@dangillmor
Dan, there’s a huge #degoogle movement here on Mastodon. There’s also the movement across Europe to get away from US-based digital services. @Tutanota frequently shares tables of options. I’m about 8 months into being free of Google search, thanks to the far superior paid #Kagi search. (Kagi Translate is also far superior to any other translation service.) I’ve replaced Google files with #CryptPad. #Proton just introduced their AI product, #Lumo, which is completely private. Their calendar product is steadily improving. Google’s power and influence are waning, as they should in a free market when better products emerge.

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should not use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

Proton adds an open-source TOTP app to its product line. The open-source world is blessed with great TOTP apps already, but the more the merrier!

https://proton.me/blog/authenticator-app

#infosec #proton #totp #2fa#openSource

Proton adds an open-source TOTP app to its product line. The open-source world is blessed with great TOTP apps already, but the more the merrier!

https://proton.me/blog/authenticator-app

#infosec #proton #totp #2fa#openSource

one unexpected barrier is that I would hugely miss @mimestream, the lovely, but gmail-only macOS mail app intended for iOS/iPadOS sometime too. But I'm starting to think I shouldn't let that keep me.

#Proton#DeGoogle

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should not use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

'Apps offering virtual private networks… made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend'

“We would normally associate these large spikes in sign-ups with major civil unrest,” #Proton said. “This clearly shows that adults are concerned about the impact universal age verification laws will have on their privacy.”
#OnlineSafetyAct#VPNhttps://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

'Apps offering virtual private networks… made up half of the top 10 most popular free apps on the UK’s App Store for iOS this weekend'

“We would normally associate these large spikes in sign-ups with major civil unrest,” #Proton said. “This clearly shows that adults are concerned about the impact universal age verification laws will have on their privacy.”
#OnlineSafetyAct#VPNhttps://www.ft.com/content/356674b0-9f1d-4f95-b1d5-f27570379a9b

@rolle I had this revelation about ... I think four years ago, when I suddenly realized Skyrim works out of the box on Linux Steam, and not just works but runs perfectly, and at least as fast. It never crashed a lot for me on Windows either, but it has never done it on Linux. And when you take away the PITA of rebooting to Windows and suffering through hours of upgrade churn and reboots and all just to play a game on a rainy day, I rediscovered my long lost love for gaming again.

GTA 5 also worked just fine when I tried it, but I didn't care for it enough for a proper replay. And incredibly, so did BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077. On a 14 year old desktop PC that is way underspecced for either. These two push the display adapter hard enough that it reveals some thermal management issues in the driver/hardware, I need to force it to stay out of the high power states to prevent occasional crashes. Mildly annoying but far, far less so than rebooting to Windows to play a game.

Valve has done an *incredible* job on improving the Linux gaming experience, not just on packaging all the wacko Wine tricks for running games neatly out of sight and mind in Steam, but also general infrastructure work in the kernel, vulkan and whatnot.

#valve #proton #steam #linuxgaming

Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

#Proton#Switzerland#Privacy#EuroStack#ProtonMail

Proton no longer trusts Switzerland to host its AI infrastructure 🇨🇭🚫
Due to proposed mass surveillance laws, Lumo — Proton’s new private AI — will run on servers in Germany & Norway instead 🇩🇪🇳🇴

CEO Andy Yen warns the Swiss proposal mirrors “surveillance capitalism” & could make Swiss services less private than Google’s 🔐

@protonprivacy

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ai-governance/proton-does-not-trust-switzerland-to-host-its-ai-servers/89727842

#Privacy#Surveillance#AI#DataProtection#CyberSecurity#Freedom#Switzerland#Proton#TechNews#Germany#Norway#Switzerland

Proton no longer trusts Switzerland to host its AI infrastructure 🇨🇭🚫
Due to proposed mass surveillance laws, Lumo — Proton’s new private AI — will run on servers in Germany & Norway instead 🇩🇪🇳🇴

CEO Andy Yen warns the Swiss proposal mirrors “surveillance capitalism” & could make Swiss services less private than Google’s 🔐

@protonprivacy

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ai-governance/proton-does-not-trust-switzerland-to-host-its-ai-servers/89727842

#Privacy#Surveillance#AI#DataProtection#CyberSecurity#Freedom#Switzerland#Proton#TechNews#Germany#Norway#Switzerland

I know that a bunch of people in my general region of the fediverse already stopped using #Proton because of their CEO's fascist inclinations, and that if you're following me you're probably already sick of generative AI. Even so, I feel like this is worth pointing out if only for harm reduction.

Proton has introduced their own LLM model, or perhaps an integration of an existing "open-source" model (the OSI's definition, presumably) which they haven't credited:

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

🧵

I know that a bunch of people in my general region of the fediverse already stopped using #Proton because of their CEO's fascist inclinations, and that if you're following me you're probably already sick of generative AI. Even so, I feel like this is worth pointing out if only for harm reduction.

Proton has introduced their own LLM model, or perhaps an integration of an existing "open-source" model (the OSI's definition, presumably) which they haven't credited:

https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai

🧵

@Tutanota

@jonah @chillybot

Gute Entscheidung.
Ein Teil der Proton Drive Daten liegen ja auch schon in Frankreich.

#Proton#ProtonDrive