Notices by Renato Ramonda (renatoram@fosstodon.org)

@protonprivacy ...so you DO understand why it looks extremely bad that you, Proton, a company that lives on privacy, also added AI crap to your email, right?

That regardless of how you SAY it doesn't exfiltrate personal data, it will be perceived the worst way possible, ESPECIALLY by your most vocal and (probably) knowledgeable users?

@thomasfuchs you mean sending cash to another person and not a company (so, no invoice)?

Yeah that's pretty easy too, easiest is probably TWINT (Switzerland specific).

Every time I learn something about banking in the US, it's something that's broken, backward or straight up dystopian. Often all 3 at the same time.

The amazing thing is that I keep learning NEW things.

Jeez 😕

@thomasfuchs meanwhile, here... You point your bank app to the QR code present on ALL Invoices, all data is entered in the form (you double-check if you're paranoid like me, but I never saw it getting anything wrong), and authorize.

Used to be a long number that was live-OCRd but the QR is even sturdier.

(invoices, because nobody uses checks)

@thomasfuchs imagine being able to define groups of contacts, and then select which group or groups are allowed to reply. And maybe the contacts of THOSE (1 degree of separation) but no more.

Yes, we're reinventing Google Plus.

Call it Plus Plus (nobody wants Google in the mix anyway).

@thomasfuchs I'm constantly amazed by tech bros who think I want to have a conversation with my phone.

And that assume their customers live alone (can you imagine how obnoxious someone using that thing in the same room would be? Or 4?).

As if old people watching Facebook videos at full volume in public weren't annoying enough.

@thomasfuchs I'm... Really confused at what this is supposed to do.

@royal it's just a rebrand of the Menu key, isn't it?

I've been using it as Compose for... Forever, basically.

I don't think most Windows users even know what the Menu key does, anyway

@craigmaloney this seems an unnecessarily Rube-Goldbergian solution... Is there a reason not to simply ship a packaged python in a plugin, or something?