I'm also a happy proton user for my one-person business. I want to switch with the personal stuff as well but I just find the family plan so expensive [0] compared to alternatives. I also don't like that you get 6 users, you almost always have too many or you have too little (what family is exactly 6 anyway?). Why so rigid?
My kids are young, they just need an inbox, nothing more.
Ah well, I guess sooner of later I will switch, it's just such a nice product + I share the 3 TB with less than 6 so I do benefit, it would be more than enough for all our pics/videos to date... But then how to rsync from our Linux server ;) (I bet it's coming and I am slowly getting fed up with playing NextCloud sys-admin for the family, it was a hobby but starting to feel as a chore as of late...)
Also, I guess switching from mail plus to family will allow me to have my business email within the family (as custom mailbox with it's own domain).
I would have switched years ago if it was like 10/month for the family (or like 2 per actual family member + some base fee). But I guess the storage and VPN are nice. (But hey that tailscale + Mullvad is so elegant...)
Fastmail for me, but yeah same. I did that a long time ago -- the only thing I use still is search and youtube. The latter of which has no real replacement sadly
I also use Kagi and I really enjoy it (enough to pay for the ultimate subscription), but it's hard for me to recommend to someone wanting to "degoogle" their life. Kagi search results depend (probably a lot) on the Google search API. If Google rug pulled that, Kagi search results would definitely be effected.
Not the parent, but also degoogled as much as pragmatic lately.
For files and photos, I use an NAS in my home (Synology). Works pretty smooth with automated photo backup etc. For office stuff I just use Libre Office, I don't need collaboration features. Not interested in cloud options personally, so sorry if that's not helpful. I'd probably go for Dropbox for most of this if I was.
Google Maps is, for me, unfortunately one of the services I wasn't able to replace yet. I tried to use OSM (also for navigating), which actually worked great for me. But I use satellite view so often (mostly for entertainment) that I couldn't quite break the Maps habit.
I don't use Proton but don't they offer a calendar and file storage? I know a lot of email providers do (I use mailbox.org and they do). Personally I host Nextcloud on a VPS and use that for file storage, calendar and photos.
Maps is a tough one. It's probably the main Google service I still use (YouTube being another one). There is OSM of course but it can't compete with Google on features.
Docs can be handled locally or via any other online office suite. Files can be stored anywhere, from local NAS to other remote storage services, Calendar is easily exported and imported somwhere else or locally. And maps can be used without account so you don't really need to export anything.
I am also curious, and if something like asan would also have found it? It seems social engineering was used to get MS to stop fuzzing the library for malicious code, so if the malicious party expected the valgrind behavior they might have removed it as well.
Which to me is a very carefully orchestrated thing. You don't just spend 2 years of your life doing that. No loner would pre-plan this to such an extent and create sockpuppet accounts for all this.
That's because you're a normal, well adjusted person.
Consider TempleOS[1] which was created by a programmer having a series of manic episodes which he believed was God's instruction to create 640x480 pixels of perfection.
He spent the rest of his life on this.
People vastly underestimate the tenacity of individual fixated people: so much so that in the physical world victims usually feel isolated by their peers who just don't believe the degree of effort they stalker will actually go to.
TempleOS feels a little different because Terry was fairly well-known in the community and didn't try to hide his identity. I'm pretty sure he went to conferences and has met with actual people who could verify his identity.
I haven't seen proof that Jia Tan is a real person and to me that's the most malicious part of the attack. I'm pretty confident that whoever is hiding behind the Jia Tan identity is a well adjusted individual (or group) and knows exactly what they're doing. It feels far too coordinated and careful to chalk up to a psychotic episode or manic behavior.
"Wallet" is kind of the wrong term to use. The address is associated with the genesis block (block 0) and is unspendable per the consensus rules. (edit: I'm wrong on that last point, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)
No it isn't. The 50 bitcoin created by block zero are unspendable (because by intention or error the software never passed block 0 through the validation logic that would enter those coins into required data structures).
But any other payment made to that address/pubkey are perfectly spendable by whomever has the matching private key.
Though that misunderstanding is somewhat common, so it's not impossible that the payee believed that they were sending the coins to an unspendable address.
Dead wallet means the private key to it is likely lost so nobody has access to it. Though there's always a chance someone actually still has it, so you can never say with certainty that a wallet is dead.
As for supply limitation, the current market cap of BTC is USD 860B, so this is 0.0001%.
> What means dead wallet? Might it be artificial supply limitation?
There are a number of addies with Bitcoins stored on them that are extremely unlikely (probability so tiny it's just zero for all intents and purposes) to be accessible:
This one for example (with a current balance of around $1.2k):
I don't think your second question makes sense. (Overall BTC supply? 1 million is a microscopic fraction of what's in circulation. 1 billion would be a little bit more interesting)
Looks nice, but are there any other visuals than the three you demoed? Also, is your user name in any way related to the bulgarian mobster that got killed in Amsterdam?
Out of all five you've shared here (the three built in and these two), Trip is my favorite. The visualization seems fuller, maybe because it uses the whole width/height. It grabs my attention more than the others.
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