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It's available in Canada too

Funnily enough, I've found that the .email TLD is often rejected as an invalid domain when I'm filling out my email address online.

+1 for Fastmail

Can I change my local secrets without using the web interface? I see there's a local fallback mode but it's not immediately clear if it's user updatable.

I wonder what would happen if HN banned the submission of insecure links. I bet more than a handful of 'Show HN' posters would take the time to set up letsencrypt (or something similar) in order to post.

Wow, I was not expecting to see functional P2P Matrix so soon. Props to the folks working on it.

The hard part of selling Matrix to family and friends who currently use WhatsApp is still the user experience. To be fair Riot has improved substantially since I first tried it but there's still some way to go before my Mum will be comfortable using it.

That said, I'm encouraged by the progress I'm seeing! My money's still on Matrix to supersede traditional centralized messaging systems.

Seconding Freehand.

A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, thank you very much.

> I had to manually ISP flash a bootloader.

I read about that problem with the Tokyo60 v3. Seems like a big problem with quality control, that should have been fixed by sending a new, working versions of the PCB to all customers.

I'm currently waiting on some Aqua Zilents which are delayed thanks to the current pandemic. I understand the delay, but they waited until the posted ship date (April 10th) to inform customers that it's going to be late. That rubbed me the wrong way for sure.

Notify17 looks great, and I plan on giving it a go.

However, since their example is a curl with plaintext body, I question their assertion that "Whatever your content is, we will never know about it".

It sounds to me more like the content is encrypted at rest, which is important but I still have to trust that N17 isn't squirreling away a plaintext copy or accidentally leaking it via logs or something similar.

> I can already host my own blog and have it safe from the whims of a central service.

Depends which central service. You aren't beholden to social media companies at that point, but you still have to:

* play by the rules of your ISP (If you're hosting on your home connection)

* trust that your hosting service won't arbitrarily turf you out

* make sure that your domain is safe from unauthorized transfers, sudden price increases, etc.

If the convenience and ease-of-use of current systems is worth those downsides (And for many, it is!) then fine. But it's not entirely accurate to say that you're safe from any central service.

To your second point, legality shouldn't be the final word. There are lots of governments with laws that are either actively or inadvertently used to silence dissenting opinions, or used to root out various undesirables. "You can do crime easier using it" isn't a great argument IMO.