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I use Manjaro (kindof btw) with the Gnome desktop and didn't know there were that many. Not all are installed by default here anyway.

Using platform independent package managers instead of relying on system libraries seems like a more straightforward solution to a good part of the problem at least. It's often good to use multiple compilers as well, which would add to the bloat of the container. There are probably some gnarly situations where pros outweigh the cons though.

I've wondered what their figures are looking like now that alternative platforms are gaining popularity. Possible shrinkage of users? I know that a lot of content creators are publishing on multiple platforms now. When that happens a company typically starts to milk existing customers for more money to maintain shareholder value (short term).

Yes, or something like [murena]{https://murena.io} which is a free (for 1GB or pay for more storage) cloud service that runs on NextCloud. It's what /e/OS uses for storing/syncing calendar etc.

I'm too cynical. I hope to once again share some faith in the system again. All the best!

It's the section "Access to electronic evidence" and the talk of encryption there, with delegates pressing "lawful access by design". They aren't dreaming of lawful access to encrypted byte streams and when there's a backdoor for lawful access today, it's available for different laws tomorrow. They do seem like they are on the same page on this, which isn't surprising since it was floated onto the G7 agenda from wherever globalist policy originates from.

It looks like the US is still gunning for it, which is expected with top-down globalist policy. Yes, I'm in the UK where the last few leaders haven't been elected by the people. All perfectly normal stuff.

Unfortunately the mission to regain control of information flow is a top-down policy and the UK government is just swimming in the direction everybody is being steered to. There are several countries all implementing their own versions of this, for example India recently banning some e2ee apps. Also the EU has approved a law which requires that companies be able to scan content of user messages.

I don't know any specifics about the laws being considered in North America, or what's happening in South America, Africa or the rest of Asia at all, but I'd imagine any banned list would be pretty long by the time the dust settles. In the meantime it'll be more than a little cringe worthy watching the politicians in different countries trying to take credit for the trickle down policies they sell.

Perhaps a technical solution could be apps with backdoored encryption exposing an interface for other apps to pass and receive encrypted messages. Dividing themselves in two even. A custom text editor isn't a messaging app.

The developers aren’t trustworthy on the account of their extremist ideology...

What do you mean by that? Are they hell bent on using Rust Nightly and making overly-judicious use of .unwrap()?

edit: I see that you mean they are Marxist-adjacent.

It's got AI too, which means it's extra sparkly good. But points deducted for no blockchain features or running as a bunch of microservices.

Hopefully Mojo will sort it all out. Maybe even inspiring a new, positive streak of xkcd strips in the future?

They really do deserve success with their business model, it's great to see cases being made available that turn the used mobos into 'new' computers as well.