That would be great. It would make it a lot easier to convince people to try Ubuntu.

Advertisers will go where people are. Unless people are leaving the Zuckerverse, the advertisers will just go along with it.

I didn’t realize that. What’re the best Proton alternatives?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salute

It’s not just government that is the problem. The problem is that the data has been collected. It’s still being collected. It already exists. And think about that incompetence you mentioned… do you think that data is safe from less incompetent actors?

The best time for action on protecting privacy was yesterday. The second best is right now.

I never said something shouldn’t be done about it or that it shouldn’t exist. I consider privacy a natural right that we should fight to protect. I’m just saying that, whether people realize it or not, it no longer exists. It has already been taken away, and the repercussions of that reality are going to echo through time.

Sorry ☹️

Privacy no longer exists; it’s now little more than an illusion.

If you use modern technology at all, even your own thoughts aren’t safe. Existing ad tech can intuit what you are thinking before you are even aware of it, and AI will be able to dig even deeper into your mind in the near future. There is no escape.

Fire and brimstone preachers used to scream about how God was always watching, but regardless of whether you believe in that sort thing, one thing is true: technology is always watching, and your identity and innermost thoughts can be reassembled at any time by any number of entities, and you wouldn’t even know.

I’d suggest doing a little reading on what the political spectrum means, because they aren’t.

When you think a Siberian winter is normal spring weather, even ice cream seems warm.

Their excuse is that telecom services aren’t actually providing telecom services, but information services.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you aren’t brain-damaged.

Skilled workers cost money.

Shareholders hate that.

This is where I assumed the series was going. It seemed pretty obvious, with the “bleed effect” and everything. Then… it didn’t. It jumped the shark, instead. I’m still sad about it.

It’s hard to say. They put out some great stuff that filled some genuine gaps in the market… then the whole thing with the one case happened. It’s very possible they’ve always been shady creeps and we just didn’t notice right away.

this has less to do with using AI, more to do with sloppy code reviews and code quality enforcement.

They are the same picture.

No matter how you feel about Apple in general, Apple TV boxes are really the only way to go these days. Everything else is designed to aggressive sell to you whether you like it or not.

It’s either that or use something like a Raspberry Pi and settle for websites, which also have a habit of streaming you lower-quality content.

Almost like those systems were designed to be monopolistic and anti-competitive from the very beginning…

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I am right there with you on all counts. I’m on openSUSE now and happy as a clam.

My only problem with Proton is that they don’t work with native mail clients (especially mobile). I’d go with FastMail personally, but I do see the appeal of Proton.

AI is a neat toy… but that’s all it is. It’s horrible at almost every real-world application it’s been forced into, and that’s before you wander into the whole shifting minefield of ethical concerns or consider how wildly untrustworthy they are.