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Grumpy old software architect and engineer. Usability and accessibility adv

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choosing profit over people again, are we?

Oh good. I hope that means our purchasing price goes down, too.

That sentiment happens across country and culture borders, unfortunately.

Remember that the Council is meant to protect and enable trade. They only care about citizens for submitting them to exploitation.

If you discuss "the EU" you have to distinguish between Council and Parliament. The Council has no obligation to act according to the Parliament's wishes. They are not a democracy.

Meh, that barely fits an empty MS Word doc...

/s

I've used both ProtonMail and MailFence for years. I pay for my MailFence account, and use a free ProtonMail account.

For my needs, the free services ProtonMail offers suffice. Their encryption seems OK, I don't store my files with them, and I don't use their calendar or their a.i. chatbot.

The only reason I pay for MailFence is so I can have SMTP access via a separate email client app. I guess paying for their services also gives more guarantees that my email address will be available longer. I care about the address I have with MailFence - not so much about the one I have with ProtonMail. If that changes, I'll probably start paying for a professional account.

Recently ProtonMail changed the interface of their iOS mobile app. It now is harder to sign out. I guess that's in an effort to push for more paid accounts. It's jarring conduct coming from a company that claimed they went non-profit. Clearly they seek profit.

ProtonMail also continues to email me advertisements about their own services. MailFence never has done that. Not once. In fact I had to look up how to transfer to a paid account.

Both services are fairly easy to operate and fairly user-friendly.

You can create as many free email accounts with ProtonMail as you like.

Proton now is a non-profit but their employees still need salary. Throw them a couple bucks if you like their service.

Do that with anyone whose services you enjoy. That's how you help them survive.

Remember that the commission is a trade pact, meant to increase profit. They would revoke citizens' rights in a heartbeat if they could.

Turn them into an LLM cluster.

Clue me in please? Looks like a still from cheesy TV-only publication.

Because he prevailed once and hopes he is correct this time too.

tl;dr: money

One judge rules you can be a public nuisance while protesting. Another says you can't. Time for a higher court to rule.

Good. We don't need to be seen as that colonial oppressor anymore.

Goed, zo. Wij hoeven niet langer het vaandel te dragen van de koloniale onderdrukker en uitbuiter.

"Vintage". You and I have a different notion of the passing of time. Cowboy Bebop was released in my twenties.

Of course they fail. What would they do? Oppose their main sales channel for boycotting them?

Sure we will. Until our main sales channel decides to boycott us...

Not sure whether that is a c# specific challenge. Does c# not know the concept of laziness?

Haskell famously is lazy, and so are Java message streams: memory objects simply don't get created unless you use them.

I can understand that being a problem for trivial benchmarks, but I would assume a benchmarker to have that level of understanding, and otherwise catch up fairly quickly. I also had to learn about laziness when things just didn't want to do anything at all. The compiler just optimized it all away because it wasn't being used, as far as it could tell.

And flutter devs everywhere tear out their hair because their managers tell them to update something completely out of their control.

So the innocent rebel lost his job die to false accusations. Can he now sue those who jailed him and caused his undue duress for damages?

I guess it's possible I've been doing OOP wrong for the past 30 years, knowing someone like you has experienced code bases that uphold that promise.