Your language isn’t an obstacle here, beaucoup d’entre nous sommes francophones.

The my issue with this post is it’s difficult to understand against what you are warning us.

I’m aware the head Dev of grapheneos can be prickly, but the format and tone of this post is terrible.

What is it exactly you’re upset about here?

No one is using alcohol or mercury except in outdoor thermometers. Electronic thermometers are a solved problem.

You are arguing the equivalent of the merits of lead additives in gasoline in a world that is looking for fuel alternatives.

A couple years ago, I was contracted to identify security issues in an m365/azure environment.

The ms service was so liberally set up that it barely broke 30 on its ms security score, which is really bad; it means your controls are almost not implemented at all.

As a result, it was at the time very easy to get a list of employees using the very well-known ms graphs api. From any public endpoint. Without authentication or federation.

A hardening exercise is an absolute must after an m365 deployment.

Setting it up with zero experience with how it works or how ZFS works was quite intimidating for me.

But you got through it, and ZFS isn’t a walk in the park for most. I think you’re selling yourself short.

As someone else mentioned, leaving truenas on the asustor and using a container orchestrator or a hypervisor on the Xeon machine sounds like a good plan to me.

Maps + location, calendar, contacts, google docs, google drive, all have been moved to self-hosted and private services I run myself.

All that’s left is email, and that is actually quite difficult to ditch. I have a protonmail account whose philosophy I don’t agree with, and a tuta account, which has nasty delivery problems.

So I actually don’t really know how I’m going to solve this.

I fully agree.

At least the GNU copy pasta is alive and well.

The whole reason everyone moved to Discord was because it was a centralized place and since Discord needed to pay for it’s servers, it had to find a way to finance that, and enshittification naturally happened.

No! Stop perpetuating this “they have bills to pay” nonsense. Discord has more than enough money to run itself and be profitable.

The enshitification happens in services like Discord when shareholders gain control of the product.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/chat-platform-discord-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo

Edit: toned down a word.

Yes.

Yes, this exactly.

So many proponents of decriminalization point to Portugal, but Portugal also put massive effort into the other infrastructures required to make addiction a health problem instead of a crime problem. Clinics, destigmatization through education, recovery programs, these are all needed for this to have been successful.

My wife is a nurse in BC, and she said in this hellish year, addicts were demanding a “space to use” right in the hospital. No additional security, no training on handling addiction, nothing.

That’s actually easier than on android, we need a caldav sync provider app.

I don’t have any specific recommendations for a discrete tool for this, but radarr and sonarr can do this automatically if you enable it.

I’ve always found the Discord ui on desktop and mobile to be really bad, just very busy and unintuitive.

WG Tunnel. It does exactly this.

When I leave my WiFi, tunnel turns on. When I rejoin my WiFi, tunnel turns off.

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My apologies, a phonological transcription error.

lol, that’s just fake.

Look, of you’re going to quote Wikipedia on Chomsky, at least do some of the required reading:

• Chomsky publicly reviled Bolchevism, yet actively advocated for a “social revolution” using the exact same mechanisms. When questioned in a recorded interview on this point in 1974, he got up and left.
• Speaking of old-world, anticapitalist “social renegade” behaviour, he famously endorsed Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro as aspirational figures. Many of the 60s left were led astray by these figures, but Chomsky was one of the stubborn few who refused to recant their support, even after it became apparent that both had been revealed to be as power-hungry as the establishments they claimed to fight.

“When he provided this endorsement of what he called Mao Tse-tung’s “relatively livable” and “just society,” Chomsky was probably unaware he was speaking only five years after the end of the great Chinese famine of 1958–1962, the worst in human history.”

Chomsky also continued to crow about the stellar merits of USSR agricultural output, and when presented with the discovery that they had forged the numbers in an effort to appear more productive, he did not change this support.

• Chomsky defended and rationalized violence as a legitimate means to social change, and by extension, praised authoritarian leaders on their methods and policies.
• He also wasn’t shy about rubbing elbows with the “elite”, so it should come as no big surprise that he had ties to Epstein. The fact that his wife knew of the association and only addressed it once public should tingle your Spidey sense.
• Chomsky’s “Universal Grammar” theory has been largely debunked as armchair psychology.
• Modern times are proving Chompsky was full of shit: https://www.toolify.ai/gpts/the-revolution-in-language-models-debunking-chomskys-theory-143628
• similarly, Chomsky’s “poverty of the stimulus” theory of language development has also been proven to be garbage.

Anecdotally, I studied linguistics in the late 90s and we were specifically prohibited from quoting Chomsky in my syntax, phonology, and semantics courses. That’s how much respect he commanded in the actual academic community. Thirty years ago.

If this is your first recovery from a security incident:

1. Stop panicking.
2. Establish what you know and don’t know
3. Whatever data is not 100% clean, consider compromised.
4. Separate your data from your roommates and don’t worry about theirs
5. From now, assume your own network is hostile.

He had some interesting ideas about language development in the 70s which have mostly been debunked since (by people who actually knew what they were talking about).

Noam Chomspky has always been a blowhard.