Maybe testicular torsion triggered by zero-G conditions?

That's a "needs to be in the OR in 6 hours" situation; no way they waited several days for it.

If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.

Piracy isn’t merely a virtue, but a moral imperative, an obligation to uphold civic freedom.

It is immoral not to pirate. It is everyone’s duty to do their part in normalizing and encouraging piracy.

Pirate... what? A phone? Android? Banking apps?

The problem here isn't the money, it's the lack of privacy and control.

The best analog I can think of to piracy in this situation would be rooting the phone/installing GrapheneOS. And, yeah, that's definitely something people should do if they want that control, but I really hope people don't put it in the same category as piracy...

This may be a debatable definition, but I think of piracy somewhat as a broad term for anything that can be categorized as counter-anticircumvention.

See also this article from Cory Doctorow:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

What makes a phone a viable consumer device is the baseband controller. The majority of that complexity lies in the software on the controller and not in the hardware the implements it.

How many companies even produce these controllers?

Pirating, I mean actual pirating, is absolutely stealing,

But that weak ass crime, that we like to call pirating in order to appear cool, No, that is not theft at all.

Hopefully the ubiquity means we can have on-site production and usage without dealing with fussy storage and transportation.

The shareholders have always been revolting. The question is why are they not rebelling.

Would proton consider adding chatmail support? Or offering an inbox relay.

question: if php doesn’t encrypt email subjects, why don’t people just put conversations in age-encrypted attachments exclusively? This sidesteps the “quoting in plaintext” user error unless one goes out of their way to copy-paste the attachment conversation into the body while composing.

Zeno’s progress bar.

You took a joke about the NA LoL teams being so bad compared to the other regions that it was considered a "free win", and turned it into a critique of Europe. Good job...

See also the podcast discussion: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/07/signa...

IMO DeltaChat is better thought of as “chat tunnel disguised over email” and works best when there is no consideration made for traditional mailbox compatibility, since its killer feature is inbox-fluidity due to only using them as dumb relays and so you can change/add multiple randomly generated fallback addresses for the same identity without being tied to any one inbox.

If I understand correctly, blocking is basically impossible unless a "citizen" is blocked from using any mail server not regulated by a specific country that then demands scanning for it?

I’m more thinking in terms of mailbox-as-identity being a single point of failure leaving you at the mercy of choosing one reliable provider, whereas mailbox-agility means you can migrate transparently. An analogy I would make would be akin to your personal website having your own domain name and hosting on GitHub pages, instead of having your GitHub pages address as your permanent handle.