red-iron-pine

yeah knew a lot of coastal STEM types who went to LCL areas during COVID.

Boise, Portland, rural Kentucky, Central PA, one dude in Michigan, etc.

great deal until (most of them) lost their jobs or had spouses that lost jobs.

a few ran into culture shock they couldn't get past. my friends in Idaho got a shock, lol.

Kentucky dude is still there, tho. visited him, PITA to get there. great property, and thankfully he can still pull remote gigs.

most billionaire wealth is unused. this is inefficient.

ITT: we learn how firewalls work

there is privacy and there is privacy.

what's your (broadly you I mean) threat model?

I'm not worried about the NSA or Mossad, I'm mostly worried about Google or Yandex or whoever. I don't do anything especially illegal, and just staying off the radar is mostly enough. I've got forreal PGP if I need it, got a buncha keys on the MIT keyring, etc.

Just someone who takes security and privacy seriously and is not a data reseller like the 'goog or MS. Problem is they have shown they don't take it seriously.

companies have no other raison d'être other than providing value for shareholders.

specifics are not relevant in many cases. capitalism does not care.

that the CEO of Proton doesn't get this -- that security is the reason, and their userbase is cool w/ the slowness -- then I don't think the company is salvageable until he leaves.

it's a complete mis-read of literally everything they have to offer, the raison d'être for using Proton.

now I gotta wonder what other stupid bullshit is this idiot going to champion?

will hold my breath to see if the company course-corrects and drops him. I chose Proton over Tuta years ago, paid for the lifetime membership, but will revisit that this week...

Gsuite is cheap because google is monitizing your data. Probably true for zoho or other providers unless they explicitly swear they're not.

you either pay out of pocket or you pay with data but there is no free lunch.

as a current Proton customer I'm going to start looking for alternatives.

is it take profit? or just GTFO before it all hits the fan?

FWIW I am the latter, and sold last week while it was still positive.

it's gonna get real ugly soon...

the man would be an expert on kompromat

being a solider is not getting laid and doing stupid BS 95% of the time, and living in life-ending terror 5% of the time.

prostitues, esp. fancy government ones, only have to work 2 hours a day, on their back. low chance of dying. and getting laid, albeit maybe not your ideal partner.

ATCs will have outages or drops all the time. you don't want a train to suddenly lurch down to 40 kph because of a blip. cellular coverage in Europe is pretty good but not perfect -- and it's an even bigger problem in N America.

likewise you're not going to be using Automatic Train Control in yards, sidings, or terminals, and you may need to get up to speed sometimes to move across a big yard.

manual mode lets the conductors and traffic controllers make those calls.

and it's "not something they need to remember" -- it's 40 kph or whatever the track is authorized for under ATC.

aye. email was solved years ago.

I don't need cutting edge features, I need a service that won't snoop on my shit and is otherwise reliable and trustworthy.

features like Proton Calendar and VPN make sense but again these aren't new concepts and don't require vibe coding or "move fast break things"

fastmail, tutanola, couple other smaller providers

we've known CEOs are evil and deluded for decades

this explains why things like SD-WAN suck so much

we're transitioning to Juniper and don't feel bad about it

same. got a buncha domains there for email.

the signs were there for a while but this ain't helping. not jumping ship today, but that's mostly logistical -- but will start looking for other options.

like i do security and use AI daily -- and i am fully aware of what its good for and not good for. there still need to be engineers in the loop, and if it's just AI then i'm not a Proton customer I'm a [Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini/etc] customer.

IIRC weren't they a non-profit for a while?

presumably the T is for Traitor?

bots rule everything around me BREAM get the money dolla dolla bill yall

given the volume of bots there -- most of them

what bollocks is this? plenty of competing stores, Epic, Nintendo, Sony, GOG, etc.

the big difference is that Valve is private and generally delivers.

what do you expect Valve to do about AI cloning? sue OpenAI?

i am old enough to remember the atari games and their crap. i played the "legendary" E.T. game on atari and could never figure it out.

there has always been a lot of shit, but most of it was at the margins, and you could easily find the real flagship games.

now the slop is never ending and competes on the front page against real titles

lotta reviews of shipbreaker, including lets-plays where it's just a guy streaming slow country music while welding apart starship parts.

easy to find one -- you'll know if it's your jam and worth buying after a few minutes

hey now -- i'd be working hard as a barista. totally employed.

but all the code would be free.

are those Amazon Web Services coders? AI experts?

or are they warehouse and package monkeys and logistics?

800k warehouse workers doesn't mean shit w/r/t AI development

this is arguably why he is the way he is: NYC high society mocked him to his face.

a lot of his "burn it down, fuck em" attitude stems from that.

he is, however, completely and utterly narcissistic and greedy, and smart rich people are able to play him like a fiddle.

the KGB picked up on that in, like, the 80's, after Ivana's dad -- an informant for the Czechoslovakian secret police -- passed on details of their relationship to the Czech internal security

regulate the shit out of social media.

they know. Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter -- it's not hard to figure out who and how this is happening.

it's like how Twitter goofed and made accounts show the country they were posting from. Turns out most of the Real American Patriot influencers were posting from India. Twitter immediately freaked out and ended that visibility.

They know. They're the problem.

i call bollocks. the Honda Fit sold like hotcakes and the Civic and Corolla continue to be ubiquitous .

margins and market incentives aren't there for small vehicles. same reason that things like clothes are bifurcated into either bottom-barrel fast-fashion or $1000 button ups.

yeah easily 50% of my ubers have been Rav4s or Corollas.

seriously impacted my view and did change my car selection (but not to a Rav4, to a Toyota Sienna minivan)