This impresses the hell out of me. I don’t collect but I’ve known many collectors, and I know what a decision like this represents.

The condensers are garbage

Guessing you meant compressors. If their condenser tubing is faulty, it’s a potential fire hazard.

Phone mirror

I’m speaking to motive, not outcome, because a soldier is just a soldier in the end, one who enlists for myriad reasons but ultimately forfeits civilian rights to serve a purpose that most hope is just. You are attacking your truest ally out of fear for your own safety knowing that they already forfeited theirs. It’s dishonorable and you should stop.

Most bash fans I’ve known carve out an exception for powershell from their overall critique of windows. Personally, I think it’s not a fair comparison considering how god fucking awful everything else is in windows, but I do agree that it’s a decent shell.

I didn’t read it that way, but even if I had I wouldn’t give anyone shit for it, simply because it’s selfish and cowardly to goad others into taking risks for my sake, especially when they already have.

Why do you scorn your comrades for not paying a price that you yourself have not paid?

Denethor, fresh off a palantir binge, criticizes Faramir for being alive (2025, crayon on canvas)

Not OP, but they’re right that successful collective action requires a modicum of focus and prioritization – i.e., a spam filter – and it’s especially important for negative headlines since they can easily demoralize, frighten, and even paralyze would-be activists.

It’s an insidious problem for online leftism because too many of us labor exclusively within an activist paradigm of amplification, advocacy, and awareness that excels at igniting a fire of vigilance within people without proffering action to which they might apply it, other than “spread the word.”

That leads to an emotionally exhausting, unproductive churn of frustration and negativity which slowly poisons the activist with anxiety, panic, and despair.

TLDR: Unmeasured vigilance disrupts action, and vigilance without action is worse than oblivion.

I hate to sound this clueless when others here seem to know, but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction re: “stormbringer” and its WS association, because all I’m finding in search is the name of a sword in an old fantasy series that doesn’t appear to be a NatC favorite or otherwise associated with WS ideas.

I’m familiar with “stormtroopers” (the fictional Star Wars Imp infantry and historical Nazi soldiers), “stormfront” (the WS website and the WS villain from The Boys) but figured the nominal format of storm-____ wasn’t necessarily WS (at least, I can think of a few counterexamples).

So is “stormbringer” a dog whistle or something?

Did NatC that coming.

WRT Klein especially, !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world may help

The types of errors and the commenter’s reaction to correction would suggest that this is a native speaker who missed a good deal of primary and may or may not be high.

Yes and most vulnerabilities related to the mail service are, I imagine, related to interop requirements of legacy protocol/clients. I haven’t audited their e2ee but I expect it’s on par with other e2ee cloud providers, and IIRC they passed SOC ii.

My distrust pertains mostly to their operations during a future exit scenario/acquisition when users are, presumably, more heavily invested in the various offerings of their extended productivity suite.

That was largely gut-level analysis for my personal decision-making but here are a few of the things I considered:

1. Value proposition in the context of acquisition, featuring a heavily-marketed privacy brand and a base of privacy-conscious users (harder to profile, more expensive data)
2. Obfuscation of funding sources via ‘venture philanthropy’ non-profit (a la OpenAI) housing closed-doors for-profit operations
3. Rapid expansion to full-coverage consumer productivity cloud platform alternatives (vpn, mail, drive, calendar, wallet, passwords, etc)
4. Weird pattern of being blocked then let through without future contest by numerous data-hungry entities including thiel, and generally just allowed in a few too many privacy-unfriendly places for my taste
5. And the usual reservations re: privatized privacy and commercial OSS

Again sorry that’s all hand-wavy. Probably shouldn’t have thrown shade without something more concrete.

Common opinion among millennial graduates with ed debt whose careers were thwarted by various recessions.

The more nuanced version is that not everyone’s long term goals will be greatly furthered by higher education. It does have value on its own, and to some extent broadens the outer limits of the perspectives you might achieve in life, but it doesn’t technically teach you anything you can’t teach yourself with a library card. The argument for going into trades instead is a strong one, especially from a financial angle, but also job stability, work-life balance, mental health, etc.

All the same, not-for-profit higher ed generally offers far too much good for an individual to discount outright as a scam. For many, it’s life changing, the time curtains are thrown open on their world, or a light shone on their place in it, etc.

It just shouldn’t be considered the only viable path as perhaps it once was.

Depends heavily on application (access required, sensitivity of data handled, etc) and nature of disagreement as it pertains to trustworthiness.

Example A: I use Lemmy even though I disagree politically with the original devs because the design appears sound and it doesn’t require access to sensitive data.

Example B: I won’t use anything from the Proton Foundation because the founders’ personal comportment and political leanings have led me to suspect that they intend to sell user data.

I imagine registering D comes with additional risk in that state especially.

I love how loudly media-centric those keyboards were, even the silver domed buttons center top the size a hood ornament lol, that 00s media PC era definitely had a vibe.

It looks a lot like the eMachine cases you’d find all over cyber cafes and business centers in Europe in that era.

Edit: sample