Tuta has gift cards

How did I miss this???

There’s a difference of degree between “obey a subpoena” and “hand over an environmental activist to a fascist government”. Or are you suggesting that “I was just following orders” is a valid excuse?

…was it?

When someone shows you how evil they are, believe them. When they then try to walk back and apologize (not for doing the evil thing, but for being found out), remember the truth they showed you.

wdym, it has everything to do with accounts, people are removing their accounts because of it.

Decentralization works perfectly for forums. That’s literally how the forums of the '90s worked: “Tom’s Hardware” was never the only forum for Windows issues, “Codeguru” was never the only stop fo weird Visual Basic 5 error messages, etc.

Federation is orthogonal, and can cover a number of subjects - it’s less about “what’s out there” and more about “how do we get in touch”. We have for example a sorta federated sign-in with things like OpenID. Lemmy, Mbin etc…, are built on the idea of federating the content. CDNs are literally federated caches.

DementAIia. EDIT: Or PsAIchosis. Or AInsanity, if you will.

At least where I live, I have government guaranteed rights regarding switching registrars and keeping my domain, and a court is needed (or lack of payment) to force me to abandon my domains.

What do you want to bet that Trump’s frown (or Putin’s, or Nazinyahu’s) is not sufficient to pull the domain from under you, your country’s regulations be damned?

Start with buying your own domain.

As we have seen with eg.: Austistici, buying renting a domain gets you nothing. It can be pulled right from under you with no recourse. If you have to pay someone else to “host” your identity, then it’s not actually your identity.

Not to mention, your own domain makes you trivially identifiable and filterable.

Should be easily solvable with something like a co-op owned SMTP relay. That way, every member has a patent investment in the reputation of the relay.

He did praise Trump directly on the admin pick.

The fewer packages you have installed, the easier it is to upgrade. So if your stuff is containerized, upgrade should be mostly painless.

In my history at least, dist-upgrades have never themselves been a problem, not even when doing such things as a x86-to-x64 crossgrade upgrade (from Stretch to Buster, back in the time). The problem usually comes right after, with the first reboot, when something does not generate correctly in Grub or the new kernel’s initramfs is lacking a specific module, or a given mariadb flag you were counting on is no longer added by default, or somesuch. So always have a rescue boot ready.

So, who’s the alternative?

From what I hear Tuta is only barely reputable? Something about false cryptography. Services like mailbox and posteo don’t have a free tier. The offerings overall seem to be so bad that gmail is beginning to look somewhat desirable by this point.

Not that it impacts much in the short term. Until a long-term viable alternative shows up, the best I can do is to continue using Proton’s free tier so that I am at least somewhat a cents / nickels cost to them rather than a profit.

It’s a student project. Quick & dirty so they can get a grade. They probably just link to libpdf.so and call it a day?

The point was on the complaining about AI because of trends in how humans write (which is where AI got it from in the first place) when quite visibly using those same trends, but sure, why not.

PHP does have a number of official ones, yes, but the way they are designed still makes it often more efficient to just download their Dockerfiles and use as a guide to make your own (I’ve had to do that in particular because of how difficult it is to install some specific PHP extensions on their Alpine image sets).

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pot, kettle.

Before LLMs, the prospect of an undiscovered vulnerability was non-zero probability then, so what exactly has changed now?

The problem is not the prospect of an undiscovered vulnerability (there is always a vulnerability somewhere) but rather the prospect of a reduced response window.

There’s a wide gap of difference between “non-zero probability” (0.0076%) and “non-zero probability” (82.01734%).

Everyone that was willing to bear the actual operating costs would prefer to run their own servers to serve themselves,

That’s a mathematical (and behavioural) indicative that your offering was simply not good enough for the target audience. If the people willing to put in the money and time were preferring to do it on their own for that same sum, it means you don’t have enough aggregated value or distinctive non-operational functionality (“perks” or “affiliations”, basically) to be unloading that value of cost on your potential users.

Reminder: we are in an era where our kind of people (focused on privacy, sovereignty, etc) know better than to commit to future payment for stuff because when you start paying for stuff, it gets Enshittified; an upstart in the current landscape is alas much more vulnerable to that.