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Comment Re:Troubling News about proton (Score 1) 21

I also saw reports that Proton has divulged some private information to at least one government entity.

Please go read about the facts of that. All they handed over was the recovery email address. And they didn't just hand it over on demand, it was complying with a court order and after their own lawyers had made sure that what they had requested was legal under Swiss law. It is the same as every company operating anywhere in the world is legally required to do. Every company has to comply with a legal court order issued against them in the country they're operating and those courts only issue those orders if the alleged offence committed is illegal in that court's country. And as Proton cannot see files, email contents, or any other personal information related to users' accounts, that information cannot be shared with authorities on request. Literally the only thing Proton can see is a recovery email address.

Comment Re:If AI could actually code... (Score 1) 21

The absence of a linux client is exactly what the CEO is complaining about. The lazy ass luddite programmers at proton are causing the company to fail.

In the password manager space, 1Password is eating their lunch with AI integrations that protonpass can only dream about.

Honestly at this point if AI spits out a Proton Drive linux client in the next couple of months it kind of proves the CEO's point given that his programming team still haven't done over 2 years later despite several unofficial clients using rsync being released.

Comment Re:So you don't need engineers. Do ya need custome (Score 1) 21

The CEO literally just said thinking about security is "loser thinking" and that "perception is more important than truth" -- if it were my money and my stuff, I would've dropped all of their services like a hot potato.

Loser thinking is dropping everything at the drop of a hat based on nothing more than one article written by somebody nobody has heard of on a fringe website.

Comment Re:ha (Score 1) 68

Obviously. But it is the most extremely stupid way to do it because you are going to lose everybody that you actually critically need. Some immediately, some when they see the whole company has gone to shit. And these people usually have no trouble finding jobs where they get treated better.

All the WFH proponents on Slashdot are always making the case they are Super, Ultra, Mega productive and would be missed terribly if they took their homework elsewhere. Even the ones admitting their awesome productivity affords them time during work hours to get their laundry done, zip off to the grocery and walk the family pooch are essential to the company's utter survival.

I, however, am sick of calls going unreturned to the voicemail void, sending emails that apparently go to /dev/null and hearing that co-worker (fill-in-the-blank) is now working from home, so send an email. I know precisely two WFH employees at my employer that can be relied upon to do their work. The rest *NEED* to RTO or join the unemployment line. They won't be missed.

Comment Re:Ha Ha (Score 1) 19

Biting the hand that feeds them.

They'll bitch about lack of tax revenue and want to raise taxes (again) once all the data centers are being built in North Dakota or BFE.

Ha ha!

Oh my sweet summer child you really believe that the tech companies pay taxes on those data centers?

Comment Re:A classic example (Score 1) 380

No idea how they came to the conclusion that millions of people are facing a prospect of ruined homes and businesses. The UK gets hammered by massive winter storms with 80MPH plus winds several times a year every year and has for as long as I remember. Quite interestingly and fact that she failed to mention is the extreme weather hits the UK from the west having travelled from the Caribbean, and the south having travelled up from the Sahara. The UK could reduce it's emissions to zero today and it would make absolutely no difference at all.

Comment Stop expanding AI and datacentres. (Score 1) 380

No matter what we do moving to renewables it's all getting undone by the continual ramping up of demand by AI companies and data centres. We're literally destroying the planet faster so people can make funny cat videos. Then there's the rampant consumerism, all the mountains of shite people buy that ends up in the bin or a cupboard never to see the light of day again within weeks or even sometimes days. It all needs to end.

Comment Re:It's DEFENSE department (Score 1) 144

I guess old Boomer types think department of war is awesome since they don't have to worry about being drafted anymore. And God knows they could care less about their kids.

The very youngest Boomers are 62-63 years old at this point. Most Boomer's kids are well past the draft age. Give it a rest.

Comment Closing the door after the horse has bolted... (Score 1) 55

the company is now monitoring all traffic and paging security if live internet access is detected.

Unfortunately by the time it's detected that and someone has blocked the internet access the damage may already have been done given the speed these models work and the bandwidth they have available to them.

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