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A 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
Their Linux VPN client might as well not exist. No kill switch and it randomly disconnects/crashes. Sometimes it completely borks networking necessitating a reboot, which I guess can be better than just leaking your IP?
tf you mean? kill switch does work, doesn't randomly disconnect and it doesn't really bork it for me. skill issue? guess my distro based on my pfp
Isolating the VPN into docker + gluetun should (should) solve that particular issue.
I’ve never heard of this before! I read this a bit: https://pimylifeup.com/docker-gluetun/
What is the benefit here? I have no experience with containers, so I’m not really sure what I’m encapsulating there.
A container runs the utility in an isolated environment without having to alter your base system's packages, dependencies, etc. Assuming the bork that necessitates a reboot is not a kernel or hardware issue, this would mean that if you get hit with that issue again in a container, what dies is the container itself, rather than your system as a whole. So you're isolating 1.- package management 2.- network config and (potentially) 3.- "blast radius".
(That said, this is the first time I've ever heard that Proton would bork the networking to the point of requiring a whole system reboot.)
I just use plain old openvpn configs. Once my credit runs out ill switch to mullvad. They were the best option for a time, but that changes.