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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From what I have heard, the best help for them would be for their CEO to get the boot ASAP.

Perhaps work-to-rule is the best action: he wants them to "move faster" since committing "AI" code without full audits and pentesting is "loser thinking"? OK, code up that AI slop faster than ever before, and merge it without any review! Then let ProtonMail/Drive/VPN fall over and he can go explain to the press why.

[–] molecule_union@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

the best help for US would be to unionize

[–] begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They are a European company

[–] PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

He is saying "us", not "U.S." As in, he is identifying as a Proton employee.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

easy mistake though, especially since proton have always acted so very usa

[–] molecule_union@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it says our in the text up top

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, I'm aware of what you meant.

If you capitalise US though, people are going to think you are talking about the usa

[–] molecule_union@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apologies, misread the reply.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Proton is a Swiss company, not a US company

[–] molecule_union@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It was confusing since it is capitalized in your sentence

[–] PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

He is saying "us", not "U.S." As in, he is identifying as a Proton employee.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It was confusing since it is capitalized in the sentence

[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

Spaces like Reddit are very useful as the internal work chat is not good.

Godspeed if you find Reddit useful. I remember when the Reddit Privacy moderators were so captured that they were willing to censor content on behalf of Proton.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i2r2sv/why_was_the_founder_and_ceo_of_proton_tweeting/

[–] begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

real talk, unionizing is a great first step, but you can't negotiate with terrorists. Andy and his lackeys need to be kicked to the curb, he is fundamentally incompatible with Proton's mission.

[–] molecule_union@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it is very disheartening to see that a rallying cry from employees is downvoted here. we have to take it from both our ceo and supposedly solidaristic spaces, it is exhausting

On my end, all your comments (on this post at least) are all positive. I personally don't have a way to see if you've been downvoted. Is this referring to something else?

[–] Revolver1864@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Ffs i just converted to proton. Guess i'll try Tuta then

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago