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by newscracker 3y ago
Keep in mind that Posteo recycles email addresses after a few months or so once the account is unpaid and/or deleted. This means, unless you have a difficult to guess or uncommon email address on Posteo, the chances that someone else m
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by newscracker 3y ago
I somewhat agree with this. I do believe that a larger provider is less likely to lose their domains than an individual is (there are always exceptions). Domains expiring is one reason why I always have my domains paid for 10 years in the f
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by newscracker 3y ago
There's nothing that offers all these features and is free. But if you'd like to try Orion browser by Kagi [1], you can install uBlock Origin and many other web extensions for it on Mac, iOS and iPadOS. A paid alternative that is
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by newscracker 3y ago
If you only need email, then there are a bunch of providers in Europe that are cheaper (especially compared to something like Fastmail if you need one mailbox for each person in the family), have been around for several years and support cu
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by newscracker 3y ago
Or if you’re comfortable with extensions, use “Form History Control” [1] to save all your form inputs and to restore or export them. Before XUL extensions were removed in Firefox, the “Lazarus: Form Recovery” [2] extension to save form data
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by newscracker 3y ago
> If cybersecurity was that easy, we wouldn't have so many examples of businesses getting it wrong. I can only partially agree with this point. Businesses getting cybersecurity wrong has almost no material and significant consequenc
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by newscracker 3y ago
Instagram bans accounts for no reason at all. It’s had some rogue and buggy bots or algorithms banning or deactivating accounts for years. Appeals don’t work. Unfortunately, this situation doesn’t get a lot better with the fediverse, where
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by newscracker 3y ago
When this change was made several years ago on iOS, I was quite annoyed because I had the habit of turning off WiFi and Bluetooth periodically (mainly to stay disconnected). I think I even provided feedback to Apple (from the public feedbac
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by newscracker 3y ago
If you’re fine with a single tab browser, Firefox Focus [1] comes with a built-in content blocker.
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by newscracker 3y ago
I don’t use Chrome (Firefox is my regular browser) and hence don’t know how the current/previous download interface was. The blog post doesn’t seem to have a before/after comparison either. Is there a screenshot or GIF or video of
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by newscracker 3y ago
I’ll be checking out the free version. 1. Proton Pass does not have password sharing right now. That makes even the initial limited time discounted pricing ($1 or €1 a month) higher than Bitwarden, where the latter allows password sharing e
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by newscracker 3y ago
A few comments that I hope may help bring more clarity for your intended audience: * Your website looks slick and kinda well designed (though there seems to be too much information moving around). * The documentation starts with getting the
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by newscracker 3y ago
> Display resolution, eye tracking and hand tracking are problems that can be solved today with a more expensive device. I don’t think Meta really wants its devices to be out of reach for billions of people, limiting its data collection
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by newscracker 3y ago
Totally agree. The value that ad blockers (especially uBlock Origin) have given in terms of user experience is immeasurable. It's a stark difference evoking anger as well as sympathy when looking at someone else's default (Chrome,
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by newscracker 3y ago
And in which you have personally audited every line of code for extra confidence. /s
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by newscracker 3y ago
There are several ad blockers or content blockers (free and paid) on iOS with varying experiences (and sometimes annoyances due to the platform limit on the number of rules a blocker can include). Firefox Focus on iOS comes a built-in block
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by newscracker 3y ago
I've copy pasted some of his rationale for not accepting donations (with links to the originals), in my comment on this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230210
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by newscracker 3y ago
He's written in detail (with many revisions) about why he doesn't accept donations...since 2014, actually (and versioned those on GitHub too). The latest version from April 2022 [1] says: > I do not want the administrative wor
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by newscracker 3y ago
The wayback machine has snapshots of this, including one taken today, June 4. [1] I hope the current error is just something transient and will be resolved soon. I also hope someone has contacts for the website to alert them. [1]: https:&#
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by newscracker 3y ago
This is great, and the fact that it clears HTTP cache and DNS cache is different from (and more aggressive on protecting privacy) other browsers and methods. I use Firefox as my primary browser with Temporary Containers [1] and Cookie AutoD
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by newscracker 3y ago
This is well written, but it doesn’t really explain how or why Zulip will maintain its free plan forever. However, the existence of this post also makes Zulip committed deeper to not pull the rug on the free plan. Whenever that happens, I’d
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by newscracker 3y ago
Signal has had this feature (linking the same account in multiple devices) for years. I’ve added more details in a reply to another comment on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729024
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by newscracker 3y ago
The article says (emphasis mine): > WhatsApp users are getting a long-requested feature: access to the same account across multiple cellphones. This has been supported by Signal for years by linking devices. You can have the same Signa
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by newscracker 4y ago
One way could be to work with a tech collective that supports different causes. Riseup (riseup.net) is one. It may be more of sysadmin and platform work than developing apps though. Unless you can commit for a longer term, it probably may n
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by newscracker 4y ago
Please see my other comment in this thread on how to copy filter rules from one profile to another. [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735788
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by newscracker 4y ago
> The dealbreaker for me when I tried Thunderbird years ago is that it lacked any way to export the filters you'd set up, so you could copy them to your other computers. Has this been addressed? It’s been a while since I used Thunde
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by newscracker 4y ago
> Apple ruined their IMAP client ("Mail") a few years ago Please elaborate on this point. I’d like to know how it was before and how it is now. > so now that world is basically Outlook and Thunderbird, and I'm sure I do
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by newscracker 4y ago
A bit lazy to search right now and provide links, but Mozilla laid off most of the Servo team members a few years ago. So it’s not really been under Mozilla for all practical purposes. My understanding is that some of that work was, and con
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by newscracker 4y ago
The only reason I’ve remained on the Dropbox free plan for a decade is because in the early years I was able to boost the free space to 25GB through referrals and contests. I use it as a quick way to sync files and access them from mobile d
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by newscracker 4y ago
Sounds exactly like a deep bureaucracy at work! How do they even sit and design such systems and who signs off on such designs? It’s as if the company that prides itself for tech has mostly incompetent people with no real world experience o

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