He literally bought the title of “founder” from the actual founders of the company. That’s… pretty ridiculous.

I do self host a bunch of stuff but i really don’t want to run my own email :(

A lot of Nazis were supposedly born in 1988…

But in this specific case, i believe him.

We need everyone, not just one person. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don’t see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.

They did delete the posts, at least. Not great but at least an acknowledgement that maybe this isn’t a good look for the company.

Ah, okay. That makes sense. (Fwiw I’ve seen fascist types use 88 and 1488 outside the US, too. “88” is technically German. It can have begin meaning outside the US/The West in general, though.)

I’d still go with proton over Google. Google is also on board with fascism. Maybe not as enthusiastic about it but I’m not sure that’s a difference.

That said, looking for alternatives may be good.

That’s naive. I’m not ditching proton yet, personally, but this does shake my confidence in them.

The Biden government was targeting them, though. Kind of. Various companies were facing challenges from the administration. I think the difference is: If they suck Trump’s dick enough he’ll leave them alone. Biden was less likely to do that. Or probably that’s their view of it, anyway. Somehow big business seems to view Trump as a “rational actor” while they view Biden as the opposite.

Something something TOS Mirror Universe episode…

…88 is a red flag. Generally that’s a bad number.

If the app is running on the same machine Windows is you haven’t gone far enough, that’s all i’ll say.

They are banned (or they used to be, looks like there were some legal changes recently) from being firefighters after they’re released, so…

Ferrari disagrees. Expensive sports cars are kind of a different story than driver’s licenses, though.

They used to claim gay people caused hurricanes, too. Same fucking bigotry for decades.

We saw a very sophisticated attack on Linux earlier this year with the XZ exploit. That stuff is terrifying and the sort of thing people should be worried about. SELinux is tame, by comparison.

sudo !!

Will also run the previous command with sudo, fwiw.

Yeah that telecommunications part is working out great right now, huh? Well, i guess we just gotta keep fighting them.

Liberal democracies consistently underestimate the threat of fascism and do not take appropriate steps to stop it.

Paranoia (to a healthy degree) is good for information security professionals but drives literally everyone else crazy. I wish people would adopt more of that, though. Maybe we’d see fewer data breaches…

Yeah, Bush did jack shit while his minions ruined everything. The show may be better this time but that doesn’t mean it won’t be destructive. Still, we can hope.