You would think that someone at Proton would’ve had the foresight to realise the reputational damage this (along with the LLM announcement) would do to the company.
Without wanting to sound smart after the fact, I’ve been suspicious about Proton for years. I briefly had an email account with them but I could never quite shake the feeling there is something off about the whole company. This move just confirms to me I was correct to be suspicious.
I can vouch for whisper.cpp . It’s not 100% perfect but it’s good enough to transcribe a half hour podcast with numerous speakers and which requires pretty minimal fixing afterwards.
It is worth noting though, that Proton doesn’t allow you to use certain domains for recovery addresses. Admittedly this was awhile ago and maybe things have changed there but when I first joined Proton they wouldn’t allow me to set a duck.com or simplelogin.com or addy.io address as a recovery email.
Obviously using an apple ID is stupid but Proton could make more of an effort too.
Do ISP’s monitor or sell or pass on your data? Yes.
Do VPN’s? Depends on the VPN. Find one that doesn’t and can back that up with 3rd party audits and legal encounters.
So can a good VPN protect your privacy? No, not by themselves. A VPN is part of an overall toolkit to be as private as you personally would like to be. It can help protect your privacy, that’s all.
It’s really that simple.
Climate change is not something any one country can mitigate. It’s going to take all of us - the world.
Outsmarting Piers Morgan is about as difficult as obeying gravity.
Ask them when you can install the bug on their phoneline, open their mail and remove their bathroom door.
Manual unencrypted export onto an encrypted USB stick. Also do the same for Standard Notes and Aegis.
They began when Liz Truss absolutely fucked the economy.
I just use Bitwarden.
In the desktop app, I created a new folder called ‘Bookmarks’, then for subfolders I click the ‘+’ icon next to ‘folders’ then enter ‘Bookmarks/Whatever’ and hey presto, I have a new subfolder called ‘Whatever’ under the ‘Bookmarks’ folder. I then add tags in the ‘notes’ section of each individual entry for easy searching.
Benefits: free, open source, private, encrypted, syncs between devices automatically.
So much with anything privacy comes down to trust. Any piece of software’s technical ability to keep you private is of course important but when it comes to a very large (in terms of code and use) piece of software, being able to trust the motivations and intent of the people behind it is also very important.
It’s now reached the point that I personally don’t feel I can trust the person leading the company, or the intent behind the software(s) the company makes.
Brendan Eich is a homophobe and an antivaxxer. It’s hard to trust in the common sense of a man who thinks in these ways.
Brave has been caught inserting affiliate links and ads that track and just recently of selling other people’s data. Any one of these things, taken in isolation is bad enough but this is now a pretty much established pattern of very questionable behaviour.
I also forsee a time when the browser is going to have to make some concessions to it’s Chromium base. I know they’ve said the change from Manifest v2 to 3 won’t affect ad blocking as their Shield won’t be an extension but built in and that they’ll also carry on supporting v2 but the issue goes beyond merely adblocking and they’ve been unclear on exactly how and for how long they’ll support v2. As long as they’re Chromium based browser, they are dependent on Chromium and the whims of Google developers. It’s hard to see a good future for Brave.
Its honestly pretty easy. Read through the guide making sure you understand each point before you do it. Several times if necessary. Any point(s) youre unsure of, just ask.
I can also vouch for PhotoGIMP. It’s the closest thing to Photoshop I’ve used and certainly made things much easier for me when I transitioned.
This is a temporary reprieve, that’s all and is only one part of the overall bill, which will almost certainly go through Parliament successfully.
Several hundred years
They provide useful tools for self-hosters (I x-posted this to [email protected])
I use this for just about every non-official (e.g. govmt or banking) account I set up.
Some people see a product described as ‘smart’ and their common sense immediately leaves their body.
2010
Much, much longer than that.
A few little things rather than one or two big things - email advertised as private but they won’t let you use anonymous addresses (like anonaddy or duck.com) for recovery addresses, an ever growing portfolio of products that seem unfinished or incomplete or lacking in standard features like they’re trying to corner the whole privacy market rather than making one or two products but making them really good, poor customer service and support as a continual theme throughout their existence.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting they’re doing anything dodgy, I just feel that I don’t really trust them. They just make really odd choices and it all feels like a haphazard rush.