Polderviking

Nobody that is even vagualy familiair with how internet works knows Elon can't know where the attack is coming from. Cirtainly not so quickly.

Even if somebody only leveraged their botnet in Ukraine it could be his next door neighbour beeing the actual puppetmaster.

Origin IP's mean zilch.

But ofcourse the people to whom he is Jesus himself will just gobble that conjecture up like it's mama's paella.

As encryption happens client side I think its a little bit more than cute.

Proton did not praise Trump. Their CEO praised a choice Trump made. You're obviously free to consider Yen's word equal to Proton's word but this isn't true for everybody.

They are like Apple: telling people what they want to hear about privacy, and we all swallowed the pill.

Unlike Apple, Proton's software being open source (and by extension their promises) can be vetted by anybody with the skills.

This is a fair assessment, though isn't all the meta crap connected?

With which I mean don't Facebook posts sync to threads and such? I know my Instagram posts synced with Facebook when I still had Facebook.

So we can add "illegal" to the list of words Trump uses but doesn't know the meaning of.

The best option here is to just tank Chrome's market share instead of making something that's obviously not ideal, work.

I agree the optics of this aren't great, but the real question is if this higher follower count on Mastodon translates to post engagement...

My brother once bought me followers on Instagram as some kind of joke and that did exactly squat for reach as far as i could tell. Not saying Proton bought followers on Mastodon, but I am saying followers don't necessarily mean anything.

Mastodon peaked a couple of times but then usage dwindled because people started using Bluesky or returning to bigtech platforms because their buddies didn't move over. I suspect a fair amount of these mastodon subscribers are stale accounts and the Proton team just aren't seeing the engagement they have on the other platforms.

I don't get the "too many products" comment. Proton has always said their goal was to be a privacy first replacement for Google and not just do e-mail. The crypto wallet is a weird one as this is not among Google's services, but i'd say their library of services otherwise perfectly follows this goal?

I feel you're misrepresenting the second point.

Proton did not comment on Trump. Their CEO did. And specifically on liking a certain hire for a certain position because he thought that would be good for small business.

It was a garbage take for many reasons, and the community let that be known. For me that was that but people keep coming back to this as some sort of unforgivable transgression.

Liberals (among which I count myself) like to piss on Musk and buddies for not actually supporting freedom of speech even though they call themselves absolutists in this area, but drastic moves like leaving over some tweet is a plank cut from the same tree...

If you're going to move every time somebody says something you find questionable you're going to have a hell of a time with the average company being filled with hundreds of people and thusly hundreds of opinions. And it's good to remember most people are going to be having these takes in background without you knowing of them.

Reddit has a tendancy to be alarmist. AFAIK there's zero evidence to support Proton are closeted MAGA. If i'm wrong on this i'll gladly stand corrected with some substantial evidence.

This is a sentiment that is just generally garnering traction in Europe as a whole I think.

I don't even think it's about hurting the US/Trump as much as people just have a renewed interest to support "local" business as a result of recent events.

I pump the brakes with the swearing if I'm around kids, complete strangers, or people I know really take offense to it, i'm honestly not trying to be rude on purpose.

But other than that, no. I swear a lot and have no intention to lessen that. It's an excellent coping mechanism for stress and it doesn't hurt anybody or, in fact, anything.

Replacing it with things like "what the cluck" would only add to the anger I feel in the moment because I think that's horribly cringe.

Cyberpunk (and Witcher 3) already runs, and honestly way better then I expected, on my steam deck. They even have a specific graphics setting to accommodate for it's obviously limited hardware, so CDPR are also aware people play their games on the steam deck as evidenced by this graphics setting.

Steamdeck is linux. Obviously this proton translation layer that is being leveraged is very capable.

For all intents and purposeses, CDPR is already where they need to be for half-decent Linux support and honestly I don't understand why they didn't already draw that last sprint that would be required to fully support this.