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  • Visual Studio Code, I think it’s just the best, works on all platforms and there’s extensions for literally everything. If it enshittifies too much with e.g. copilot, etc. there’s always vscodium instead.

    If I’m on a linux terminal, I use the micro editor. I can survive using vim if nothing else is available, but yeah, I used to be in emacs team back in the day…

    I have used Qt Creator in the past and, while it was pretty good back then, nowadays I’m not sure if it can compete with vscode, I haven’t kept up with its development.



  • As for WhatsApp, it’s true that being Meta they collect everything they can, mostly metadata, but don’t they still implement the same end-to-end encryption as Signal? So, at least the actual content is your messages and calls should be truly private, i.e. out of reach even of Meta (and let’s say, all of this using a phone with no google e.g. graphene or lineage or calyxos). Please correct me if I’m wrong.




  • Not sure what crypto we’re talking about here, but most crypto coins (e.g. bitcoin) are also easily traceable, as all transactions are public. It’s true that they’re not reversible and that certainly offer less protection than a bank account, but also offer other things e.g. more privacy and decentralized infrastructure, which can be useful even to non criminals.

    Also once again, if one needs absolutely no traceablilty (ok fine, almost no traceability) then cash is still king and criminals use that as well, or sometimes gift cards and prepaid cards. Should we ban cash and gift cards? (hmm gift cards maybe…)

    What I’m trying to say is, crypto is just a tool and it’s up to us to use it in a good or bad way. Unfortunately, most people seem to have chosen the second option.