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As somebody else mentioned, using a computer and just taking calls there would work and give you solid control over microphone activation etc. If you really want the landline experience, look into adding a USB handset to that setup. It’ll just act like a mic and headphone from your computer but in the classic phone form factor

Professional audits happen for big projects, and hobbyists audit the programs they use frequently. In addition, some projects adhere to the reproducible builds guidelines, which ensures the packages you’re receiving are identical to the upstream repo. There’s more work to be done in formalizing and automating these processes but this isn’t a major issue by any means

Just make sure they know anything they put on these big tech platforms are there forever, regardless of what claims they make about “disappearing messages” etc. Do your best to guide them towards encrypted services for their own protection. As much as I hate this, iPhones are a decent recommendation in the US since almost every young person uses iMessage as the default, and that has end to end encryption available. Work to inform them on the dangers of corporate spying and profiling, as well as data leaks and security, and let them have some sovereignty over their platforms. Keeping an eye on them is good; isolating them from important modern social circles isn’t. Inform and educate first and foremost

You can use proton in an email client, but you have to install their bridge service first. This is the only way I use it personally

I love cold brew for convenience and just to switch up my coffee routine. I can make a week's worth of coffee in my cold brew jar, with minimal effort or time, and the result is coffee that's less bitter, smoother, and stronger than most hot brewing methods. I wouldn't heat up cold brew, the cold coffee experience is part of why I'm making it.

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I wonder if there’s any sort of alternative, community weather system that is run for the public good. I’m envisioning an open source ecosystem where people buy commodity weather instruments (barometers, thermometers, anemometers) and then connect them to a program which feeds them to a larger decentralized network. Then people could make visuals of the conglomerate data to see low pressure and high pressure areas, track storms, etc. If that backbone existed you could also create a distributed computational model like we see in projects like ‘folding from home’ in order to create forecast maps. Just spitballing but if anybody knows of programs that do any part of this I’d love to hear about them

Vaultwarden is perfect imo

Soviet flag on the left 👀

Soviets force Finland to expel the Nazis after the Finns lose the war they fought alongside them

“See! We finns were antifascist the whole time ☺️”

Impressive mental gymnastics as always lol

Deeply unserious little puppet. Not a statesman like bone in his body; zero political acumen, just bending to empire and fascists at every turn and calling that internationalism and progress

I honestly thought this was a bit lmao. Liberal democracy is a sham, voting will never accomplish anything in this deeply rigged system, and ur a weirdo