Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm devastated to hear that #Proton 's CEO and CTO are treating their engineers in a terrible way, blindly trusting LLMs and creating a toxic culture where speed and growth trump security.

I'm not ready to make a radical switch yet but some little actions I implemented today could be useful for others, too:
1) I made my custom domain the DEFAULT email address in ProtonMail
2) I created aliases w my custom domain for shopping, newsletters, admin, etc.

Hoping this will make a transition smoother

“A statement in response to Andreas Malm being denied entry into the Un | Verso Books”

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-statement-in-response-to-andreas-malm-being-denied-entry-into-the-united-kingdom

> We can only assume, since no reasons have been given for banning him, that it is Andreas’s positions on Palestine, no different from the ICC and UN commissions, is the cause.

Videos and blog posts from "AI"-pilled software developers talking about how their careers are gone or in a dead-end seems to have become a genre in a very short space of time. At least a couple of notable examples just this week.

This douche's gotta buy the election before his stock portfolio tanks. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I'mo just say it one more time. Or. Well. One more time today.

If your developers are being slowed down because of the time they spend on repetitive tasks, the answer is to fix the design, not to use an LLM. In fact, using an LLM to address that problem will only *guarantee* more of the same.

Here's Proton's AI manifesto in full, leaked. It's proper brainrot management stuff.

The journey of tech empowerment and liberation from tech bros can be a long, bumpy road.

The biggest tech regret of my adult life is that I didn't use a custom domain name as my main email address, so that when things invariably go south, I can simply hop to a new email provider.

The hundred or so email aliases I made with #Proton are a real headache right now. Time to clean up my mess.

What am I talking about? This ICYMI: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

#NoAI #enshittification #ProtonMail

Anthropic got compromised.

Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

“If we stop, we lose - Piccalilli”

https://piccalil.li/blog/if-we-stop-we-lose/

> This article is mainly addressed to fellow educators, but also to people that write on their personal blogs. You must keep going because people still need us. If we don’t, we lose.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117508302505342406

This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.

It takes fairly little effort for a person to tell their AI bot to research and draft an email, but it takes the recipients real time to dig into these tips and separate hallucinations from tips that might actually have some basis. They're basically DDOSing journalists.

I've basically had to start ignoring tips that come in with clearly AI-written emails, even though I know I risk missing stuff. I just don't have the capacity.

I'd like to join a #luddites meetup at #40c3, to see how we can organize.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117528261668048741

I have been a Proton Drive user because the writing group I've working on my novel with uses it, and I also cannot emphasize enough how fucking bad the experience has been. The CEO being a ten-ply dipshit makes a lot of sense of this.

I still remember turning up to the first session, seeing that all my comments had been deleted, and the other writers going "Yeah, it just does that sometimes"

The only thing keeping them there was the CEO's sociopath mask of giving a fuck about privacy.

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A nearly 20 minute video on the King Tide flooding in Florida and not once was climate changed mentioned. At one point a graph illustrates gradual ocean level rise of 8" since 1994 and explains how this adds to the problem because every event "starts 8" closer to every front door" but still, no mention of the base-level problem of climate change.

I've watched various clips of news coverage, local and national, and climate changed has barely been mentioned in any of them.

The media and people generally seem to be doing everything possible to exist in a state of denial. Is this insanity? Delusion? We're deliberately walking into climate dystopia.

#Climate #US #Politics #Capitalism #Media #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Flooding

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=idn8D-GbpQ8&ra=m

Hey, guess what setting Mozilla reverted in my Firefox?

Yeah, of course it was "Block AI enhancements". I *definitely* had that turned on before the update to Firefox 153.

Fuck you, Mozilla.

31st Annual March Against Police Brutality Visits Pretti, Good, and Floyd's Memorials

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/minneapolis-march-against-police-brutality-connects-local-state-and-federal-violence/

ICE agents: search a crowd sourced ICE agent list for their own names from their work computers.

Crowd sourced ICE agents website: _yoink_

I'm being serious btw when I say everybody should get off ProtonVPN, ProtonMail, ProtonDrive, Proton everything unless they learn and 180.

Aside from the AI brainrot and non-care for basic customer security and privacy practices, their CEO is an abusive dude who does not deserve your money, and he's surrounded himself with senior managers who do not know what they doing.

AI Overview damages Google ad revenue, stock crashes 12%

AI search may be worse, but it also makes less money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtko3ouLqI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261029-ai-overview-damages-google-ad-revenue-stock-crashes-12 - podcast

time: 5 min 40 sec

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/117509996824858525

Quick update on all this: we have made progress and paid some of the more pressing bills, and I have also potentially secured some more substantial work which we'll be finding out about shortly (I hope I do; I'd kill for the peace of mind). That just means I have to survive the next little while.

If you value the writing work I do, supporting it would be much appreciated. There are links to how you can do that both in the article and in my bio. I remain, as always, deeply grateful to all of you