gloriousternary

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Comment · 2 years ago
Since I run my own email server, I get around some of those issues by configuring Postfix's recipient_delimiter to use . rather than +. I've never had a site treat [email protected] as anything other than a normal email address. It certainly doesn't justify the effort I've spent dealing with deliverability issues, but it's a nice perk.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm running it on an Oracle Cloud Free Tier server, it's nice because the 1Gb of ram they include is less than the requirement for k8s but plenty for k3s
Comment · 5 years ago
I've had decent results from Hetzner, although ymmv
Comment · 5 years ago
From my understanding S/MIME is pretty much enterprise PGP, so if you don't have your old certificates you can't access old emails that were encrypted using them
Comment · 5 years ago
> If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.

People have been trying to call them out for this for quite a while. Apple hasn't created an iMessage app for Android because a large part of their business relies on ecosystem lock-in, and they won't implement RCS for the same reason.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Honestly I think Mastodon is already about as easy to use as possible. The real problem is the network effect, and the fact that the average person really just doesn't care enough about the benefits you get from it. What we really need is a libre, decentralized social network that's "cool" enough that non-tech people would have FOMO if they don't join. That's a much harder problem, one that I certainly won't be able to solve any time soon.
Comment · 5 years ago
Wouldn't Briar have to be reimplemented anyway to build an iOS app? If they did it would be dual-licensed from the start so it shouldn't be an issue.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think a pretty reasonable compromise is to reserve custom implementations of potentially dangerous things like crypto for personal projects. As an end user I'd rather run software that just uses sodium, but as a developer I agree that it's necessary that we get experience doing it ourselves.
Comment · 5 years ago
I run a Matrix server with Dendrite, it was pretty easy to set up. My biggest complaint is the RAM usage, but if you don't join large rooms it's fine.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've been looking for a way to keep something like notes or a to-do list encrypted on my computer, but still edit the files quickly without having to decrypt and re-encrypt them every time. The only solution I came across was Vim's :x, but it's well known that it uses outdated, insecure encryption. I decided I could write a shell script to do something similar with Age, hence this.
Comment · 5 years ago
I recently started using abook as well and quite like it, the integration with neomutt is nice to have
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that particular source is well known for making big claims with insufficient evidence, and it reads like it was written by a conspiracy theorist. Many of the author's claims have already been (imo, pretty solidly) refuted by Proton.

Disclaimer: using protonmail until my current subscription runs out, then selfhosting

Comment · 5 years ago
With Stadia et al. your computer sends keystrokes and mouse movements to Google's servers, and the server returns a video feed that's then displayed on your screen. Today's multiplayer games send and receive movement information and such, but the graphics rendering, which I believe is the main issue here, is still done client-side.

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