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by newscracker 1y ago
I feel there’s very little hope for privacy and freedom if people like the author — who claim to be for privacy and understand the implications of digital payments — choose cards all the time “because it’s convenient”. Convenience and coerc
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by newscracker 1y ago
AFAIK, only Fastmail (which was the creator of JMAP).
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by newscracker 1y ago
Here’s the link for anyone wanting to join the waitlist for Thundermail (the service): https://www.thundermail.com/ I really hope this takes off well and provides some funding for the Thunderbird project too. Currently the
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by newscracker 1y ago
The support is only for the EWS protocol (MS Graph will probably come next year). You can enable it in beta by going to Config Editor (this is primarily for advanced users), searching for the preference "experimental.mail.ews.enabled&q
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by newscracker 1y ago
Two suggestions, if you have the time to look at the effort and difficulty to implement them: > P.S. I plan publish it on Homebrew soon. 1. Please consider publishing on MacPorts too. 2. Please consider supporting m4b audiobooks (it’s a
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by newscracker 1y ago
I haven’t done a detailed comparison, but there’s been a free app called Decoupled [1] on iOS that supports various formats and loading music into it. The app hasn’t been updated in about four years though. [1]: https://decoupled
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by newscracker 1y ago
> The private key remains bound to the user device, where it can’t be extracted. So what exactly is being transferred with this new cross platform mechanism? Isn’t it the same private key, except that it’s a direct device-to-device trans
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by newscracker 1y ago
If there’s something that’s to be sherlocked [1] in 2025, this would be it! There is a very high motive and incentive for Apple to make something like this part of the OS annd it’s probably working on something similar. Apple can also do it
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by newscracker 1y ago
Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to: DownThemAll , a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/ Free Software Foundati
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by newscracker 2y ago
> 2. Able to hide development of mobilecoin (somehow) from us for nearly a year. To be clear: There were updates to the Signal app on iOS and Play, otherwise there would have been security bugs, but those patches did not make their way i
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by newscracker 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
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by newscracker 2y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/3Pp0U I was wondering whether this is about Advanced Data Protection, which encrypts almost all data end-to-end on iCloud. It’s only later in this report that it gets into this key detail:
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by newscracker 2y ago
This page says it was last updated a few weeks ago, but the recommendation against iCloud backups seems to have glaring errors and omissions. > Keys to unlock the phone’s full-disk encryption are also stored in the iCloud backup. This ar
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by newscracker 2y ago
You have two different points in your comment. Firstly, iOS has not been behind on having apps work if they don’t get access to a specific sensor or data. It’s on Android that apps refuse to work if they’re not given contacts access or loca
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by newscracker 2y ago
I’ve used Wire for quite sometime before (when Signal didn’t have desktop message sync). I’ve even recommended it here. It was after a year or so of usage that I realized that Wire does not provide any way to export or save chats outside of
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by newscracker 2y ago
> For me personally privacy and security is less of a concern vs Ads and manipulation. Those two don’t add up. You expose yourself to manipulation and control when you don’t have adequate privacy. If privacy is less of a concern to you,
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by newscracker 2y ago
It’s possible for users to donate money directly for Thunderbird development (since it’s a separate for-profit subsidiary under Mozilla Foundation). All donated money goes into developing and supporting Thunderbird. But it’s not possible to
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by newscracker 2y ago
The number of permissions that Laspass may request also looks very invasive. With all the security issues that Lastpass had been dealing with time and again for years, I wonder who’s even using it in 2025. Is it just non-tech people who are
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by newscracker 2y ago
The main issues here are the default opt-in and not announcing this feature way back in September. If someone wants this, they can always enable it if it’s opted out by default. I’d expect Apple to fix this soon. The link below is from the
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by newscracker 2y ago
> New Tab Page > We will be running an experiment in December featuring a Fakespot feed in the vertical list on newtab. This list will show products that have been identified as high-quality, and with reliable product reviews. They wi
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by newscracker 2y ago
Whatever you end up using, make sure that there is an easy way to turn it off and on from each client device. A network wide blocker could cause issues with some sites (like banking, as an example). Tangential topic: I see some suggestions
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by newscracker 2y ago
NextDNS does not work many a times. I prefer the iOS app so that it’s easy to disable when needed, but the app has not been updated for a few years. Many a times the test page at test.nextdns.io will show as unconfigured and sometimes it wi
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by newscracker 2y ago
> I do not know how it is financed You can donate to Thunderbird in general. Right on the homepage of Thunderbird mobile [1], is a donation link. [2] Unlike donations on mozilla.org, where the funds go to Mozilla Foundation (and not to M
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by newscracker 2y ago
I came here to ask a similar question, looking for alternatives to Lockdown Privacy on iOS/iPadOS. [1] I've been using Lockdown for some years as a local and system firewall to block trackers across all apps, but this company got
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by newscracker 2y ago
> Google may be a privacy issue... So I would love to have the possibility to prevent anyone putting my info in their contacts in Google. This can be quite difficult to achieve. The moment your contact information is given to someone usi
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by newscracker 2y ago
I’m not sure any country’s bureaucracy really appreciates responsible disclosures that make the government’s systems look very poorly designed. There is always the risk of being classified as an enemy agent/criminal depending on who’s
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by newscracker 2y ago
> You're not wrong, but I would have a hard time as a jury member convicting them of a CFAA violation or whatever for creating a user named "Test TestOnly" with a bright pink image instead of a photo. If they had added the
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by newscracker 2y ago
So when someone lets (or has) their phone service get disconnected and the company recycles that phone number shortly, the person who then gets this phone number is out of luck if they want to use Claude?
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by newscracker 2y ago
This post is very thin on details. A better source is in the Firefox Nightly News blog post titled “Experimenting with AI services in Nightly”. [1] This is currently opt-in. Some excerpts from that post [1]: > To start, this experiment w
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by newscracker 2y ago
In light of this, Apple’s choice to integrate with ChatGPT from OpenAI looks worse. Even with its privacy promises of not revealing much information and asking the user explicitly, these and other events in OpenAI should trigger serious con

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