Hey, sounds like you’re doing a good job already! One thing I want to add is to establish a boundary for the three different relationships you’ll have with your coworker - mentor, personal, and working. You don’t necessarily need to be explicit with him about it, but you should have a pretty clear idea where the lines are for yourself. This is so that you can be aware of when you need to be a mentor, when you should be a boss, or when you should just be another human. Of course those boundaries will change over time, so it’s good to re-evaluate every once in a while.

It’s also good to remember that at the end of the day, you can’t actually change how your coworker behaves - it is up to him to make the choice to not say shitty things, be kind, and do good.

I’m literally sending an email to help@saveincels.org as I type this, while calling the incel hotline, and writing a letter to The Incel Whisperer at 42069 Incel Therapy Rd.

The actual idea of crypto is reaaallly cool: a decentralized trust system that enables incredibly difficult to fake transactions and records without the need for a trusted third party.

Unfortunately a lot of the implementations relied on ‘capital’ as the proof of trust - GPU work (money) and number of controlled instances (money) are two big ones. Which really all led them down the path of ____coin which is fundamentally incompatible with the ideal of ‘no third party can govern trust’ because suddenly whichever party that has all the proof of trust is now the third party that can govern trust and approve transactions. Someone can own a ___coin.

Crypto could have been a decentralised system that can keep public records, documents, ideas, etc. - it can guarantee authorship and date if a user is willing to submit identity information. Lots of actually useful functions!

They do, but nothing close to uBlock or uMatrix is available.

From a practical perspective, even using open source takes some time and effort. I suspect many people gravitate towards apple is because they nail the basics and have a great out of the box experience.

I’m against Apple in principle, but that doesn’t mean I didnt get an M1 air when I had to upgrade a year or something ago - it was simply the best in the market for the price at the time.

Also apple does not respect privacy nearly as much as they love to tout. Open source in general has a much better track record with privacy because of the people building the tools don’t have as much profit incentive or government oversight.

Edit: you’ll never catch me dead with an iPhone or iPad though, Apple’s mobile browsing experience has no ad block.