bitbasher

I'm sure this person was told to post on Reddit using their personal account (as the original 404 article showed).

You can't trust anything ... anyone ... says at Proton. That leak shattered any faith anyone has in the company.

It's clear the company places profit above customers. The CEO calls their own employees losers. The CEO thinks writing code by hand is like using a fax machine in 2026.

Fuck Andy, and fuck Proton.

> “Due to insufficient velocity,” Proton is not on track to achieve its annual recurring revenue target by the end of the year, one internal document...

Ummm, maybe I am crazy but I don't want the main metric for my privacy-first email provider to be ARR. How about security and privacy guarantees? How about bugs fixed? How about lowering the supply chain risk for the company? I care about a lot more than your ARR.

> That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure

> Yen reiterated his point: “only losers think like that.” His ultimate message for the team was to “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

I'm on the Proton "visionary" plan ($280/year) for my family. I'm more than happy to switch. Anyone have a suggestion as to where to re-home our email? I'm using custom domains for ~3 domains and control 3 people's email.

I think Anthropic and OpenAI will likely go down in history as the next Enron.

... you expected different? What did you think was going to happen?

That is certainly a large part of it.

1. There's no standard grades (we don't use A through F like everyone else).

2. Teacher's cannot tell you averages in your class/grade so you don't know how well your child is doing compared to their average peer.

3. Attendance doesn't matter.

4. Grades don't matter, you can fail and still pass.

5. The push for "emotional growth centers" in schools created an unfit learning environment in many schools. Teachers are unable to stop problematic kids or remove them from the class. Kids feel unsafe when problematic kids are having a meltdown.

6. The average number of instructional hours in Oregon is well below other states because things like "teacher conferences" are counted as full school days even though there's no school.

The list goes on and on.

Yes-- the funds are earmarked for another use. However, that doesn't prevent the state from making changes and adjusting where funds are allocated. Let the people vote on it.

That's something I don't fully understand with a lot of these (clearly ai generated) projects.

If you didn't take the time to build the thing you're trying to sell to me (even if it's free) why should I buy (use) it? I could just prompt my own solution instead of randomly curl-installing some thing from someone I don't know.

Am I the crazy one here?

You can only do that if you have access to the binary. Which, in a web service, you shouldn't be able to access!

So-- if PHP's sourcecode was unavailable (closed source), would this ever have been found? Probably not. Maybe it is safer to be closed source.