I’m a little worried because your profile picture appears to be AI generated Steve Jobs, but here’s the first two things that came to mind.

1. If you care about privacy, you have to use someone else’s encryption. It doesn’t matter if you’re a carpenter or a mathematician. Cryptographers are pretty much the only people that should be trusted to create an algorithm or apply the primitive ones that are already there.
2. If you’re going to make something good, how is it going to differentiate itself from the noise of every other messenger? Other people have said this already, but it’s top priority. I know as a customer for various services, I lose my mind when somebody tells me I need to install an(other) app. So maybe there’s a viable web-based route there.

SBF really did dress for the job he wanted, not the one he had.

“All AI should stop” is a far more reasonable opinion than the one presented by the website blog 9-sentence rant linked above.

You have far more in common with the person you’re pushing back on than the author of the rant.

AI is a civilizational infrastructure for work, education, science, software, creativity, public services, and national capacity.

Did anybody click the link to read the paragraph-long website text? Not only is it packed with assumptions about AI, it’s simply unhinged.

The ability to… run intelligence systems without asking permission is of existential importance.

Existential?! No it’s not.

This mirrors the delusion Sam Altman demonstrated when he insisted nobody could raise a child without AI.

I did not downvote, but big if true. I can see it going the other way too, though, especially because Amazon is really good at overworking and mistreating its employees, and forcing the postal services to do the stuff they don’t want to spend the money to do themselves.

As in “office politics” or “workplace politics,” yes

Ah now I read this far. Unfortunate, if easy to use Archy distros are un-Archy due to this political dispute that goes undisclosed.

It doesn’t sound like their victims are panicky users, though. Sounds like their normal computer users, the kind of person who would typically want use Windows instead. The kind of people who are, and should be safe to remain, totally agnostic to these internal political divides.

IsIs it really all that difficult to use these popular coding and browsing tools such as Heroic Launcher, Visual Studio Code and Brave within Arch Linuxes like CachyOS?

Last time I touched an Archy Linux, I don’t recall it being difficult for some of the things on that list. And it still comes from a central store of apps reminiscent of the Microsoft Store for example…

Thanks but no thanks. If I wanted to read their slimy subtly fearmongering propaganda, I would seek it out myself.

They need to be able to use the unhashed email

And they can, by receiving it unhashed if you ask to recover by using it.

It’s not remotely novel. Proton already received decrypted stuff and then encrypts it all the time.

then they simply would be forced to unhash the address

I don’t think you understand how hashing works

It’s because they’re made brighter and cooler than they need to be, basically. There’s no reason they couldn’t be less of either. We have Christmas tree bulbs made of LEDs that accurately mimic the old fashioned ones after all.

I like the editor in chief of 404 just hovering menacingly in the background of that picture

But seriously, every pair of these glasses should be treated with disgust and hostility by people who see them.

A GMC Hummer EV taillight costs an eye-watering $6,100 to replace, plus labor. The idea of having to replace one of Audi’s new adaptive Matrix LED headlight setups is something most people probably don’t want to stomach.

Audi made these adaptive light strips to fix the artificial problem of newer headlights being too bright compared to older ones.

I can’t imagine anything more offensive to even an amateur music listener, than realizing they have a half dozen AI-generated songs on a playlist that they curated.

What a potent little tool.

What a way to create a lifelong hater of a competing service. Frankly, at this point, companies like Spotify deserve it.

I’ve heard many a time from many a booster that AI will lead to UBI. This reminds me of that. CEOs selling delusion in a desperate attempt to distract from the reality, always claiming better lives are just around the next corner.

Thank goodness OpenAI is committed to protecting us from OpenAI images telling is OpenAI is evil.

The only thing to glean from this is OpenAI is happy to surveil its users to identify political campaigns it doesn’t like. It’s showing us only some of its hand here. Imagine what it isn’t showing us.

I love how the AI booster narrative for using it shifted so quickly from “buh it it will make medicine better!” to “it’s the doctor’s fault when it fails!”

Or maybe that’s the point. Heap unwarranted praise at the feet of the AI corpos, shift all externalities and blame onto the victims.

Proton did say “we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community,” which is the exact opposite of your claim.

I thought Onlyoffice supported both formats, but apparently you’re right; OOXML gets native support and ODF is treated by the developers as an import/export process (based on the comments there).

To the end user, that makes it look like OOXML is the default and ODF is an inconvenient second option you have to manually choose, but the issues probably run much deeper than that.

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