I'd love to see these guys degoogle at least a little and upload to peertube too.

I work in enterprise, where backup is taken seriously.

I have friends who manage SMB networks, and boy do they have to work at convincing these people how important backup is. Fortunately there are some fairly standard systems for that space these days, including cloud systems. Just have to get them over the hump on costs.

I quit trying to help family and friends do it. I'm not fighting to save you from yourself.

People rarely realize the importance of backups until they've suffered catastrophic data-loss, and even fewer people realize the benefit of having multiple, independent backups. Barely anyone I've talked with in person practice something like the 3-2-1 backup strategy

Thousands of non-profits (or whoever else) stored all their data in one location with one provider.

People never learn.

Do not entrust all your possessions to curved ships at once

Greek Proverb, 700BC (so nearly 3000 years ago)

Both are trash

As an arch user shifting to FreeBSD, you may not want to keep laughing. And you may want to check clamAV

laughs in 🐧.

This reads like a paid ad

Thats exactly why

I feel like that's mostly because Windows is the most popular desktop OS

Users deserve better controls than "just ignore it."

Software keeps getting heavier while doing the same jobs.

Subscription fatigue is pushing more people toward alternatives.

Companies often end up balancing values against political pressure.

A good reminder that digital expansion has very real physical consequences.

Felt this in my soul. It’s the perfect example of an app being "optimized" for corporate metrics

Yeah, this is a hard pass for me. Having AI agents scraping through personal documents just feels like a massive invasion of personal space.

No longer Mount Pleasant. More like Mount Unpleasantly Noisy, apparently.

The noise covers the sound of the planet dying

I work for a DC company and support this. We comply with all local, state, and federal laws and we want others in our industry to do the same. Bad actors are making us all look bad.

They are a big company... Quarterly profits are the only thing they care about. If you trust any big company to forego profits to support a cause you will be very disappointed.

My personal POV is that I'll welcome the pinkwashed messages rather than having no support at all (something is better than nothing after all).

And btw, I'm not here excusing them for all the other terrible stuff they did. They should be blamed for all the anticompetitive behavior, military involvement etc. I just wanted to say that the hollow pinkwashing is the norm, not the exception.

Wilke says Microsoft’s moves could be interpreted charitably or cynically. On one side, it could be read as an attempt to continue supporting the community in less risky ways while warding off attacks from the Trump administration. But on the other hand, it could be “just trying to take our money.”

Supporting the community in "less risky ways" demonstrates that such support was hollow pinkwashing from the very start. If they truly believed in it as a core corporate value, they would be willing to forgo business dependent on accepting transphobia; quarterly profits are clearly more important to them.

Never thought you were required to open source any of your work, only wondering if it was open source.

I appreciate you providing clarifications. Good luck with the app.

It's all my code. I don't have to open source all my work. By using module federation, i can be selective about what I open source.

Some open source versions of the core concepts.

• Chat
  • Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat
  • Demo: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
• File
  • Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/stories/05-Hooks-useFS.stories.js
  • Demo: https://dim.positive-intentions.com/?path=%2Fdocs%2Fusefs--docs
• Crypto
  • Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/cryptography
  • Demo: https://cryptography.positive-intentions.com/

The main app itself is not open source even though it consumes exports from several open source repos. The core reason around the main core being close-source is that after creating open source versions, it only seems to put me at a competitive disadvantage.

It seems the linked demo is open source ("so I've OpenSourced my demo").

I'm a bit confused. Is this your work or someone else's? Are you saying someone else didn't open source, so you aren't going to either?