Sorry, but that argument still sounds wayyy too much like “video games cause x”.

“Not a good party to donate to” is a REALLY soft way of saying literal actual Nazis.

Tuta uses AI internally. Is why Yen was talking about them in the emails

Mullvad was funding literal Nazis in Sweden unfortunately

From the looks of it, a local offline network would have been cheaper still

You’re probably young, but there used to be that job.

And that became obsolete by infranet connections. You know, a local computer not connected to the internet.

Why don’t you just fork it, remove the logo, an set up a domain yourself?

Alternatively, you could set up a presentation that they are a white labeling service, and the reason they use that domain and mascot is to discourage corporations from using the free tier, since the free tier is meant for personal use, and that their reaction is exactly what Anubis aims for unless a corporation is willing to pay for customized service tailored to them.

That ship may have sailed by now depending on how you dealt with the situation, but that would have been the best case scenario. Advocating for something that you know is good, is also good for your career, because now, even if you do recommend something else, your reputation will still be marked by the fact you recommended Anubis and then folded without explaining well why you recommended Anubis despite the mascot. If you still can, I’d bring up the whole thing with the mascot anyway even if you move on to recommend a different service, to save your own reputation for the future, since you seem to be so focused on your perceived career.

Anyway, you can use Cloudflare. Ideologically I oppose it, but it works and is familiar with the non-tech people. There’s also SilentShield, which is based in Europe and in my opinion works better than Cloudflare’s protection in terms of load times.

None of the LLMs could figure out what I meant when asked “Find me lion and the lamb iconography examples used before the messianic age”. They kept instead pulling up Christian things specifically (even though Judaism beats it by hundreds of years). Even when I emphasized to ignore Christianity / Christian sources they’d keep insisting on it.

It doesn’t matter how you process the data - looped transformer, harnesses, etc. These are still glorified overgrown statistics machines, and will default to whatever floods it’s data the most because there is ZERO intelligence.

I’ve also checked how they do code, and it’s terrible. The great for very beginner stuff or boiler plate code. By anything as advanced as a website and it’s shit.

Sure, it technically can make a functional website. I tested it just to see how it works. But it does it the equivalent way a human technically can make a functional car out of cobbled together scraps from a scrap yard. It used SO MANY <div> classes for no goddamn reason. So much inline CSS too. It’s like, good fucking luck fixing an issue manually and unravelling the tangle of containers it’s made. You’d have to use the LLM again just to change things at that point because it’d be easier, and hope it doesn’t break a button. Mind you this is a simple HTML and CSS website, not even JavaScript. There’s no way in hell I’d trust anything more complex created via vibe coding.

“profitable”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle/

Uh huh. And that’s despite government propping and no returns on stocks on top of possibly cooking the books.

“revenue” that’s propped up by the government and ignores other factors, such as overall expenses, competing open source models, and non-realized assets.

The difference between Microsoft and OpenAI or Anthropic is that Microsoft has a profit model.

There’s absolutely no way that the big LLM companies can make enough profit to overcome their expenses in the next decade even, especially since the technology on the open front only continues to improve. That’s why the LLM bros keep hyping it up via fear mongering and criminal activities like hacking - to keep selling the illusion that it’s AI.

I never said Google

My mistake, I thought you were the other commentator

1. Then why mention Google search in your previous comment?
2. There’s more countries than Poland. That’s just an example. You could try Spain - they have a big market too, for example.

Or you could do option three I mentioned and you ignored - buying straight from China if out of options. It’s likely the thing you wanted was made there anyway if you can’t find a European courier service to ship it to you.

We both know why Amazon is successful. But unless you or I get a couple million euros minimum, we can’t do much about setting up a competitor to Amazon (Also they operate on multiple languages too btw, there’s Amazon.de in German or Amazon.es in Spanish).

Firefox browser at least translates well enough. If it didn’t exist, you’d have a much better reason, but it does.

It’s not that hard to boycott Amazon, but people from 1st world countries have gotten extremely lazy for very particular things. This is one of them. Buying something already takes more effort than not buying something - units you’re someone born with a silver spoon in your mouth I suppose. People in these countries have a more “throw it away” attitude than a “needs to keep working a long time” one. It’s cultural.

Does it take more time to give something without Amazon? Yes. Does it take a lot more time though? Not really. In the end, it really comes down to just not caring enough about fascism/climate/corruption. Because realistically, by choosing Amazon, you’ve already decided that those things matter less than whatever doodad you’re buying, and outside of something that’s from the base layer of the hierarchy of needs, like medicine or food, you don’t have a good reason.

I’ve grown up poor. I’ve gone through times of poverty so extreme I went without food for nearly a week, and other times would walk miles to forage for food in a forest. While in university. The ones in high horses are the ones privileged enough to think needing to buy something from Amazon is a realistic issue.

I live in Finland and have managed to always find an alternative. Ireland gets way more shipping options than Finland. You’re literally just not searching hard enough.

1. don’t use Google. It always only tries to give regional search options. Use Startpage and change the region.

2. search in a different country’s language. If searching in Poland for example, search in Polish.

And heck, if you somehow still can’t find what you need from those stores, just look at China - EU shops. Most of Amazon’s shit is from China anyway, so might as well avoid the middleman.

You mean containerizing Swizzin?

It wasn’t a bug, it’s a feature that’s now deprecated.

When I did wget (curl didn’t work) I received the message that Debian 13 Trixie is not supported.

They seem to only support Debian 10, 11, and 12, along with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

Well, now artists literally have the power of God and Anime on their side

Doesn’t internet require a subscription service?..

I didn’t know about the homophobe thing. I’m talking about the whole secretly mining crypto thing they did in the past and then afterwards the sketchy crypto pay stuff they tried to pull off after

Edit: and now I see the Brax phone controversy linked in the main post. I’m thinking it’s not so strange Brave browser keeps popping up in problematic projects like this. Birds of a feather flock together I suppose.

The Brax phone raised some extremely serious red flags when I saw they put on their banner it was promoted by Joe Rogan and use Brave as their primary browser.

Having two scammers featured makes it feel like a scam.