People complain because Proton specifically advertises privacy, mainstream providers don't. Which is pretty reasonable as far as complaining goes.

Good job on mocking others though :*

Proton does offer more privacy than mainstream providers, because they have less information to hand over when courts compel them.

Proton isn't perfect by any means, but the idea that there is no meaningful privacy difference between Proton and (for example) Gmail because both respond to court orders is flat-out false.

Well it is their reality. It's more like most people live in a different, crueller reality than them.

> OAuth authentication (used with Free, Pro, and Max plans) is intended exclusively for Claude Code and Claude.ai.

I think this is pretty clear - No.

So it’s forbidden to use the Claude Mac app. I would say the ToS as it is, can’t be enforced

Arch wiki is something special. It is astounding how diverse and detailed (and yet concise) it is.

I discovered it today and I'm in love! Thank you for maintaining a piece of simple joy for more than a decade <3

Because a novel is about creative output, and engineering is about understanding a lot of rules and requirements and then writing logic to satisfy that. The latter has a much more explicitly defined output.

The lesson of UML is that software engineering is not a process of refining rules and requirements into logic. Software engineering is lucrative because it very much is a creative process.

Yeah then you have the choice to not buy the locked down hardware, you don't have a right to get open hardware FROM Google.

Of course there are no good options for open hardware, but that is a related but separate problem.

It's not a separate problem, Google are actively suppressing any possibility of open mobile hardware. They force HW manufacturers to keep their specs secret and make them choose between their ecosystem and any other, not both. There's a humongous conflict of interests and they're abusing their dominating position.

> They force HW manufacturers to keep their specs secret

Spoken like someone who has never ever worked with any hardware manufacturers. They do not need reasons for that. They all believe their mundane shit is the most secret-worthy shit ever. They have always done this. This predates google, and will outlive it.

Often it is because they don't know their own devices. We got a dev board from Qualcomm once and the documentation was totally bogus.

Regulating this is the way to not let general computing die to fuel google and apple profits.

People should have the right to run whatever software they like on the computing hardware they own. They should have the right to repair it.

The alternative is that everything ends up like smart-tvs where the options are "buy spyware ridden crap" or "don't have a tv"

Given how antitrust is not really working right now I would say this is debatable. Also monopolies in the past were forced to do various things to keep their status for longer.

I worked in a similar system. The raw data from the field first goes to a cloud hosted event queue of some sort, then a database, then back to whatever app/screen on field. The data doesn't just power on-field displays. There's a lot of online websites, etc that needs to pull data from an api.

This is the exact attitude that keeps people away from Linux. The moment someone points out practical problems with Linux, it's users get all defensive and elitist about it. Sigh, if at least this changed more people would use Linux.

I feel the same. For now, I've made peace with having to switch to "whatever is the latest maintained fork with privacy defaults" every 6 months. Hopefully Ladybird becomes a usable browser sometime soon.