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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I swear that money nukes brain cells.

“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 obtained by 404 Media reads. Proton’s year-over-year growth is also “far away from what the market today considers to be good,” and, “By all metrics that matter, we’re an underperforming company.”

What a bunch of imbeciles. People that use Proton are in it because they value security and privacy. Any AI produced code that's not vetted is inherently insecure, and a huge "fuck you" to privacy as a whole.

"We're no tmaking enough money fast enough, let's go the slop-route". Fucking idiot, what do you think is going to happen the moment the security crowd and the privacy crowd hear about this?

I for one have been preparing to jump ship from my family plan subscription the moment it expires, precisely because of this bullshit Yen has been pushing in the last year or so, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

I do believe that Yen started proton from a good place, but as is natural for these fuckers, the sight of money completely replaces whatever working segments of their brains were working with shit.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I swear that money nukes brain cells.

You're not wrong. When people get a sufficient amount of wealth or political power, they end up surrounded by sycophants who want a taste of their sweet lucre, or to have that power directed towards a specific agenda, or just to be adjacent to privilege.

Compare the environment that induces AI psychosis.

The effect happens at small scale too. An experiment involving Monopoly games in which one person (chosen at random) got bonus money and turns, the privileged player would get louder, eat more of the snacks and attribute their victory to their skill rather than their bonuses.

[–] zombieshotgun@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can you link to source? Would love to read this.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look up Paul Piff, who's the social psychologist who set up the experiment. He did a TED talk on the experiment, Does Money Make You Mean?

I heard about it first on Gary's Economics' YouTube video on Elon Musk.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Thanks. Pretty insightful.

... and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are the good alternatives for an all in one privacy service like Proton?

[–] blackshirt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

None.

You have to self host your own. Don't trust anyone with your data. It's hard to do, specially for email, but sadly it's the only way.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've been test-driving stalwart with encryption and shit in a VPS, so far it's been pretty solid. Using SMTP2Go as a backend for sending to avoid the risk of having my VPS IP blacklisted if something goes wrong.

The moment our subscription ends, if everything keeps going as good with stalwart, I'm jumping ship immediately.