They’re a small indie company and they need the server power to run the AI in Firefox
They’re a small indie company and they need the server power to run the AI in Firefox
You mean, like the USA?
But there’s no way to prevent this, according to the only nation where this frequently happens.
Man you right wingers are a very annoying bunch, always claiming censorship and loss of democracy while applauding the actual wannabe dictators doing gold medal deserving mental gymnastics to justify antidemocratic actions
“Musk […] passion for free speech is genuine”
As long as it lines up with the right wing agenda, otherwise it’s woke bullshit that needs to be censored and banned, right?
Delusional, both of you.
They’re Brazilians mate, even if the ban gets lifted in 10 years and xitter is somehow around, Brazilians will immediately flock back to it. They have unconditional love for their social media
Tell me you support Bolsonaro and Musk without telling me you support them
The problem with Xbox is that Microsoft requires parity with both consoles, so the more powerful X constantly gets gimped because the S can’t handle something. With the PS5 and Pro this probably wouldn’t be the case since games aren’t gutted because of a less powerful model requiring parity, so they can just add some higher graphical fidelity to the Pro
They’ll move to Threads or Bluesky long before they even think of saying the word mastodon
A LLM to write emails and a crypto wallet were among the least voted/requested features on their last big survey and yet barely a month after the survey was done, they’ve released both things.
There’s still no calendar widget on Android and iOS and other very basic things that have been widely requested for years now
When basic and highly requested features go untouched for years on end on every single product they have and new ones they launch, and Proton decides to keep expanding the portfolio without seemingly expanding the work force, then yes, one thing does prevent the other from happening.
It makes more sense to not spread even thinner chasing AI grifting and cryptobro services when your existing services have been lacking basic functionality for years
The entire way that Proton introduced the Proton Scribe seemed very shady. Usually Proton would go on and on about transparency and all that, but with Scribe it just seemed very off, like they were purposefully avoiding talking about the thing in question.
On the Reddit post about the bitcoin wallet, Proton team is also avoiding replying to most negative constructive comments about it, and the very few that they did reply to are just trying to justify the walletand LLM because “banks have crypto ETFs”, “other companies have implemented AI” and my favourite “one shouldn’t confuse Bitcoin with “crypto””.
Proton is acting in a shady way with these two controversial services that seemed to appear into thin air on how quick they released those. I cannot see myself using Proton’s products anymore and while trying (fighting) to cancel my subscription, I can see some dark patterns that try to prevent you from doing it, or trying to upsell you something.
Oh and by the way, Hylics is such a great game
I could go on and on about those features on that page that are there for ages, but one struck me hard in the last hour: I tried cancelling my subscription, and after clicking on 6 “I’m sure” buttons and writing a reason why, I couldn’t cancel because I was using too much storage (3GB, free accounts have a 500MB limit). I deleted everything on my Drive and emptied the trash, tried again, no success. Deleted all my emails and emptied the trash, still failed. Deleted everything on Calendar and Pass, nothing. Couldn’t find anywhere how to contact support. There’s a small bar that shows how much storage I’m using, one would expect that clicking on it would show a summary of what’s using your storage, but all it does is show a popup with Proton’s subscription plans.
I can’t cancel my subscription because they don’t have the basic functionality of a storage usage summary.
They’ve made a poll that had questions about AI, but no clear options to indicate that you don’t want anything to deal with AI. From the results, less than 20% of the voters signalled that they wanted an AI offering from Proton, those being business users, and less than a month later Proton introduces (to business accounts at the moment) a LLM that writes email for you (that has to decrypt and read plain text the emails that were supposed to be stored with zero access encryption), and it uses a model that was trained on copyrighted data without permission.
Not even two weeks later they come up with this crypto wallet, and both endeavours are on two very sensitive and controversial topics, to a point it seems Proton is “selling out” to techbros.
All the while, you can’t even create or edit folders and labels on their mail mobile apps.
The reason people are mad with this is because Proton’s longstanding services are lacking basic features for months and years already with no update in sight, and in less than a month after a (now) controversial poll, Proton introduces AI and crypto wallet in their portfolio.
When is ad an advertisement and not a recommendation?
Always? That’s why it’s called ad instead of recommendation
Check this video as well. I do share most of that experience of having to Google how to do some things because it’s not immediately obvious, and some other things do take more clicks/effort than they should’ve compared to Photoshop. All in all, it has completely replaced Photoshop for my use case.
Don’t worry folks, if we all stop using plastic straws and take 30 second showers, we’ll be able to offset 5% of the carbon emissions this AI has!
It was a joke about how it seems they’re putting most, if not all, efforts into their AI