God I feel this one in my soul. I’m forever pointing out pretty much cloud storage provider explicitly says they don’t backup your data and to have some sort of backup solution in place and I’m always met with blank stares.

In terms of UV radiation cuaisng things like sunburn and skin cancer in humans yes.

At the scale when gamma radiation is being thrown around at high levels no.

That’s it? they’ve got some metal hosted in the country somewhere? I was expecting more.

Looking through the thread it seems you’re very keen on the end of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and privacy which is good but going after proton won’t help on either front here.

If you want to help stop the murder look into the BDS and the organisations they’re currently running boyoctts against and focus your efforts on those as those organisations are the ones propping up the Israeli state and allowing/assisting it to commit it’s crimes. community action against targets that matter will have a far more meaningful effects than going after a handful of servers. To this end also look up Palestinian organisations where you live to work with. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK is good example.

And on the privacy side I feel you seem to miss the point of how VPNs work. If you avoid ever setting your exit point to Israel then Israel will never see your traffic and be able to surveil it. Unless you have some evidence that Proton’s network has been compromised I can’t see any technical reason to avoid using Proton or any other provider running endpoints in Israel.

Do you have information on proton’s Israel links? I know they used radware several years ago but no longer do.

Not really no. If the capital that has been invested into EVs over the last 10/15 years had gone into those things we’d be in a much better position than we are now. The choice to go with EVs over rail was always one driven by capital interests and political will particularly in the west were the automotive firms have a firm hold on governments and where the infrastructure money goes. The right now solution is to stop going along a poor path that at its best is a halfhearted fix and move efforts to an industry that can actually meaningfully reduce humanity’s overall impact on climate change.

They only really make sense in journeys under 100km, otherwise we’re just perpetuating many of the same problems ICE cars cause. Even then a lot of those shorter journeys can be replaced with light rail and urban redesign.

They are and arguably doing the best in the world at it but its still pretty poor. Intercity mode share is still majority road travel and turning that all to EVs is a terrible idea as Tue amount of charging stations you’d need to support it just isn’t feasible and stands to waste a huge amount of resources, continue the massive micro plastic pollution issue road vehicles cause and put a massive strain on electrical grids.

China is the enemy because they’re selling lots of cheap solar panels and this is evil somehow.

Also electric cars but that actually is evil because fuck cars.

You can turn all the AI features off on regular DDG search settings. Best I can tell that achuevescthe same as using the no AI filter.

They are but not to the same degree as Nvidia.

Ah its not so bad if you get so drunk your critical thinking skills go out the window.