Thanks for this. Been with Proton a while and they're not great at letting their customers know of new products. Either that or they are too successful at filtering their own marketing email.
To the OP: Proton is privacy first. I use their tools for a reason, trusting file transfer to a third party would never happen even with an open code base.
It's fine if the tool is for yourself, great for your CV and well done for shipping something. HN can at times be a cruel place, think of this as a learning experience.
They released it just few days ago (maybe 2 weeks or so). I personally got a mail in my inbox for the release, but maybe it's because I have left feedback about it or something.
A very welcome news nevertheless!
Before AI, it at most showed an interest in coding outside of work. There's a 'passion' element that might be interesting to recruiters but there's not much more to it than that.
Considering you ignore the other post on the subject, it's clear he came to terms with it. People's opinions evolve over time, and calling someone out for having an evolving viewpoint is anti-intellectual. I think it's perfectly fine to have an opinion one year and have something else the next year, and not feel the need to delete your old writings.
I don't know, I find growth and learning important.
If Proton got their devs together for a two week internal hackathon, they could build a very simple Proton client for Linux that would match functionality of Dropbox and quickly gain a lot of new customers. And make existing customers very happy thus creating free publicity to attract even more customers. Alas, their priorities are trying to upsell unnecessary products to their existing customers and not providing products they actually want. And I am saying all this as a paying Proton customer.
I work in this space with my oss work on Filestash, and its sync client https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive. A proper sync client is nowhere near a two week hackathon unless you vibe code it and don't have much care. I've been on it for 6 months and it's far from finished. Linux alone has a fragmentation problem. The sync engine can be shared, but the integration can't: tray, status, file manager overlays and notifications all work differently on GNOME, KDE, COSMIC, Omarchy, Sway. Electron looks out of place everywhere, so you end up maintaining one frontend per desktop, plus packaging for each distro. Then there's the sync itself, which is a long tail of edge cases, often platform specific. Last week I optimised the rm -rf case, FUSE hands you one unlink per file, so a folder with 10k files becomes 10k API calls unless you do clever things. Today, I've tried to optimise thumbnails, problem is the file manager opens every file in a folder just to render previews, so browsing a directory of videos can easily get uggly as well, let's not talk about the state of atomic save which if you are not clever here too will create multiple files on your server and waste bandwiths. There are many dozens of these edge cases just on linux and that's before you tackle window, mac, android, how do you handle delta sync ....
My "two week" estimate was too sarcastic. Thank you for detailed explanation about all the problems and challenges that comes up when building a file sync client. I really admire your attention to detail while trying to correctly integrate the sync engine in all different file clients.
This is great! I recently started working on a privacy-first MCP server for proton mail, calendar and drive, written in rust that supports optional pseudonomization of identifiers in the data: https://github.com/matt-w-horn/protonctl
Supports mac and linux, but the linux part could use a bit more work.
Last time I tried ProtonDrive(years ago), the speeds were complete dogshit, I could barely surpass 10 MB/s on a half gig fibre line. Anyone used it recently, and if so has it improved?
Not sure, but that would explain how Google photos are always in sync and proton drive is always backing up my photos with 50-70 items to go (with no way to see which pictures/videos are backed up).
Often their VPN will prevent even their own sevices from working and I have to reconnect manually to make it work. Never had these issues with mullvad.
I'm generally not very happy with proton's services or apps. When this year of my payment is over I'll be switching away.
https://proton.me/business/drive/cli
https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-cli
To the OP: Proton is privacy first. I use their tools for a reason, trusting file transfer to a third party would never happen even with an open code base.
It's fine if the tool is for yourself, great for your CV and well done for shipping something. HN can at times be a cruel place, think of this as a learning experience.
Caveat I am not a SWE. Is there any value in having AI developed tools on your CV?
e.g tar -cf - * | <some unwieldly proton drive cmd>
I guess this is not possible due to the way the encryption works?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I am not a Go developer
what a time to be alive
I don't know, I find growth and learning important.
Why are you opposed to changing your mind?
Supports mac and linux, but the linux part could use a bit more work.
I'm generally not very happy with proton's services or apps. When this year of my payment is over I'll be switching away.
well, scrap that