Scott🇨🇦🏴‍☠️

No one has to hate anything. You decide for yourself.

I mostly moved away from Proton last January when I got tired of their lack of Linux support.

With the recent news about Proton’s (and Tuta’s) push for AI, no freaking way will I pay for those services again.

First, fuck Israel.

Having said that, timezones exist. Its 2 pm in Israel v 8am in California.

She has to start with their Israel office before they close for the day.

I always recommend https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s because I’m trying to find results without AI/LLM. Nearly all search engines, including Brave, have AI results as a default. Sure, I can disable the AI results in the engine’s settings but it’s reset the next time I open my browser.

The page uses Google fonts - 🤣🤣

I don’t know of any AI that isn’t trained on stolen data.

Good for the bigtech fighting these laws. Parents should be protecting their children.

If governments want to get involved:

1. Educate parents about the dangers online and what to do about it.
2. It could regulate the addictive features of social media. The result would be a safer internet for everyone without anyone having to KYC themselves.
3. If #2 isn’t an option, force all computer manufactures to add in parental controls that automatically turn off when the user gets to the age of maturity.

I have doubts if any privacy companies are going to advocate for age verification. The very idea is anti-privacy.

Doesn’t surprise me, given recent Proton news.

I use Syncthing but a USB-C thumb drive will do the trick.

Here are a couple of sources that should help.

https://www.howtogeek.com/keep-linux-pc-and-android-phone-synced-with-gsconnect/

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-set-up-and-use-syncthing-to-sync-files/

I see your post both here on Lemmy and on Mastadon.

DDG has a no ai version which is what I use.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Are you aware that Andy Yen is forcing a massive AI coding adoption? Proton may be better now but I doubt if will continue to be anything close to stable or secure within a year.

Beware, Claude was used to make this site.

Open-source has the advantage of more eyes on the code. I trust someone, somewhere has looked. That’s all I can do.

Anyone who says “jUsT cHeCk ThE cOdE” should be ignored.

Your welcome. I hope the vid helps.

The Hated One has a couple of videos on how a phone finds you location - there are 5 or 6 methods.

Youtube https://youtu.be/WkmTxBTe52o

Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/WkmTxBTe52o

I was going to post the link to his older video but it was made 6 years ago.

I don’t wish to add complication but Calyx paused all updates for 11 months but they are back. This could happen again which would force you to either have an insecure OS or install something else. More details on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalyxOS

Call me old-fashioned but I like cash.

I read the leaked email sent to Proton staff. It reads like ‘use ai or else’. The thing I don’t like about this is the more a human uses AI for coding, the more deskilled they get. Eventually, the AI will add something that the human doesn’t have the knowledge to recognize as an error.

One of the co-founders, Daniel, donated around a half mil USD to a far right political party in Sweden. They have ignored calls to remove Daniel.

I started looking at my installed apps. Very disappointing how many use claude or copilot contributions.