which music genres do you like?

Did you not read the post? OP clearly says:

I ran the numbers and I like every single music genre pretty much equally

😂

tuta is (like proton) snake oil. (here is one of my old comments about why…)

every email provider lets you “keep your own private key” as long as you do encryption using the interoperable OpenPGP standard with software running on your own computer. many email providers will recommend that you do this and will even instruct you about how to (eg, the more reputable options in this thread such as migadu, mailbox.org, posteo, and even fastmail all have instructions for how to use some implementation of pgp to encrypt your email).

meanwhile any company selling non-standard “email encryption” (eg, proton and tuta) which is not pgp-compatible (or in the corporate world, s/mime is also a standard…) is in the snake oil business and should be boycotted regardless of which shitty youtubers they’re sponsoring this week.

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He won’t.

• Apoc

Fendit, refusing this meme:

that may be true but you should consider that HR departments are notorious for failing to document complaints from members of socially-disadvantaged groups

He even managed to pull off cardassian with sideburns

Combs did not ever play a Cardassian.

Are you referring to his appearance on Voyager, where he played the vaguely-cardassian-resembling Penk?

The one who signed it did (though i don’t think it was for that per se)

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-ecological-cost-of-ai-is-much-higher-than-you-think/ (from November 2025; the same author Alistair Alexander also has some other good articles there such as this one from last month)

It might be outdated in other ways but it isn’t wrong about U+2753 being BLACK QUESTION MARK ORNAMENT: the character is still called that in Unicode, and that remains an accurate description of its text presentation despite its emoji name being “red question mark” and its emoji presentation being in red.

emoji presentation: ❓

text presentation: ❓︎

you can force it to its text presentation by suffixing it with the text presentation selector U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (VS15); to put the text presentation above i copy+pasted the output of python -c 'print("\u2753\uFE0E")'

Emojipedia confusingly says:

Red Question Mark was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Black Question Mark Ornament” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

In fact Emoji 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 all called U+2753 “BLACK QUESTION MARK ORNAMENT”. In Emoji 4.0 through 13.0 (they jumped from 5.0 to 11.0 btw, to sync the version with Unicode) it was simply “question mark”, and it wasn’t until Emoji 13.1 in 2020 that it was finally renamed to “red question mark”.

In the latest release of Unicode, 17.0.0, it remains “BLACK QUESTION MARK ORNAMENT”.

Obama.org says it is a place “where people from around the world come to get inspired and bring change home”

You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/02/klingon-prison-barack-obamas-presidential-library-chicago

I don’t follow how a useful thing becomes “useless” or “no point” just because millions of people are unjustly denied access to it.

Fwiw Let’s Encrypt was just the first but isn’t actually the only free ACME provider anymore; acme.sh has a list of other providers in its readme and there is another list here. Actalis is Italian apparently; unfortunately I think the rest might be ultimately US-based (ZeroSSL says it’s Austrian but it’s owned by a US company).

It would be nice if some more independent country (eg, China) who already has one or more CAs trusted by all major browsers would step up and start offering free certs to the world.

It’s worth noting that HTTPS is needed not only for its confidentiality and authenticity properties, but also is required by browsers for pages to be allowed to use modern features like WebRTC (needed to have a voice or video call from a web page).

It’s much easier said than done. Anyone can start a new Certificate Authority but for it to be useful internationally it (its public key) needs to be built-in to (trusted by) all of the popular web browsers, the largest of which are all controlled by US companies.

effectively making it useless

do you know what Let’s Encrypt is? it is very far from useless; the system it is a part of is very flawed but it’s how the web works currently and US sanctions restricting access to it is absurd.

It’s actually called the Barack Obama Presidential Center because his Presidential Library is digital. (The physical copies of his documents will be preserved in a National Archives and Records Administration facility elsewhere.)

Companies now block older browser versions

Now? This has been happening since the dawn of the web. At least the screenshot you pasted represents all of the big three rendering engines - it used to be common to see “Internet Explorer version XYZ required”, sometimes with javascript to prevent you from using the site with any other browser (even if in some cases it would actually work fine if you simply spoofed your user agent string).

I have used kinda retro devices to surf the web at times

Most websites became HTTPS-only sometime after the snowden disclosures in 2013.

Over time old versions of TLS have been deprecated and eventually support for them is dropped from browsers and web servers alike. So, a browser from even 15 years ago literally cannot connect to most webservers today.

Planned obsolescence is terrible but it’s a minor factor here: it’s actually dangerous to use even (especially?) a slightly-out-of-date web browser because every new release fixes vulnerabilities which can be exploited to run malicious code on your computer. The planned obsolescence which prevents people from being able to have an up-to-date browser comes mostly from proprietary operating system vendors; to have up-to-date software while continuing to use somewhat older computers you need to use free/libre software.