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I'm sorry to say I'm glad the US are not better at soccer. Given they already have some of the finest pop artists in movies and songs, it seems to me it's a fair balance

After the 404 piece on them (https://404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-...), this is the second stab at the good opinion I had about them :/

Not saying there's a pattern behind those two informations but I'll definitely be watching more closely their news.


i can totally understand this piece of news being a "stab".

but, i dont understand the 404 piece. they are a lawfully operating company, they will answer lawful requests. the same will be true of any and all companies you choose to use for your mail.

in this case, only payment data was handed over. if your payment history is of concern, proton accepts cash and bitcoin

(if anything, this should be a point in favor of proton, seeing as how the only data they were able to hand over was payment data, and not email contents)


It's possible that the 404 stab might be a personal one and comes from too high expectations from me and/or misunderstanding about how private our data was with them.

The privacy tech was part of their marketing, I'm quite sure about that. But the fact that they're swiss might also have helped to believe that privacy wouldn't be bargained (vs/ american companies) => I honestly don't remember if it was a claim they had.


There's also Marshall McLuhan:

- Every new medium obsolesces the previous one - which then becomes the content, or the art form, of the new medium.

- Once the old ground becomes content of a new situation, it appears to ordinary attention as aesthetic figure. At the same time, a new retrieval or nostalgia is born


I hope the V2 will be like 'It happened tomorrow' (the 1944 movie with Veronica Lake)


Anywhere but HN, I'd have written this off as clickbait and kept scrolling. Amazing story


I've been the owner of a murena (fairphone + /e/OS) for many years. I've never had the opportunity to check its repairability, that darn thing hasn't broken yet.


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