Thanks this will be included in my reply.

The patent does explicitly say the intent is facial recognition, which I highlited for them in the email.

This moron is also a MAGA appologist and enabler. I left Proton for other alternatives. They want to claim they are “politically nuetral” well if you really were you wouldnt be commenting at all on politics would you?

The union confirmed that they are.

Ive found GIMP hard to use honestly… I suspect it will end up being replaced entirely by AI

Well i dont know if thats true or not about the data centers but this is a trend that is happening all over the world as i understand it.

Could be possible I think.

This sounds like a good idea but i have never seen anyone do anything like that at my workplace… i fear it might be stigmatizing

Cant say i havent thought about it but its been a lot of work to build my career up to this point.

Regardless of the record of complaint, the potential risk of getting caught is going to cause me to lose my job anyway (at the least). So i figured i should try a legitamate route and that maybe it could work and there wouldnt be any risk that way.

No i dont.

Thanks I will look into this a bit more.

Agreed on those points. I asked the same exact question to my union rep becuase we already have a very tight security infrastructure due to the nature of our work. I dont mind our business having standard security becuase we are not in the business of data sales. I did not yet get a reply that really answered to that very obvious point.

I guess ill leave that as a last resort.

I dont know of single service I use that doesnt have a website

Ill just use web browser shortcuts, i guess i dont really care that much about apps anymore.

I preordered the jolla phone with sailfish OS… hopefully that will be a good alternative to todays monopoly

I have been using copmaps. Its not as accurate as google or apple but it better than nothing and i dont mind.

The people need to organize for that to happen… not likely in america let alone around the world.

That really sucks I wanted to build a magic mirror with a Pi.

I use CoMaps. Its… fine i guess. Not spectacular but better than nothing.