I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

Love it! I’ve saved a copy, because I think it’ll make future explanations a lot easier. Thanks!

Ah, I missed that detall! https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen

In other news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Appreciate it! The last audiobook I picked up from Libro is Kara Swisher’s “Burn Book”. Not sure if it’s your thing, but was totally worth it for understanding more personal context around the big Tech CEOs from the last 25 years.

Yeah I’m super keen, but my lower-tier Samsung isn’t supported. I really wish FairPhone would offer a cheaper option :(

I highly recommend Kara Swisher’s recent book “Burn Book” for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she’s known most of them since the 90s.

Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.

I would just like to push back and say that the Internet was an open public project, and it has helped countless people across the world. Every single problematic tech that people are pointing to at the moment are closed-source commercial projects.

That is Capitalism at work.

big sad

I wonder if the “limited resources” are due to them potentially losing a whole load of customers recently.

You know, if their tech truly is as open-source as they market, then they’ve still contributed hugely to the ecosystem. If it turns out it’s not actually operationally open-source, then this will be remembered in a hugely negative light.

Edit: I did just see their post about being impacted by the US spending cuts. I can’t imagine Proton would be super happy about that administration at the moment. But then again, who knows these days.

For sure, thanks! https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm723891

If you’re into audiobooks, I strongly recommend libro.fm instead - it’s all DRM free downloads, so you never lose access.

Definitely switch to alternatives from Amazon. They treat their authors abhorrently too. I’ve personally been super happy with libro.fm for Audiobooks (essentially Audible, but you can download the audiobooks DRM-free)

At least (to my knowledge) the Signal messages are decrypted on the client end, so buying the company doesn’t give them automatic access to messages.

Having said that, I’m sure a hostile new owner could update the app to decrypt and then send the messages as plaintext to the servers if they wanted…

As someone who is outside the US, the best I can do is share important information with people inside the US.

I would be very surprised if any of our US-Allied governments call out Trump. I would be overjoyed, but surprised.

Use the online chat :)

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Is that website legit? I’ve only ever seen https://www.deepseek.com/

And I would personally recommend downloading from HuggingFace or Ollama

It’s only a proposed bill (thankfully), but definitely one to keep an eye on.