Is this the new technique because all these companies already completed enshitification? Briefly remove the things people hate in the hopes that it will draw them back, only to rug pull them again?

Ehhhhh you’re kind of ignoring in power/out of power dynamics here and the overwhelmingly conservative slant they’ve adopted the last few years.

The nice thing is proton has been slowly making more and more of its codebases open source, and has consistently done the right thing despite whatever winds of change come their way. I have had proton unlimited for about a year now and I am so glad. It was a great way to remove Google from my life but it didn’t require a particularly high level of technical knowledge. It’s a little clunky at times, but honestly it works very well.

…what? I’m not sure you understand what I mean by compiling on my end. Why would that preclude my being able to communicate with other people?

Call me a Luddite, call me ignorant, the simple answer is we don’t need to solve the Byzantine generals problem for privacy because we are able to work indecently I.e. if it’s floss we can compile ourselves. I don’t need to trust anyone when I can vet the code and roll my own with it.

TL;DR: the Byzantine general problem isn’t a problem.

FLOSS software is not dependent on trusting an organization. That’s a significant part of the appeal.

What else?

What is the NFT component offering that I don’t get from the myriad of other excellent DNS services (many of which are FLOSS) that grant me reliable DNS over HTTPS/other privacy elements? What is the NFT part accomplishing that wasn’t being done prior?

Then please show us some valid usages currently up and running solving actual problems at scale.

I am prejudiced because I was in the crypto space for years. I used to mine and more. So my prejudice comes from a place of experience and knowledge, not random headlines and memes.

I can’t believe in 2024 we still see NFT advocates. It was and continues to be a colossal waste of time and resources.

It’s glorified receipts that are billed as far more secure than they actually are looking for a problem to solve. The entire usage is people treating it like a casino, just like cryptocurrency. I guarantee you “small” artists and such, the people that are always paraded around as the beneficiaries, are not using it in any appreciable number. Those that tried simply lost some money in the endless sea of “get rich quick” schemes they were sadly duped into participating in. Crypto bros just decided to target creatives, as if they need to be victimized more.

NFT’s are not helping people in any appreciable number. It’s just another relationship of people getting rich on the backs of a bunch of bag holders sold a false promise.

Let them be on the wrong side of history lol I simply do not understand people who go out of their way to attack Mozilla/firefox. It’s baffling.

You are being far too generous to many of your colleagues. I assure you there are plenty of “peons” and lower/middle management playing teachers pet who enable this crap. I’m not saying you are strictly exception, but you are definitely not representative of a significant portion of leadership.

The problem is that companies have unrealistic expectation of how you spend your day. Everybody knows that most “white collar” jobs don’t actually have you working 8hrs every day with the only time you stop working being bathroom breaks and lunch. People take all kinds of informal breaks and get distracted throughout the day. So there is this weird thing where everybody knows that, but companies have to pretend like they don’t, which leads to asinine decisions like keyboard and mouse trackers to determine if people are actually working. Which then leads to people looking for solutions that earn them their little informal breaks back, which everybody takes and are perfectly fine. But again, we sort of pretend water cooler time doesn’t occur.

It’s some sort of perverse arms race built around a shared lie we all pretend we don’t know about.

I get that but kind of like when your labor rights are violated, it’s up to you to pick the fight and get your pay, which is often a shitty and awkward process

Until they pay the wrong person lol

This comment made me realize we tolerate Twitter because we can call it Twitter, but to make it go away, we need to stop focusing on that part and just pretend it doesn’t exist.

Not joking here. Fuck whatever it’s called. I’m not engaging any posts about it or from it anymore.

Desperate.

I share off my Xbox with one tap of a button on my controller. It’s not very complicated lol

Remember, this was established over a decade ago with the PS4/Xbone. It was a very different landscape then.

Regardless Twitter or not, the use case for console -> social media seems pretty clear to me

The headache of moving it from console -> phone/computer as well. Too many steps usually.