Between his time as a “business” man, his tariffs, his wars, his stupid merch, his crypto scams, and all his other grifts, he is the single largest thief to ever roam the planet.
Every time the Federal Reserve refused to lower rates because of whatever lunatic move he did most recently, he’s stealing your mortgage, costing you more in rent, stealing yours jobs, your savings, and your opportunities.
Solution: Seize the company, destroy the product, sell the assets, jail the owners/executives/decision-makers.
Too late.
There’s a special place in hell for those Republicans. It’s always the Pedo-Conservatives who want that.
I’ll compile my own linux kernel before I install OS level age verification.
The only answer is regulation. We need laws that say, if you own a device, you can do anything you want to it, including wipe it, hack it, resell it, etc.
If they want to control your device, or lease it to you provided you pay a monthly fee, etc, they need to say “Lease”, “Rent” or similar, not buy.
And they shouldn’t be able to void your warranty for it - voids should be limited to the parts of the device you mess with. Like, if you flash your phone, they should be able to say, we can’t give you support, including how to re-install the original OS…but if your battery fails and it shocks you, they should have to replace the battery under a warranty.
We also need laws that say, if you pay for a device, that device itself, can’t have ads. So like, when talking about Android TV boxes, they can put recommendations on the homepage, but not ads, and those recommendations can’t be paid. Now, if you open youtube, they can make you watch ads.
he should be thrilled they took pictures of his, standing, clothed and not face first in a puddle of his own piss, spilled booze and vomit.
If this is the one who “bite the shit out of” his dick, we knew this. This doesn’t appear to be new.
I addressed all of this. These people will protect their interests and their companies and sometimes that means kissing some disgusting ass.
And I addressed the threat model: I try to operate in a way that allows me up and move services quickly and share enough that others could follow t. And that includes have solid, encrypted backups. I’m not that high profile, but I have too much time on my hands and high technical proficiency combined with an urge to learn I also am the first to suggest to Proton a false pin to wipe your phone.
But this is also blown our of proportion. It was one message that basically said, right now (With Republicans in control of Congress) they’re the only ones likely to do anything. Most of the bias people say, is implied. If Democrats had been in power, there would have been a one word difference.
That’s a good point and something I’m surprised they haven’t worked around yet
This will be one of the final nails in this country’s coffin.
Millions of people who watch CNN are going to be radicalized over the next 3 years, the same as in 2015 or so when these losers discovered trump and got political.
We can only hope WB either gets a better offer from someone who can afford to buy it for cash to save the union (Where the fuck is the boogeyman George Soros on this one, huh?) or their shareholders see the writing on the wall and put the country ahead of profit. Both are almost impossible.
They are, but everything is encrypted on the user’s end, so that should make it more secure and more private.
And I largely agree. I self host a ton, I do full backups of my VPS and can spin a new clone up in a few hours even at home. I self hosted Mastodon, just got into Meshtastic, and everything in the cloud is synced locally at all times. I’ve spent a small fortune on NVMes, my laptop has 8TB, my Desktop similar plus a bunch of drives and 3 NASes with a total of around 0.25PB of hot storage on an all Wifi7 + 2.5GBE+ Network with backup shadow router and I consider a second internet connection so I could separate my hosted shit from daily use.
Decentralization is definitely one key but I’d say the real thing is interoperability - you have to be able to leave, whether its a hosted service, or a open source or self hosted app that stops being open source or self hostable (Minio, Retool), or is abandoned (TrueCrypt). They work hand-in-hand. The reason we can choose Proton, Gmail, StartMail, Hushmail, Atomic, whatever is because at the end of the day, you can use them with all other systems, they work with each other and you can always create your own.
Interoperability is what allows decentralization to be a thing. At least IMO.
I know the one lone comment you’re talking about and I wouldn’t call it Pro-Trump, but more pragmatic and pro-republican - which is still not a good place to be when about 90% of the Republican party are to the right of the Nazis. But they’ve done a ton in the opposite direction too including millions of donations and free accounts for journalists.
While I was shocked and saddened, I don’t think it was anything more than many other CEO’s do - they try to play their hand the best they can. In 2025-2026, it’s clear that all the DEI pushes were largely there to curry favor with democrats - now that they think the wind is blowing the other way, DEI is gone. You think Tim Cook - I mean, Tim Apple - likes Trump? I don’t. But he holds his nose (literally and figuratively) because he knows Trump is a vindictive moron who could shut Apple’s entire business down one one Turd on Truth social announcing 1000% tariffs and am embargo and adding their suppliers to the Entity List.
But unlike Google, or Facebook, assuming Proton is truly entered encrypted on our end and they don’t have access to anything, there’s little they can do. They’re also not subject to U.S. laws. They can, if they want or the Swiss order them to, log certain actions and share those.
My threat model for using Proton is I like to mouth off against Trump and I know he doesn’t like that. There’s a non-zero chance I’ll die in a camp for what I post. I’m actively writing a book about him as it happens, inspired by William Shirer’s many works that he wrote while living in and reporting from Nazi Germany. And I hate advertising and hate AI.
My thing is, I don’t trust anyone. I don’t trust the WD drives in my NAS (even though I’ve never had a WD die, and never had a Seagate that didn’t fail), I don’t trust Google - at all, I don’t really even trust Proton. I don’t trust Digital Ocean where my Mastodon is, and my web shit. I no longer trust any website, even Google. I assume every byte I create will eventually be leaked on the dark web. But I don’t let it paralyze me, I make minor adjustments and live on. Even with FIOS at home, I can’t host it all myself, so I allocate risk and minimize it where possible.
I use Proton with my own domain, I almost never use my real emails, I use SimpleLogin aliases, which used to be at Addy.io but could be ported elseware. I backup my emails offline, I backup my Free Gsuite with Synology, I backup my photos a truly paranoid number of times, I stored backups in a firesafe on multiple drives, burn shit to DVD, you name it.
If Proton went full MAGAt, I could be off of there and on Tuta, or Atomic or StartMail without disruptions in 48 hours or less.
I can reroute my emails in a few clicks by using SimpleLogin Aliases. If I had to, I could switch back to Addy.io, and use the catch-alls while I set up each alias again.
That’s the real thing - trust, but be able to up and move. And Email is the simplest way to do that. It’s just too bad so many Domain registrars are shit.
I would say in design and usability but yes, services too. Tuta has mail and calendar and started a basic drive app that’s internal alpha stage. Proton has Simplelogin, drive, VPN, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Pass (Which is truly awesome), Lumo AI (Meh) and Wallet.
Tuta feels very unpolished. Like the half backed internal apps I build for myself or coworkers when I don’t have to release it to the public. Nothing is refined.
I pay for both.
Proton is as good as you’re going to get. Tuta’s catching up but they’re still years behind. Not really a bunch of options here.
https://atomicmail.io/ is the newest player on the block. I’m not convinced they’ll be around in a year or two.
Next up, torches and pitchforks will ve sold out. And AI won’t exist.
Then step on a single lego, jump, bang his head, and sit paralyzed bleeding our for hours while his body rests on a few dozen stray Legos.
Not to mention pardoning the J6 insurrections and anyone who committes the same crimes as him to normalize political violence and corruption.
Burn it all down. Lock the CEOs in before you do.
I do not. But if I did I’d vote for a dung beetle over Collins.
That’s gotta be a large part of it. 5 years ago, most bots used true user-agents to identity themselves. Today, on my work sites, about 98% of bot traffic (traffic coming from data centers) use slightly out of date Chrome user-agents. So we just block all data centers.