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

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 am fine with California seceding.

Or the entire western seaboard becoming a new Canadian province.

I am not a vegan, but I do try to make food choices that are as ethical and healthy as I can… or at least as far as I can afford.

Cats are carnivores. Fact. This is not debatable. But I think you could also meet or exceed a cats nutritional needs from other sources. Whether those sources are readily available and whether a person is sufficiently meeting those needs… that’s another can of worms.

Generally, I’d argue that if you are hell-bent on a vegan diet, then you should not own carnivorous pets. No matter how well meaning you are, there is a significant chance that you will inflict harm on your pet, and that is unacceptable.

PPA, or Privacy Preserving Attribution, is supposed to be a more-private alternative to cross-site tracking. Mozillas idea was: what if we could give advertisers metrics without compromising individuals privacy? Honestly, it doesn’t really impact you as a user or your privacy.

The problem is:

1. Sites will continue to use cross-site tracking techniques anyway.

2. This feature was enabled for everyone without their consent or giving them an option to choose.

You can disable it, though…

1. Settings > Privacy & Security > Website Advertising Preferences.

2. Uncheck “Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement”

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…

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.

Does Codeberg have anything like Gitlab CI, or does it need to be paired with other build tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, etc?

Same here. Gitlab CI was a game-changer for me, too. Any thoughts on where else you’d consider going? Aside from GitHub, that is.

More people need to give Gitlab a chance. It’s really come into its own and I agree that Github now feels like typical unfocused, bloated MS software.

VS Code is a highly configurable editor that can get really close to being like an IDE, but you should really check out the Jetbrains IDEs. Best in class for just about every language they support.