Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
last time it came up, tuta was the least worst of the mail options. itās not the same offering as protonās 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 donāt have a direct recommendation in part because [0] and in part because I donāt 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 havenāt 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] - Iām 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. havenāt used myself.
[2] - also havenāt used it myself, comes from some of the folks of the TPB gang
[3] - admittedly I havenāt tried that hard because I donāt need it much, but it is extremely goddamn annoying to debug from clients