In the comments to your coffee shop story someone points out that coffee shops deserve to be paid for the coffee and the working space you occupy. The comment gets heavily downvoted with other commenters providing great counter-arguments, like "the coffee is ridiculously overpriced, like a 100% margin, it's an evil for-profit business and we shouldn't pay those" and "they just had a coffee, it costs them almost nothing, the rest of the time they werr just working, which didn't incur any costs on the coffee shop. The coffee shop are assholes, if they let the OP work till the evening, they would've paid for their coffee".
Someone even suggested a new commercial model for the coffee shop: everyone makes their own coffee, it's free, and so is seating, funding is donation-based. They have certainly seen such a place before, although, they themselves would never be up for running one cuz they have a day job to pay the bills.
You go to a coffee shop, you order a coffee, open your laptop and start working. After you're done with your coffee the waiter comes and asks you whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. One hour later they ask you again whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. Two hours later the waiter insists you either pay and leave, or pay for two coffees, and they bring you another one, then you can stay and work. You call the police because you're being harassed, and post on lemmy about predatory coffee shop practices trying to upsell you a second coffee. The police arrests the waiter and you get 9000 upvotes on lemmy.
Running a video-on-demand platform is very, very expensive. Just an FYI.
Turns out when you optimize something for millennia, the truly optimal solution is not a simple grid. That picture is essentially a proof that engineering will always be needed. Because any final solution is complex. Even if it's parts are trivial.
And so what? You could be an oil dictatorship prince and donate a billion to Signal. It's not going to compromise it in any way that is not directly auditable.
So, your fuckin question is misguided. You're "only asking questions" while implying intent.
What part of non-profit and open-source do you not understand?
Review the source, build it yourself, be happy. It uses well-known assymetric encryption algorithms. Not much your agency could really do here even if they harvest all the traffic from the server.
Dude, it's a non-profit, and their biggest contribution is money that was made by selling WhatsApp to Facebook. Cuz the guy just couldn't live with what happened to his creation.
Yeah, the brightest minds instead of building useful tech to fight climate change, spend their life building vanity AI projects. Computational resources instead of folding proteins or whatever are wasted on some gradient descent of some useless model.
All while working class wages are stagnant. And so your best career advice is to go get a random tech degree so you could also work on vanity stuff and make money.
This is cryptocurrency equivalent. It's worse than CEOs buying yachts. The latter actually leads to some innovation.
You can always, always, plan things in a way that you're an hour ahead of schedule. And you'll be on time. Or like 30 min too early.
It's your struggle and you can deal with it in a way that's costly to you or to everyone around you.
And the trend this days seems to completely utterly ignore your symptoms, develop zero coping mechanisms, and then rant on lemmy about the cruel society.
You can see they planted trees, they planted as a proper reforestation project, not as a monoculture that will be cut for paper forest that they destroyed, you can see that the quality of their new forest is being monitored.
This factory from a deforestation standpoint alone is a massive win. They get a shitty monoculture forest and they have to use their money to plant a proper one.
Because there are regulations in Europe.
But you'll never hear anything about it cuz you live in your stupid American lemmy bubble with daily circle jerk wining about trump and musk.
Which is why tesla was legally obligated to plant as many trees somewhere else. And instead of a monoculture commercial forrest they planted a proper one that also will stay.
But only "musk bad" content sells on lemmy, so you'll never learn that actually this gigafactory is totally fine. And yeah, it's Europe, so shit is regulated and your regular USA corporate fascism simply doesn't happen.
You can theoretically learn it is not the point. Your point was "I can learn how to code up a website in a week, and my degree wastes 4 years". No, it doesn't.
I definitely find it more aesthetically pleasing. Just like the icon packs.