https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad

XOR may be the only encryption system that cannot be cracked. The length of the key is a PITA though.

Twitter, the web site that is broken if you don’t have an account? That’s seriously fucked up.

I used to do it on the phone with YNAB, but now it’s only 2 or 3 minutes on my computer in the evening.

I never use connections to my bank so I wouldn’t know if the feature even exists, sorry. But the whole thing was a paid application that went open-source. I download the “app image” thing because it’s easier for me, but you have alternatives (desktop or web client).

The old one was better because it had no fucking subscription, and also you could reconcile future transactions which was way better for monthly stuff. For example, at the end of the month (30, 31), you have received your salary but you want to reconcile it NOW for the next month (one or two days in the future) so that you can work on your future budget right now. You can’t do that with the new YNAB.

I would put broken commits with a message saying it comes from the LLMs, then revert the whole stuff in another commit to fix the crap.

Try https://actualbudget.org/ It’s like the old YNAB. You can self host or use the desktop version.

I hope Tim Apple got at least a small hard on while licking Trump’s shoes. That would be unfair for a $million.

Why would he fund communism in the first place? (/s before you try to hit me with that downvote button).

Can you give some examples that I unknowingly use and improves my life?

malvertising and misinformation

You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?

I almost forgot the monthly “let’s make encryption illegal” from the EU.

Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.

In the USA.

Tim Berners-Lee, who is a well-known proponent of internet privacy

The guy that advocated for DRM in HTML? We should have stopped listening to him a long time ago, he’s not a god.

Torrenting in a café? Get Mullvad and stop complaining.

AI will replace human beings by generating shitty JS games and solving leetcode problems. But still no concrete example on a real codebase that is not written in JS.

Why are they spending billions on this?

The average user is pretty unaffected

The average user complains about Windows all the time around me and I have to fix their crap constantly. It is fucking over their daily life, either by preventing them from working or by swallowing their files into a black hole. Windows users at work don’t care about it, but around me when it’s their personal computer, it’s a disaster.

switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things

Any Ubuntu from 10 years ago is identical to the latest Windows. It’s laziness, fear, or being hostage, but it’s certainly not learning something new. Also, Windows 11 is completely different from the previous versions and it didn’t seem to bother them.

People say Stockholm syndrome is fake, but when I see Windows users, I know it’s real. They have been suffering for years and never thought once about alternatives like Ubuntu.

“Oh Linux is too complicated, I can’t do that.” Yeah, you can’t click on Firefox to open Firefox, or LibreOffice to write a document. That’s too hard.

To rant a bit, the last time I helped my parents, I removed every icon from their desktop and installed Firefox with uBlock Origin. Only Firefox on the desktop, it was idiot proof. When I came back, Firefox had disappeared and on the desktop I saw: Edge, 2 copies of Chrome with the most scummy plugins ever, and one Chrome fork that came from an adware that they purposefully installed (WTF). I told them that they had a virus, and that from now on I wouldn’t help them anymore. They like to suffer, I let them.

As a new convert to GrapheneOS, I can testify that it has everything you need: Aurora for privacy (Google store proxy), the real Play store if you want, Android Auto, and a lot of privacy features enabled by default. It’s restricted to the Pixels though which is the only issue.