Seems their top brass have a weird tendency to make public antiprivacy statements:

Criticisms and controversies

Infomaniak has been criticized for controversial statements made in a Linkedin post by founder Boris Siegenthaler, where they opposed online anonymity, criticized free privacy services, and argued that requiring ID to use online services and mass metadata collection is acceptable. On TV and Radio, Communication Manager, Thomas Jacobsen, criticized the stance of privacy companies who publicly opposed a Swiss surveillance law, stating that their advocacy for online anonymity would "prevent justice from doing its work".

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Yeah, "Ubuntu wants you to use their new feature" is... unsurprising. Explaining the benefits and purpose of that feature? Now you're talking.

Have you seen @stefan@stefanbohacek.online's fediverse zine? Available in several languages, here's the spanish translation: https://jointhefediverse.net/zine?lang=es-es

Just to weigh in here with a bit of political nuance — "tankies" are certainly defined by their leftist politics, but moreso by their apologist defense of regimes that more or less transparently use socialist or communist maxims as a cover for state capitalism or straight out autocracy.

Tankies may be the loudest voices to claim themselves Marxist or socialist, but please don't mistake them as actually representing those ideologies truthfully or completely. Personally, I see tankies as more indebted to a cold war-style school of Soviet dogma transplanted to current autocracies. Marx and Trotsky would have rolled their eyes at either.

Ah, tech journos...

Ubuntu Touch [is] a great choice if you seek an alternative that prioritizes privacy and open-source ideals.

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One area that has improved is Google account synchronization. While it's not flawless, it's easier to sync services like Gmail and Calendar than it was before.

🤦 I don't think he fully grasps that Google is the main reason to use a more private OS than (stock) Android.

There already is a symbol for the fediverse:

This has existed for years already, is used widely, and IMHO looks way better than this dull attempt. I see no good argument in the campaign website for using this new one instead.

So SBCs are shit now?

Nothing changed, the hardware is the same as before. Your little pi servers are still doing the exact same work they did before. The only variables are prices on SBCs vs used small factor x86s, and the short, short attention span of terminally online hobbyists.

Use whatever you like, no need to race after others' subjective (and often hyperbolic) judgment.

Plain banking apps for smartphones. Having those developed in the open would hopefully make it possible to have forks that work on rooted devices without hiding magisk and whatnot.

federates the Dominion

FTFY

This is why you don't sign up with the biggest possible instances, eventually they will become the biggest possible bottleneck in a network. Anything dot world admins do will affect all of their users, that shouldn't be surprising 🤷

As for dbzer0, this might affect users in the short term but eventually people will figure out how to access the sub from more friendly instances.

All the more reason to !degoogle your devices.

I know there are problems with big email providers subverting decentralisation to benefit their business models, and throttling mail from independent or self-hosted domains. But I couldn't take the analysis seriously past this statement:

You may know me as a Bitcoin educator and engineer.

Yeah well, in that case, fuck you and the hypercapitalist horse you rode in on.

Crypto Bros are literally the dumbest people in the world. Good thing they aren't using real money for any of this.

Just rename it jeSUSE, because nobody fucks with the jeSUSE.

Well, counterpoint: Photoshop tries to be an "everything for everybody" app, and GIMP/Krita don't need to compare to that, as little as any user needs all the features of Photoshop.

Nobody can avoid Photoshop

Call me nobody, then. I worked with the Adobe suite professionally for 15+ years, haven't touched it for the past six. You won't find a single 1:1 replacement. It's just a matter of quitting and accepting the individual limits of different alternatives.

That's not fair. You can also ruin the environment with it, it's baked into the technology.

I like what I've seen of Jack Quaid's work well enough and, no matter my opinion of his parents' output, they certainly made a life for themselves.

What gets me is that people conflate work ethics, opportunity, and talent as merit for success. Loads of actors with equal "work ethic" to the ones we see on screens are unable to find full time work as actors. Same in other sectors where opportunities are outnumbered by candidates.

In no way can I accept that the son of two film stars "deserve" his opportunities more than anybody who has trained as hard, has the same amount of talent (however you measure that), and who probably only has a menial job to fall back on if they don't get the part. That is not Jack Quaid's fault, though, nor do I think his parents at any point stopped to think "Y'know, imma pull a nepo for Jack".

I do think Meg Ryan turns a blind eye on the structural advantages that her son has had growing up as he has. It will never hurt an upcoming actor to share a last name and possible likeness with established stars but, more importantly, actors' kids grow up knowing what agents are, where to get headshots, how much time goes into auditioning and networking — and through their parents' friends and colleagues they have ample opportunity to climb the ladder faster than others who have to elbow themselves into acting circles from the outside.

So on the one hand children of actors know the ropes from square one, or have seasoned professionals who will mentor them. At the same time, they will probably have opportunities offered to them from producers, directors or casting agents who want to curry favour with their more famous parents. Dismissing those obvious advantages is so tone deaf and privileged that Ryan really undermines her own argument.

Yeah well, VLC has been open source for 23 years.

Yeah, don't offer open signups, kids.

BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING

LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.