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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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    last time it came up, tuta was the least worst of the mail options. itā€™s not the same offering as protonā€™s in-garden encrypted, but nothing is afaik. rest of it is pretty okay (I have some (not all[0]) domains on there)

    the rest of the things I donā€™t have a direct recommendation in part because [0] and in part because I donā€™t use computers entirely like how a lot of people do. that said

    storage: backblaze storage pricing is not bad. they might have a desktop app thing? calendar: caldav is a dark art beyond my ken - I havenā€™t even got that shit playing nice on my own things[3]. fuck knows who does this well. vpn: mullvad[1] (has quite recently had another full assessment published). maybe njalla[2]?

    [0] - Iā€™m one of those crotchety fuckers that still has a whole pile of self-hosted things that have been going 15~20y

    [1] - seems okay and to have their head on straight. havenā€™t used myself.

    [2] - also havenā€™t used it myself, comes from some of the folks of the TPB gang

    [3] - admittedly I havenā€™t tried that hard because I donā€™t need it much, but it is extremely goddamn annoying to debug from clients