You are thinking far to linearly. Think of this as a guerilla tactics to take advantage of media focus and what would happen if Musk crashed out.

Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?

Lets just Thanos snap everyone to class consciousness.

If you cant get people to do it for a day, you surely cant get them to do the planning necessary for a month.

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

You can’t export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.

A response to apologists in your sphere:

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

You shouldn’t trust TurboTax so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/turbotax-privacy-tax-return-2024/

They also keep trying to trick you into giving consent:

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/are-turbotax-and-hr-block-sharing-your-personal-info/

They also lobby to keep taxes complex.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Threema bad:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/security-analysis-of-threema.html

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out its true.

The problem is it shouldn’t be a blight because its impossible to prevent bad actors from using an actually private and secure messaging app.

So the act of reporting on it is a smear because most don’t understand or acknowledge the impossibility of preventing those bad actors.

Signal if you trust them to not leak your identifier and because its gotten the most mass adoption.

Simplex if you can convince your circle to use it because it has no identifiers and is user friendly.

https://simplex.chat/

You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.

Signal is still very good though.

https://devenv.sh/

Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.

It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.

Better performative than being able to ignore completely.

There is a paper out about reactivation after pasteurization sadly.

Harris was complicit in genocide.

Trump loudly talked about how he would make the genocide worse.

Why absolve Harris in an attempt to strengthen your argument?

Google play services betrays you.

Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.

Signal very recently made syncing between devices possible:

https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devices/

https://gifer.com/en/3Ot7z