A is definitely the lesser of two weevils.

Dear Earth, apart from the many terrible things we have done historically, we, the British, are most recently sorry for David Icke, Andrew Wakefield and now Graham Hancock. We have tried to balance this out but one David Attenborough only goes so far.

One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

Vorta for Borg Backup - for linux and MacOS. You use it remotely but I use it for local backup because a) its encrypted b) its Borg so awesome and c) easy to use. I just pointed it at my home directory, told it where to place the encrypted backups and how often to make them.

I’ve had to recover files twice and recovery is just as easy as set up.

The idea that Sunak has any sort of political weight is fucking hilarious.

As it absolutely should be. Everyone knows its nothing to do with talking to their god and everything to do with intimidating people.

And if the christians object ask them why they’re suddenly concerned that prayers only work within 150m of the person they’re praying ‘for’.

Could be yeah. Very weird how it just started happening though. As far as I’m aware nothing on the websites has changed and I haven’t updated LW in the last week or so.

I did do all that research, none of which changes my opinion that its a bit shit that the only way to import your reading collection is via GoodReads.

To be clear, I’m not saying its a terrible project or even a bad one and I have joined up, I’m simply saying its a bit shit that you can only import from GoodReads. I’m not sure that’s a terribly controversial opinion and its certainly not meant as a slight.

I definitely say read it and me saying its not as good as 1 or 2 is just my opinion :)

Its OK and worth reading just for the sake of completion but its not as good as 2 and nowhere near as good as the first one.

Joined but its a bit shit I can only import from GoodReads.

A few little things rather than one or two big things - email advertised as private but they won’t let you use anonymous addresses (like anonaddy or duck.com) for recovery addresses, an ever growing portfolio of products that seem unfinished or incomplete or lacking in standard features like they’re trying to corner the whole privacy market rather than making one or two products but making them really good, poor customer service and support as a continual theme throughout their existence.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting they’re doing anything dodgy, I just feel that I don’t really trust them. They just make really odd choices and it all feels like a haphazard rush.

You would think that someone at Proton would’ve had the foresight to realise the reputational damage this (along with the LLM announcement) would do to the company.

Without wanting to sound smart after the fact, I’ve been suspicious about Proton for years. I briefly had an email account with them but I could never quite shake the feeling there is something off about the whole company. This move just confirms to me I was correct to be suspicious.

It’s entirely plausible. I’m positive they have the ego and lack of perception for it but I think it’s simpler than that - they’re just stupid.

House of Last Resort is by Christopher Golden. Straub died in 2022,

As an old fart myself (but not officially a boomer, too young for that), I’m dismayed at the amount of young people swallowing this reactionary crap. Do young men really think that part of being a man is trafficking humans and behaving like louts in other countries?

“Being more than twice as unpopular as Jacob Rees-Mogg takes some doing, frankly.”

Gold. Pure gold.

I can vouch for whisper.cpp . It’s not 100% perfect but it’s good enough to transcribe a half hour podcast with numerous speakers and which requires pretty minimal fixing afterwards.

Her being allowed to join Labour says just as much about them as it does the Tories. Labour being seen as a safe haven for very far right Tories is not a good look.

It is worth noting though, that Proton doesn’t allow you to use certain domains for recovery addresses. Admittedly this was awhile ago and maybe things have changed there but when I first joined Proton they wouldn’t allow me to set a duck.com or simplelogin.com or addy.io address as a recovery email.

Obviously using an apple ID is stupid but Proton could make more of an effort too.