baronvonj

Proton Mail is a good idea for the zero-knowledge encryption, but it’s a whole lot of vendor lock in as you can’t use standard clients (IMAP/STMP/CalDAV/CardDAV) for mail/calendar/contacts. Tuta isn’t any better in this regard. If you’re looking for ability to use standard open clients, probably mailbox.org would be a good option to check out.

They have really dragged out making a Linux Drive client. The protocol isn’t documented for 3rd party implementations, but they’re Windows/Mac desktop clients are open source so it’s conceivable to reverse engineer the protocol from those, but nobody has done it.

They’ve delivered a bunch of new apps to their suite like a crypto wallet and an AI agent, rather than addressing popular feature requests for existing software.

“Coming” Feb. 25 2026. 😉

Gentoo is still around‽ But Arch exists and eMachines was discontinued like 10 years ago!

I did not, in fact, say. But they did say that, yes.

You can self-host Bitwarden. Or there’s the Vaultwarden implementation of the Bitwarden API.

Why not create a GUI interface using visual basic?

By at the same time also requiring some form of ranked choice for every election, and to have a “none of the above” option, and if over 50% of the votes have “none of the above” as the #1 choice the election must be redone with all new candidates. Everyone is thus able to truly vote for who and what they believe we have the turnout to never have to discuss the legitimacy of the winner.

There was a brief push for people to leave BlueSky right after a few people were banned right after the Charlie Kirk murder, but my observation is many people who flirted with Mastodon (look for the #fuckaas tag and accounts on the fuckaas.space instance) in that time stuck with BlueSky in the long run.

also, a black man was elected president. I think the rural racists without Internet still heard about it.

not for organizing resistance to corrupt governments, as it doesn’t have E2EE.

The problem with your comparison is that you’re physically sending your kids off with other people, and there are physical limitations on participation. Of course it’s encumbent on the organization employing those people to make sure they’re trustworthy (same for the adults who are volunteering to be responsible for the children). In the same way, Discord is responsible for making sure that their own employees aren’t abusing and preying on the users. They are expected to investigate any reports of abuse by either their employees, scouts, or adults volunteering. Just as Discord is expected to investigate any such reports, too. There are absolutely things to hold digital platforms accountable for to make things safer. But face scans and uploading government ID doesn’t accomplish that. We hold platforms to account by auditing their response to abuse reports and any failures in their privacy and security controls and if they can’t manage that then they should be dissolved.

Even just since I posted my comment, there’s now this new link making my front page on piefed

https://www.404media.co/free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/

Residential IPs aren’t static. VPNs exist. Residential ISP proxy services exist. Cloud providers exist from every inhabited continent. Tor exists. Determined predators and bad actors will get on the platforms and can get verified at whatever age group they want.

If we pretend otherwise instead of educating the children on how to recognize predatory behavior then we haven’t protected them at all.

When Roblox rolled this out kids were using AI tools to perform the face scan. Kids have easy access to sneak their parents’ ID to upload in secret. Predators can use the same tactics. So we haven’t gained any security, but some people will be caught up with having their real data made vulnerable.

The only real solution is for the parents/guardians to be engaged and involved in their childrens’ lives. That means I have to occasionally invade their privacy and look at their communications, but more importantly it means I have to tell my children about the predators and what kinds of things predators will say to them. It’s impossible to child-proof the world around us, we have to world-proof the children themselves.

indeed they should not.

Corrupt governments in the past have been toppled thanks to organizing on discord

Matrix, Signal, Proton/Tuta are much better suited to that purpose.

Trying to sign up for days but I have yet to receive a verification email.

Can’t really categorically say one way is best or worst. Depends on the individual arena (location relative to you and transportation options, suitability of the arena to the sport, concession prices, concession quality, weather if the arena is open), the teams playing, the personality of the other fans near you, your own personality. It’s all good.

These shitbags need to be impeached and removed.

Everything I’ve said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.

Yes. Kristol clearly fears his might.

That can happen in privately run care, too. The point was more that a then-leading conservative admitted he doesn’t actually believe that socialized health care can be of good quality, but the common people just don’t deserve to have access to it.