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  • It’s a privacy activist stance, privacy and security are always at a constant battle. There was a post about it a few weeks back, every attempt at security compromises privacy, because private info is the easiest way to lock security down, so it’s always the route that companies take. Personally I don’t think a corporation should have to risk their company over it, but I don’t think a company that isn’t privacy oriented should pretend to be. It’s misleading. I give them credit that they might be good for privacy but, the entire operation gets undermined when in order to sign up, it tries to force you into giving information that could identify you. The less information needed the better, and the less you can tell overreachers. If you don’t have the information you don’t have the information. That’s signals motto, it’s also Mullvads motto, and its the direction that proton runs in if you can find your way through it’s hoops.



  • Can you tell me which endpoint/region that you used? Cuz I just tried using a VPN endpoint from Switzerland Sweden and Ukraine and all three of them brought up a requirement to have a verification email

    edit: disregard apparently it was a browser issue, switched from Firefox to Chrome and reconnected to a Switzerland endpoint and it let me solve a captcha instead of using email verification system


  • Proton does require you to have a dedicated phone number or email to sign up though, like that was my main thing that swayed me away from making a protonmail account was when I went to sign up I was met with a phone number requirement and I’m like “oh well this isn’t going to be helpful”

    They claim it’s to prevent abuse of the service, and that it’s only the cryptographic hash which can be used to find out if the email has been used on an account before. But I dislike that it requires even going that info

    ammendum: apparently this restriction may be based off of your region used and browser. I was able to finally successfully create an account using Chrome, but Firefox exclusively gave me email or phone number requirements



  • I did follow the entire story, the lead dev was very adamant that they were not going to be given any support for it. They said their Linux userbase wasn’t worth the hassle(wasn’t enough players using it). They were also dismissive of any of the linux discussion for people that wanted to be. I guess “hostile” wouldn’t be the right term, since they never said anyone should not use linux, but they were extremely against Linux as a whole, due to the ideology that they believed that it was mostly hackers on linux. Potential workarounds were provided to the devs that would have allowed it to continue working under wine, their excuse for it was that the crash reports the incompatible WINE clients would have would poison their reporting datasets, which in my opinion is a full cop out.

    being said, I do want to add that there was some devs that wanted to keep it wine support, and they did so which is why it was allowed to function under wine for so long, but unfortunately the lead devs and a few managers with this ideology made the final call and disabled it.



  • I assume that it’s his relation to endorsing X again after he left it’s(bsky) board after bsky refused to enter federation territory and then proceeded to add moderation tools to the platform (an action he was strictly against as he wanted it to be completely freedom of ideas).

    TBH I agree with a lot of his mentality on it(that it should be further into the federation territory), while I do think some moderation tools are needed, but I think he loses all credit to his claims by endorsing X as the platform that is capable of doing what he wants.



  • I feel this is likely assisted by the fact that they have been extremely hostile to the Linux user-base. While the people that used linux as a whole were a minority, a good portion of them were devs. There is a reason that roblox studio kept wine support where the main client blocked it, they didn’t want to isolate their map devs from the platform. However as it turns out, it’s hard to create maps on an OS that you can’t actually test your creations on, which is why the innovation as a whole for their maps have stagnated in the last few years. Less people willing to make maps for a platform that is super in your face with cash grab moments, while also being inconvenienced by artificial restrictions placed by a Dev team who still has the mentality that Linux = Hax0rs






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    I’m conflicted on this (as in the topic). I have no argument that the information should have remained public. but like, what is the alternative that the employees had? The only outcome not obeying that direction would be is termination. Being terminated for not following direction would help nobody, the information would still not be available to the public, and the workers would be out of a job. Plus workers terminated would be replaced with workers who were not passionate about climate change, so if a more minor of a problem came up, they couldn’t skew it in a less destructive matter. The workers were dealt a shitty hand and did what they could with it.

    Being said, love the idea! I wish we could have more of a say in stuff like this. 😀



  • I mean, fair is fair.

    If I build a treehouse in the backyard of a building I’m renting (with landlord approval ofc), then I move out, I don’t take the tree house with me, US law states moreorless that anything that is not portable, when installed on a piece of land, become that land owners property.

    The US built a canal on Panama’s property. Under agreement from both parties, sounds like the same should apply here. The amount of money spent and who spent it doesn’t really matter imo. It’s on panama’s land, its panama’s property.