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Wait, I have to correct myself, it’s not an etf but a regular index-tracking equity mutual fund that my bank offers in sweden. I chose this one specifically because it had low fees.

I moved my life savings to a European ETF when Trump entered the picture mostly because I think it’s unethical to support the US.

It’s good that they’re finding these bugs and fixing them. The only thing I feel that I personally can do is to update as much as possible, and to reduce attack surface if possible.

Didn’t Germany change their minds and is now in favor of ChatControl (the latest Danish proposal)?

I’ll probably regret asking this but… what part is the fetish? The relationship dynamic, or, you know, the actual pies?

I certainly do not consider myself an ally of the US.

I’m trying to understand your thinking. I don’t see the evil in buying a company to learn what they know. Buying standard notes resulted in proton docs, but standard notes is still there. Simplelogin is still there. I don’t see how they are “destroyed”.

Can you provide an example of a corporation that you can prove is good and will not turn bad in the future?

But do you consider it inherently harmful to have a collection of services with a common login and shared resources like contact list or integrated calendar? It’s always possible to have one provider per service, like signal for messages, a standalone calendar, a standalone video meeting program, etc, but then we expect users to make a lot of informed decisions. There seems to be a demand for ecosystems where people don’t have to connect services to their own stack, is this bad in itself, or can there be both good and bad actors in this area?

I don’t think we can ever trust that someone will stay good forever. But I also don’t want to dismiss someone because they might turn evil in the future. For me I mostly look for the question “how easy/hard would it be to suddenly move to a different provider”. I.e. am I locked in?

Google is an ad company, using surveillance and tracking to sell more ads, is that what you mean? Or Google started as a search engine, and now they’re an ecosystem? What about Protons business model is evil?

I interpret it as they want to be an ecosystem, because most people want the convenience of ecosystems. And far down that line, that means it will have more services like a chat and phone and browser etc.
On the grapheneos forum they were quick to say “they’re making a phone!”, but I think he’s just describing what it means to try to be an ecosystem.

If you say “GrapheneOS may be the best, but you should treat it as untrustworthy.”, is it fair to single it out as the “BackdoorOS”? It seems more like your position is that no closed source hatdware can be trusted? On that level we also can’t trust any software because of Ken Thompsons “Reflections on trusting trust”. So is your point that phones/computers can’t be trusted in general, or that GrapheneOS is especially unsafe compared to available alternatives?

There are pros and cons with fast solutions, but also with slow solutions.

I wonder if he knows about Allemansrätten.

Out of these, I suspect that Zelenskyy is the one who would rather be chilling on a beach somewhere than be in power longer than necessary.

I mean, there’s some truth to that. Gripen would be assembled in Canada, and the F-35 subscription price would be bending the knee to the bad guys.

I think that’s part of it too. First the cow licks a giant into life, and then it drinks maybe?

Vagina dentata
What a wonderful phrase!
Vagina dentata
Ain’t no passing craze.
It means no worries for the rest of your days
It’s our problem-free philosophy
Vagina dentata

The norse creation myth involves frost-giants sucking the teats of a cow.