snek_boi @ snek_boi @lemmy.ml

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I hope people here found the question interesting, however I see how my question could better suit a history community.

Love it!

Fascinating. Thanks!

Ok, so I just read upon Proton AG, the company behind Proton, and they don't seem to owe investors money, because it was originally crowdfunded and now it finances itself with subscriptions. That sounds great! It is quite different to surveillance capitalism and enshittification (given that enshittification requires advertisers).

I am not advertising for Proton, by the way. To make that clear, I still wouldn't use them because they seem to have very limited VPN functionality in their Linux clients. As a Linux user, I wouldn't want that. However, if they fix that in the future, I could consider switching.

Edit: Similarly, I found this website https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/tutao-gmbh summarizing its evaluation of Tutanota as ethical. It takes into consideration its ownership structure. Unfortunately, I cannot find details because there is a paywall for the information, but it could be the case that Tutanota does not owe money to investors and therefore is not seeking to maximize profits but rather provide a good service while compensating fairly its workers. I wish I could have more evidence.

I like that, if I only need mail with 20gb of storage, Tutanota is cheaper.

I don't know what to do. I'll have to think a bit longer.

What do you mean by "margin of error"?

Some would argue it's not OK.

That you can think of an average as the center of mass of a dataset. Similarly, that you can think of a standard deviation as the center of mass of the distances between each point and the average.

I think most of the criticism on Telegraph regarding how Matrix handles rooms and events are addressed by the work behind linearized matrix: https://www.qwant.com/?l=en&q=linearized+matrix+messaging&t=web

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So I actually watched a talk by the person who coinded "enshittification", Cory Doctorow, recently, and I have changed my perspective about Kagi. I no longer think Kagi is doomed to enshittify.

Enshittification requires advertisers. As long as Kagi finances itself with money that does not come from advertisers, it will not enshittify.

This does not mean that it's not problematic that their code is closed-source.

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I like what I hear about the user experience, but there are many problems I see with the service.

For one, it's based in the USA, so it is legally subject to the insane, antidemocratic, and awful state surveillance there.

It is also a corporation, so it is subject to enshittification. Currently, it is giving users loads of stuff so that users use it, but sooner or later investors will want their money back and Kagi will enshittify.

Finally, these two problems would be mitigated by open-sourcing and making libre their software. With that, alternatives in more sensible legislatures could open. Users could migrate to instances that are still libre and not enshittified.

It is really unfortunate that Kagi is doing so many things well while doing some fundamental things terribly. As it stands, Kagi is doomed to enshittify.

I have tried soy milk that blows my mind. I've never tasted milk that does that

Veloren is written in Rust and is inspired by Zelda Breath of The Wild. Both of those are relatively recent.

I think it means more exercise leads to more growth.

What does your writing mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and what your work means to you?

Similarly, what do you weekends mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and weekends?

I think this ignores that some children are more pensieve and reflexive...

Hence my question :) If there are investors waiting for returns, you bet (and, like, actually, you do in fact bet) they will get more expensive. If it's a social enterprise, I wouldn't worry as much.

Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

I have also chatted with Tutanota workers and I didn't have the impression that they were not driven. In fact, I think about myself: if I was a good enough developer, experienced with their stack, I'd love to work with them just for what they stand up for regarding privacy and openness. It seems like a very gratifying way of spending my time.

As to the closed platforms, I totally agree with your criticism in purely abstract terms; I don't like that I need to rely on Tutanota for encrypted email instead of a federated system like XMPP or Matrix. However, Matrix has been an aspirational platform in which only my closest friends, and the wokest or tech-savvy acquaintances join. For a good chunk of my daily life, if I want libre, metadata-reduced, and encrypted communication, I have to rely on Tutanota's closed email system.

Do you think there's a way of extending email (rather than "reinventing the wheel") that's also as simple as "give me your email and let's agree on a password"?

A couple of months ago there was a period in which there were plenty of posts about beans. The posts and the comments built up the idea that the Lemmy identity was tied to beans. I guess that died down a bit.

I was thinking about incentives and motivations. Are they motivated by profits?

I was also thinking about how sometimes listening to everyone in a team can save them from failure. Do Proton and Tutanota listen to everyone?

Not necessarily :)

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