I am currently in the middle of moving to Tuta.

Andy Yen and Proton can get fucked.

I'm in the process of doing the same thing. I've canceled but I'm half way through a two year plan. So I have some time to move to a different location. I hooked a lot of things to this email address.

FYI you can get unlimited aliases with duckduckgo mail (still need an email provider though)
https://duckduckgo.com/email/

Is there no way to export/import between providers?

Yeah I convinced my family to move off of Gmail and now here we are. 😭

Holy shit. I've spent more than a year and I'm a fucking nerd with no kids to worry about. Hats off to you lady.

Sorry you're having to worry about this.

For what it is worth, I think you're still better off at Proton (where their AI idiocy could leak your private information) than at Gmail (where their user agreements seem to indicate they proactively sell it.)

Time to deproton

Indeed, a healthy message could be: "We are making these novel tools available to our software experts and trusting their expertise to make the most of them".

However they can't resist deciding that all of a sudden they, despite not actually knowing the space at all, know better than the people actually in the space. Lot's of people who might not even know what a job even is about becoming 'experts' who want to backseat drive how you do things. They read an article asserting that git isn't "AI appropriate" and tell you that you should be switching to an "AI appropriate" thing, despite not having ever touched software development at all, or even knowing what sort of software you produce let alone using it.

I really can't wait for the bubble to pop and these types to get bored of trying to pretend they can lead through micromanagement in a domain they don't actually understand.

The dumb thing about that quote is that it doesn't have to be an either/or situation. Engineers want to solve these problems by nature; if there were no voices from the top, we'd be getting AI to help us write better code, and trying to make AI write better code fast. For whatever reason the C-suites can't just let things follow their natural course which would already result in wins for them, they have to spew the narrative that our jobs are completely changing so they can justify getting rid of them

Zionist Swiss university

you mean ETH Zürich?

Damn, didn't knew that yet, thanks sigh

Yeah. I was going to ride it out but then they decided to go full stupid so I've jumped ship. Ain't going down with them.

It's kind of true. With a good coder watching over it LLM can do amazing things.

I'm looking at fastmail at the moment. It's one of the older privacy focused so it might be an option for you?

I may have to migrate too. I’m cautious with leaving proton, but they have had plenty of time to muzzle this guy and they haven’t so it’s time to move on. I own my domain and and the aliases will all follow me either way, though that’s going to be an absolute bear to migrate.

This. Although not enthused with the all in use of AI tools, I dont have a problem with it being used to generate code. So long as a human is responsible for the PRs that go into the project. The bigger issue is the push around sacrificing proper security posture and process. As I've said else where, for a company that sold me and many based on their security and privacy stance, its an odd position to take, and probably why I will be moving on closer to my subscription end

I've used riseup in the past and agree with their worldview (for the most part) and they run the service well, but I had to leave them when I became more privacy conscious as they are headquartered in the United States. They could get a national security letter and I could be getting spied on and never know it. The NSL could direct them not to take down their warrant canary, too.

Wow I'm learning so much stuff here amazing! I didn't know the concept of a tech collective existed. Thanks for sharing! So glad I signed up to Lemmy too.

The fact that one of the email provider examples (disroot) had a major hardware failure few days ago and getting new emails is still not possible is not very reassuring :/ Email being reliable is even more important to me than it being secure (if they leaked at least I would be able to read them :P). And that a serious tradeoff I think one should take into account when choosing smaller, independent provider.

Which of these could survive being cut off from the international banking system? I need a new primary email but I recently learned about the situation with A/I and am concerned about potentially losing access. Any related thoughts you might have would also be appreciated, thanks.

Nice.

It's a PR statement. Don't listen what people say, watch what they do. There were signs of proton not caring about security that much long before 2024.

I'm guessing a combination of chatbot psychosis and massive egos from their positions in the company.

That's what happens when you pay a PR firm to write your blerbs.

Means nothing at the end of the day. It's what you do, not what you say, that defines you.

and their CEO’s meltdown, they decide to do the exact opposite and go all in.

I was INCHES away. They were going to be my de-google move. I had decided to pull the trigger but it was late and I know i would have been up all night dealing with it. I'd deal with it in the morning. A few more days slipped and he licked Trumps balls on twitter....

Whoopsies, not with someone elses' 10 ft pole.

I narrowly dodged that bullet

They're thinking that the chatbots are just a few weeks away from making hiring people obsolete so they can finally get infinite money forever.

So, not thinking at all.

What do they think? That engineers are good enough for being hired but not good enough to decide which tools to use?

Exactly. That's the smell that stinks from miles away.