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  • This is unfortunate and is a really bad PR move. It feels too big tech.

    Even if Andy Yen were actually right about everything, and it’s his company, it’s just more bad PR.

    I think Andy Yen is probably a logic and math genius who needs to hire an emotional intelligence coach or a PR advisor or something. High IQ does not always mean high emotional intelligence and it’s better to accept when you don’t have both.

    Alternatively, perhaps some evil government has forced Yen to install a universal back door, there’s an order saying he can’t disclose this, and so he’s acting strange to try to warn users the only way he can. If I’m right about this, I hope he makes the background of proton.me bright green. He can always deny reading this if he does that.















  • So many of you are being so irrational and ungrateful. Do you know how much work the Graphene team likely did to make this happen? This means Graphene is less dependent on Google hardware in order to exist (ie, if Google decides to lock bootloaders in future Pixel models it won’t end the project). An expensive high-end phone brings along rich people and corporate users who will hopefully donate to the project. The engineers at the Graphene project work so much and it would be nice to see more appreciation.

    No one is being forced to buy this highest end model. There are plenty of Pixels they support and will continue to support and they likely they will support other models that will be much cheaper over time. If you don’t want to buy a $2K phone, don’t buy this model. Problem solved! Or wait for more people to be selling this phone used and buy a used version of this model. Also, having this much RAM means that it’s more likely this can run virtualized ARM operating systems and can work like a desktop when plugged in, although I am not sure if it can do that.


  • https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cbc-tutanota-tuta-is-a-honeypot/14978/9

    Why would a government employee, being charged with a crime, randomly make up lies about tutanota, now Tuta?

    The likely answer is he didn’t make up lies and wanted to expose an operation as revenge for them charging him with a crime, which he thought he would likely be convicted of.

    Cameron Ortis did actually get 14 years in prison. So if this were merely a disinformation campaign, why did he end up in prison?

    For this accusation to be false, you need it to be true that Ortis randomly decided to lie about Tutanota (now Tuta) during a trial or had some incentive to lie during trial to spread misinformation about Tuta. However, there was no plea deal in this case. He was granted day parole in September of 2026, but I don’t know that much about Canadian prisons or law and if this would be considered unusual.

    The fact that Tutanota rebranded to Tuta nearly immediately after this (to make it harder for regular people searching for this to discover it) is also suspicious.




  • I agree with this. I like AI and really don’t like people labeling anything AI-created as slop. But in order for something to not be AI slop, the developer needs to review the output and provide feedback to the model. If this is “draft 1” of the content and the dev only reviewed parts of it, I understand dev’s excitement and wanting others to see it, but it seems like dev should be beta testing draft 1 with the model and doing some revisions before asking others to check it out.

    Because some of the phrasing is unclear enough in its explanations that a typical person might not be able to follow it. And I feel like if dev had read more of it, dev probably would have noticed that…