Glad to hear they’re improving the 2FA! I did forget about their office suite and file storage ability, which does set them apart from all except Proton.

Watching that now, super interesting to see! Thanks for sharing it :D

Lubuntu now ships with LXQt.

I forgot to add the link 🤦

Thanks for letting me know! It should be working now, but if not, here’s the direct link.

Lubuntu would be fine, though personally I’d suggest the lightweight Linux Mint versions, such as Linux Mint XFCE.

Mikhail Bakunin: the philosophical basis of his anarchism - Paul McLaughlin

Tuta does not allow you to use third party email clients like Thunderbird.

Offering a free tier lets people try the service, and encourages them to become a paid user if they run up against the limits of the free tier.

From what I understand, Tuta may have a slight edge theoretically, but email itself is a pretty poor protocol when it comes to privacy.

Tuta was forced by court order to implement a message logger for an individual, but AFAIK all of their previous messages were encrypted and could not be read by Tuta, and therefore the Government could only see new unencrypted messages coming in before they were encrypted.

Disroot only recently implemented at-rest encryption, so that should be fairly solid now. Posteo also allows you to encrypt your inbox and calendar at rest.

Even with that, consider all private email providers as mostly just to avoid surveillance capitalism (to prevent your data from being mined and sold), but with only marginal protection from state agents.

There was a public vote on whether to eliminate it or not from the .world news and politics communities, and the vote to remove won, thankfully!

Tuta and Posteo are both pretty excellent (posteo is cheaper, but has a few less options that might be a deal breaker if you need them, like custom domain support).

Disroot is a good free option, and they offer custom domains after a one time donation.

Mailbox is okay, though they are known to have a very odd 2fa, and will recycle your address if you ever stop paying, allowing others to claim it and potentially impersonate you.

Posteo is unique in that they’ll never delete your account for inactivity, or even if you stop paying, where they’ll let you access and read emails, but not let you send them until you pay again.

Edit: apparently Tuta is going downhill according to others here, which is unfortunate :(

I’d add Andor to the sci-fi section, it’s exceptionally good.

Common Side Effects, too.

There’s some good channels on TILVids and Kolektiva.media, and if you’re looking for something specific, Sepiasearch is able to search across all peertube instances.

I think a good option if they live close enough, would be to participate in a 2-gun Desert Brutality match, which is run by Karl Kassarda of InRangeTV, a longtime Anarchist.

Those brutality matches were copied in Ukrainian boot camps, where they reported it was the closest representation of combat conditions they had experienced, and overall the most useful firearm training they did.

An AK-47 or AK-74 will have no advantage against hard armor compared to a 5.56 AR-15, only genuine armor piercing rounds would make any difference, for any of them.

If you’ve seen combat footage from Ukraine, you’ll notice that despite most combatants wearing armor, it doesn’t make them particularly resilient against direct small arms fire, and I think most of it isn’t even AP. the armor buys them a second chance in some cases, but if the enemy don’t hit the armor, they go down regardless, even if it’s not immediately fatal.

I wouldn’t suggest anyone concern themself with having the best armor piercing capability, it matters much less than you’d think.

She also made a video extolling the virtues of capitalism and how science wouldn’t have progressed without it, but then oddly went on to make videos about why she had to leave academia because of profit motive forcing her to research things that didn’t matter but got grant funding to keep her alive, without making the connection that the profit motive that destroyed her dream is due to capitalism.

Not to mention, she’s fueling anti-science perspectives.

I’m not trying to suggest that we’ll fix anything by lowering the stock price of Tesla, I’m just pointing out that it does seem to be having some measurable effect despite how low the turnouts have been for these protests in comparison to Trump’s first term.

Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.

Ehh, I can’t say I agree with that. If the economy plummets, it would likely help to turn his base against Trump, which as much as I hate having to exist within this economic framework at all, would be a useful thing to happen. Even in Russia, the oligarch’s grasp on their power is largely determined by their ability to continue their economic prosperity. If they can’t pay the army/police, their tools to control the people are weakened tremendously.

Obviously the U.S. is nowhere near not being able to make those payments currently, but putting the hurt on the US economically, especially if a general strike were to happen as the rest of the world Tariffed us for a sustained period of time, would either force the government to capitulate or violently end the strike, which I can’t imagine would end well for the government.

It seems like a leap that people don’t have the motivation to unionize and strike, but would eagerly hop into a full on violent revolution?

Realistically, unless the military fractures or fully refuses to engage against this revolution, the best you’ll get are The Troubles.

I can’t predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.

We’ve already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla’s stock price. I think either way it’s important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.

I don’t see why he would?