This is a CEO who shares opinions on many things he is truly uninformed on.

I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

As much as I love what they’re doing, tieing an OS to a specific region via name seems like the opposite of Open Source values… Then again, I suppose it could just be forked into a more generalized version

Ah, I missed that detall! https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen

In other news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I’m just going to use this opportunity to publicly grieve again for Winamp fake becoming open-source: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/

Appreciate it! The last audiobook I picked up from Libro is Kara Swisher’s “Burn Book”. Not sure if it’s your thing, but was totally worth it for understanding more personal context around the big Tech CEOs from the last 25 years.

Yeah I’m super keen, but my lower-tier Samsung isn’t supported. I really wish FairPhone would offer a cheaper option :(

oh cheers for the heads up. Hadn’t heard that!

hahah both are good

Or use Waterfox which does most of this by default

The BRICS partnership (Of which China is a key player) encompasses almost 50% of the world’s population, and their Belt and Road initiative is a soft power wet dream.

The world has actually already become multipolar, but most Western media won’t make that clear because they are still stuck in the old Colonial mindset of Captialist-Democracy = 100% civilized / Not-a-Capitalist-Democracy = 100% backwards.

Ah cheers, misread that!

I highly recommend Kara Swisher’s recent book “Burn Book” for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she’s known most of them since the 90s.

Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.

“Democracy dies on live TV” - wow that headline hits hard.

Watching this feels like a masterclass of diplomacy. Zelenskyy is talking directly and respectfully to the Fox audience, while trying to clearly explain why Ukraine can’t just bow down to faulty peace deals without question.

big sad

I wonder if the “limited resources” are due to them potentially losing a whole load of customers recently.

You know, if their tech truly is as open-source as they market, then they’ve still contributed hugely to the ecosystem. If it turns out it’s not actually operationally open-source, then this will be remembered in a hugely negative light.

Edit: I did just see their post about being impacted by the US spending cuts. I can’t imagine Proton would be super happy about that administration at the moment. But then again, who knows these days.

For sure, thanks! https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm723891