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Comment Re:Troubling News about proton (Score 4, Informative) 164

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 2) 164

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 2, Informative) 164

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 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) 383

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) 383

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 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.

Comment Don't forget everyone.... (Score 4, Insightful) 48

Don't forget that we've not got to waste energy, we've got to make sure we use low energy light bulbs, change to energy efficient appliances, make sure that we don't leave stuff turned on unnecessarily because it all contributes to climate change. But that only applies to us lowly serfs. Meanwhile if you're a mega corp that's made a net zero pledge you can just waste as much as you want.

Comment Re:Unpopular Opinion (Score 1) 37

Which loss of functionality are you referring to?

HDR if you choose X over Wayland and if you have a Nvidia card you're using a hell of a lot when it comes to DLSS, especially because there's no Nvidia App that can automatically over-ride the game's DLSS version on a per game or global basis. Those are just two I can think of OTTOMH.

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