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TranscriptA post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Signal is the sad compromise for the people I hold dearest because I refuse to use Messenger anymore and SMS is a joke with how glaringly unencrypted/de-facto wiretapped it is.

I’d love to get everyone on SimpleX but they already look at me like a wacko over Signal. The convenience tax is just non-negotiable for them and I have no idea how to bypass it.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I used to be a big proponent of simplex even if I dont use it with anyone, but I was told that the main developer supports tr*mp and m*sk... If you go to their github, they only link twitter as their social media and if you check their account...

https://github.com/epoberezkin (dunno if were allowed to share twitter links)

Talks about "far-left radicals", says that nazis were socialist etc. etc. .... Really yikes

[–] EngineerGaming@retrolemmy.com 2 points 17 hours ago

TBH I feel like so many project leaders are wackos that I don't even judge the products by those, just by things they do. I still have hope in Simplex, but there were a couple of red flags, such as content scanning proposals, including clientside. Sure, it can probably be relatively easily forked to remove that specific thing, or you can choose the servers that don't do that, but it's still alarming that they try.

[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yuck. Well then again we sit in Lemmy, and the lead dev is a proud tankiest tankie. Open source do be like that.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol, got a point there

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 days ago

Simplex ain't ready... So ain't pushing it as of now.

Once it is normie ready, I will start the move.

Signal is a temp solution

With that being said, I agree 100% with your comment. We work with what we got today!