That doesn't even matter. Zoom, Teams, Google are American products and Proton is Swiss.

One side is hostile and focused on solely on shareholder profits, while other claims to be privacy-focused and majority owned by a nonprofit foundation.

There are enough public cases of American tech companies seriously violating privacy. I don't see how there can be hope for any privacy while using any of their products even if E2EE is claimed.

Exactly. Having just snapshots of db state isn't that useful, if running ai-slop queries has already triggered actions to external services (example: credit card issuer), warehouse processes (example: shipments, product lines...) , or similar.

There are of course some projects where it can be useful, assuming it works properly and that's not a given either when it's vibecoded.

You don't publish such exclusive games on these platforms if there aren't enough people using the platforms. Even higher incentives from MSFT/Sony probably wouldn't help.

There are plenty of people using those platforms, even game developers prefer to target stable hardware, than zoo configurations.

However what isn't happening is the growth that shareholders love so much, because like in other industries those MBA folks still haven't understood there isn't such thing as an infinite exponential growth curve.

As 70's child, before those MBAs even cared games industry existed, many of us had to contend with a single new game per year, or learn how to program our own games, now we are in a state like 1983 crash.

There are enough games to play even on lousiest platform, than most people have time on their lives to finish.

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I'm also in the northeast (Europe). It is quite normal to have assigned seats.

That's a great feature though. Vibecoded projects should be easily distinguishable, not only by common patterns preferred by "AI".

Better start including YoE on commits as well, projects by freshers should be easily distinguishable.

YoE?

Years of Experience. I'd put TC instead though.

TC?

A hidden benefit is having to decide now whether you actually need these things.

Messaging apps will continue working.

Banking apps made by reasonable companies will also. In days of banking being competitive and rather open with many providers offering good value, it's so easy to switch providers. Granted I am relatively poor and keep my banking simple, but I doubt card providers want to increase friction either. After Revolut started requiring >basic integrity it took me appx 1 day to switch to n26 and nothing of value was lost.

Not being able to use socialmedia, e-commerce, and dating apps sounds great.

Instead of dismissing it, perhaps just give it a try for 15 minutes. Couldn't possibly be worse than watching a mindnumbing 15minute youtube video / tv / reel-type content.

Maybe while riding on a stationary recumbent bike I suppose. I get one life on this earth no one is really going to convince me to spend time staring at walls.

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Codeberg or self-hosted Gitea seems a perfect replacement.

Still, why would you willingly manually add aspartame to your diet?

Especially since stevia exists I see no reason to put my health at risk with these. Personally I avoid sucralose and aspartame at all costs, regular sugar is much preferred in moderation.

The sweetness in stevia is very different from sugar/hfcs... it has a flavor of its' own and is somewhat off-putting if you aren't used to it. Using a mix of sweeteners is often better overall flavor than any single sweetener (stevia, aspartame, ace-k, etc) on its' own.

I really wish Coke Life had better marketing and was more popular... It was a much smaller amount of real sugar combined with stevia for sweetness. It was lower calorie, but not zero, and probably a much better option than either full sugar or zero sugar.