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Fastmail requires payment meaning it is very closely tied to your identity. Proton is one of the very very few who do not tie a new email account to your identity via phone number, payment info or alternative email (which requires phone, payment info etc..).

Even proton only provides webmail free - pop3/imap/smtp require payment. But that's still better than 99.99% of other webmail - everyone verifies via some method that ties to your personal info.

Paywalled but would be interesting to see data on the percentage of SKUs these store brands displace.

Anecdotally have seen local regional chain systematically replacing a large number of SKUs within a product category with their own brands - Ex. 25 bacon SKUs across 10-15 brands down to 10-15 SKUs and only 2-3 brands aside from their own.

Same thing across Cheese, Milk, Salsa, Pasta Sauce, Salad Greens and many other categories.

Playbook seems to be establish large store and create local monopoly / oligopoly then aggressively copy anything that sells well and remove the competition from the shelves to create a local monopoly category by category.

Own brands are cheaper but much lower quality. As a shopper you have no choice - it's either the house brand or nothing now in a really high number of categories.

Re:MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:22PM (#46341665)
Totally fair - but just call it Source Available then.

Open Source has a specific definition and this license does not conform to that definition.

Stating it is open source creates a bait and switch effect with people who understand this definition, get excited, then realize this project is not actually open source.

Re:Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:34PM (#46259288)
This is particularly important as Mosad is _everywhere_. They run all the largest proxy / VPN networks and no reason to believe they haven't compromised DDG given the tribe connections. Verification needed.
Re:Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:02AM (#46046366)
Congrats on the launch!

Can you clarify the license and if this actually meets the definition of Open Source as outlined by the OSI [1] or if this is actually just source available similar to OpenWebUI?

Specifically can / does this run without the /onyx/backend/ee and web/src/app/ee directories which are licensed under a proprietary license?

1 - https://opensource.org/licenses