@denny If you want a good alternative, I would recommend for drive, Nextcloud (can be self-hosted or you can use a public instance), for passwords, the KeePass ecosystem (Chipass is a fork of KeePassXC with a stronger LLM policy + I think they implemented Qt6 earlier, and it's also compatible with the same browser extension! On Android, you have KeePassDX, while on iOS, you have KeePassium), for VPN, IVPN is awesome (Mullvad's CEO is financing a racist party in Sweden, avoid them too)As for mail, the big one, you have LOTS of good alternatives. Tuta is decent, but I prefer more open IMAP compatible services since it means you have lots of email clients to choose from (Thunderbird, Geary, etc.), like mailbox.org, posteo (both German), and Fastmail (Australian). Mozilla has recently started rolling out "Thundermail Pro" which seems pretty cool (still supports standard protocols, not Thunderbird exclusive!)Avoid having all your eggs in one basket, otherwise you just get another Google or Microsoft!

@lostinsignal@tilvids.com Move away from Proton! There's lots of good alternatives that are often better too! Not to mention, their CEO also happens to be a big GOP supporter + loves Trump, which combined with their LLM fanaticism (and honestly their attitude too, what the hell, calling your employees "losers" should not be allowed!), it's very bad.If you want email, mailbox.org, posteo (both German 🇩🇪), and Fastmail (Australian 🇦🇺) are awesome alternatives. Disroot (Dutch 🇳🇱) is decent if you want a free email service, it's oriented at activists, has a no logs policy, and, in order to prevent abuse and spam, they manually verify each signup. As for passwords, use KeePass stuff (ChiPass is a fork of KeePassXC and a bit better in my eyes, KeePassDX if you use Android, KeePassium if you use iOS, Syncthing to have the same passwords on all devices), for cloud storage, you should use Nextcloud (either a public instance or self-hosted!), and IVPN is a good alternative to Proton VPN (avoid Mullvad as they are supporting a racist Swedish party)

CVEs mean the issues are getting found and fixed instead of sitting on a three letter agency's arsenal.

and all the end-user has to do is update.

There's something interesting, if not encouraging:

AlpineBSD is an operating system based on the NetBSD kernel with a userspace inspired by Alpine Linux and the objective to use as little AI-generated software as possible.

Serbia recently democratically ousted their fascist leadership and are in the process of replacing it with people from a curated list of teachers and professionals that students have spent the last few years compiling via open democratic debate.

There are good news too, but those doesn't NEED to be told to everyone. A CVE is very important to get it out as fast and to many possible. But if something good happens, it doesn't have the urgency and need to reach everyone in short possible time. Plus bad news are for most people more interesting and get you clicks too, just to add to the fuel. And Ai doesn't help with that either.

Therefore its only natural that we see more bad news than good news.

There are folks in the occult space that think LLM's are possessed by evil spirits. Yeah, I know, make of that what you will.

BUT, when I see folks at the top and the way they talk about this stuff, my rational mind kind of wavers and you see people who are just completely and totally absorbed with these things. Maybe them occult folks are on to something. 🙃

Scary to see, it is like alzheimer's disease in how it eats away at the persons autonomy below but unlike that disease, it still maintains enough cognition for them to be functional in society. For better or worse.

He is

I use Trisquel, one of the FSF approved distros. So far it seems to have held up well against a lot of the less inviting changes in the Linux space, but it is based on Ubuntu. I do wonder how much longer it will hold up until I end up making the jump to a BSD system. Not the fault of the developers, just that the flow of the base system is too strong to fight against forever.

"He did not" -The narrator