nexoft
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
1 - there was a persistent, very visible at all time big ass button on the Proton-Mail UI asking/suggesting to upgrade to a more premium plan, while I was already a paid customer. It was done in a way that was so wrong. Never experienced such frustrating things elsewhere even with my 99% full google drive.
2 - This must’ve been 2022 or 2023 Black Friday/cyber Monday season and there was a persistant, hardcoded, very annoying pop up that would immediately spawn each time I was opening Proton-Mail, asking me against to upgrade to the more premium plan than the premium I had, this will spawn every time I refresh despite hitting “don’t show this again”.
There are so many slick and smart way to get customer to use more services. Shoving unsolicited pop ups and spams is the worst thing you could do for your brand. I even start to wonder about their core values of privacy and whatnot, they play the suiss neutral privacy friendly so badly, their head of marketing is either so bad and should be fired or we going to discover another [Crypto AG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG) scandal.
[Anredj Karpathy first minutes of Intro to Large Language Models / 4Min20](https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=257)
Training is a compression of a huge chunk of the internet.
The replies and interactions looks like a bunch of agentic models discussing with each others. Nobody is real.
maybe he is using tor on top of it
who knows
something that is actually interesting that is attempting to bring something on the table : check tinygrad/tinycorp
2-Your business is probably very profitable, and $300 a month is very cheap compared to the potential hassles they could face working with such a business.
3-I find it very inappropriate to dox business representatives and show names when you have carefully hidden any information regarding yourself and haven't even disclosed your company name.
After all they can choose with whom they want to do business. They gauged what price they could ask you, factoring in how profitable your business is and how noisy and painful it might be to work with you. It sucks but this is the downside of SaaS/PaaS.