I immediately went and looked for it too!

I also tried to see any vulnerable sabotage spots that would put my electricity out, but that seems harder.

Seems fine as long as the startup has a lawyer that makes sure the contracts are not too out of the ordinary. If they also just use AI, their blind spots will overlap with you blind spots and I wouldn't trust the process completely.

you're missing the fact that OS developers like ads, because they want the OS to be a platform where devs can make money.

I avoid ad supported apps, so if those devs move to companies that I support, it might actually help me?

If it damages the the OS, that’s a problem for me on a Mac/ios but not so much with Ubuntu.

It’s not that long ago that I was paying for OS updates (that seems wild, I had to go and check). If it went back to that and I had no ads, it would be a straight win.

I think you're simply experiencing a power differential. You are at the mercy of the institution, and you're scared that the email will mean bad consequences for you.

That framing resonates a lot. It really does feel less about the content and more about the imbalance — someone else has information or authority over you, and you don’t yet know what it means for you.I hadn’t thought of it explicitly as a power differential before, but that explains why the anxiety hits before any facts are known.

very good start! I hate to be that guy, but I'd like if you had an imprint and privacy policy on the site ;)

Good feedback! I'll definitely be filling that kind of content in as I go.

the privacy policy link is also broken

It's often quite reasonable to try to change the world, so I think this is wrong.

Sometimes the world is even easier to change than yourself.

it's more - it also has email, chat via Matrix, a Wiki, video conferencing and a few other things.

isn't the metadata from Matrix public? at least, if federation is on? seems useful to the OSINT community but I'd think public offices would have an issue with existing metadata about who is talking to who and when.

Yes it is, but I think you might be assuming that they are even putting their homeserver on the public internet.

But even if it is, then as long as federation is off, nobody else will see any metadata but them.

metadata from Matrix is never 'public' (i.e. visible to the public). It's visible to only the admins of the servers participating in a given conversation.

not just impractical, but also not easy and free to integrate with your service. Seems designed to push you to use a commercial product.

https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/so-werden-sie-diensteanbieter

Apps that let you manipulate artifacts are often local. MS Office, Photoshop, Blender, CAD tools. But it turns out that actually, humans rarely work or live alone, and you can't facilitate communication through a local-first app.

Yet somehow people managed to do that before everything went to the cloud.

Surely an email client like Thunderbird is local first? Even the email apps on mobile devices work offline and send and receive when the get a connection.