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I thought the SMS was only on free accounts and only so they can limit to the countries where they offer free services (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Liechtenstein, maybe Benelux countries, not sure).

If it’s for every account then yeah, that’s not great. I must have forgotten about this, I use TOTP for 2FA and so never see any SMS from them.

They are definitely not the do-one-thing kind, they’re more of a bundle of dozens of things done reasonably well, and then a few things done extremely well (e.g. their VPS Lite and hosted Cloudstack infra).

About the incoming PGP I don’t know either, I believe I’ve only used something like that successfully with mailbox.org but it’s been a decade or so so I might be misremembering; mailbox.org does have some PGP-based incoming encryption but I’m not sure if they generate all the keys there.

Ah, thanks, my contribution is mostly just money/donations and then voting correctly 4 times a year so the government doesn’t get any crazy ideas ;)

I have to say I barely even use encrypted e-mail, when I do it’s just through GnuPG. I’ve used Claws-Mail’s GPG plugin and Thunderbird’s built-in PGP support, works well enough. But I’m not very up to date, maybe you can find better information and nicer tools from e.g. Privacy Guides. They have a section on OpenPGP but it’s dry because this is just a dry topic :(

Yeah, I and through Germany they also got some more coffee brands making coffee balls for it. At one point they said they want to expand the market a lot but I haven’t seen any more countries being added so far :(

I don’t trust any e-mail encryption done by the provider (including Protonmail) and there are cryptography nerds who say things like “forget encrypted e-mail, wrong tech, wrong use-case, use something else like Magic Wormhole or Signal” (search for “the PGP problem”, most of the problems have been addressed in at least GnuPG but still, the metadata leakage for example is still an issue).

Unless I really control my end of the channel including choice of encryption software, algorithms, placement and validity of keys, etc. I don’t think it can ever be trustworthy. Protonmail for example even use web crypto which adds another layer of potential insecurity. And that’s just the tech layer, what if my recipient is an idiot and forwards my message unencrypted (because that’s what their e-mail client is gonna allow)?

So I don’t pick my e-mail provider based on how they encrypt, I can use any insecure provider because it’s me and my hardware doing the encryption. If Infomaniak ever goes completely nuts, I can be moved off them in a weekend.

I guess that sidesteps the question but I didn’t follow the controversy back then about Infomaniak because I didn’t care that much, I work with Digitale Gesellschaft and other digital rights organizations to shoot these things down on a political level no matter what a single company thinks. So far DG has been very successful. e.g. they prevented the launch of an electronic ID card that would have been insecure, privacy-invasive and run by private corporations.

We’ve had “capsule-less capsule” machines for years here and they’ve been a moderate success so far (the system’s called Coffee B)

I never understood why people got into coffee pods, even those little balls still cost around 50 cents per serving. My tiny Dedica espresso machine cost less than 100 bucks and can make decent espresso from pure high-quality beans for what, 10 cents a serving? I do use a full metal/wood 51mm portafilter from Italy, not the plasticky nonsense that shipped with the machine, though. So 90 bucks for the machine, 40 for the portafilter, 60 for a grinder (OK, I got that one used), that’s gonna start saving you money after less than a year at a coffee a day vs. pods.

Happy user of Infomaniak, they’ve been in this business since 4 years before the web existed, so I hope that translates to more staying power. And they’ve only grown every year since then, so far without selling out. The majority stake is owned by the non-profit Infomaniak Foundation.

How did you get rid of the content recognition?

Danke! Ich hab grad noch nachgesehen und z.B. das Read-Tool ist inzwischen doppelt so gross geworden, also haben sie definitiv dran gewerkelt.

Andererseits dann auch solche Dinge: https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/security-advisories/MAI-2026-003

Es gab doch mal ein Jail/Sandbox-Dings für sowas (nono.sh), vielleicht muss man das dazunehmen oder alles in einen Container legen. Jedenfalls scheint das mal ein Experiment wert zu sein mit Mistral.

Aus reinem Gwunder: Verwendest du dafür das Vibe-CLI oder einen anderen Harness wie Opencode?

Mit Vibe-CLI war es zumindest vor ein zwei Monaten hochgradig enttäuschend, das Modell verhedderte sich nur schon beim Editieren von ein paar Zeilen in einer einfachen Datei dermassen, dass ich nach 10 Minuten abbrechen musste.

Opencode konnte ich damals nicht ausprobieren, aber deren Tools (edit, read, write, glob usw.) schienen mir recht zuverlässig, also frage ich mich, ob es die Qualität von Mistral verbessern könnte, wenn man da einen halbwegs funktionsfähigen Harness davorklemmt, statt den Mistral-eigenen.