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shit. anything interesting in the network tab of your dev tools, if available?

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I’d love to work on something like that. have you checked out any of soatok’s work on federated key infrastructure? I can dig up some links if you haven’t and it seems interesting; I understand soatok is developing it with the possibility that it could be an enabling technology for federated end-to-end encrypted email in mind.

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I mean… it’s an apology, I don’t know what I was expecting. this still feels like a bigger, redder flag than the one cop who called them a honeypot (and at the same time didn’t seem to know what tuta is) — is this really a service I feel safe recommending marginalized people use? probably not, they should use signal. is it even suitable for the “grandma & drug dealer” use case? that question’s a bit more difficult.

could they really have said or done anything to fix this? shit, I don’t know. maybe I need to dig a lot more into who and what tuta actually is. I ran into one of their (former?) developers on mastodon and they seem to outwardly be marginalized and antifascist. if that’s what tuta’s composed of internally, then I’m a lot more able to trust them. until I do that checking though, I don’t think I’ll recommend tuta to anyone who might need it — the opsec risk of trusting your keypair to a company run by assholes is very high, especially in the current climate.

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Aside: if anyone can recommend a better blogging platform, I would appreciate it.

so I can’t promise better, but you’re eligible for an account on the awful.systems blogging platform if you want one. it has MathML! it has jank! you can modify the frontend by PRing into a repo!

it hasn’t seen much use yet, but I was planning on posting a short story I’m writing there when it’s done. I can also say that as much as I don’t like WriteFreely on the web, its phone app is surprisingly ok

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fucking wild you busted out a Dollar Tree word like abstruse but came here to brag about how you didn’t read the article because you couldn’t understand its extremely simply worded headline

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proton’s ceo is, at this moment, trying to post through it on multiple official company accounts

thank fuck I switched to tuta

[I hold up a hand to my earpiece and make a horrified face]

a second milkshake has hit the duck (cw: fetishized racism, you know the one)

I’m waiting to hear back from tuta about what the fuck but this might be the reason why I hop providers again

image description (but see cw)

so somebody at tuta had the idea to write this post on their official account on Twitter:

Don’t get cucked by Big Tech’s invasive policies. Keep your private data safe and secure with state of the art end-to-end encryption with Tutanota.

and then the image attached to the post is a cuckold porn meme I started to describe here but won’t??? because describing the image put me in a really terrible mood??? it’s SFW but trust me you don’t want it. the Black men in the picture have had their faces covered by logos for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook in that order. the white woman in the picture does not have her face covered. impact font bottom text: “YOUR PERSONAL DATA”

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holy fuck I just realized the diabolical part of this horseshit:

I only know about the mdn ads cause my development browser doesn’t have an adblocker as a matter of practice (which I’m very quickly considering revising)

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mdn’s only job is to be better than w3schools but here comes Mozilla removing the value from another one of their own projects

also not pictured: there was a fucking side banner ad I didn’t feel like screenshotting too, of course

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HTTP: famous for doing Google pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, and nothing else. no other use has been found for http

(also, FTP! as indicated by these apps that famously don’t use or support it!)

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