EU is a puppet state of the US empire.

What about NordVPN and ExpressVPN are those somewhat trustworthy?

I wouldn't trust either, for different reasons.

Both of them really advertise too much (IMHO) to be trusted. They rely on introductory pricing and hoping people don't realize and get billed at a much higher rate, a model I personally hate.

But ExpressVPN has an additional reason: ties between it, its founder and Israel. There's a BDS argument against right there but additionally, there are accusations that ExpressVPN traffic is or can be monitored by Israeli intelligence.

That last one is a risk of many VPNs, which is why you have to be careful about who the owners are and where the company is incorporated. I personally prefer VPNs that are located in more privacy-focused jurisdictions (eg Iceland, Switzerland).

Mullvad is a popular option on HN. I'm also relatively positive on PrivadoVPN (located in Switzerland). Some Redditors question the quality of the service. So far it's been fine for me.

Given their need to advertise with pretty much any YouTube channel willing to take their money, I'd be inclined to question the quality the likes of NordVPN and SurfShark.

It boggles me how one can see them as anything but sus after tops 30 minutes of looking into it. You get that all those "top 5 vpn" sites and youtube recs are sponsored, right?

Both are proprietary and require personal information to register and pay so obviously no.

Trustworthy enough to shitpost behind? Sure.

Trustworthy to break some actual laws behind? Absolutely not.

Define trustworthy? In my experience, no.

That's a problem with programming languages having inconsistent definitions of length. They could be like Swift where the programmer has control over what counts as length one. Or they could decide that the problem shouldn't be solved by the language but by libraries like ICU.

The slow response time on hithub is most likely due to layoffs

Why are folks so worried about this. If necessary we build a new generation of phones.

facebook is just a glorified blogpost website

Idk. Anti-Cafés are popular some of them specialice in exactly that, being a coffee with coworking/studying atmosphere. It works for them

In Switzerland you can rent a tent on a balcony on airbnb

For years now I have a simple file where my topmost priority is always at the top, since I can focus only on one thing at the time anyway