They should have commited with the title and called them “terminally online”. At least they called them chronically online in the article. But yeah jokes aside, the take is accurate, these people are living in their own little echochamber worlds and are losing all connection to reality.

Yeah i would feel shattered aswell :/

Bro left out the most important part (i know you are sad OP, its okay) or the image is unrelated?

Most people who got fooled once will get fooled twice. Thats just what fools do.

And it already has 20% out of the required 1 million signatures.

They hated jesus…

How can proton protect your unencrypted emails? Unless you are writing someone that also uses protonmail or pgp, the emails wont be encrypted. This is barely an advantage at all over the existing system. You are just telling people to depend on this single point of failure, which is proton.

You cant expect everyone to use protonmail, that would be unwise from a decentralization standpoint. The real solution is only using email for people that are unwilling or unable to use something other than email. For everyone else you should simply switch to different communications protocols that were made with e2ee in mind.

Good luck with your software endeavors!

This stuff is hard to get into, especially so if you don’t already know all the specific terms to find what you are looking for. But having control over your own data and being able to decide where it resides is worth the effort to me.

Just use any other email provider that works for you and use standard OpenPGP to encrypt your emails. This is how email end to end encryption (e2ee) usually works.

As long as the emails are properly e2ee, no email provider is “more private” than others. They can always see who your are emailing and when. Proton is still forced to give out all your metadata to the cops just like any other service.

Also if whoever you are emailing isnt using protonmail, or another PGP compatible client, then your emails arent actually encrypted at all. For work emails the other party usually wont be using any of that so there is no point, for personal stuff i would honestly use standard messengers that have encryption built in like matrix, signal, session.

If you want e2ee email tho, then on desktop Thunderbird has all the OpenPGP stuff built in and for mobile there is the K9-Mail client that can be coupled with the openkeychain plugin to offer encryption.

There are also things like DeltaChat that allow you to use email in an instant messaging style format while using the same encryption keys that you use for standard emails. But tbh thats not what email is intended for, i would just use matrix for that.

Protonmail is a decent attempt at offering “easy to use” encryption but by doing so, makes it overly complex from a software security and compatibility standpoint.

With e2ee you want to have the absolute minimum level of complexity and code to make it easy to audit and understand. PGP has been the standard implementation for email encryption for decades. Any attempt to “expand” on this by implementing fancy web based shenanigans undermines the simplicity and inter compatibility of the preexisting email encryption ecoystem that everyone has been using.

Proton and all they do was always an obvious attempt at making money off of non tech people that care about their privacy but dont know what to do.Their stuff might be free now but from how much vendor lock-in they are building into their software its quite obvious to me.

Their services are counter to all the best practices of security by design. If they spent all this time on improving existing secure systems and making them more user friendly they would have a much more positive impact.

There is just 0 competition at the current steam deck price point.

It looks like it will be on prem, but then i dont even understand why they would involve amazon at all? Just use the existing public solutions. As soon as any major part of a system that is connected to the internet has proprietary code in it, you cant really trust it to protect secret information anymore.

Well yes and no. For one there is lots of metadata like access times, the IPs that connect and their locations, traffic amount, etc.

But also like with all “cloud solutions” you are just outsourcing your uptime reliability issues. And for a system like that, im not sure outsourcing that is a great idea.

“Top Secret” <> “AWS”

I can only laugh so much guys, careful.

Nothing. Let the boring people enjoy their boring games made by soulless corporations. Just leave the indie scene alone :)

Missed that one lol

I think he was making lighthearted fun of you for misspelling stake.

You can still verify the install even if it went through the play store no? Or are apps on the playstore not signed by the developer?

If the nazis are in power and the law says you have to obey the nazis, is it morally right to obey the nazis?

Dont trust duck duck go with your privacy. Corpos gonna corpo. Sooner or later…