mipadaitu

Whoa, really??? I guess I just assumed nothing changed in the last 5 years. I need to look into that.

Not the only use cases, but you'd need a different service if you need/want wildcard certs, certs that are manually installed and managed, or certs with a longer expiration.

AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w

You are not immune.

You do, and don't fool yourself that you don't.

You probably don't click on ads, but they stick in your brain. You might see a half-dozen ads for Doritos, and then when you go to the store a week later, you're slightly more likely to buy Doritos.

The vast majority of advertising is just getting a brand or an idea into the back of your head so when you're looking for something in that product category, regardless of it's a VPN, a web host, a snack food, a car, or whatever, you're going to have a bias towards what you've seen in the past.

Most of my ad-blocking isn't to stop myself from buying some herbal supplement/spray tanner combo, it's to stop myself from being biased by the capitalist propaganda machine.

I am not immune from advertisements, and neither are you.

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

Been using a VPN since the start, never had a problem posting.

It was the paid blue checkmark for $8 back in 2022.

Kinda old article info without much current stuff except the lawsuit against the ad trade group.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

https://freedom.press/newsletter/crossfire-over-messaging-security/

https://freedom.press/training/locking-down-signal/

You don't have to take Signal's word for it, because it's been audited. The EFF, who are VERY privacy minded, and do extensive research into this type of thing, recommends Signal because it's known to be secure.

Signal

Not that the action against Telegram is right, but there's a big difference between what Signal and Telegram is doing.

Could easily just charge separate lines on the bill, just like they do for everything else.

1 - $0.0x c/KWh for line maintenance - this charges on both incoming and outgoing power.
2 - $0.xx c/KWh for power usage - this charges only on the incoming side.
3 - $xx flat fee every month for administration of your account.

Charge what things cost and it won't matter how your use your energy.

edit: formatting