I have worked for one truly amazing leader in my time. He earned my complete 100% trust and commitment. I don’t think its possible to fully get the value a leader can bring to a team until you have a really good (or great) one.

haha maybe so!

Could that be a bit of a hasty reduction to make based on one post in a shitpost comm?

wait are you saying this is a shitpost

Could be because OP is a known linux hater who likes to stir up arguments about it

As users, do you feel secure with the use of blockchain to protect your privacy?

Who wants to tell them?

I don’t know but I suspect that first getting to know a community and then making an effort to keep your posts on topic will go a long way to help.

Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?

To me, open sourcing the code is a move in the right direction but it doesn’t make up for a professional review of your encryption system.

The thing about encryption is that there are many subtle ways to get something wrong, even when just implementing it with a well known and trusted library. I took a deep dive course on Designing Secure Encryption for Practical Use and while I learned a ton from it, the main take away for me was that I shouldn’t do it if its intended for serious use. At least not without expert reviewers.

Regarding XMPP, it’s architecture is like email. Anyone can stand up their own server and your User ID looks like an email address: user@chatserver.org. Like email, you can send messages to anyone on any server if you know their ID. Phone numbers are simply never involved.

Honestly, I wouldn’t even consider using it unless it were reviewed by a professional cryptographer. There are already battletested options that don’t require a phone number or sharing info with a company. For that, I like XMPP with a client that uses OMEMO for encryption.

nice try fbi

WTF are you ranting about? I’m a web user. As I’ve never owned a device which had a web browser but not a calculator, I’m simply asking why would I want a calculator in my web browser?

Whether or not you are a full stack web developer, I’m confident you can understand this simple concept.

Did you mean to reply to someone else? Unless you want to address my specific point about why would I want a calculator in my web browser, I don’t understand your comment.

Why would I want a calculator in my web browser?

The restaurant business in the USA is a total scam from start to finish and here is why: There are multiple ways or “systems” to run service in a restaurant.

Most places outside the USA use a team service system. This means that the service team is trained to do all of the front house roles: taking orders, delivering food, making drinks, clearing tables, etc. They all trade off doing what is needed at any given time. This makes two things possible: Having a much smaller staff and paying them all a living wage, regardless of how many customers come in that day. It also means that there will not be anyone constantly interrupting you to try to up sell you more items. If you need something, you are expected to signal a staff member. No tipping is expected or needed.

In the USA by contrast, they run a system where a much larger staff is needed because the servers are acting like commissioned sales people. Each server focuses on a small number of tables with the intent of getting them to spend as much as possible. In exchange for this hovering continuous sales pitching, you get to also pay for the server. You have to because the USA system requires it. An owner cannot afford to over staff on their own so they get the customers to pay for it, on top of the food prices. The myth is that this system encourages better service because of tipping. The reality is that this system encourages constant up sells and manipulation to get you to spend as much as possible because the tip will be a percentage of that bill.

I gave up waiting and bought a new PC on a sale at a local shop back in April and I don’t have the budget for both.

End of 2025 I was super hyped to buy a Steam Machine. It was the only thing I was really excited about in tech for 2026.Watching the prices of hardware just keep going up and up while the Steam Machine just kept getting more and more delayed was too much.

I love my new gaming PC. I still love my steam deck but I’m glad I didn’t wait.

when i was 15 i spent one summer working at a summer camp making and serving icetea

Based on the description and rules, I had thought NSQ was for genuine questions you don’t know the answer to and may feel stupid asking. For example, “How can I tell if a carrot is safe to eat or spoiled?”

Rules 4 and 5, to me would preclude the kind of validation or discussion seeking posts where the title is an opinion question and body is an essay answering the question and asking for reactions. However, as you point out this actually seems like the majority of posts lately.

I thought those type of posts goe in !asklemmy@lemmy.world which says it is for “open-ended, thought provoking questions” and has a rule clearly stating it is not a support community. Yet the mods/members there seem happy to take and answer general support questions.

Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like a pretty common theme in the Threadiverse that most community mods are more interested in post activity than strict rule/topic keeping.

If we were talking Product Manager, I’d gladly help. But this just sounds mean.

No, only the official google clients do link hijacking. Thunderbird doesn’t do it.