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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • You’re confusing proton with our stance as a community which cares about privacy.

    As a community the question is, will we shun anyone who cares about furthering our rights to privacy, because they have other stances on other issues?

    Doing so is only isolating us and prevents us from making our issues heard and gathering more support across the political spectrum.

    You can fight alongside someone you don’t agree with on other topics. It is not an endorsement for all they stand for.





  • I’m personally satisfied with the statement, position and reflection on the issue.

    It was a fuck-up to publicly respond to donaldtrump in what could be seen as an endorsement. This was acknowledged and remedied.

    The no politics stance is probably unavoidable, as mentioned but they should never focus on political parties, but on defending the values, this is what is clarified and that’s best. We should accept to support a bill strengthening privacy even if it may come from a political party we generally do not support. Denying our support to such a bill would not strengthen the core value we defend. And as individuals we may still criticize all other activities of such a political party if we disagree with others of their activities.

    As a community, I hope we can come together, and resist the temptation of purity tests, and acknowledge that we are all fighting for the same cause, no matter our perspective on other issues. We need the support of everyone.


  • Am I the only that don’t see this the same way as the rest? I am in way way endorsing or supporting MAGA, but they did take action against big tech (though for reasons of retribution) and I see Proton only acknowledging a good person being designated to lead the next antitrust efforts, apparently with a good track record.

    Proton also acknowledges Lina Kahn who has done a great job, nominated under Joe Biden.

    Ultimately, I feel like from a perspective of Proton, any win against Big Tech, is a good win, and I can’t disagree.

    There is a longer discussion to be had around how the dems were supported by oligarchs and I think that’s what Proton is referring to, they decided to turn a blind eye under the Obama administration for instance. Bernie Sanders goes to lengths about this in this interview, illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzkgWDCucNY

    So all in all, maga sucks, new pick probably good, and in my view, proton not actually endorsing maga/trump but just acknowledging a good pick.

    Did I miss something?




  • I think that’s great, well done.

    One thing which I’m curious about is that now Signal is proposing itself as a zoom replacement with call links and the ability to share a username rather than a phone number. This makes it interesting in a work setting, given that there is a desktop app too.

    However, I have a possibly unique gripe with it: how do I manage my personal vs professional profile picture? Currently I have a profile picture which I’m using mostly for friends and family. But that is not ideal for a professional setting. And them maybe I’d like to join some online communities more anonymously. I don’t want to use the same profile picture for all 3 settings. I wish Signal would make it easier to manage the profile picture selectively and more granularly.

    Anyone else within them same position?



  • I’m not sure because a bank being absent from such a list could either mean the compatibility is known to be functional or unknown. And that’s very different and I would argue a very critical difference.

    As a user I would definitely care most about a list of functional banks and that is what we have. What you propose, while it has its value, would not be actionable to users due to the ambiguity I raised above.


  • What was the subject of the email? Because if they are alerting you to some security issue regarding your account, I think it is reasonable to prevent the user from unsubscribing, otherwise how would they be alerting you and would you then blame them for not having alerted you?

    Of course, if this is a marketing email, that’s something else but then is it an important message regarding your account and products you are using?