This has been my experience as well. In the past friends and family were more reluctant to break away from whatever their default communication app was. These days most people are already familiar with the idea of using one thing to text, another to “message”, and often more than that. I’ve had great success converting people to more secure platforms now that they understand the process.

And this is why you VPN.

This must be true since I read about it on the line.

I’ve been to several coffee shops through the years that also had local artists that helped with the decor, and local musicians playing a couple days a week.

For whatever reason I’ve never really looked at a coffee shop as a bar/pub for daytime folks but I guess that’s what a lot of them kind of were.

Strange, my reddit account seems to have had all its posts and comments deleted and my IP leads back to Proton. Oopsy daisy. Get fucked clowns.

Good to know. Fuck both companies.

HP flashing that ink subscription money around.

All I want is a real life iteration of J.A.R.V.I.S. and several billion dollars so I can blurt out cool ideas and have them rendered and built in a couple hours.

I’ll be good I promise.

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Interesting.

First of all apparently ublock, no script, or some combination of my add-ons kept me from seeing the message and I’m able to view the entire article.

Even more interesting is this text at the end of the article-

This story was originally published by Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.

So this source basically spun an article from Grist and put it behind their paywall.

Following the link from Scientific American, the first line of the Grist article is-

This story was co-published with WIRED.

It’s clowns the whole way down, yaaaaar.

You’ve been hacked. Pay 500 BTC to regain control of engines and landing gear.

We have a great tool to automate the automation.

We have the idea of a great tool. Right now we’re kind of square wheeling our way through it.

If it does I’m not aware of it but I’d love to learn of one.

It would be nice to have the option to not just block your data from being accessible to a 3rd party but also feedback junk data into the system. Pollute the data stream until it’s no longer useful to the powers that be while still retaining functionality for the user.

One can dream.

“Write the article in the style of a junior high student” probably gets close enough to be believable, who needs an editor!

Even on mobile it’s a couple clicks away from being on or off. Saves me more time than it costs when something doesn’t work the way I want.

Well said, and the things you’ve listed are why I’ve begun to de-google myself. After decades of wishing they’d fix certain products and features or compromising just to keep everything under one roof, I’m done with them.

I appreciate the role they played in helping shape the internet, but I won’t be a part of helping them try to kill it.

The whole thing sounds like some cockamamie plot derived from chatgpt itself. Corporate America is completely detached from the real world.

Exxon comes in to help pay for podiums.