Since you asked…

Balance:

a) damage done by another Trump presidency

vs

b) damage done by demonstrating to the ruling class that you’ll give them whatever they want so long as you genuinely fear one of the candidates

Tough call. I wish each and every one of you who has a say in this clairvoyance beyond mine.

There’s something sad about society losing a such a unique source of knowledge, but hopefully we’ve collectively learned something about the dangers of trusting proprietary solutions.

Anyone found a reliable way to search across Lemmy instances they can share?

After the changes to their TOS I lost any trust I had in Proton

Proton AG lost me as a customer the minute they backdoored a binding arbitration clause into their TOS last year.

The difficulty of proving damages in breach of privacy cases combined with generally weak privacy legislation globally means the threat of a class action often serves as one of the only practical deterrents to abuses of power by corporations controlling sensitive personal information. By changing its terms of service, Proton essentially immunized itself from suffering any significant penalty in the event its negligence leads to a mass breach of privacy of its users.

Tactics like the use of binding arbitration clauses are hallmarks of inherently untrustworthy corporations.

Pretty sure this is just privacy washing. The real issue here is censorship.

Highly recommend pairing this with David Allen’s GTD and Rainer König’s excellent course Getting yourself organized with Org-mode

Fairy Creek also received surprisingly little MSM media coverage despite being reportedly Canada’s largest civil disobedience campaign in almost 20 years.

While it could be argued that this under-reporting could be attributed to the RCMP’s heavy handed treatment of journalists at the site, it doesn’t appear that any of the country’s well funded MSM joined the court challenge to the RCMP’s restricting of media access.

Anyone care to share their thoughts on proper netiquette when posting to a Peertube instance?

Specifically I’d be interested to learn if it’s only considered appropriate for those contributing to the network (either by hosting a server or contributing financially) to post or if the uploading of original work is itself is considered a contribution.

Service is fine, but GNU/Linux support needs improvement.

They just changed their TOS to forbid paying customers from seeking any form of judicial remedy, so you can guess the direction they’re headed.

Needless to say I won’t be renewing.

As many others have pointed out Arkenfox is a great way to harden Firefox that saves much of the effort of manually editing about:config

Because I didn’t see one already here’s a link to an install tutorial for Arkenfox in case it helps anyone to get started.

While I haven’t ordered from them personally, ThinkPenguin’s well respected by the community.

They’ve been around for about 15 years and have a focus on freedom respecting tech, which is why they work closely with the FSF.

Does anyone know how much the ability to upgrade a Framework machine in the future depends on the company?

Are third parties free to manufacture compatible parts?

Another org-mode user here. No longer in studying in a formal environment, but eternally a student.

Learning Emacs was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I could never fully commit to my knowledgebase when I knew my data was in a proprietary format. Moving to Emacs was not only an earth shattering upgrade over the proprietary tools I’d been using, but it gave me confidence to really put my soul into creating a distributed cognition system that will grow with me into the future.

I’m not quite at django’s level of using Emacs for email, but it’s definitely on the list. I do use Emacs for my task management using GTD which I wouldn’t have been able to do without Rainer König’s excellent course.

I personally use the following packages: pdf-tools - view, editing and link to pdf documents helm-recoll - fulltext search across my entire knowledgebase from within emacs, including pdf search org-transclusion - inline display of linked content from other locations in org-files (still integrating with my workflow)

I make liberal use of org-refile, org-store-link and org-insert-link. In order to keep the cross linking robust, I’ve added the following to my dotfile

      (setq org-id-link-to-org-use-id t)
      (setq org-id-track-globally t)

The learning curve is steep, but once the basics have been learned, the power is really unmatched.