James R Kirk

Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.

Finally, we’ve invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!

“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”

I’ve also used duck.com’s free email masks with great success

Not quite what OP is talking about but useful in most cases

A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.

The job apocalypse is absolutely not something to forget.

Honestly wondering… why not? So far there is no evidence that an LLM can replace a worker of any kind, and all layoffs attributed to “AI” have not proven to be anything other than typical layoffs attributed to corporate greed.

Clever! The rare actually useful LLM!

No means no leave OP alone jfc

duck.com is great and I’ve only ever had a few times where it wasn’t accepted.

So uh… what does it do? Summarize short articles?

The phrase “E2E encryption” definitionally means it applies when you don’t trust whole chain.

Continuously steering a conversation away from the big important facts and towards irrelevant details is called “flooding the zone with shit” which yes, is a type of disinformation campaign.

And it only works if regular people take the bait.

Signal is what you’re looking for

It’s not a company it’s a nonprofit foundation. And they’ve been audited many times by independent auditors.

you agree it’s a distraction but continue to bring it up 🤔

The fact that anyone is even debating the (completely irrelevant) first aid kit means the disinformation campaign is working.

I’m saying by focusing on the irrelevant first aid kit you are playing into the hands of those who seek to discourage the use of private messaging apps.

I agree that bringing a first aid kit to a peaceful protest is not evidence that someone is planning violence.

I disagree that bringing a first aid kit along with explosives and assault weapons to a planned confrontation is evidence someone was attending a peaceful protest.

This is total alarmist misinformation. The “evidence of terrorism” was not “using Signal” or “carrying a first aid kit”, it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15.

The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried during their armed assault, along with actual messages (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence.

There are a lot of problems with this case, IMO the most dangerous part here is that adds legitimacy the (false) idea that “antifa” is an organization that exists. Something the Trump administration has been struggling to prove. This X post takes small details out of context.

1. Don’t trust anything ever posted to X. Especially something that discourages the use of private messaging apps.

2. I highly recommend everyone report this this post to your admins and strongly recommend all instance admins ban/warn accounts like OP. If we want the fediverse to catch on it needs to be more factual, not knee jer.

If you want a private way to transfer money you need to use cash, or probably some kind of crypto.

If you want to easily transfer money digitally with as little 3rd party intervention as possible then your bank probably uses Zelle