So you are saying there’s a chance…

George Carlin may finally get his way, and I can no longer muster a strong objection to his viewpoint.

Something something stallmanwasright.

Yes, but how many fingers did they have?

Let’s not forget the quality. Also poor.

Nicely done, and it will be interesting to see if you get another reply.

It’s 100% fluff to pretend that until 2016 privacy was only or even mostly something the right was concerned about. His very premise that only now does the left see the problem is ridiculous on its face. (And the more I think about it, it’s typical maga thinking - well NOW you libs see what it’s like!) And he makes up that ridiculous premise only so he can say “hey guys everyone worries about these things, Trump’s not that bad.”

Pretty much all I can imagine.

Oh shit he was a Trump apologist already in 2016. Look at this awesome whataboutism.

https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy

It is not Trump’s fault

It is tempting to blame all this on Trump, but that is taking the easy way out. All Trump does is put a new face on the existing privacy problem, so now it concerns a segment of the population that previously didn’t care as much. Proton Mail users have always come from both the left and right side of the political spectrum. Today, we are seeing an influx of liberal users, but Proton Mail has also long been popular with the political right, who were truly worried about big government spying, and the Obama administration having access to their communications. Now the tables have turned.

The same terror the political right has experienced is now being felt in liberal bubbles such as Silicon Valley for the first time. The left is correct to be terrified of a Trump-led NSA snooping on their communications, especially since Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook can be forced to spy on users on behalf of Trump’s NSA. However, this precedent was not set by Trump – he hasn’t even taken office yet. The first major incident of a US tech giant being complicit in US government spying actually took place in 2015 under the Obama administration(new window).

Can someone remind me about the terror campaigns we had against the political right before Trump was elected?

Not on my 2025 bingo card I’ll admit, but I’m here for it.

All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump

Not likely, obviously.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/12/meta-zuckerberg-1-million-trump-inauguraton/76945613007/

I don’t have a substantial opinion about ReactOS. I’m aware of it, but that’s as far as I’ve ever gone.

However, I wanted to compliment you because that was a great opener to this discussion. 🙂

Overdrive is the one I usually hear about, but in googling Libby it seems they are related.

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6251.htm

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4477058367895-About-the-Libby-app

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017677053-Borrow-eBooks-from-the-public-library-using-your-Kobo-eReader

Kobo, folks. I’ve been there through three generations of devices. No regrets. Fairly hackable, sideload friendly, competitively priced.

Can’t trust Microsoft.

Always has been.

They have confirmed it was a packaging bug and will be resolved.

They literally posted that this is a packaging bug and will be resolved.