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Great, so now I feel guilty about my anxiety.

Also literal fire for tap water

I see the vegans are escalating their tactics.

Who is Pewdiepie?

Cryptpad has been my go-to for a while now. Like kDrive they use OnlyOffice for online docs and sheets editing and collaboration, but unlike kDrive they provide e2ee out of the box.

I was on Nextcloud for a while but found it a bit cumbersome. Tried Filen which worked well for personal use but I run a small business and volunteer with a couple orgs where I support the cloud storage and collaboration apps, and Filen doesn’t work for this use case.

Cryptpad works well self-hosted (although they do have cloud offerings) and I don’t have to worry about maintaining a separate OnlyOffice backend either (which I had to do with Nextcloud). This ends up saving me money on server infrastructure too.

I’m not sure why it’s not included in the graphic but I think it should definitely be in consideration.

Thanks for doing this.

That ad at though at the end. 🤏

I spend most of my days working on healing myself with time in nature, and I'm developing a personal photography project connected to my natural surroundings. I also spend time working on my garden when weather permits and am learning to paint and draw when the weather is gloomy. All in all that keeps my days pretty packed and active, not even thinking about tech most days whereas before it was all consuming.

The majority of my career in tech was at Mozilla, followed by a relatively brief stint at Element. I'm lucky that I was able to spend my entire career working for companies whose missions and products I still champion. But even as good and well intentioned as they are, they cannot escape so-called "Silicon Valley" as they're very much a part of it.

If you want to read about this on a website that isn’t full of ads and doesn’t just present as an ad for their own news app, here is the source material by Blind.com.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a link to the raw survey data and I generally don’t trust surveys that aren’t accompanied by raw data.

I went looking for the data because 1901 respondents across 32 of the largest companies globally doesn’t seem like it would be statistically representative of any one company. If you assume the same sample size per company, which it probably isn’t but again that’s unverifiable because I couldn’t find the raw data, you’re looking at, what, 60 employees for a company the size of Google?

Look, I’m a recovering tech worker who left the industry because of the toxic work culture, having spent a quarter of my life at one of the good ones. Even there I saw the value of unions. No matter the industry, workers deserve the right to collective bargaining and fair treatment. But I don’t think surveys with unverifiable data help move that conversation forward.

Now, if I’m mistaken and someone finds a source link to the data that we can all verify, I’ll happily take another look and reconsider my opinion on it’s validity.

No paywall: https://archive.is/Jyx6E

So not midi-chlorians then.

Love this so much until…

There’s a couple of tiny species that nibble holes in your jumpers and chew your carpets, and I’m not going to try to make you love those. Feel free to hate them with a vengeance

Even they are deserving of our love. Perhaps especially them.

It might sound ridiculous but I switched to Linux to take ownership of the things I own.

The lesson for me was Windows Genuine Advantage in Windows Vista throwing a fit whenever I wanted to make a change to MY computer. In this moment I realized that so long as Microsoft was in my life, I will never truly own the hardware I purchased, the system I built with my own two hands. I was late-teens at the time working a dirty minimum wage job, so this was big to me.

This is a lesson I’ve carried with me the rest of my life and colours all purchasing decisions I make. I’m not giving up my hard earned money if I don’t actually own the product I’m purchasing.