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[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 122 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

In guessing the left is Proton but those icons are about as bad as googles.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 57 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

They might have actually somehow managed to come up with worse logos than Google uses. I assume the top one is an email app, the bottom left is a file manager, and bottom centre is a password manager? But I'm less than certain about those, and everything else is a complete mystery.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

From top left to bottom right, horizontal first:

  • Email
  • Password Manager
  • Calendar
  • VPN
  • Drive
  • Authenticator
  • Mascot for their LLM

The only ones that are a bit ambiguous are the Password Manager and the VPN logos imo

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago

Thanks. This is helpful

[–] drath@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
  • Napkins

  • Square turned sideways

  • Square not turned sideways

  • Triangle

  • Folder

  • Half-eaten donut hanging on a doorknob

  • Cat

How was I supposed to infer the meaning of those?

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Its amazing, in an era where our phones have higher res than monitors did 20 years ago, icons have less detail.

Like show a damn calendar for the calendar icon. Hell, the ANSI emoji would be better. 📆

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I don't trust proton either

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 19 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The company could flip any time but for now their products are pretty good as a google alternative. I use the calendar, mail, cloud, contacts and vpn app and have zero complaints. Plus they couldn't access any of my data if they wanted to.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

they couldn’t access any of my data if they wanted to.

I am not so sure that's true

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 13 points 13 hours ago

The thing is, it's not true about any E2E encryption where all parts of the codebase are controlled by the company.

It could be as simple as updating their website to send your password to them in plain text while logging in, now the encryption is useless as they would have your password.

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[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

i trust them more than google. they've been a little sketchy lately (bc of the ai stuff, not the ceos political stuff) but at least only one entity has my data this way. I'd rather self-host but i can't rn.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago

they've been known to collaborate with governments and have been accused of forcing traffic through an Israeli contractor. i can't trust them.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 41 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Both aren't really private. Both is a for-profit company claiming it to be private.

[–] IDew@feddit.nl 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

No. Proton is a for profit company whose largest shareholder is a non profit foundation. As is written right in your linked post. The foundation is not the company.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Somebody get this user some lemmy silver.

[–] IDew@feddit.nl 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oh. Didn't know lol. I just saw Proton blabla non-profit blabla and jumped to a conclusion too fast like I always do 🥴

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

For-profit company and private are not mutually exclusive though. Mullvad VPN for example is ~~as much~~ a for-profit company ~~as~~ unlike proton which is nonprofit, and arguably also one of the most private VPN services available.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 19 hours ago

Even if you were correct in saying Proton is for profit, "for-profit" and "private" are not mutually exclusive.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No matter who someone is, don't give them all of your personal property.

I use Protonmail from Proton. That's it.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Same. And once i stop procrastinating i want to set up my own email server as well.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 37 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Have fun, it's hell and the pain doesn't stop until you give up.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

I only use one subscription service in my life and it's email from proton. I once knew a sysadmin who said that self-hosting email is a full-time job. So I just pay for my email with a reputable company and have my own domain name attached. His comment scared me off for good. But other people have said it's not that hard. Please write me your experience , ok?

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[–] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 32 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Design brief: Make them look like the google suite but purple. The harder it is to work out what the app does from the logo, the better.

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[–] pfr@piefed.social 24 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Proton has become a problem for privacy

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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 11 hours ago

Proton lol. You're such a joker

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 hours ago (18 children)

This meme format is sexist. Why is it always always always the woman who has the negative side?

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[–] xyro@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago

One day account with only one post, from someone who probably never hosted mails 😂

[–] M137@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's hilarious that OP thought going full in o proton is the other end of the "I love privacy" spectrum. How the fuck are you here on lemmy and that uneducated and ignorant on all this? These are two people a couple of steps away from each other on one end, not even close to what the meme actually is. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was rage bait, because it's dumb enough to be that. Or a proton shill, which definitely exists here.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 16 points 17 hours ago

For a moment I wasn't sure which one of the two would be better. After careful consideration I decided both are noobs, because real pros only use emacs rigged to behave as the whole OS on an airgapped 15 year old thinkpad for anything that needs a computer, but most likely keep that in a vault too and only get it when absolutely necessary.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What is that cat-owl thing for?

[–] polakkenak@feddit.dk 22 points 20 hours ago

Slop (but "privacy first")

[–] Pestdoktor@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's Luma, Proton's LLM chatbot.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Well it’s the first non-butthole LLM logo I’ve seen.

It was the only app icon with the slightest hint of character. Absolutely a bummer that it’s slop.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 18 hours ago

Eh it's functional and a tool. It unlike other LLMs isn't being shoved forward as a slop creator. It's just another tool in a box.

LLMs are extremely useful for a small number of things and having it as a tool is useful.

Frankly if LLMs were like lumo instead of chatgpt people wouldn't be calling them slop. Cause they wouldn't be shitting out slop and being shoved in our faces.

A tool should exist. And it should sit there and be ignorable till needed. And fucking nothing else. Which is exactly what lumo is.

Aka the only actually fucking half way decent LLM so far.

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Mistral also has a cat's head as a logo ("chat" is french for cat, hence the pun).
I guess if you make an LLM, you can only choose between a cat's head and a cat's butthole, maybe we should try another part someday

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 8 points 18 hours ago

At least a cat's butthole is being honest about what it produces.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Why's Summer using shite software. Tom was the one operating under a delusion in that film

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Just like in the movie. Tom is indeed delusional, Summer is just cynical in her communications. They are both using shit software. Tom is putting all his fate on a single private company in pursuit of a misguided ideal and ignoring the red flags through rose tinted glasses. Summer doesn't want to commit at all because she knows there's much more complex factors at play than privacy alone but hasn't yet found someone who makes her feel safe and secure the way she wants, so she settles temporarily for what feels fun in the moment.

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[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago

Both stupid

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Amateurs, I bet neither of them even knows about Qubes OS

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