But in our defence we fly alot.

And Alot is very proud of your frugality.

The fact that they have so many clients for different Linux distros was something I liked. I was trying to figure out how to move to Bazzite, and they have an RPM build that you can easily install.

It’s really disappointing as a huge fan of sci-fi myself. I know we won’t get flying cars and stuff anytime soon, but technology in general is super cool. Humans are really ingenious.

And these corporate troglodytes had to go and ruin a good thing. I hope their balls explode.

Perhaps, and if they do indeed care and read that blog, maybe they’ll share it with friends who don’t have a clue.

I wasn’t a customer of theirs (I’m always skeptical of super-popular-anything), but I think I’ll look elsewhere for secure email.

Not because of this article, which I think makes some decent points, but because I would worry in the back of my mind that the Officers of the company would happily bow to their demigods and start secretly tracking people as a show of fealty.

Thank you so much! That was way beyond what I could have hoped.

I’ll read the link you provided in a bit, but that does sound really bad. Must suck to work at a company you think is helping people stay private only to have the CEO come out as pro-fascism.

I’m strongly considering switching to them! How do you like it?

It might be that they’re equating the name with the app and company, not the open source model, based on one of the first lines:

AI chat apps like ChatGPT collect user data, filter responses, and make content moderation decisions that are not always transparent.

Emphasis mine. The rest of the article reads the same way.

Most people aren’t privacy-conscious enough to care who gets what data and who’s building the binaries and web apps, so sounding the alarm is appropriate for people who barely know the difference between AI and AGI.

I get that people are mad at Proton right now (anyone have a link? I’m behind on the recent stuff), but we should ensure we get mad at things that are real, not invent imaginary ones based on contrived contexts.

Who am I to disagree? I race through the world and the seven seas.

So good. Now let’s eat Grandma.

Don’t know much about proxmox, but I know that Hyper-V tries to create every VM with Secure Boot turned on, and every Linux distro I’ve tried won’t boot the installer like that.

Maybe double check the settings of the VM.

You might not have read the other comments, but I do QA for a living. Devs fucking up commits is why I continue to have a job. Also, companies/maintainers aren’t required to capitulate to every bug report. It’s possible that whoever made the original comments didn’t understand why it was such a big deal and/or didn’t know of an alternative way to structure their software; public pressure made them look a little harder.

Like I said in my first comment: you do you. Bring out the pitchforks. The fact that there’s reasonable candidate explanations other than malicious intent says to me that the internet is overreacting—again.

Though, when has the internet ever done that, amirite? /s

Their inability to do the right PR things is just a signal that they can’t be bothered with the facade…

…or they’re just bad at PR. It’s not a skill everyone has.

Re: ethics, they are no longer on F-Droid because they tried to get this in under the radar…

…or they made an honest mistake and don’t care to put it back on F-droid for reasons to which we are not privy. I bring up these counter-examples not as a way to point out where I’m right and you’re wrong, but to point out that there are other candidate explanations, and it’s not justified to infer that malfeasance is the only likely possibility.

I also understand why you would cynically think that Bitwarden might succumb to Capitalism—I too live in a late-stage-capitalism country—but that’s not a forgone conclusion, and I say again that we don’t need to be imagining villains when there’s plenty of objectively real ones at which to point a finger already.

Also, Mozilla never said they don’t use actual fox skins to warm their devs during development, so one can only wonder why they’ve been so silent on that glaring issue…

/s

It’s handy for things like learning languages or remembering medical terminology. And if you can couple it with mnemonics, it can be more effective than simply reading.

I hate to say this, but there’s no real assurances of permanently open clients from anyone. Also, their client is still open, and if they do drop the OSS model, people can just fork it and still have a working client (or fork an old version that meets whatever standards they have).

But unless we can prove that they have actually done something ethically wrong, I don’t see why the internet feels the need to waste energy creating villains from conjecture.

I use it, but not consistently. That’s mostly my fault, though. The app is really easy to use, generally, and you can really get into the weeds of settings if you want.

Mostly, though, I just use the defaults and that’s good enough for my needs.

Free Flashcard app. It’s been around for many years, and there’s lots of extensibility and free card decks.