I knew I recognized the style!

You didn’t answer their question at all.

Yes

And AI. OP clings to the creations of billionaires and scam artists.

Still don’t know what point you’re trying to get across. Do you feel morally righteous by pointing out that people hold opinions that are not 100% reflected in their actions? Do you get a mega boner by pointing out that people are not infallible and are human, and that it is human to err?

You bring nothing of value to this conversation.

Acrylic is plastic, you likely burned the plastic with hot ashes. You can try wet sanding it down using very fine grit sandpaper, followed by polishing, but YMMV.

Eh, true. It does clean up the payload, but I agree it’s marginal.

Because the shorthand for “government” in French is “gouv” not “gov”, as in “gouv.qc.ca”

Payload size

Exploding abscesses… Ugh

That’s very fair, I’m split about this as I hate how pervasive LLMs have gotten. I don’t think the service I want exists, I want to pay for everything and never be served a single ad without feeling like I’m stealing from the service by using an ad blocker.

Thank you, very interesting post. I’ve interacted with Vlad before, he’s very unhinged. I’m just using Kagi for a good time, not a long time.

I’m ready to jump off at the first whiff of them using my data for something funny, but I do really really like the idea of having a search engine that works this good and doesn’t show me ads or sell my data, I’m allergic to both. Searxng results were complete garbage on all instances I’ve tried.

You know you could just disable all its LLM features? that’s the beauty of kagi

Fair enough, YMMV, and yeah I would probably prefer my data in Europe rather than Canada, but Canada is a good start.

It’s not. Proton’s “security” is mostly pointless and induces a huge hassle if you’d like to use anything else than the web client.

As you said, both Proton and any other mail client send mail in TLS encrypted plain text over SMTP unless also encrypted using PGP/GPG (or conversing with another Proton user in the case of Proton Mail).

Fastmail is just a much nicer email provider IMO, and I can consume emails / calendar / files using third party clients. There’s also Tuta and other mail providers, I’m just warning you to maybe steer clear of Proton unless you intend to use Proton-specific features, as usability greatly suffers.

Ideally, I’d pick an email provider with data sovereignty in Canada, but short of self-hosting (which isn’t a great idea with email), there are basically no decent options.

A lot of maple MAGAs in Alberta got into their heads that they wanted to join the US, I wonder where that came from…

Also, Smith et al are uncomfortably close to Trump.

All of this is conspiracy theory land for now, but it smells way too strongly of a US psyop campaign, the CIA has done this before to other countries, and Canada is not immune. The CIA has been known to mess with Canadian affairs in the past to some extent:

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

Here’s a r*ddit (ew) thread about the speculation, the linked video is food for thought and the conversation is interesting, approach the topic with a critical mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/1ojerw8/alberta_separatism_is_a_usbacked_psyop_for_oil/

Agreed, and these rarely come anyway because most of the time, the US courts can simply subpoena Google or Microsoft for access to the interlocutor’s sent and received emails, this only really occurs with Proton to Proton communication, which I have personally never done as no one I know uses Protonmail.

Bref, better off just GPG signing and encrypting your emails and using a different provider. US courts can’t decrypt your mail more just because they subpoena’d it

I migrated off of Proton Mail, they have no way to access your calendar from outside Proton’s apps and web services, you can’t access Proton Drive on Linux (and the workarounds never worked for me), and you need to keep running their decryptor tool if you want to use an email client other than their mail client.

Email is inherently insecure, zero knowledge encryption is worth nothing when 99% of your emails are being sent and received in plaintext. I’m on Fastmail now.

…you know M&M’s are all the same inside?

You do know all M&M’s are functionally identical on the inside, and the food colouring used in the shell does not affect its taste nor texture?

If different M&M colours taste different to you, that’s a placebo. It isn’t real. It’s just M&M racism.

I’m sorry, this is just such a perfect example of trying to say “I’m not racist, but…” and instead full on stating “I’m racist and will sort people solely on the amount of melanin in their skin”. It’s almost poetic.

At the risk of looking like a simpleton, isn’t Alberta separatism basically just a US psyop to colonize oil rich land by gaslighting Albertans into voting to leave Canada and ultimately join the US?