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  • There are 2 issues here that are being mixed.

    One is women not being allowed to positions of power. The other is with women being underrepresented in certain fields (e.g., stem).

    The second issue is what I am talking about and I don’t think at all that men “choose” not to try certain careers in the same way women don’t “choose” not to study stem and pursue stem careers. For both, social pressure and expectations, an existing field dominated by the other sex with all its implications are factors of discrimination. Strict gender roles are damaging for both men and women, and this is a perfect example.



  • Not OP, but positions like nurses or teachers are very female dominated. It’s not like males cannot reach those positions, but there are social obstacles to that. To make an example from my country, in Italy primary school teachers are > 90% female. I believe in kindergarten they reach 97 or 98%. This is also partially the result of strict gender roles than discriminate both men and women in terms of caring for children (I.e., women are de facto forced to do that, men are pushed away), which then reinforces the social practice of women doing all the caring jobs.

    This is IMHO a problem for both men and women, but probably it’s not from the same perspective as what OP meant…





  • So, TLS is just a point-to-point encryption protocol, it doesn’t prevent anybody of the parties involved from having access to the content. Once the email is encrypted with PGP, Proton loses permanently access to this content.

    So this is pretty much what happens with a Gmail <-> Outlook and a Gmail <-> Proton email.

    Gmail to outlook:

    A writes the email in their editor <- TLS -> Google servers <-TLS-> outlook servers <-TLS-> B reads the email. While every communication is encrypted with TLS, every server has access to its content. Every time B accesses the email from outlook servers (I.e., their inbox), the data is transferred with TLS, but outlook is the “other end of the tunnel”, so it has access to this content.

    Gmail to Proton:

    A writes the email in their editor <- TLS -> Google servers <-TLS-> Proton servers -> encrypt original message with B’s public key and discard original -> send to B inbox -> Proton client decrypts email -> B accesses it.

    So yes, it is

    about making sure your data on the servers stays safe even if someone gains access

    As long as you consider the email provider part of those potential “someone”.

    The way I would say it essentially is that PGP encryption (even in cases where the original messages was not using it) still gives you the confidentiality property of PGP, even without the integrity and non-repudiation properties (which are not possible to guarantee with respect of the original message of course). In other words, the biggest difference is that the email provider doesn’t have access to your stuff.



  • If the authoritarian one does better than the conservative one in some regard, there should be the moral honesty to admit it and demand better. If it’s not possible to do this, the political discourse is completely sterile, and there is no accountability for anybody. Which is exactly what the american political discourse looks like from outside. Italian politics is messed up, but I can’t even imagine someone being attacked and labeled as a fascist/Meloni supporter for saying that Meloni government did one thing better than previous government or another party.

    Also this whole thing happened before the government formed.


  • Supporting his choices and the Republican party at large is the problematic part. I don’t care if he loves Trump or not.

    He supported one choice, and for motivated reasons. You can disagree. It doesn’t matter to me, but saying that republicans can do better than democrats in fighting big tech in the antitrust space doesn’t make you a trump supporter. Especially when democrats shat their pants within this space.

    Also I know you don’t care, but the person I was responding to misrepresented the facts saying that he loves Trump.

    So yeah, this opinion doesn’t make anybody a fascist, a Nazi, a Trump lover etc. It’s a totally legitimate critique of democrats actions, couple with an (unwarranted, in my opinion) optimistic take on republicans, in a specific context.

    The fact that the american political debate is so toxic that even expressing this opinion is a problem is something to reflect on. Tons of people talking about democrats having faults (but republican being worse), but when someone points out actual things that historically Republicans did better than democrats (again, the very narrow context of antitrust vs big tech, which Republicans pushed because twitter, google etc. were mostly dem-leaning years ago) immediately the pitchforks are taken.







  • Generally you can do it from settings with automatic forwarding feature.

    See this article for actual instructions.

    Consider that:

    • this means google will know your new email address
    • obviously google will keep accessing your data

    For the first point, Proton migration tool (from gmail) works flawlessly and doesn’t disclose your new address (plus it moves all your previous emails). I didn’t try similar tools for other vendors but I am sure they have similar options.

    For me it took months to get the bulk of the services moved over, I added a label to all emails forwarded and I periodically reviewed them. It’s a perfect occasion to change password or delete the account.