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Yeah, I'm hypocritical with proton, I use it myself, but I think people should just pay a bit more attention to what they're doing.
I use it with the full knowledge that they will start to track me and share my IP with Europol if they come with a warrant. (They are unable to comply with anything further, thanks to their e2e architecture)
It is part of my threat model and I use it solely for private stuff.
I couldn't care less that the CEO had one slipup praising a Republican with a seemingly good track record (although I did not investigate that matter)
And being a Luddite about AI is really counterproductive, it has arrived in our society and if correctly utilised will be just another tool used to automate or autocomplete etc.
Basically what your IDE already does but on steroids
(Disclaimer: it's Friday and I'm tired so there is a real – if small – chance I'm being a contrarian armed with superficial knowledge. I can't rly tell myself 🙃)
I don't think using proton is a personal moral failure, I just think these things are worth discussing.
I totally agree, but think that the toot you shared is a bit alarmist
Using a corporation to provide "privacy" is most certainly a logical and moral failing.
How do you know some crappy generated code isn’t doing some kind of stupid logging?
TBH this isn't a great argument for open source code. You know it's not doing something stupid in the exact same way you know a human written application isn't doing something stupid.
1- You review it yourself to double check OR
2- You hope that the community is reviewing it and that you would be made aware of problems OR
3- You just don't know.
Because I know how software development works IRL LOL