We could use some antifu right now.
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Source?
Edit: don't bother. As always, they are quoting Adrian Zenz, who's conveniently also the director of the sinophobic US backed "think tank" Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Winnie the Pooh is not a Disney creation. They had exclusive rights to it between 1953 and 2021.
Hear me out. I work in fintech. Medium size company. Super duper strict compliance and security. Although not as strict as what I've seen and heard of from big data and military contractors. Still. Experian for example mandated us that as a third party API data processor everyone that even goes near their raw credit score data be in an audited room that has a camera pointing at them at all times and a camera be pointed at their computer screens at all times as well. That's right, not on-device recording, but CCTV. The alternatíve was that we don't see their data at all. So we opted to encrypt all data from them at all times instead. At rest, in transit, doesn't matter. No visibility of it to us at all, except for the final numeric score you see on your credit reports and nothing else. And this is just one vendor we adhere to. There's tons of PII running through us. You get the ghist.
Come AI, suddenly our slack has an AI channel, we have a director of AI(?), and then a whole department. And of course the AI-assisted tools proliferate and QA and engineering are both mandated to perform more after laying off 30% of our devs. And every product manager's demo is talking about AI.
Meanwhile security said that no more Ubuntu and Fedora imaged laptops are allowed on our VPN. Windows 11 and the occasional Mac only.
Highly confidential business meetings are held with gong or other AI assist tools recording and summarizing everything. Code is being written with agentic AI. Internal-only docs are smoothed over with gpt. And all this with the notion that we should trust them that they don't extract data from these enterprise subscription products.
My only hope is that there's still some semblance of sanity left in this company because they have recently fired someone that proclaimed themselves being MAGA.
I miss npp so much on linux. Kate is pretty good though, but need to tinker with it quite a bit to make it fit my workflow. But it's also really hard to search for solutions, because just searching the Web for "Kate" brings a lot of noise. I wonder why they've never thought of it.
Also, I figure that long time linux users probably solve for what I experience as pain points completely differently. Like for example they use vim a lot instead.
Not the air show. Just a rehearsal. One vehicle went up into flames. No deaths, one seriously injured.
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I think they mean they already use linux. Or Unix.
The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn't this essentially what OBS Studio does?
With Linux Mint it's so incredibly easy. Believe me.
Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop's built in speaker audio working, which I've heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.
You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child's play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.
It's not that dire, unless you love seeding torrents and you encounter other peers that don't have port forwarding either, or you are hosting something.
I see nothing of sorts.
Instead what I see is this perpetuated crap about Proton being untrustworthy (they are not) and the CEO being a trump bootlicker (they are not). So this makes me think there's a dissuasion campaign going on.
Nothing against what you are writing and pointing to. But look at the grander picture.
- The CEO makes a statement against big tech.
- Proton has been a thorn in the eye of big tech by eating into their margins (they don't sell data and take customers away)
- Proton regularly fights against handing over data and doesn't provide a back door to govt.
They don't play along. They disrupt the market and modus operandi of stronger entities. Of course there's going to be incitement against them.
The "That's it, I'm not going to use them anymore and you shouldn't either; here's an alternative" seemed to spawn from a much lesser "charge" than many of the other usual suspects. Like a knee jerk reaction.
Is Proton perfect? No. Are they doing what they claim to do? Yes. Is it good value for money? Debatable. But they are not what people claim them to be on these posts.
Disclaimer: I have a free tier proton account that I log in to once a year, because I've moved on to Disroot for my email and mullvad for VPN.
They are the equivalent of the Dune universe's Spacing Guild.