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A post by [object Object] (@[email protected]) saying: courtesy of @[email protected], Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957
It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f
given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public
How far have the mighty fallen.
Thinking of moving my main e-mail address to tuta. Alas, haven’t been able to find a good provider that uses tried-and-true protocols like IMAP.
mailbox.org
Love mailbox.org, got the lite plan for €12 per year and works like a charm. Can use the secure mail address or the reg and just paste your public key into to use with Thunderbird.
I’ll be considering it, but if I have to deal with paid services in this good year of Arceus of 2025 I’d prefer them to at least deal with my national currency directly, or fall within my country’s jurisdiction.
I’ve made an exception for SDF simply because 1.- they’re awesome and 2.- the payment is one-time-only.
That’s what I’m in the process of switching to
Disroot is in my 👀 now because you guys reminded me it was already, some time ago. Let’s see how that one goes!
I would very much consider doing some actual research on tuta. Last I checked, they put a LOT of effort into preventing you from controlling your own inbox (Proton have their god awful sync program but it works). And their support forums were basically nothing but constant complaints of downtimes and outages.
My current approach, that I am slowly migrating everything toward (from gmail), is my own domain that I own and addresses at that. I then use (paid) services to manage the email server and just change my DNS settings so that said emails get routed to the right service. I keep a local copy of all my emails on my desktop (working on a solution to my NAS). So if the company goes to shit? I can migrate my entire existence to a new one within 24 hours (usually less because Cloudflare is really good…).
Currently I use Proton (and hate their sync program). I’ve seen a LOT of good word on Fastmail and like that they don’t have any special sync program at all. Main issue is that Proton still have the best VPN for torrenting (linux ISOs only, obviously) and I need to math out what it would cost to switch to just ProtonVPN and then Fastmail. But (Not That) Will Smith wrote up a really good blog post a few months back where he went into why he likes Fastmail and he (and Brad Shoemaker) tend to be my kind of “Yes, I am making my life harder but for a reason maybe”.
not email but are there any good alternatives for cloud storage? i backup some of my passwords and pictures to my proton drive manually
Its not cheap to start with, but the best thing you can do is just go buy a 2 or 4 bay synology (I hear ugreen is also good. Fuck qnap) and set up a local home NAS. The vast majority of people will never need more than that and you can back up all your photos and documents in a form factor you can grab when evacuating a burning building.
For essential stuff where you do want/need an off site backup? All of these cloud services are backed up by Amazon et al storage. Do a bit of research (there are plenty of pre-rolled solutions but people get pissy and annoying) and figure out how to encrypt the important docs and push them to cheap storage. Not free but you are literally paying pennies on the dollar compared to any other paid back-up service and… if the storage is free then you are the product.
Or, if you really don’t care: Learn to encrypt your sensitive important data and put it in a google drive.
would hndl be a concern?
That is up to you how much you care and what encryption schemes you use (which I intentionally will not make a recommendation on). Best practices is to maintain your own off site backups but… good luck.
That said? If we reach the point that the “good” encryptions are trivially decryptable then the entire modern world is already collapsing as e’rybody goes after the banks and governments. Otherwise? That is going to cost significant compute resources. How important do you think you are that someone is going to track a random bucket to you and then focus on decrypting those tax documents?
Hold your horses buddy it ain’t that bad, but if you want an alternative, Try Disroot
Tried that once, long ago, but I honestly don’t remember why I couldn’t complete the signup. Maybe an essay, or an issue with e-mail verification.
Might have to take a look at it again!
Posteo?
Looks paid, I prefer to discard any possible solutions on my country’s currency before I even take a look at having to deal with international KYC shit.