They never are. I go through work gloces at a rate of about a pair every three-ish week, and what drives me bomkers is that it’s nearly impossible to find a pair of work gloves that doesn’t have the stupid touchscreen pads that don’t even last a day. Gloves without the pads are either too bulky or too thin/would last about a day altogether.

I don’t need the touch pad tips, and what I can’t stand is the slippery fabric underneath the grippy touchpad surface that ruins my ability to grip things.

That’s fair. I suppose people will have their pitchforks and will pile on anything at this point

Agree. I’d be nervous about it too. Mullenweg seems pretty unhinged at this point.

You’re not wrong. Again, my logic for that the crazy person is on the warpath towards other hosting companies. For a time he had cut WPEngine off from wordpress.org, which meant thousands of regular people and business running wordpress couldn’t update their plugins or wordpress core because they had no access to the .org registries.

Mullenweg isn’t going to do that to his own company. I think Mullenweg is a piece of shit, and I would steer clear of wordpress.com. My previous comment pointing towards .com is dumb.

Mullenweg owns wordpress.com. It’s arguably the only safe place to host WordPress since it’s his company and while he seems willing to burn all goodwill down to the ground for wordpress open source, hes (probably) not going to burn his own company and cash cow to the ground.

I mean, it’s not a great option, and I may be stupid for saying that, but that was my reasoning for saying so.

TBH, I’d just host it myself if I was going to do it.

FWIW, it might be better to avoid wordpress hosting UNLESS you go with hosting from wordpress.com, since there’s kind of an all out war in the wordpress world right now and the fallout to people who just want their websites to work is unknown.

The tl;dr is that Matt Mullenweg, wordpress founder and owner/CEO of Automattic (which is the company that runs wordpress.com), has engaged in a Trumpish crazy war with wordpress hosting engine WPEngine, and in doing so has arbitrarily (in the name of his war) been doing crazy shit with the open source wordpress project.

EDIT: To be clear, I am NOT recommending wordpress.com. My logic in saying what I said above is that Mullenweg is being very hostile towards other hosting companies, specifically WPEngine. For a time he had cut WPEngine off from wordpress.org, which meant thousands of regular people and business running wordpress couldn’t update their plugins or wordpress core because they had no access to the .org registries.

It’s pretty unlikely that Mullenweg would cut his own for profit wordpress hosting company (wordpress.com) off from wordpress.org (the open source repo for the wordpress software and a vast majority of the plugins). And to be clear, I think Mullenweg is a piece of shit, and if it were me making this decision, I’d rent a vps and host it myself. It’s really not that difficult.

I’m a fan of flatpaks, so this isn’t to negate your argument. Just pointing out that Flathub is also using Equinix.

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Interlude: Equinix Metal née Packet has been sponsoring our heavy-lifting servers doing actual building for the past 5 years. Unfortunately, they are shutting down, meaning we need to move out by the end of April 2025.

It is! First time making it and definitely will be making it again.

Dark Morello (jarred). It’s delicious!

Forgejo is a self hosted github replacement

I’ve been using Joplin for years. I self host Joplin server for sync as well. Join does support offline use. Each device has a local copy of the notes and if you’re offline you can use the app to access and edit existing notes as well as creating new ones. When you regain a connection the sync will automatically update the notes and those updates will proliferate to any other devices with Joplin

Hello! I will take a look at it, I just haven’t had a chance over the last day. Give me a couple days and I will give some feedback. Bear in mind I am not an expert, so I might not have much to offer, but I’ll share what I can. :)

No worries. As mentioned, I trust Proton at the moment because they are regularly audited, and as far as I know, the audits have always upheld the claims Proton has for things like no logging, actual e2ee encryption on their emails, etc…

That doesn’t mean I like or agree with Yen’s comments, but the truth is, there is no ethical consumption in capitalism. I could switch to some other vpn and a different mail server, but it’s likely to just be another problematic company with problematic people.

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I want to preface this question by saying that I’m not trolling and I’m not defending Proton. I’m genuinely confused at the reaction to this article.

I’m also upset with Proton’s recent comments, specifically the December tweet and subsequent responses, and I’m evaluating my use of Proton.

Near as I can tell, this article (which I did read) lays out the facts about Deepseek as an LLM originating in China and the implications of that.

Why is this article a reason to pile on proton?

I do love popcorn! I like making jy on the stovetop.

Thank you. I’m going to check them out. Appreciate the links and info!

I’m not 100% sure if you mean what do I think makes proton untrustworthy, or what do I think makes other vpns untrustworthy?

If you’re referring to proton, some of the statements Andy Yen have made recently are painting proton as less neutral than they claim to be.

I’m also generally aware that a LOT of vpn outfits are just a different company mining your traffic and data, and that there are few “no log” vpns that you can trust.

Despite their recent statements that sour my taste in giving proton money (and the ai bullshit that every goddam company is shoving down our throats), I trust proton when they say no logs. They’re regularly audited for it.

I don’t trust all these other VPN companies that claim to be no log and have nothing to back them up. Especially when several of them have been caught logging and mining/selling the data they claim to not be logging.

Can you easily get config files to set up wireguard without having to use their app? Secondarily to that, how easy is their port forwarding setup?

I’m considering leaving proton too. The two things I really care about are simplelogin and the VPN with port forwarding. As far as I understand it, proton is about the last VPN option you can trust with port forwarding