heavydust

remote work improves the mental health

I worked with the most toxic managers on the planet. They don’t want you to have any kind of mental health. They are crazy, they have money, and power.

I use Fastmail way too much to change but I wouldn’t choose it as it’s the most expensive one. The good: you can create any random email for throwaway accounts, the bad: it’s expensive. Mailbox.org is really ugly and their 2FA sucks (last time I checked you had to put the generated number at the end of the password which is weird and annoying) but it’s the cheapest of them all if you take the light account.

If I had to change, I would go for Tuta, Posteo, or Runbox.

I would say Tuta or Runbox or Posteo, but the truth is that any paid account that is not Google or Microsoft is way better than anything so as not to be profiled too much with their trackers and privacy-invasive practices.

On the technical side, no email is ever safe from being read either by the sending server or the receiving one. Email hasn’t changed for the past 50 years.

some German techno band

You installed the internet for Kraftwerk? That’s great!

high performance cryptography tech

We have proof that the NSA and others have made discoveries way before anyone else (like the NSA with the DES algorithm, or weird stuff during WW2), but it’s because they have the best mathematicians. I have noticed that the truth is always too boring for them and they always seek something deeper or more magical like Harry Potter.

Ghosts are famous for believing they are still alive. Like in the Sixth Sense. Sorry for you buddy…

until Xi Jinping came along

It’s funny that conspiracy theories are always moving from one guy (or subject) to another as time passes by while trying to explain the same thing, like the explanations for the failed predictions of Nostradamus. Before it could have been Mao, then that other guy, then Xi Jinping…

He never explained both at once but he was more serious about the flat earth. I guess there would be some kind of caves underneath or something where the Shrek-people were hiding. I try to avoid him actually so it’s difficult to have explanations.

One more: He had a web site for his crappy music, like some ambient and peaceful Burzum with the philosophical lyrics of a teenager (he’s 40). But the GDPR happened and he believed it was a plot from Europe to destroy all the European internet. But he was too smart for them, and he deleted his web site without asking me for explanations. He had no backups for some reason.

In taxes yes. But he deeply believes that all his profits will be gone and he would be working for free. The truth is that he’s a failed artist and thinks his lack or revenue was a conspiracy too so…

Proton lol. Also the only privacy is achieved with OpenPGP but no one uses it.