Primary account is now @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg.

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  • It’s a lot more than a random text editor.

    It’s a text editor from (at least some of) the people that made Atom at GitHub (with the explicit premise of learning from Atom/building a faster, better, Atom).

    The business plan is to sell collaboration features (e.g., remote pair programming).
















  • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
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    2 years ago

    No, you can set up PGP encryption to send PGP encrypted mail to non-proton customers via Proton. They’ve also been trying to work on standards that would make retrieving public keys/knowing the recipient accepts PGP automatic.

    You’re blatantly misinformed, and it’s irritating.

    Edit: I’ve blocked this person following their reply, but to their last point, “via Proton” literally means you use their service as a standard PGP mail client no strings attached, that can interact with any other PGP, and with no vendor lockin. That is literally the definition of using an open standard. There’s no insidious plot here.




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    2 years ago

    That mentality is part of the problem. More options is not inherently better, it’s more to maintain, more complexity, more feature requests in that direction (“well can I store a PGP key in the browser that isn’t uploaded to your servers so I can read my non-synced PGP mail”, “can I write mail using that”, “oh I changed my mind, can I convert mail to your PGP key from my PGP key”, “oh I changed my mind again, I’d actually like all my emails changed to my PGP key”, “oh could you sync my PGP key for me”, etc).

    It happens all the time, bending over backwards as a company for niche customers that want to use your toaster as a waffle iron rarely works out well.