Support like continually threatening to invade them or destroy them?

Last Wilson heard, he was employed by a large US-based aircraft company.

Uh oh. Does it begin with B?

Unfortunately not. They haven’t hired anyone in years.

I’m a highly experienced developer staying in a very low-paid job because the work is not for an unethical purpose and there’s relatively little employee surveillance or corporate politics. I know developers aren’t in a powerful position right now but I admire your reaction. It’s no way to treat people, and they won’t stop treating candidates disrespectfully until they see that it hurts their ability to hire. I expect the day will come soon when I have to make a decision like you and could be forced to leave this field.

How dare you not compensate the Coca Cola company for its loss, through its own actions, of a few pennies! You monster! Terrorist!

Time to quit Namecheap. Can anyone recommend a good, ethical registrar, preferably Canadian?

Sandboxie is old, but these days Windows has a sandbox built in. You could use that (basically a lightweight VM) or a full VM. Windows also has a built-in hypervisor for VMs that helps them run efficiently.

You’re right, sorry, my mistake. I had the wrong currency setting.

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It’s nowhere near that cheap.

Their agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

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I think it’s just one guy who has some paranoid tendencies. But it’s still significant if the French media are starting to characterize GrapheneOS as the operating system of terrorists and criminals, because we know from many years of experience now how governments attack and undermine the tools that give people digital privacy, and this kind of media coverage is one of the techniques they use to influence popular opinion.

Lol, I’ve corrected that now. An OCR Freudian slip.

The OS is still good and GrapheneOS remains the best option for relative privacy on a phone. The personality of the lead developer is unfortunate. I worry that it could have an impact on their reported upcoming partnership with an OEM, if this guy is impossible to work with. But I’m still using it on my phone because it does stand out as the best option for a fully functional phone OS that provides good security and privacy.

Just for convenience (since it’s hard to read the screenshot on a phone), here’s the text:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won’t include backdoors for law enforcement access. They’re conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They’ve made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we’re leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we’re sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

Yes but it’s surprisingly convincing given how it actually works. It’s more impressive than useful, and it’s a huge waste of energy.

Functionally it’s good and fast. Privacy-wise I would recommend at least encrypting the files before uploading. Cryptomator would help if your friend is willing to use it. VeraCrypt volumes also work, and they sync quickly because Dropbox is smart enough to only update the bits of the volume file that have changed.

If you’re looking for something similar but not US-based, pCloud is good and allows you to save the data in Europe. But encrypt your files there too.

Thanks. Both of those look interesting.