The combination of AI, crypto wallet and CEO’s pro-MAGA comments (all within six months or so!) are why I quit Proton. They’ve completely lost the plot. I just want a reliable email service and file storage.
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Pretty rich coming from Proton, who shoved a LLM into their mail client mere months ago.
Everybody involved at that level knows the AI hype is a sham, so they have their finger hovering above the “sell” button. Open AI’s valuation and cash burn, for example, assume a much higher revenue in the future – but if this upstart can release a similar product with a fraction of the overhead, that cash burn now becomes a massive liability.
Edit to add a source from a real news outlet instead of shitty YouTube clickbait: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-27/china-s-ai-deepseek-shows-silicon-valley-s-huge-blindspot
411·22 days agoApologies for linking to Reddit, but: https://www.reddit.com/r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT/
It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.
Nice, thanks for this extra background! My first thought was scramjet too, but it would be nice of them to mention how it takes off and lands.
The original rendering looks awesome, in a bonkers sci-fi kind of way.
Based on the renderings (as there are no actual photos of this thing, other than the blurry-ass pic of what appears to be a rocket taking off vertically) it’s nowhere near the size of a 747. It actually looks rather like an elongated SR-71, which makes me very skeptical that it can actually hit Mach 6.5 because ramjet engines have a hard limit due to something called “physics”. That fact, plus the rocket-like takeoff, are why I think this is more like the X-15 and can’t sustain its top speed for long.
45·2 months agoWhoa. If anyone else s wondering like I was how the hell this works, it’s basically a ZIP file that appears as HTML: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG
Uhh OK, they’ve matched something the X-15 was doing 65 years ago. What’s the endgame here? Build a ludicrously inefficient passenger aircraft?
Do you use anything other than gmail?
I set my Gmail to forward to Proton when I switched, and gradually replaced the address in all my accounts and told friends and family to no longer use it. It took about a year but now everything goes to my custom domain. You don’t need Proton to do any of that, though. If you want to still reply from your Gmail and don’t care about encryption, Fastmail may be a better fit (although IMO it’s less of a good value compared to all the extras you get with Proton Unlimited)
Either way, I really can’t recommend a custom domain enough. I actually used Fastmail for a year before switching to Proton and it was completely painless thanks to the domain.
You can receive but can’t reply from those addresses in Proton because of the way encryption works. Don’t use Proton if you want to keep sending from any other email address.
Edit: frankly, I wouldn’t bother switching unless you plan on using a custom domain for all your email needs. I’m a firm believer in using your own domain, because that way you can switch providers without needing to change your email address — you always own it, because you own the domain.
11·3 months agoMaybe provide examples? I see nothing that would prevent me from saying that with a straight face.
Gee, I don’t know, I vaguely recall a (perhaps minor) news item happening on the 7th, something about a music festival? I may be misremembering though, since this very impartial news site has no mention of it whatsoever.
If you believe that, you’re just as biased as they are. Check the archive page from last October and tell us that with a straight face. https://mondoweiss.net/news/page/61/
I don’t know how price sensitive you are, but check out Asket.
Yeah, well… turns out the USB wasn’t bootable (grub said it couldn’t load the kernel) so I redid it with Balena and it worked fine.
Funny, I’m flashing a new PC as we speak and using dd instead of ventoy for this very reason.
Social engineer a way to hack into their Snapchat
After using Proton for a couple years I’ve come around to the POV that private email is a dead end. There was not a single occasion where the sender or recipient of any email was also using encryption. If I want encrypted comms I use Signal. Instead of Pass I went back to using Bitwarden.