This checks out as the French are the second biggest arms dealer in the world.

Oh, I missed the blood on his crotch, he can speak from experience.

Sorry, but now you know what is in the beef n’ cheddars.

Ubuntu may have experienced a downturn but there was a time where Red Hat and later on Fedora wasn’t very user friendly. Ubuntu dramatically increased Linux adoption so I will always like it for that, but I think you are correct nowadays.

Keep giving corporations your money, what could possibly go wrong.

Why are there so many people on Lemmy asking this same question over and over again. This has got to get over ten now in the last week.

We have fallen into the convenient trap of global warming being the problem. While it is a serious issue every single human being is poisoned from birth by forever chemicals and plastics. Tens of millions of people die every year from pollution.

We have serious issues now. For instance our entire planet is blanketed with lead from decades of burning fossil fuels with lead additive. This wasn’t completely stopped until 2023. Don’t worry though because coal plants are also dumping a ton of lead into our atmosphere.

It is so bad that when you burn wood it releases a lot of lead because the trees have absorbed it. This lead exposure is attributed to 1-5 million deaths a year alone not even counting all the cancer and premature deaths other pollution causes.

Our entire planet is a Superfund site currently. We have already past the point of no return in my opinion. We could try and fix the damage done but it would likely cost hundreds of trillions of dollars to do it. Capitalists know all this already and they don’t care. They are happy to let us fight over global warming.

This is the missing piece most people don’t get. If any one European power has access to an entire continent of resources they would be pretty well off. This is American Exceptionalism in a nutshell.

Of course it wasn’t actually our continent. We had to engage in a lot of genocide to acquire the land. The strangest part is that there was so much land we could have easily lived in peace. So it really was a conscious decision to go around and exterminate all the tribes.

Between genocide and the slave trade the US was absolutely abysmal when it came to human rights. Something that has never changed. The only reason ithe US was so successful was again because of so much space.

Not only does the size of America make organizing to influence the federal government hard it also acts as a buffer for the decline that is being engineered by the wealthy class. There is plenty to go around, but it is never enough for them. If our country was smaller people would feel these shit policies much quicker and react.

I hate when people post pictures of their kids now. It is so cringe knowing that AI is capturing their faces and building profiles on them.

I realized this back during COVID. I had always known FB and their parent Meta were shit companies, but they were pushing engagement algorithms that lead to death threats because I would say innocuous things like stay safe and use a mask if you need to.

After my third interaction with someone in my past who had been radicalized by their garbage propaganda I said enough was enough and deleted my account.

My family still uses it and I still warn them not to, but I will never use their service for anything personal again.

Try this:

Wake up in the morning

Drink a big glass of water

Wait 1-10 minutes

Poop

They knew it was psychological manipulation. This is without a doubt a serious form of abuse by a trusted entity that holds a lot of power. Everyone who had engaged in creating addictive feedback loops and dark patterns should be removed from the market permanently.

Those same people do not actually kill animals. They eat meat, there is a disconnect here. I would wager if everyone had to kill and process the meat they eat that consumption would go down considerably.

But if make baby good?

Came here to say the first part. Not so sure about the Star Trek AI anytime soon though.

What is that, it is hard to hear you with the boot in your mouth. Maybe you should upgrade your Proton plan. What a dumbass.

I have already explained to you several times what my issue with Proton is. If you are incapable of understanding that is okay.

You don’t understand how payment is processed and no a VPN does not have to process their payment differently. There is no requirement to hold onto meta data. Once again you are failing to grasp. I believe you are just acting obtuse at this point.

You are just a fanboy who licks the boots of the business they pay for.

They market on privacy and fail to deliver as I keep pointing out. Perhaps this isn’t entirely their fault because of regulations and the way the Internet industry operates. I recognize this, but this informs me to be skeptical of all corporations. Self hosting is also problematic because the big providers are essentially using their monopoly power to lock residential IP addressed email out.

As far as the meta credit card data, yes they do keep it.

"We do not retain full credit card details, we only save your name and the last 4 digits of the credit card number. " -Proton

I am not a fan of any corporation, but to illustrate a point Mullvad VPN does not store this information on their servers at all. There is some nuance with Swiss law where VPN provider can’t be compelled to hand over logs but email providers can be compelled if the user or provider chooses to use or turn on a logging feature. I don’t speak their language(s) so I could be misreading these details.

"It is therefore our policy to never store any activity logs or metadata and to have as minimal data retention as possible. " -Mullvad

Having this separation is just another layer of privacy that illustrates that a company that is focused on privacy can continue to innovate to increase protection. If you are going to pay for privacy, you should expect excellence. Not exactly what state law allows. That is the floor not the ceiling.

Proton is low effort and that has resulted in governments abusing their power to out protestors/criminals/etc. There are multiple cases of this happening which has also forced Proton to become an arbitrator of investigations.

You see, they do fight back for some users but not all. This obviously creates an enormous conflict of interest because a private corporation should not be the arbitrator of the law in this way.

Needless to say the bigger a corporation grows the more concerning this becomes. A market with a few dominate providers allows for abuses and Proton is unfortunately part of the problem at this point. I suppose their is some lesser of the evils argument for using their service that I don’t care to entertain.

I am glad you admit to at least one basic fact. I don’t like how they market to privacy when they do shit like store your credit card meta data on their server.

Other companies have solved this privacy problem but yet this supposed privacy company can’t seem to figure out. I personally believe that because of their marketing they have created quite the honeypot for illicit actors. They know this and they are a little too eager to give up information because of it.

They receive ten of thousands of requests for information every year and this keeps increasing dramatically. They have already transitioned from famous to infamous for the amount of times they have failed their users.

Everytime the excuse is the same. It is the end users fault for not buying our VPN or some other bullshit. The are shitty and you seem to tow the company line like a good little shill.

As I said before, I still believe you might be operating an elaborate parody account. I really can’t believe people are this hard core, it reminds of those defenders of Microsoft or Telsa in years prior.

Security theatre is just that. Proton is just cashing in on the concept of security when they are aware that their own practices along with the industry at large prevents it.

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/news/protonmail-s-logging-trap-how-privacy-theater-enables-the-post-cambridge-analytica-surveillance-state-50339/

You want to throw money at them to ignore the actual problem at hand, go ahead. Pretending they actually offer security is a lie. It is a marketing lie. Security is not achieved by giving your hard earned money to a corporation and frankly you should be ashamed for suggesting it.

Your deny that Proton uses privacy as a selling feature and you want me to prove it does otherwise I am yapping? Do you know how impossibly dumb you sound.

My point that I think they have shitty marketing practices? You have not even addressed this nor moved the needle in how I see their shitty business practices. My argument is not what you are addressing at all. That is okay, like I said you act like a parody. It is actually funny to see how hard you pander for a corporation. You must REALLY like Proton, lol.