I learned recently that there is controversy around Proton and (surprisingly to me) far-right. Previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446899

Some people understand that there is naunce in the world. This is literally just the view of a single sponsor.

The way everyone gets so up-in-arms about the political views of a person three levels detached from the company is insane.

"Oh no, an individual with different views than me offhandedly mentioned Proton, the horror! I can't possibly differentiate between the views of a company and a separate individual!

Let's go grandstand about canceling our service and discouraging others from signing up because a random person thinks differently than me, and talked about the company."

I believe when the views of that person who has influence on the product, and it does not align with the services they say they desire to provide, it’s an issue.

It also can purely be choosing to not support an organization that doesn’t align with your world view. The money in our pockets is the power to change things.

If I’m reading this right, it was a failure at due diligence before sponsoring a YouTube channel. That doesn’t sound at all like what you wrote so maybe you could expand on what the controversy was?

Admitted it was a mistake, fixed it. Meanwhile google is actively platforming and funding the far right, and has no issue with it. What is the issue with Proton here exactly? This is a complete nothing burger.

Working on an AI anti-spam filter for Apple Mail on Mac

So I have been training the model to classify messages (ham/spam/marketing). And getting my first real user feedback which is incredibly useful and I am grateful for these!

I am preparing the paid version which learns from your emails on your mac.

This is a bit of a departure for me as I used to do predominantly backend work, moving into ML with the constraint of running on a customer machine and learning about the app store rules of engagement but this is fun.

https://klar.im and the engine is OSS https://github.com/klar-im/engine

Nice I love the Fringe. I don't suppose there is an easy way to track the street performers though which for me is the fun part.

Not officially, but I did add the ability to drop shared pins on the map for your friends. I also had that in mind, some of the most fun or wild moments have been on the street.

I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.

It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.

I am working on an email spam filter - fully local so could run on the client. Would it be interesting to you?

Yes 100% lets talk waseem at inbox2 dot com

I am working on an email spam filter - would it be interesting to you? An extension perhaps?

Sounds great, share it if you want - using rspamd right now, don't think it's worth the switch at the moment though, as I just want to stabilize/deslopify everything first, before iterating on individual aspects.

Nice! I did something similar for myself but fully offline. It started because I had to do a tax return and collecting information was a pain point.

Yeah, for me it was all about not letting mail and kids schoolwork pile up. I like to scan ads that local businesses leave in my mailbox, so that I can ask "show me lawn care services near me". A lot of them don't really have any other online presence.

Btw, I tried to keep the Mistral part modular, so that another OCR could be integrated.

I was going to ask what is a pen plotter. Apparently this is like a printer but it uses a real pen to draw. Neat.

Not the posted but may I contact you ?

Yes. Feel free to book.

Same. I wish Webview would work with GraalVM native compilation.