Alexander The 1st
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He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now.
Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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5d ago
@Jourei @Two9A I presume you didn't mean it this way, but it now makes me wonder if Artemis 3 does a "Lander test" the same way Apollo 10 did, and does it at the original Apollo 11 site simply to prove that yes, there are indications that we landed there back in the day.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 31, 2026
@mmby @jonny @sushee Presumably all user languages are translated to English before this step in the toolchain.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 30, 2026
@brian_greenberg Alternatively, seeing this:
"FedRAMP’s ruling—which included a kind of “buyer beware” notice to any federal agency considering GCC High—helped Microsoft expand a government business empire worth billions of dollars."
...That makes me think that we're about to find out that they "Put the warnings after the spells.".
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 30, 2026
@brian_greenberg Satya Nadella is getting prime usage out of the documents Bill Gates have him about Trump in the Epstein Files, I presume. I presume Bill Gates gave them those documents in an "In case of emergency, break glass" way, but instead...he's using it to get the U.S. government to say "It's not the best choice, but we can't *not* use it.".
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@iampytest1 Ah, so the caveat to the "Swiss privacy law is the strictest" part for Proton is that, if the Swiss judicial system thinks the MLAT request is above board, companies or related persons *can't* challenge it because the judge already ruled "Probable cause" on it, and they don't want to re-litigate it?
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@lackthereof The technical difference is only partially why that stance was taken.
As I understand it, they didn't even give away mail, they gave away the credit card processing token (Or the information outright), so that the credit card processing company could reveal more information. That is, Proton Mail made a point that they still cannot actually retrieve mail from their servers without doing the skeleton thing, and they aren't doing that.
But they did hand over information similar to a journalist not giving away their source, but instead giving away where they met their source and who knew their source, on account of a warrant.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
mstdn.ca
Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@ohir @malwaretech Like, Uber doesn't make the claim that you can get privacy in Uber, but Proton *specifically* said this on that web site:
"Strong privacy protections: Switzerland has a constitutional right to privacy and strict data protection laws. Unlike companies in other countries, Proton cannot be compelled by foreign or Swiss authorities to engage in bulk surveillance."
That's a major reason they say "This is why we're Switzerland-based.".
And here? Here they are "Loopholing" that whole statement.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@ohir @malwaretech "There is no way to resistance in many countries. You can complain on merit."
...My point is that it seems they relied on the Swiss government to do the resistance and judge the merit. The point of a "Resistance lawsuit" is to complain on merit.
(Also, ProtonMail both makes income, and kind of makes the argument that Swiss companies *cannot* share information with foreign law enforcement under criminal penalty [ https://proton.me/blog/switzerland ]. They're doing this reveal of information as a "Loophole" to their own privacy marketing.
At the minimum, this is a bad look for P.R. purposes.)
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@ohir @malwaretech "Anyone on your packet way to the service will act to uncover you."
The big detail is that it was the person *closest* the endpoint that did the uncovering that bothers people; had it been ProtonMail's ISP, it would be a different question.
But the issue that people take issue with is that ProtonMail appears to have folded without *any* resistance, over something they claim they would not normally fold over. Hence the "It's not the same as them giving data directly to the FBI if they give it to the Swiss government who then gives it to the FBI." distinction they appear to be trying to make.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 09, 2026
@ohir @malwaretech I mean, the first link I found indicated that it is negotiable [ https://www.getyourlawyer.ch/en/lawyer/fees/ ], but I find it surprising that ProtonMail isn't paying for lawyers just as a cost of business. Maybe they don't have trial lawyers that are more expensive, but they couldn't as a Non-Profit find a lawyer to do it pro bono? This would be an amazing case for them, whether they won or not.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 08, 2026
@stefan_hessbrueggen @can @malwaretech Okay, that's a fair point.
My answer then goes to both the Swiss *and* the Swedish governments.
On the other hand, that makes the monetary issue seem less of a concern - aren't they infamous for having a *lot, of money?
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 08, 2026
@malwaretech So they're skirting the government request *entirely* on money and lack of compliance?
I am not saying that ProtonMail has to *win* their case, but it does feel like ProtonMail is just folding right out of the gate.
Like how it has been pointed out that a Filibuster where you have to keep debating an issue in the House or the Senate to block it became suddenly a "If you threaten to filibuster it, then I guess we don't bother testing that you *can* filibuster this law - it's just dead.".
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 08, 2026
@can @malwaretech Do they *need* Apple money to challenge the Swedish legal system? Justice should not just be for the rich; the Swedish government should have a vested interest in their own companies being able to challenge an MLAT request so it is not just a "Did they cross their 'i's and dot their 't's?" system of justice.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Mar 08, 2026
@malwaretech The thing that gets me is - is the company being requested by the MLAT allowed to challenge their local government on the legality of the request?
Like how Apple famously refused to make a program to automatically decrypt their iPhones to federal, state, or municipal authorities to be able to decrypt a terrorist's phone, and as I recall, that actually went to court on that?
Could Proton not do the same with the request made of them?
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Alexander The 1st
@AT1ST@mstdn.ca
He/him. I had a little over 9K things to talk about before...and I've probably got well over 9K things to talk about now. Even if I'm saying them in a mask.
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Feb 23, 2026
Dear Open Source Developers: can you stop changing how we use your libraries between version changes?
It's really annoying having a lot of documentation for an older version say to do to solve a problem, only to find out it doesn't work because is no longer supported, you have to do it way instead...except doesn't work because you also need now.
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