Use disroot as it has email, drive and nextcloud calendars for free or if you want your own drive and calendar you host buy a raspberry pi or even use a laptop you have in your spare drawer, install a Linux distro and setup nextcloud for everything on your device

they gave some hints when their ceo started praising fascists.

“It should come as a surprise to no one at Proton, least of all in engineering, that software engineering has irrevocably changed this year if not before”

Yep, I’ve never had to fix so many bugs and resolve so many production outages in a single year as I’ve done this year. AI is great. Couldn’t be happier. /s

it’s just the last drop in the bucket but, tbh, this shouldn’t come as a surprise from Andy seeing his past behaviour. Although I must admit that reading that manifesto from the CTO did make me puke so hard. As a developer myself (and yes, one that does use a mix of hand-written code and LLMs to some degree), seeing a CTO writing a manifesto like that one would basically mean to me: right, fuck these guys, time for a new job.

I’m glad that I’ve been this whole year transitioning all my important accounts to use a custom domain as their main email and seeing all this clusterfuck was the reminder I needed to cancel my Proton account.

My new provider is ForwardEmail, I was unsure between them or Mailbox.org but then went with the former as, since I self-host a lot of my services, I don’t need all the extra bloat. Tuta may be an option for some but for me was out of the options, I want to use Email client without the need of having to install an intermediary local proxy.

Regardless of what you choose to use now, highly recommend you get a custom domain. After that switching provider is as simple and changing DNS entries in your DNS registrar.

"The LLM is fast. You are slow, but you carry with you a lifetime of experience, judgment calls, and understanding. "

I hope their next great plan is to extend life expectancy, because without a new wave of experienced humans, this plan is shortsighted.

It’s almost entertaining at this point to see how out of touch they are. Many Proton users chose them because they were supposed to be the anti-techbro alternative to Google and Micro$oft, and alas, instead of actually taking a look in the mirror, they double down instead.

I switched over to Tuta. Not sure I can escape developers using AI, but I can escape a CEO with a giant ego.

Tutanota is a paid service with a calendar app and email client app on Android and iOS. Fdroid availability too. For desktop, AppImage for major Linux distros, including Arch, Debian, Mint, Fedora, etc. I like it so far. My favorite is all the free aliases so that my spam goes somewhere else. My personal email never gets any nonsense.

Clients are Open Source. The service is paid, but I’d rather pay a bit instead of deal with BS. Nothing is free and they have to pay for those servers to run and keep shit in production. It just 3€ a month to get email, use of custom domains, 20GB storage, unlimited calendars, and you can select a family option to add more people for the same price. You can use 3 custom domains. Not sure if you get the domains or just carry them over, but I’d like to know.

Tuta drive is launching in a few months.

I’m also interested in disroot. Check that out. I’ve also tried kolabnow which I thought was okay but didn’t use it to long. I kind of forgot about it.

There are plenty of alternatives, including Posteo.de and Mailbox.org.

I predicted this and argued with so many people about Proton being a shitty company. I am not even happy about this, just sad that so many people wasted their time and money.

Your job is to push the limits of what the LLM can do autonomously, step in for the things that it cannot, and always think of how you can improve the status quo.

and always think of how you can improve the status quo.

I hate this timeline.

Why has productivity not increased dramatically if everyone is using LLMs all the time already?

I have NOT heard of a company whose productivity increased dramatically though (but the quality goes down, I wonder why).

There are startups that are getting PoCs faster, but thats about it.

Well, that’s it, I’m never touching Proton again.

As for suggestions: I haven’t used Tuta, but I’ve only heard good things about them. Personally I use mailbox. They have drive and calendar, they’re German, and they do/support a lot of cool stuff regarding FOSS. I’m not sure about slop, but from a quick glance I couldn’t find a single mention about AI on their website, not even in their job listings. I don’t think they have official clients, but they support open standards like SMTP/IMAP, WebDAV etc.

I haven’t used their drive and calendar though, only email, since I self-host Nextcloud (if you’re into self-hosting, I highly recommend it).

In case anyone needed proof that even CERN PhDs can be total dumbasses (or more likely, evil liars)

Is buying my own domain and paying for tuta the move guys?