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[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago (13 children)

This has sparked me to look at Tuta.

[โ€“] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (11 children)

I have bad news for you... they recommended brave browser and made a blog post about gnoopix ( a distro that proudly integrate Grok )

https://tuta.com/blog/gnoppix-open-source-spotlight

https://forum.gnoppix.org/t/gnoppix-ai-unleashes-grok-4-as-a-usable-module-for-enhanced-ai-capabilities/73

[โ€“] byzxor@beehaw.org 20 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (7 children)

I mean tbf they have Brave as their 9th suggestion (out of 10). I would prefer that they just didn't have it but yeah.

They've also removed the Gnoppix stuff, which is a bit weird. But mega ick either way.

A bit of a shame since I bought a year sub after switching away from Proton last year due to the ceo mask slipping

[โ€“] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I like how they recommend Zen in their Firefox forks list despite the creator/main contributor seemingly having little understanding of security. The UI is nice though I guess.

Maybe I'll just use mailbox.org or encrypt my emails with addy.io at this point :|

[โ€“] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago

Mailbox.org is rock solid. A bit clunky at times,but really solid.

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Selfhosting for you and a few other people is the way of the future, for everything.

[โ€“] ahornsirup@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's very much not. There are plenty of people who do not only not have the knowledge (and the time, interest or even ability to learn) to self-host anything, but who also don't know anyone who does. That's probably a majority of people, actually. We need privacy-respecting, open alternatives that function as drop-in replacements and that are just as intuitive and easy to use as corporate offerings. Otherwise the future is corporate shit.

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So you mean like lemmy... where a lot of people selfhost instances for themselves and a few to many other people?

[โ€“] ahornsirup@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'd argue that Lemmy and the wider fediverse aren't simple and effortless enough as they are right now. There's a reason that Bluesky took off when Mastodon didn't.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

Millions in marketing?

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