Immich would be one, if they would allow photo compression... Insane that they don't even allow an option parameter

Edit: oh just saw, it's a fork of immich! Cool!

Fyi, your bottom bar with links isn't responsive causing annoying behaviour with horizontal scroll on mobile phone

Most of those services are paid by terrible people when you use them.

Look at their revenue breakdowns.

Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming. Everything is done e2ee where possible. In case of mail, when the peer has no Proton, mail is indeed send plaintext.

Mail is stored e2ee on server, so not even Proton can read it. Proton mail has also made PGP very easy to use. It’s Swiss based and a foundation, not a corporation. They’ve done this so they cannot easily be bought.

It ticks most boxes in terms of privacy and security.

I'm using it Infomaniak, including their KDrive as a Dropbox replacement (with 2TB of data). I've even used their video conferencing app. No complaints so far. All seems to work just fine.

Their whole point was to avoid US companies.

Email? The rest of your life will be spent wondering if anyone got your message or if you've missed something important.

Registrar, and search? Not possible.

Maps? Paper would be more practical.

Browser, done.

Git, a lot of extra work for no gain.

Agreed, this is a VERY odd statement. There are a bunch of Canadian companies that have been here for a long time. I don't have the data but would DNS and hosting providers like EasyDNS and HostPappa really have primarily US customers?

>What utter BS

Consider for a moment how you would feel if, after carefully composing and sharing your thoughts in good faith, you received this response.

Isn't it compounded with issue that something like 75% of UW grads move to the US for work?

Seconded.

Maybe Americans don't really get this, but the Greenland stuff was a very, very big deal. The rest of NATO was staring down the barrel of the unthinkable: war with the United States. For what? Some lib owning? A bit of fun? A real estate deal? The sense of betrayal is very strong, more than the politicians are letting on.

> a populist demagogue who was promoted by russia

American voters witnessed this demagogue incite a riot in an attempt to steal an election, and after that 2/3 of them still couldn't be bothered to vote against him.

As an American myself, blaming Americans for this situation seems pretty fair.

> happy to stop the freebies we give other nations.

but indignant when other nations return in kind.

Note that populist demagogue started a trade war and threatened allies with invasion. That tends to put a damper on friendship. And that's before the idiotic blunder with Hormuz.

I assure you that many Canadians who are making these moves are emitting very little signal outside of their purchasing decisions.

This is not some end state of success, but a process. It's people sharing their ideas, thoughts, and strategies on how to accomplish a relatively challenging economic shift.

What you are witnessing and commenting on is quite literally the messy business of a market organically evolving and developing. "Not American" is now a selling point for services.

Proton AG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_AG, a Swiss company, owned privately by the Proton Foundation https://proton.me/foundation, is US-controlled? How?

Phrasing this as virtue signaling is a misnomer.

I see it as an effort to divest themselves of moral inequity.

And the result isn't the point: the effort and the reason for the effort, is.

This is the first iteration/calibration of a more conscientious intention.

When moral imperative is an unidentifiable road feature on the highway towards wherever the US is going...small efforts matter

People who don't believe in virtue see all virtuous acts as 'virtue signaling', or, a lie for attention.

You are showing us who you are and what you believe, but you are not describing the parent commenter.

The term for this is ethical consumerism or conscious consumerism, defined as purchasing products that align with moral, social, or environmental values, acting as a form of "voting" with one's money.

Virtue signaling takes place wherever changes in group behavior are required by changes in conditions but calling it just virtue signaling is reductive. People are moving off of US services because of the behavior of the US government and US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_AG

> Proton AG is a Swiss technology company offering privacy-focused online services and software. It is majority owned by the non-profit Proton Foundation.

So how is the US "controlling" Proton, can you enlighten us as you seem to be more knowledgeable about this?

If I was outside of the US I would consider it as an effort to reduce risk, not virtue signaling.

If I was a citizen of a nation directly and recently threatened by the U.S I would consider it more as a "screw you" than virtue signaling.

This is probably because I am not especially caring about virtue, but I do like pointing out ways that alternate explanations for things some people might find virtuous could pertain.

There are words and concepts that cut reality at the seams, and others that feel good and make you dumb as rocks. Virtue signaling came out the gate strong but has fallen solidly i to the second camp.

How is Proton a US-controlled company?

Which of these is Apple?

If we stay on the current path, in a few months tech will start to feel the pain of Trump's rampage. The only redeemable thing about that is that maybe tech workers and Americans generally will finally stop feeling like they're above it all.