Both PGP and Signal will leak if you use them incorrectly, so that comparison doesn't really hold up.

I say this as someone who uses both.

PGP email doesn't match Signal security:

* PGP doesn't encrypt email metadata, so the attacker gets a record of every senders, receiver, time, date, and subject line, for free, with PGP actually working at its best.

* Email usually isn't usable without storing it server-side (for multi-client access), and without being able to search it. That requires your email to be in clear text on the server. That's solved with an on-prem mail server, but not many people have that - very few end users can operate one.

* Email endpoints generally aren't secure, so even if you somehow secure your personal mail store, possibly nothing is secure except your draft messages. Every email is sent to or received from other people, so your messages are subject to their security practices.

One key difference is that Signal intentionally makes design choices to make it harder to use incorrectly, and PGP is comically easy to use incorrectly.

Write to your legislators/representatives.

Honestly, it is the only thing that you can do, apart from voting and talking to people in your near environment.

Is it a good solution, and always likely to work? No, absolutely not.

But is a hell of a lot better than doing nothing or sharing social media posts, which is frankly as effective as screaming into your pillow at home.

A local roasters recently opened up a cafe (again, they had one but lost their space some years ago).

Having only been there three times now, each time I've gotten into long conversations about technique and equipment with the baristas.

Is it possible to have a robot pour as good a filter or pull as good a shot? Probably. But I don't go to cafés just for that.

This happened not so many years ago, in a certain small European nation, where official government housing valuation numbers were incorrect for some years due to a flaw in a spreadsheet.

I remember my apartment got a ~10% bump in value one year due to this flaw being fixed (fix didn't apply to all housing, just those who were on floors 5 or above).

I don't think though that a SaaS would have solved anything here.

This is clearly getting more reporting on than on any domestic news outlets. This is the first I am hearing about this.

Is it the first time you hear about the risks of AMOC collapsing?

To clarify, no the AMOC collapse I have grown up with as a discussion point over the last 40 years.

I am talking about the decision by our national security council. I had not seen any reporting on that domestically.

Frankly the originator of this pull request deserves the "classic Torvalds" treatment, no matter who is delivering it.

Note though that the sulfur smell from hot water in Iceland is only a thing in certain areas in Reykjavik, and perhaps some locations around the island.

This is due to the hot water in those regions literally being pumped out of the ground and into homes, and on a completely separate plumbing system. Majority of other areas use heat exchangers with pristine cold water, thus no smell nor taste is transferred.

So if you are staying in any other municipality in the capitol, you can use the hot water in cooking directly without boiling cold water. It's the same.

Something that I feel needs to be clarified, since I've noticed this being parroted around and it's technically incorrect:

It is incorrect to say the FBI has subpoenad the register for Archive.is. The FBI can not subpoena the register for .is domains, since there is only one and it is Icelandic. US subpoenas have no power outside the US.

So they are going after another of Archive.is domains, just not the Icelandic one.

I'm not sure why you feel like it is abandoned. There is a steady release cadence and the changelog[0] clearly shows that much is being worked on.

[0]: https://nextcloud.com/changelog/#latest32

yes of course there's progress and new features and it's not really abandoned per se.

but the feeling is that the outdated or simply bad decisions aren't fixed or redesigned.

it could be made 100 times better.

Because it feels worse and more broken as time goes on. Just like any other abandoned web app, except it's being made worse and slower as an active, deliberate, ongoing choice

You are badly informed. Even Denmark, the main proponent of the bill has withdrawn it's support.

What you have just witnessed was a working civil society. I'll take that over the alternative any day.