Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.

Stupid, lazy, overworked, underskilled - it must have been easier to raise us who are adults now, pre Internet, than it is to raise our kids today. And I repeat, tech is not the solution.

Full encryption means privacy. From everyone. For everyone. Please explain to me why that should not be given to minors?

In my view, protecting children online is not inherently a tech problem. It’s a part of parenting.

US LEO are the real ones. In UK+EU they really aren’t murderous villains, many don’t even carry a gun.

And politicians don’t murder, they just fleece us.

a stab

I see what you did there 😄

I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there’s no automatic backups, and there’s no tech support, and it can’t possibly be as cheap. I’m fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.

I’m still a huge DH fan. It’s just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there’s an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We’ve all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I’m trying to cover some scenarios here.

Hah, I get you, man. I left the place almost 25 years ago and nothing after WinXP was good. It irks me that open source Office suites just aren’t good enough (looking at you, Calc) or I’d be using Linux on desktop, too, not just on my servers.

Hey, I’ll take you up on that. Better than no sex, amirite?