hah, the armpit! Hows was that? :)

Stupidly I accepted a DB admin job in a cowboy real estate firm there, that mostly took care of all the abandoned strip malls and some former strip-malls-now-crack-dens. Knew I'd made a bad mistake on minute one, day one of that job.

If that happens, raise it his boss. If that doesn't work and you feel like vomiting on your mgr's face, do it. Don't hold back.

Ended up using NordVPN. @Proton: Providing a free version that doesn't work is a good strategy of loosing potential customers.

I have been off google (mostly) by: 1. Email: Zohomail 2. maps: apple maps (sometimes vet it with google maps to verify shortest path, etc) 3. drive: iCloud

Has been working fine so far.

I grew up watching him and was my role model in cricket. I'd imitate his bowling action and would bowl for hours during practice.

"My wife recently suggested a possible one: NFTs minted by your university as proof of your diploma. Or perhaps your academic transcript. No way to forge a fake diploma again."

This is already happening: https://www.5gnewsroom.com/2022/01/12/iit-kanpur-awards-bloc...

100% agree. The fact he still exists is surprising. I have never came across a single article from this guy which is useful... even so, when he belabors on an existing tech, I have always found articles from other bloggers which are way more precise and to-the-point. He is just a salesman under a tech garb.

Nothing!

which suburb?

Lafayette

Not to downplay this (infact I am a signal user), but What if fb buys Signal, as it did with WhatsApp?

They would have to agree to sell themselves which they have no interest in doing. This seems like a silly fear.

Except that's basically what happened to WhatsApp. And this is always a risk of any centralized/propriety network.

Some further reading for perspective: https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternat...

And the founder of whatsapp is bitter about what Facebook did to it, and is funding signal now. And Moxie is no fan of Facebook either. These aren't some random kids and a VC.

It's owned by a non-profit.