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A post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    How far have the mighty fallen.

    Thinking of moving my main e-mail address to tuta. Alas, haven’t been able to find a good provider that uses tried-and-true protocols like IMAP.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      24 hours ago

      I would very much consider doing some actual research on tuta. Last I checked, they put a LOT of effort into preventing you from controlling your own inbox (Proton have their god awful sync program but it works). And their support forums were basically nothing but constant complaints of downtimes and outages.

      My current approach, that I am slowly migrating everything toward (from gmail), is my own domain that I own and addresses at that. I then use (paid) services to manage the email server and just change my DNS settings so that said emails get routed to the right service. I keep a local copy of all my emails on my desktop (working on a solution to my NAS). So if the company goes to shit? I can migrate my entire existence to a new one within 24 hours (usually less because Cloudflare is really good…).

      Currently I use Proton (and hate their sync program). I’ve seen a LOT of good word on Fastmail and like that they don’t have any special sync program at all. Main issue is that Proton still have the best VPN for torrenting (linux ISOs only, obviously) and I need to math out what it would cost to switch to just ProtonVPN and then Fastmail. But (Not That) Will Smith wrote up a really good blog post a few months back where he went into why he likes Fastmail and he (and Brad Shoemaker) tend to be my kind of “Yes, I am making my life harder but for a reason maybe”.

      • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        not email but are there any good alternatives for cloud storage? i backup some of my passwords and pictures to my proton drive manually