwise you might unintentionally come across as a bit insulting) @bownage@beehaw.org see here :)

  • he expans rule
  • This actually made me laugh, thank you!

    But please, does anyone here want to mod an Expanse meme sub? I need memes like this in my life but I don't have the time to mod and I don't wanna go back to reddit :(

  • Her(ule)o
  • Can anyone explain to me why the handcuffs are tied to a chain around his body? It's obviously to limit his arm movement so he can't put someone in a e.g. a chokehold, but why are they not just holding his arms in that case? IIRC it's my first time seeing a chain used for that. Are they so afraid of him?

  • A/S/L
  • 18/F/Cali

    How has nobody memed this yet? You guys seem waaay too comfortable sharing personal information for the fact that this is the website of linux nerds, don't you care about online privacy?

  • Ah yes, then we do have a bit of a Rule
  • Rummages my brain in EU (Could you pls explain who this references? Assuming this is even referencing a single person. Google listed Jim Inhofe's wikipedia when I looked up "us senator mountains" but the article didn't say anything about mountains)

  • Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests.
  • If a friend was sending their pretty legally obtained books that they downloaded from different website via the TOR browser to themselves via Telegram to have an easy way to download them on their tablet, should they stop that and connect their tablet to their PC via an USB cable instead?

    Asking for a friend.

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    I'm tired of the "jawa21 only post Star Trek stuff and never Star Wars" joke and I'm looking to change my display name.
  • I don't think I should be voting on the poll since I'm still catching up on all Trek between TOS and Discovery, so I only know one of the 4 characters pictured and that's Number One. But that got me to think about another possible name: Number21 or Number2One/NumberTwentyOne, or however you want to spell it. Idk if the 21 in your username has some meaning to you, but that way you'd be able to keep it :)
    But it also kinda sounds like you're ordering something off a menu so idk about that... ^^'

  • A cool guide global web index
  • Just a guess, but I assume magazines are part of physical press. I know a lot of millenials (according to this definition of millenial) who buy magazines for their interests, be it music, games, geology, astronomy or history. A lot of times it overlaps with having been in tertiary education and I assume Gen Z would show similar statistics if you asked someone who was pursuing a masters degree or a doctorate.

  • Stuttgart Stadtbahn Tram, Stuttgart, Germany
  • This looks super cool but I'm confused on how it works; is this the very back or front? Does the tram in Stuttgart just take longer at stops so you can take of your bike, especially if you didn't manage to get into the cart right next to it because it's rush hour or something?

  • +rads
  • It's a screenshot of a character from the TV adaption of The Expanse, Jules-Pierre Mao. He's famous for doing experiments with radiation ::: spoiler minor Leviathan Wakes/Season 1 spoiler and neglecting any human rights while doing so. :::

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)LA
    L@zzerot @startrek.website

    she or they pronouns pls :) I made this account because I'm a bit too obsessed with Strange New Worlds at the moment, but I'm probably gonna use this for all kinds of fandom shenanigans (Whoops, this is my main account now since the other instance I was on got deleted)

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