Depends how you define “the Internet”. But if couple of big tier1 carriers null route their BGP, the Internet becomes more or less unusable for large parts, especially now that most of it is synonymous to 5-6 large websites and SaaS providers.

Had you said Teams is the most comprehensive collaboration platform I would have been right there with you.

But Teams is really just a Sharepoint front-end with tacked on voice and text chat. It’s not a messaging platform.

Depends on your threat model, as always. If you require absolute anonymity, it’s tricky, because it uses phone number during the onboarding process, so get an anonymous pre-paid number and discard it after registration. After onboarding you don’t need the number.

For the rest, it’s about as “private” as you make it. It supports group messaing, calls and video, so obviously you need to be careful while using it. Everything is e2e encrypted and stays on your local device, the source is available and has been extensively audited.

But yeah, your threat model is the key answer to your question

Being para-social at workplace is part of the job. We are primates establishing group dynamics after all. Others monkeys need to know if you fit into their Dunbar’s number or if you’re a shit-tosser.

I tend to give short answers without elaboration. ”Where do you live?” Gets one word reply. ”Where did you grow up?” One word. The rest of the time, be silent and don’t engage. Silence works.

Being introverted is fine, but you might havewto accept that others are not. For them parasocial relationships are as important as being alone is for you.

You can, learn to drive different behaviour for a while. I am very introverted myself, but I don’t present myself as one at work, purely because my work requires me to be outward focused public speaker. This takes a LOT of energy so I also need to find recharge time and ”be myself”, but I do that outside work.

Of course it would be ideal if everyone else was just as introverted as I am, but over the years I’ve come to the conclusion it’s easier to adopt a ”work behaviour” than expect everyone to adapt to my level.

The EU should slap the living daylights out of this company

I don’t have Threads or follow anyone from there but sounds a bit… complicated?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/threads-expands-open-social-web-integrations-with-fediverse-feed-user-profile-search/

I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.

Great.

VC financed social media at the start of its enshittification journey. Started interesting with open protocol but seems it has no ambitions of being open.

Deleted my account 6 months ago and haven’t missed it.

LLMs are a tool. They lack fidelity and frequently generate wrong results but as long as you (human subject matter expert) go through the results they are extremely useful in analysing and summarising large datasets.

But that’s all they are. They don’t create anything new, you can’t use them for learning anything and they certainly don’t ”think”, they just produce nice looking sentences.

Generally, the energy needs and environmental harm they do make their usecases very narrow. But there are some.

As a general tool that pretends to be ”intelligent”, they are completely useless because they’re nothing of the kind.

I think there’s also a fundamental cultural difference in that “govts take”. We don’t normally see taxes as “taking” in that sense, but I fully understand where you’re coming from - it makes sense and seems to work for you guys.

Yeah apparently so. I guess it’s not the top of mind problem Americans have right now.

Over here various pro-consumer watchdog organisations would protest wildly and the merchant would most likely get fined for false advertising. So the whole thing feels a bit alien to me.

Why do consumers accept a system like this? Wouldn’t it be just better for consumers if the shop pricetag represented the exact amount you have to pay at the counter?

If and when you send or receive e-mail encrypted by PGP, the body (contents) of the message is indeed encrypted and you’re safe from snooping and data collection, which is great. However, privacy-wise this might actually be a bad thing, because almost no one uses PGP and using it makes you stand out in a sea of normal e-mail users for someone who collects and analyzes lot of data. So if that’s your threat model, using PGP might actually be dangerous. Also, you have to remember and remind everyone to use PGP, which is cumbersome if you correspond with non-techie people. You don’t really know how they handle “their side” and PGP software is notoriously not very user friendly.

Whenever you send someone unencrypted e-mail from your Proton account, there’s a chance that the recipients e-mail provider (most likely Google or Microsoft) reads it. Same when they send it to you. It doesn’t actually matter that the message sits encrypted “at rest” in your Proton accounts Sent Items -, the contents have already been read, indexed and sold to a broker.

It’s very hard to do e-mail privacy because the protocol itself doesn’t have any built-in. It’s better to use other communication methods for sensitive transactions.

Why would I? It’s full of spam.

I never see them. The spam filter removes them. Can’t remember last time I saw a mail like that.

Then Proton should be fine. As far as I know, they don’t sell user data.

Of course as soon as you send an email or receive it from someone else, there’s a chance it will be mined, but while it’s ”at rest” on Proton servers it should fulfill your model just fine.

Depends on your threat model. What are you defending against?

He should probably read what the Stop Killing Games campaign is trying to establish before responding. But he probably “has people for that”. And it shows.

At the protests? Surely the Palantir precog crime prevention analysts submerged in the cellar should have know this future crime was about to happen, well before the protest.