It’s Proton. What do you expect?

“There are so many things you can do. Don’t accept doing nothing, be a stubborn fuck and do something to alleviate the sadness.”

Good words to live by. :)

Speaking of which, Debian users, how safe are distribution upgrades?

I know. And that’s reasonable of course. I’m sure most of us would agree that proprietary blobs are bad. I’m optimistic that firmware will become more open in the future though.

That’s true. I didn’t think about that. Thank you. :)

Sidenote: If you just want a nice web frontend for others to view your Git repositories, you can use cgit instead.

I’m not a fan of GrapheneOS, but the point they bring up here is valid. There is already proprietary firmware on your computer. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be updating it to protect yourself from serious exploits. The FSF takes an ideological stance rather than a practical one, unfortunately.

For me personally, it was mostly due to programming on Windows was a painful experience. I was using MinGW compilers, which were quite good but I wanted the latest and greatest GCC. The other options were using MSVC or clang, but I believe clang is just a frontend to MSVC (I’m not sure… please correct me if I’m wrong).

WSL was an option, but I was doing graphics programming at the time. And I needed to upgrade to WSL2 to run GUI applications or something, which required Windows 11. So at some point I got fed up and just thought to myself, why not run the real thing. This is probably one of the few instances where the technical merits of Linux is what actually got me to switch in the first place. I didn’t hear anything about software freedom, privacy, or even care about any of those reasons at all when I did the switch.

As a Windows user for a very long time, using it from my childhood, I wouldn’t have switched no matter how unethical it was to use Windows if Linux was too difficult to use. So I’m glad that ended up not being the case. :)

lmao

Go to the police immediately!

I think the reason C++ is at the top is because of QT though.

I like C++. :)

UMatrix still works fine though. I think Palemoon has their own fork of UMatrix they maintain.

We get around it! :)

I’m not sure if this is a good idea. Would people seriously pay just to access some subreddit? Why wouldn’t they go on another forum?

The article’s title is putting “free speech VPS providers to the test”, not ranking based off of uptime, support, performance, or price.

Not true. There are providers that aren’t KYC and allow you to pay in crypto.

https://crippled.media/free-speech-vps-providers-put-to-the-test

Linode is not for privacy at all.

Well, it’s not privacy-focused… but I do like Revolt for this purpose. It’s performant, looks very similar to Discord, and I think they’re adding E2EE eventually.