Proton is using that as a marketing gimmick. Swiss banking secrecy laws have absolutely nothing to do with user privacy outside of that.

Proton has complied with and handed over user data on multiple occasions.

Yes there is encryption and they can't see things, but they will hand over what metadata (IP address, device info, recovery email, payment data) they have whenever a Swiss court compels them too.

If I wanted to argue with tankies I'd just go back to Twitter

Slashdot. I have a very low 3 digit UID. I followed Rob Malda's blog before he registered the domain.

I remember having Netscape open on the site and reading it. I walked a couple blocks to by a pack of smokes. Got back home and refreshed the page. Noticed a new post with site registration available, so of course I did.

To this day I still get password reminder requests to my email that I never sent.

I still comment and sometimes get some people replying noticing the low UID.

Silly I know, but it's cool to me anyway.

I've been to Venezuela twice for some extended stays. First time when Chavez was still around. Second time when Maduro was a couple years in office. I can still remember listening to his radio addresses. I remember feeling the heat off the asphalt in the city, the crazy traffic, the beautiful beaches.

Looking down from the hills onto the canopy below and seeing fireworks at midnight Christmas Eve into Christmas. I knew id never be back as it was dangerous AF then (2013 last time).

We would say it was once a beautiful country but now it's just a beautiful land.

The night before

That's Herman Cain - Tea Party activist and businessman active in politics. He famously died after contracting Covid from an indoor political rally in Tulsa at the height of the pandemic before any vaccine was available. E: fixed typo in his name

It's more about getting chastised and guilt-tripped about refusing to go yet another holiday family event where multiple people are likely symptomatic and they get mad you opt out, then you're vindicated later when many people actually get sick

Get your blood pressure checked, and checked often

You go to Aldi for the staples to save a ton of money. Supplement elsewhere for other things. I used to live in Chicago and there was a Trader Joe's on top of an Aldi on the same building (same ownership in believe). It was glorious.

My daily drivers in 1994 <3