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by newscracker 2y ago
I think it’s a poor decision by Apple if Apple Intelligence running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute is not available on even a one year old phone like iPhone 15/15 Plus or a two year old iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max. Since this service
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by newscracker 2y ago
> Same for spam filtering. Reject at the SMTP level for invalid sender identification. This is what Posteo (posteo.de) does by default* instead of accepting emails and putting them in a Spam folder. [1] It checks for a few different thin
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by newscracker 2y ago
Good for the author to have connections within Meta to get this resolved. For anyone else, this would’ve been the end (and probably worse, if Meta did inform the authorities with whatever information it genuinely believed it had). In my exp
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by newscracker 2y ago
Of course, you’re not crazy. The more the number of people who just give in, the larger and more widespread this problem becomes. IMO, this is one of the ways governments get more ideas — to encourage companies or have them collect a lot of
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by newscracker 2y ago
That blog post was last updated in November 2022, and does not mention recovery email address as something Proton would disclose.
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by newscracker 2y ago
You seem to be confusing privacy with practicality. In practice, nothing is ever secure, nothing is ever private and nothing is ever safe. What matters here is what Proton promises and advertises to users/potential users vs. what it ca
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by newscracker 2y ago
Keypirinha (a launcher) works well with Everything. Both are free. The former hasn’t been updated for a few years, but it still works for launching applications, performing quick calculations, currency conversion, etc. [1]: https:/&#x
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by newscracker 2y ago
> Apps like Truecaller refuse to work without so many permissions. Android apps have had bad habits for a very long time because Android didn’t have the granular runtime permissions system like iOS did (Android had only install time perm
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by newscracker 2y ago
> I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. I agree with most of the article, but not with these statements. The corporations are certainly to be blame
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by newscracker 3y ago
I like the concept of Signal usernames not being public either, and that they’re only a means to tell others how to find and contact them. I can’t wait for this to be rolled out. It’s not clear to me if it’d be possible to prevent the “cont
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by newscracker 3y ago
Before you look at Fastmail or ProtonMail or Tutanota, take a look at (in no particular order), runbox.com, Mailbox.org, mailfence.com and posteo.de (posteo is the only one in this list that doesn’t support custom domains). They’re all chea
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by newscracker 3y ago
Reminds me of this quote attributed to a past Peruvian president and general, Benavides: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
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by newscracker 3y ago
> First and foremost, allow me to donate to Firefox. Not to the foundation, to Firefox. I’d like to see this too. They already have a donation option for Thunderbird, which is officially under MZLA Technologies Corporation. There could b
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by newscracker 3y ago
With increasing backlash and criticism, I’m guessing that Google will be forced to backtrack on this and provide more leniency, just like it had on the legacy (free) Google Workspace accounts. > You'll have to take an extra step if
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by newscracker 3y ago
I think, where feasible (to fit in HN’s length limit), tweet submissions should include the name of the person and/or title. This tweet is by Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare. While being terribly annoyed with the events since Friday
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by newscracker 3y ago
Inflation, negative interest rates and the impending introduction of CBDCs (which will bring along more purpose limited and expiring vouchers too) all cause or will cause money to expire. In other words, these are tools to prod people to sp
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by newscracker 3y ago
FB is getting and using some metadata from WhatsApp. FB also said it would be introducing ads in WhatsApp. While WhatsApp may not be raking in a lot of money, it’s not a complete loss for Meta either.
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by newscracker 3y ago
Which app would they all use and from where would they get it? Signal does not (intentionally) support the official app using other servers or the platform itself supporting federation. [1] [1]: https://signal.org/blog/
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by newscracker 3y ago
This was a nice, detailed read. At some point, Signal would have to move out of cloud providers at least for a few things to manage costs better. I was happy to note this about employee compensation since paying them well is a good thing ap
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by newscracker 3y ago
Apps like Signal and Wire have shown that multi-device E2EE is possible with messages synced across. While I believe that Telegram is far ahead on a lot of features, the lack of multi-device sync for “secret chats” is mainly because Telegra
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by newscracker 3y ago
> To be clear, Signal now allows secure backups to the cloud. No, it doesn’t, at least on iOS. There is no backup option on iOS. The only way to retain information when using a new device is to have the old device close by and transfer i
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by newscracker 3y ago
Your citation is cut off and doesn’t show why Posteo says it won’t support this..I’m pasting the entire answer from Posteo on this topic [1] here: > Can I use Posteo with my own domains? > “No. We are an email provider with a particul
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by newscracker 3y ago
I usually suggest people to take a look at these: mailbox.org, runbox.com, mailfence.com, posteo.de (this last one doesn’t support custom domains). They’re all cheap enough, provide IMAP and POP, and are located in different countries in Eu
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by newscracker 3y ago
An FYI: Fastmail’s mail servers are located in the U.S.
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by newscracker 3y ago
> Unless your data is fully encrypted or stored locally by you, the government often can get it from a communications or computing company. > Traditionally, that required a court order. But increasingly, the government just buys it fr
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by newscracker 3y ago
> Recognizing the increasing demand by consumers to enhance security and in particular user convenience, Amazon rolls out passkeys widely across most devices and browsers. This underlines Amazon’s commitment to bend to consumer demand. W
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by newscracker 3y ago
It's easy to give some generic advice, which may or may not help. Becoming an "expert" (knowing something well, not intended to mean knowing more than the audience) can increase your confidence. The tangential aspect is deali
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by newscracker 3y ago
> Software that is merely source available, of course, is not FLOSS by default. But I don't actually see free software being replaced by software which is just source available. GP here. I agree. I should’ve worded it better to say
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by newscracker 3y ago
I hope he’s able to manage it well (since the prognosis is good) and is around for a lot longer. We need absolutists like him who go to extremes and are known widely. For a few moments, leave aside his personality and what people have said
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by newscracker 3y ago
I’ve been using Bitwarden more as a backup since it lags in more ways than one. With iOS 17 bringing password sharing, I may be able to rely on that and switch to KeePass (and its derivatives) as a cross platform backup where needed. Produc

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