You are thinking far to linearly. Think of this as a guerilla tactics to take advantage of media focus and what would happen if Musk crashed out.

Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?

Nah, fuck brave.

You can self host firefox sync.

Lets just Thanos snap everyone to class consciousness.

If you cant get people to do it for a day, you surely cant get them to do the planning necessary for a month.

You can’t export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.

A response to apologists in your sphere:

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

Just another nail in the coffin that hopefully convinces those who thought Proton was maybe still okay after CEO licking Trumps toes.

You shouldn’t trust TurboTax so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/turbotax-privacy-tax-return-2024/

They also keep trying to trick you into giving consent:

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/are-turbotax-and-hr-block-sharing-your-personal-info/

They also lobby to keep taxes complex.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Threema bad:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/security-analysis-of-threema.html

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out its true.

The problem is it shouldn’t be a blight because its impossible to prevent bad actors from using an actually private and secure messaging app.

So the act of reporting on it is a smear because most don’t understand or acknowledge the impossibility of preventing those bad actors.

Signal if you trust them to not leak your identifier and because its gotten the most mass adoption.

Simplex if you can convince your circle to use it because it has no identifiers and is user friendly.

https://simplex.chat/

You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.

Signal is still very good though.

I thought it was a hurdle, but I’m here.

I left the first time though because I couldn’t decide, even though I knew of and believed in the benefits of decentralization.

Even now I sometimes think the instance I joined was a mistake and have anxiety about choosing a new one and also about moving to it.

https://devenv.sh/

Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.

It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.

This could be solved with a:

Can’t make up your mind?

Click here to choose a random general topic instance. Don’t worry, if you want to switch later you can.

Better performative than being able to ignore completely.

There is a paper out about reactivation after pasteurization sadly.