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Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

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Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#31

This is awesome news. I wonder if it has any impact on Infomaniak's earlier position on Switzerland's privacy laws, e.g.: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/infomaniak-breaks-r...

I dont see where those positions conflict with each other. Can you elaborate?

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#32
post #17

> Concretely, this means that no takeover of the company is possible without the Foundation’s approval. Even if Boris were to pass away, even if an irresistible investor came knocking, control of Infomaniak remains in the hands of a structure dedicated to its mission. This reads quite naive; if you want a legal entity to be ideologically driven then it needs to be controlled by a small number of ideologues. Committee…

You are right but the ideology of a company is also driven by the society in which it exist. Switzerland is far more "conservative" (in the meaning to change slowly) than the US. Like our biggest retailer is "Migros" which still refuses to sell alcohol according to its statutes which where formalized somewhere in the 50s/60s of the last century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#33
I recently moved one of my boxes from Mailfence to Infomaniak. It works, but their product/pricing strategy is really hard to understand (my ksuite vs ksuite pro). Their AI is not helpful in explaining the differences. Also their UI opens new browser tab for almost every menu page. After dealing with these issues it works quite well.

I wonder if this move is similar to what Home Assistant project did.

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#34
post #32
post #17

> Concretely, this means that no takeover of the company is possible without the Foundation’s approval. Even if Boris were to pass away, even if an irresistible investor came knocking, control of Infomaniak remains in the hands of a structure dedicated to its mission. This reads quite naive; if you want a legal entity to be ideologically driven then it needs to be controlled by a small number of ideologues. Committee…

You are right but the ideology of a company is also driven by the society in which it exist. Switzerland is far more "conservative" (in the meaning to change slowly) than the US. Like our biggest retailer is "Migros" which still refuses to sell alcohol according to its statutes which where formalized somewhere in the 50s/60s of the last century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros

Not sure if that's a good example. They bought a competitor so they could sell alcohol under its name.

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#35
It came into my email earlier this morning, and I was a bit confused, because I had just woken up, but a coffee later everything was clear. I bought a domain there not long ago, mainly to support European companies, which was straightforward with no problems at all.

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#36

What is it with company blogs that outright refuse to link to their product pages?

I agree! It's amazing to require the visitor to edit the url to go from blog to main site. For my projects I pay attention to avoid this as I find it so annoying. I want visitor that are interested to have easy access to the website!

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#37
Migrated my email servers in 20 minutes yesterday from OVH (their MXs does not support IPv6, and Infomaniak was less expensive for basic email hosting), I found the documentation and the diagnostic tools of the DNS zone very clear, was a no brainer to add DKIM, SPF and DMARC (hey generate the records for you, just have to cpy paste in your zone manager and refresh the diagnostic to get a status after propagation), and autodiscovery and autoconfiguration of email clients are a nice bonus !

Overall a great experience, can recommend !

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#39
post #32
post #17

> Concretely, this means that no takeover of the company is possible without the Foundation’s approval. Even if Boris were to pass away, even if an irresistible investor came knocking, control of Infomaniak remains in the hands of a structure dedicated to its mission. This reads quite naive; if you want a legal entity to be ideologically driven then it needs to be controlled by a small number of ideologues. Committee…

You are right but the ideology of a company is also driven by the society in which it exist. Switzerland is far more "conservative" (in the meaning to change slowly) than the US. Like our biggest retailer is "Migros" which still refuses to sell alcohol according to its statutes which where formalized somewhere in the 50s/60s of the last century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros

The relationship with Alcohol in many European countries is a bit different anyway. In some nordic countries you can only buy it in official state-owned stores (and it is incredibly expensive due to taxes).

Re: Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

#40

I use Infomaniak for personal domains, along with DNS. I really want to like them. But their management UI is just... horrible? Also the product offering feels increasingly unfocused, with kSuite and kDrive.

Ksuite is literally a google workspace competitor nothing unfocused about that. My company uses them for everything works well.
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