Notices by Troed Sångberg (troed@swecyb.com)

Excellent take on open weights AI by @jeffjarvis

"Now that mass media and its attention economy are the walking dead, we will need to reconsider every model of gathering, sharing, and utilizing public information."

https://medium.com/whither-news/ai-communism-919f8cdd76b0

Go find a free LLM usage promotion - there's always a few running. Use it to reverse proprietary binary blobs for whatever thing you have. Release the resulting source somewhere.

Do it. Do it naow.

Did you know that Microsoft applied for a permit for a warehouse in southern Sweden - and once they had built the "warehouse" they declared they were going to host a datacenter there with diesel backup generators?

I mean, we hear this happening all the time and so let's hate on data centers, right?

The difference is that this is Sweden, and we don't accept that shit. They were not allowed to run their diesel generators, had to purchase battery power instead and in the end they closed the data center down since they couldn't win this fight.

That's how you deal with it.

(They are now using other datacenters in other locations in Sweden, fully compliant with the laws, with renewable energy and not using water for cooling as far as I can see)

@chartier This one is tricky.

(I'm a former Pirate Party activist/politician so this is something I've spent quite some time ruminating over)

I'd love it if Proton just said "fascists fuck off our services". However. Trying to _police_ that would mean that their services weren't privacy protecting.

Instead they're saying "we're going to protect everyone's privacy as far as the law allows us to" - which is fair. It's exactly the same thing I'm saying to the users that sign up to my Matrix server.

@gatogatogato @holgi @protonprivacy

@gatogatogato

Yeah that's just another long thread of people piling on what they've heard from someone who has heard from someone who has heard ... ad nauseum.

Apparently Proton will make a statement. I'll read that before I feel the need to voice any outrage. It seems commenters on that thread believe someone at Proton must've been involved in adding the in-video section.

I guess Redditors don't know how computers work. I expect more from people on Mastodon.

https://proton.me/partners

@chartier @holgi @protonprivacy

@gatogatogato

" You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/

@chartier @holgi @protonprivacy

@Infoseepage So the answer to my question is that you've never held a job. That's ok. Then you should just listen to those of us who have.

Someone at Proton screwed up. They own the mistake. They're taking action to make sure it won't happen again.

@Infoseepage Thanks for proving my point so eloquently.

One of my previous jobs was as Head of Partner Outreach at the Sony Developer Program. Yes, the department that handled the unlocking of bootloaders on phones, making sure the opn community had the right tools etc.

When I comment on idiots who post various shitty takes on companies claiming the companies are "evil" and rant on in various conspiracy theories it's because I know - extremely well - that that's never what has happened.

Companies screw up and make mistakes. The good ones learn from them and strive to do better.

Don't be an idiot on the Intarnetz.

This is a toot about the latest "Oh Proton must be fash!!!11" hate fest.

@Infoseepage Proton literally screwed up their vetting, owns the mistake and will correct their procedure from now on.

Have you ever worked at a company?

https://swecyb.com/@troed/116715084906078611

@gatogatogato @gotofritz @slothrop

@Infoseepage

No, you're making stuff up because it's apparently important for you to act like an ass towards Proton.

Occam's razor is pretty clear on an asian person using the number 88 and you claiming it must have something to do with nazi dogwhistles.

And no, an affiliate program is not sponsorship. And no, Andy saying that a single person in Trump's previous cabinet had a history of supporting small tech vs big tech was not a "Trump endorsement" and all the other conspiracy theories you managed to drag up in this thread.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

@gotofritz @gatogatogato @slothrop

@gatogatogato

Correct, there's absolutely nothing even fash-adjacent with Proton.

(I'm a Visionary customer of Proton's - and I'm as opposite to authoritarian as can possibly be. They're doing good stuff with my money)

@Infoseepage @gotofritz @slothrop

@karl

They didn't. And yet people keep claiming differently.

I have no idea why Mastodoners have this need to lie about one of the better companies we have available for privacy protection.

@soatok

@karl

"The truth doesn't agree with my gut feelings so I don't want to talk about the truth"

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

@soatok

@Infoseepage

Your inability to understand other cultures only says something about you - not them.

Here - have a Swedish icecream: https://handla.ica.se/produkt/1466620

@gotofritz @gatogatogato @slothrop

@Infoseepage

Your fallacy is believing that your culture is the only one in the world. '88' is a nazi dogwhistle in the west since a few decades back - but it means "double fortune" and is part of asian numerology for thousands of years.

Don't be stupid on the Internet.

@gotofritz @gatogatogato @slothrop

@dalias

So, besides a CEO being an employe of the company and not the owner, tell us more about how what he said means he's a "fan of fascism".

It's easily citeable if you're correct, right?

@raphaelmorgan @Gina

@dalias

Only if you don't know the meaning of the words "own" and "fascism".

@Gina

@raphaelmorgan

It is you who don't know what Proton's CEO actually said.

@dalias @Gina

"Do not obey in advance"

A very important concept to have in mind when protesting against the rollout of authoritarian rule.

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