No bottom rows of teeth in sight

What are the options out there for email?

Well said. I was reading through all the points in the post thinking liberals don't believe any of this stuff, save for maybe a couple of the points.

What the hell is going on? They are a privacy focused company. Why do they need to chase increased recurring annual revenue and ship features as fast as possible if they aren't publicly traded? Andy Yen can spout his corporate jargon, saying "the company is underperforming" and "not reaching it's recurring annual revenue goals", but why does that matter if the company is healthy? Does he want to make the company more profitable to fill his own pockets with bonuses? I would think as CEO of Proton you would be somewhat committed to the cause, but this restructuring and AI push flies in the face of that. It must be a healthy dose of AI psychosis as well.

They can just be like Valve, do nothing while the competition shoots themselves in the foot and profit.

I was looking into Windscribe as an alternative to Proton VPN. I've heard good things from others and the fact they threatened to pull out of Canada if meta data collecting legislation goes through is a good sign. They allow port forwarding as well I believe. I haven't had time to look too closely yet though.

I'm still looking for email providers.

Wow he delivered the first part like shit. His Trump was half decent as promised though.

What did you end up doing afterwards? I'm interested in becoming an electrician out of interest, for the practical skills, and the fact it seems there would be work wherever I find myself in the future. I just don't want it to be my final stop necessarily. I'm curious what kind of things the trade can lead too.

You can't determine what knowledge will be useful or valuable to someone in the future. Archaeologists have poured over receipts and shopping lists from ancient Egypt that were thrown away. It's why the Internet Archive backs up all the random webpages they do. There's no justification for mass destruction of books, especially since it's being done to train broadly useless LLMs.

Of course they won't be releasing these books later on. These companies want to hoard this text data so their competitors can't access it. It would also be illegally distributing copyrighted work. Aside from destructive scanning being faster, the fact that a book is destroyed makes the digital copy "transformative" and therefore legal if it isn't further copied or distributed. A judge ruled on this recently. I don't mean to advocate for copyright enforcement, but that's the reality here.

I think China has a national repository of AI training data that companies can access if they contribute to it as well. Doing the same thing in the West would at least blunt some of the harm the AI craze is causing, but that would have made too much sense.

Would it be possible for the government to make it's own social media platform to take the place of the banned corporate options? A ban by itself wouldn't be as effective. I also think social media has good things to offer children if the profit motive and market competition is removed. I feel like this would have more buy-in with more people.

I get what you were saying for sure. Maybe I was being pedantic, but I was thinking it's worth repeating so people make an informed decision about these things.

You could still end up like Gary Bowser getting wages garnished for life by Nintendo, or in prison.

Unfortunately, I think most of the new military spending that brings our total to the 2% of GDP target is going to American manufacturers. I get the feeling that Carney doesn't want to upset the status quo too much, despite the talk. I think he still counts on a path back to the way things were, just maybe on a longer timeline.