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Ingl, I think the only way to stay sane these times is to ignore what they say and look at what they do. As long as his products are up to my standards and values, I’ll just ignore whatever he says to appease whomever

Probably doesn’t want to get banned in the US… Or so my copium tells me.

Silver lining is that Proton is owned by a non-profit.

You can make an argument for confidentiality making it harder to find exploits in your code. If nobody cares enough to report them to you, or if you don’t have the resources to fix them, open-sourcing your code just exposes them.

This is pretty much only an argument if you use stuff that would be irresponsible to use in the first place tho

If you have trouble sleeping in general, it might be a bad habits thing. Melatonin supplements can help to get you tired. 1mg before you go to bed is enough, if you try to relax and sleep. They don’t do anything if you do stuff that keeps you awake however.

This particularly anything exciting like sports, listening to energetic music, watching tense movies, playing fast or demanding games etc. Avoid any such thing for at least two hours before you try to sleep.

Pixel 8a was <400€ on black friday. I know not everyone can afford this, but even 5 years ago that wouldn’t have been that much for a phone

Not sleeping like… Right now

“Ok, so would you send me nudes? I’m not looking at them, I would just like to have them.”

I would love to call the headline clickbaity bs, but it’s technically accurate and somehow this makes it worse and better at the same time.

This is so stupid. Messengers offer easy access to E2EE, but they are not the only way to make it work. So doing this changes nothing, even assuming you need E2EE to distribute illegal material.

And I want to stress this is not even true. Or can I not just go on the internet and download a movie, which is definitely illegal and aggressively persecuted?

Went from Firefox to Brave, because the UX is better by a longshot. Also supports accountless sync.

I’m using Proton Pass aliases and they work like a charm. With the browser plugin, it’s easily feasible to generate one for every single thing you sign up for. I would argue that there are some advantages over DDG (although I haven’t used their service in for quite a while):

1. Proton applies E2EE to incoming mails
2. If the mails go to your Proton account anyway, removing DDG means removing a proxy that could read your mails or be an attack vector to do so
3. Afaik you can secure your proton account way beyond what DDG offers (password + 2FA + Sentinel + extra password for Mail + extra password for Pass) if you want to
4. Convenience: You can manage everything in Pass and it tells you right away what you created an alias for, allows to create accounts from it etc.

Is it a total game changer? Probably not.

As someone who has used Python and Rust professionally, I’d say Python, while memory-safe, lacks proper type-checking. I don’t know if there are alternatives, but Pylance is straight up trash. Also Python’s performance doesn’t even compare to Rust. It’s a great scripting/programming language, but I think it’s use cases are vastly different.

I’d say whether Python counts depends a lot on what you want to do. I have a very strong opinion on using Python for complex projects. When it comes to performance, it’s suitable as nothing more than glue-code.

Came her to say this. Safe programming languages? Yes, plenty. Safe and low-level? Well, modern C++, kinda, if you do your homework and follow some rules. I don’t know any other tbh.

Cryptography based Banking
There are lots of good reasons to not base money transfers on arbitrary numbers that you need to keep track of. Right now, banks have to make sure themselves that a transaction is legitimate and may never lose record of it, otherwise money just disappears to someone’s damage. With a blockchain, you get a hard proof a transaction took place. Whether that’s to proof you paid for something or for law enforcement to know you bribed a certain someone, I firmly believe it’s better than what we do now. If my bank told me tomorrow I have no money or claimed I spend it all on terrorism, I would be in a pretty bad spot.

Ownership and Track Records
We live in a time of misinformation and AI generated bs. With the help of a blockchain, you can keep track of who posted something first, i.e who has the copyright or started some false information campaign, and also who generally spreads bs. This of course also works the other way around: Who has a good track record and posts trustworthy news or original content? And again, you wouldn’t necessarily have to rely on a single institution to play nice, not delete content etc. Although admittedly, it’s much more complicated this case, because you have to expect bad actors much more than in banking. Banking is infrastructure, this can be a lot of things (science and/or opinion and/or legal stuff…).

Second this. What you need for high quality media is space, not speed. For any single stream, network and drive will be fast enough anyway. Your typical HDD offers like 4-6 times the bandwidth that a regular Blu-ray can provide. You can get 8TB HDDs for the price of 2TB SSDs. Random access doesn’t matter for that application.

You might want to invest in redundancy and use a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array, depends on how valuable that media is to you or how long it would take to recover in case it’s lost. A simple solution would be a btrfs software RAID, in case your are after something like a Linux home media server with Jellyfin.

I want to believe we have gotten better and “wehrhafte Demokratie” is not just a throwaway slogan. In sum, “only” about 25% are voting populist, be it put of protest, spite, for your own benefit ot out of crooked conviction. That means 75% are still somewhat reasonable and I want to see this as a positive thing.

For a second I didn’t not get why you’d want to point out to not be affiliated with KDE so explicitly… Then I read the name again. I’m not seeing it anymore man. They have broken me…

You can stuff all the info into an object and use it this way, no problem. I just wanted to point out that this doesn’t have zero performance impact compared to what you currently have.

So (depending on how your OS caches files) you might not want to do this like twice in a lambda that you pass to an iterator over a huge slice or something.

I think pickle is what you want.

Keep in mind that this might have a huge performance impact if you do it all the time - it’s still IO even when it’s not parsing.

Justice he dicides on and can get away with.