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Proton removed post on UserVoice calling for Andy Yen to step down in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Proton removed post on UserVoice calling for Andy Yen to step down (sh.itjust.works)
 

Protonmail.uservoice.com is supposedly "The Voice of the Proton Community". Well last week I was tracking a post that was rising rapidly to the top-most voted in the "general ideas" category. And this morning when I went to check if it was at the top yet, it's just gone without a trace. No sign that it was ever there.

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Republicans rammed through Supreme Court nominees. Now Democrats will have the votes to stop them in c/politics@lemmy.world
Write to the Board of Trustees to ask for change in c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
Write to the Board of Trustees to ask for change in c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
[–] 17 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Already did. Here's what I wrote, feel free to use it for inspiration.

Hi Proton Foundation Team,

I’ve been a Proton customer since 2022 on the Unlimited plan and the free tier for some years before that. I’m writing because I really believe in your mission, people before profits, and I want to stay a customer. But I’m getting pretty worried about what’s going on internally, specifically regarding Andy Yen's leadership.

Recent reporting ([the 404 Media piece](https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/ "the 404 Media piece")) describes a pretty toxic environment: employees being called "losers," tracking software to monitor AI usage, and pressure to use AI even when security teams have concerns. If the culture is punishing people for raising red flags, that feels like a huge risk for a privacy company.

Beyond the immediate morale issues, I’m concerned this atmosphere will repel top engineering and product management talent. The best security experts and PMs won’t stick around where they’re treated poorly or where their warnings are ignored. And if there’s a casual attitude toward essential safeguards like penetration testing just to move faster on AI, that’s a direct threat to the product’s integrity.

This is exactly why your oversight role exists. As the non-profit shareholder tasked with ensuring Proton never deviates from its mission, I need to know you’re stepping in. Can you clarify how you’re handling these concerns? Specifically:

* How is AI-generated code being reviewed for security if engineers are afraid to speak up?

* What’s the Foundation doing about the reported bullying and fear tactics?

* Are you monitoring how this culture affects talent retention and security rigor?

I’m not looking for a PR spin, just some transparency. I trust the mission, but I’m starting to doubt the execution.

Thanks for listening,

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    Exporting chats allows you to store and review conversations outside the app.

    The export includes all your chats; exporting individual conversations is currently not supported.

    So how does this work? You have to export your entire, let's call it a, library? Every message to and from every contact. Then how do you read it, like literaly looking at a json with the {brackets: {and colons: and indentations}} and stuff?

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    Is this slightly mis-seated tire a problem? (sh.itjust.works)
     

    I put a new tire on my rear wheel and it was the tightest fitting tire I've ever seen. Extremely hard to wrestle on there but I eventually got it. Now, though, it's not quite seated right all the way around. There's about a 3-spoke length just on the one side where the little textured edge, instead of peaking out from behind the rim, dives down a bit behind it. Is this a problem worth fixing or should I just ride on it? Will it eventually fix itself? Otherwise, what do I do to fox it?

    Here's a vodeo and some pictures

    https://drive.proton.me/urls/4NRWGSFBRM#-Sz--Bw29n1a

    https://drive.proton.me/urls/V08ZW5DS8C#BBsUhnp3RHTn

    https://drive.proton.me/urls/TZDW1C4BP8#KqihzE1AvxHd

    https://drive.proton.me/urls/7VB6VNN618#QMArt_okU2Mb

    Edit: I fixed it! Ok, for future reference, here's what you do. Wait until the hottest day of the year. Bike home from work (5 miles). Deflate the tire until it starts to deform with the weight of the bike. Roll it back amd forth across the problem area, making sure it's deforming as much as possible with each pass. Include some lateral movement while you roll back amd forth. Then inflate to max pressure (in this case 50 psi) and it'll pop right back into place.

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    Did Bambu Lab change something on the A1 recently? (sh.itjust.works)
     

    I have my A1 plugged into a soecial surge protector that provides power to the rest of the outlets if the one trigger outlet draws enough power. So the printer is always on so that I can send stuff to it but doesn't draw a lot of power. When it's heating up and printing the power draw increases enough to trigger the rest of the outlets and a desk lamp turns on so I can see what's being printed better. This is especially helpful at night when the desk lamp is the only light in the small office my printer is in. It's been set up like this for 2 years and it's been great.

    This morning I was not actively printing anything and I went into the office and the desk lamp was on. I looked at the printer and it wanted to update the firmware, so I did so. Afterward the lamp stayed on. I rebooted the printer multiple times and while it's rebooting obviously the lamp is off and when it boots back up the lamp stays on.

    What is causing this increased power draw? Any ideas or insights?

    For now I'm leaving it fully off but I'll have to manually go in and turn it on before sending something to print which is less convenient.

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    Anyone use Bambu Lab Cool Plate (sh.itjust.works)
     

    I got one last week and it's good, real good. But like too good? So I'll never have to worry about bed adhesion, which is not a problem very often but is the most common problem on the stock textured PEI plate that the printer comes with. But with the cool plate I definitely don't have to worry about it. Conversely, I have to worry about getting my prints off the bed without damaging them.

    I think what I'm learning is that some prints are more appropriate for one plate and others are better for the other.

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    Please help keep climate and transportation data available (sh.itjust.works)
     

    In light of some of the recent dystopian executive orders, a lot of data is being proactively taken down. I am relying on this data for a report I'm writing at work, and I suspect a lot of others may be relying on it for more important reasons. As such, I created two torrents, one for the data behind the ETC Explorer tool and another for the data behind the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Here's an article about taking down the latter. My team at work suspects the former will follow soon.

    Here are the .torrent files. Please help seed. They're not very large at all, <300 MB.

    Of course this is worthless without access to these torrents so please distribute them to any groups you think would be interested or otherwise help make them available.

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