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Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
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Alright, that's enough for me. What's the best mail, calendar and drive alternatives? Preferably the ones that aren't slop-coded.
Also, has anyone had any experience with Migadu?
Mail: Tuta, Posteo
Files, calendar: Nextcloud. Self-hosted or managed. Mine also does my contacts and task sync.
Nextcloud is slop-coded, unfortunately.
Define "slop-coded" with regard to Nextcloud. The self-hosted sub has presented a useful terminological framework to pin down what software "made with AI" can entail:
Where on this scale do you see Nextcloud?
Nextcloud is assisted, but it is still slop. That's why I didn't use vibecoded.
Just looked into their AI policy. Looks reasonable to me, so I don't think the blanket characterisation as "slop" is fair, but you do you.
The only reasonable policy for me is Zig's AI Policy.
the best are the ones you host yourself. quite doable, except email if you don't want to send emails straight into the spam folder.
I don't trust my skills enough to spin up a mail server. Or honestly any server that will be exposed to the internet.
Neither do I trust my uptime/maintenance of a mail server. I pay 1 EUR a month to Posteo, & it’s the only subscription to anything I have. Email ends up being an important access point for recovery & contact, so I keep it separate—paying to keep the lights on somewhere that posts it encrypted & responsibly.
you dont have to expose or open ports nowadays.