TL;DR - No trust. None. For anyone or anything.

Extreme you say? Sure, maybe. But we’ve been burned so many times, yet we still say things like “oh but its convenient”. That simply means most people dont care or dont have the time to deal with it, which is fair.

I don’t blame them, in this day and age, we have PLENTY to worry about, other than our online privacy and anonimity.

Personally, I’ve went with the scorched earth approach. Foss, privacy respecting, self-hosted, encrypted. If I don’t have control of it, I will keep it in a different place than the things I have control over.

Unfortunately, for most, this comes at a very large technical overhead. Frankly, I don’t see other ways forward. Look at france, sweeden, UK, they all want backdoors and the encryption keys to everything.

The way forward will be trustless, self-hosted services. The next steps are to simply lower the technical bar, because even as a skilled engineer, sometines I hit my head against things that need a serious amount of figuring out.

Making these services easy to host and use would be amazing. Trust nothing.

I don’t imagine there are many alternatives?

I love it. But this part on their website has me scratching my head:

“Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription valued at €59.88 (€4.99/month), granting access to all releases, commercial components, and feature upgrades. After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.”

So does this mean they will be cutting the security updates or just feature updares? Because cutting security updates after a year is a bit of a dick move.

I get that you can always apply patches yourself but … it rubs me the wrong way.

YARR!

Well done. I appreciate the fuck out of this place.

Nah, we were running lots of pvp squads down in null in the tribute/vale region. Was lots of fun. Made some of my best friends during those times, many of which I am still friends with today.

One of them actually helped me shape my current career trajectory. I moved countries with his help.

Back in the day you could export your character data with the eve xml api. I think its called ESI these days.

If it makes you feel any better, I have approximately 14000 hours in eve online, between 2006 and 2014.

That is 30% of my waking hours. Every day. For 8 years.

I’d love to help out. Some fax: I’m not very active in c/piracy but that can be changed, would enforce rules, knowledgeable about pirate culture … I had a very snazzy demonoid account back in the day, so sure, why not. To the last point, goes without saying. CET.

Ah yes, the faux techies. This happens for alot to the technical niches. Wouldn’t pay it any mind. Downvote and move on.

I cancelled my proton the other day, right after his post.

As alternatives:

• tuta for mail
• psono, keepass, passbolt (self hosted) for the password manager
• mullvad for vpn ( actually never used the proton one, I swear by mullvad)

Im still figuring out the drive, thinking of self hosting that too.

Good luck out there.

From a “distance” it looked like a black hole. Quite iconic. I get the OCD kf having a cohesive icon set, but … my 2 cents is that it was easily identifyable.

Two birst are perched on a branch. One turns to the other and says: I’ll push you. And he pushed him.

Do it. But please be self-aware and remember that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lets not get bogged down in analysis paralysis. Do it, gauge the feedback, adjust, iterate (the beatings will continue until morale improves).

Wait you are telling me that 26 subs was enough to hold the instance afloat? Holy shit take my money!