Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new "king"
Why can't we have nice things?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Too bad, I was considering their service when my VPN service ran out. Not excluding them outright, but will have to keep a eye on it.
Fox and Roku, everyone's two favourite small companies!
well this makes me slightly less fomo'd after going for tuta and mullvad- but i'm probably jinxing it rn ;-;
People somehow still surprised by Switzerland being neutral on Naziism
I don't think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He's Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that's why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.
That chocolate ain't gonna pay for itself!
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Fuck me, I now feel like a clown for taking advantage of that lifetime subscription I bought a couple of months back.
I wonder what is the percentage of nuts tech ceos.
Seems to be abnormally high
the ruling class will always support each other to protect their own class interests. they have what we lack - class solidarity. the only path forwards, which is the path of our own liberation, is uniting the proletariat and transitioning away from capitalism.
Rich people tend not be good people in general
Good or bad, sane or nuts, at a certain point you just end up being utterly out of touch with daily reality.
Once you start getting real money, you start noticing how much is going to taxes.
Even though the net income is more money than you've ever seen in your life, and the meagre fraction that is going to welfare is abysmally small, yet was a true lifeline to you when you needed it mere weeks ago... it still makes your blood boil knowing you're not getting everything you feel you deserve.
Imagine that amplified x 10, and you can see how a CEO might feel that they're throwing tens of thousands a month on what they feel are undeserving recipients. All they see are the zeroes, not the percentage.
TL;DR - we all inhabit the same planet, but we live in different worlds.
Apparently, I'm a minority then. I do not earn "much" in the sens of making billions on the backs of spaghetti-monster-knows-how-many-ppl, but I make enough to comfortably get by, save sth, and donate money to charity (not to get tax exempt, mind ya).
Then again - EU represent, this might skew things a bit
This isn't directly related, but I hate when payroll programs show me a damn pie chart of how much money goes to taxes. I know what I yearly salary pre tax is and I know roughly what my paychecks are. I intentionally avoid math comparing the two.
But yeah, like you said, the bigger the amount you make, the more you're like "wait, I'm losing how much?"
I think it's just really rich people, but tech CEOs are in this terminally online culture so not only does it all end up out there but they seem to feed off each other and try to bizarrely one up each other.
Damn, this sucks. I fled Google for Proton and use it for email, files, and my own domain email.
if you have your own domain, then moving off of proton is very painless
I see a lot of good discussion here. I've been on proton for years now, using my own domain. While true that Andy is one of 5 board members, and it's a nonprofit etc, these statements are raising hairs on my neck, personally.
Does anyone have a good guide on problems associated with self-hosting email?
I don't think I do this like you're suggesting, but I have my email hosted at opalstack. I've been really happy with them. I don't have a server-side spam solution yet, though. I just set up spam rules on Thunderbird on my local machine.
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Hypothetically, if Hitler saved a child from being hit by a car would you publicly sing Hitlers praises and be happy to make positive quotes about it?
Does being on the right side of a single issue negate everything else?
it's not about being "right" or "wrong" for these people. it's about protecting their own class interests. it's something we can learn from them - what can we do every day to protect our own interests as members of the working class?
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