And to that result, they don’t actually have their own. The marshalls and police used for the Judicial are part of the Dept of Justice, and answers to the Executive. All fine for now, or in normal times, but with Trump he could withdraw them if the Justices don’t rule how he likes.

Dragged into the future, dragged into a volcano, not really picky at this point

One of my favourite f-droid apps is droid-ify, which markets itself as a clutter-free f-droid client. So, I use that instead of f-droid itself.

I heard JD Vance puts his cast iron pan in the dishwasher.

That’s why I still use them as my main. I can’t close tabs, so between their workspaces with tiled tabs and tab memory management not keeping 200 processes open (I know!) it’s been amazing for me. My only reservation is it being chromium.

Not that Firefox’s back end is better rather that every other browser out there is some form of chromium which means Google getting to control the internet.

It doesn’t help anything, but I’ve started finding the remaining or recreated web 1.0 corners of the internet. Like creating a gopher hole and joining a pubnix server. Something about being nice to not have the modern internet always trying to track me or sell me something. Dunno.

Eh, sort of. Transvestite refers to someone who wears clothes of the opposite gender (trans = across, vestir = to clothe, to wear), and really that mainly applied to men wearing women’s clothes, because a woman wearing pants is questionable, but a man wearing a dress? There’s clearly something wrong with them!

As clothing “norms” became more old fashioned, that word fell into disuse.

It used to be transsexual, but now it’s transgender owing to the differences between sex and gender.

We’ve been in the Bad Place all along?!

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We call it grindr for business people.

Didn’t you hear? The economy is stronger!

/s

Op said British Day or Mexican Day parade and you responded with St Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo.

Who don’t live in, have never been to, and are to scared to visit the city.

Tailscale is a layer on top of wireguard and is a VPN. Don’t open your home to the outside world, that’s just asking for trouble.

Tailscale is a great choice for you at this stage for accessing your stuff from anywhere and not worrying about anyone else. Downside is if Tailscale decides to enshittify some day you (a lot of us) will have to figure what our next move is.

For the casual and/or beginner, it really is an excellent service even at the free tier.

Define “food”? Do hamberders count?

Also, if we quarantine for any length of time rich people’s yacht money the economy will suffer!

I started in vim and now moved into evil emacs

Pros, it just works the way I’d expect it to. What really makes me happy with it is how they enable you to use it outside their ecosystem if you want to, so like caldav, SMTP, etc. Those either don’t exist or are much harder to do in proton because of the encryption.

They have a mindset of enabling you to use your data the way you want to: recently they added an api for interfacing with LLMs, which lets you plug one into your email/calendar but only if you want, and then it’s something you have to turn on. If you never want to have AI near your data, that’s the default. In this era of “we made email better by integrating AI into it that you didn’t ask for” Fastmail gives you the option, but doesn’t force you.

Not unique, but they have a great masked email creation that can be generated from elsewhere. Currently I have them generated in Bitwarden when I create a new login (Bitwarden problems are a different thread).

Cons, it is hosted in Australia which does have better protections than the US, but is still part of Five Eyes. Your data isn’t encrypted on disk, but is encrypted in transfer as is standard these days. They are transparent about the fact that they could see your data if they wanted, but they state their principal is to have a very food reason to do so, otherwise they say they’ll respect your privacy. They also say their business model depends on not scanning your data and selling it because people would jump ship if they did (true) but all of that is taken on faith.

Ultimately, unless you self host, you’re going to have to trust someone. And the headaches of Proton’s ecosystem being so locked down just so I could say they couldn’t read my email, but gmail could as soon as I sent it, didn’t add up for me, which is why I switched. I like the convenience and it works well, and the price is reasonable.