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Gestrid , 1 day ago to Technology in Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor

The way I read it, they already (in the third paragraph of the blog post) had companies auditing their backend technology and (in the fourth paragraph) were starting to have companies audit their apps, too.

Gestrid , 1 day ago (edited 7 hours ago) to Technology in Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor

I admittedly should've done more research before my first comment, but it does actually turn out that everything I said is true. Proton's technology was previously audited by Mozilla and is currently audited by SEC Consult and other companies regularly, and the audits are available for everyone to view. Additionally, they do have a bug bounty program. Also (and this is something I didn't mention), the ProtonVPN and Proton Mail apps are all open source.

Gestrid , 2 days ago to Technology in Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor

That's where the second and third paragraphs come in. Because other companies likely test it themselves, too.

They'll typically report security bugs privately and then, after X amount of months, publicly announce the bug. Doing it this way will, ideally, force the other company to patch the bug prior to the announcement. If not, they'll end up with a publicly known security bug that bad actors can now exploit. The announcement will also let the public (including companies) know to update their software.

Gestrid , 3 days ago to Technology in Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor

I imagine it probably is inspected, just not by the public. They probably do it themselves.

And they may have contracts with certain companies specializing in this sort of security that also inspect it.

And there's also the cybersecurity companies that test it whether they're contracted or not. At some companies, their entire job revolves around finding bugs (especially security bugs) in other companies' software.

Just because it's not on GitHub doesn't mean it's not a good product that hasn't been thoroughly tested.

Gestrid , 6 days ago to Technology in FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days

People can usually unlock the carrier on their own. Many phones (or at least every phone I've ever gotten from T-Mobile) even come pre-installed with a carrier unlocking app. It's just not automatic, and certain conditions need to be met.

People may also sometimes be able to buy phones already unlocked directly from the manufacturer if they want to. (Whether or not they're able to do this depends on the manufacturer.)

Gestrid , 17 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

You're right about the forums. While they're useful as smaller chat rooms separate from the "main ones" (for example, someone in a Discord server I know started a forum for fanart and discussion about a specific upcoming video game), they're completely useless as a replacement for traditional forums.

Also, like you said, the search feature simply isn't good enough to be able to efficiently search through all those forums. While Reddit's (and probably Lemmy's) search engine isn't great either, it at least has the benefit of being indexed by other search engines.

Gestrid , 17 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

its completely unbearable

How so?

Gestrid , 18 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

And, once they discontinue it, I hope someone creates an add-on to bring it back like they did with dislikes.

It's a bit out-of-scope, but it'd be a great SponsorBlock feature!

Gestrid , 18 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the "yes" and "no" as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).

Gestrid , 18 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

They're at least understandable (usually), but they're like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.

Gestrid , 18 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Honestly never seen that happen.

Most times, I see it used on ads, political figures, and Elon himself.

Gestrid , 18 days ago to Comic Strips in I sure don't miss working in a bar.

That only barely looks like a face of an older woman.

Gestrid , 20 days ago to Technology in Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

4. Sue website admins -> Users find/ create a new site

Gestrid , 20 days ago to linuxmemes in Many such cases

The last time I had to setup a Windows profile (late last year on my then-new laptop), that was the case. Has that changed?

Gestrid , 21 days ago to Technology in Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

I recently blocked that instance, so who knows?