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  • Doesn’t Proton specifically provide instructions for how to use proton mail via proton vpn (and/or tor, discussed in the article) to provide extra privacy against IP-demanding court orders?

    That would be rather short-sighted or disingenuous as they would then simply be forced to log their proxy too.

  • At that point, might as well send E2E encrypted mail via GMail.

    From a security stand-point: Yes. From a privacy standpoint: Absolutely not.

  • They do have an API, but I haven’t found anything written on top of that.

    Not 3rd party of course but most of their official clients are FOSS.

    How do they ensure zero knowledge if you send them the username and password?

    Because you don't. I haven't looked into how it works exactly but all your browsers sends is your username and a proof of you having access to the password

  • This wouldn't really solve the issue as the user could rather simply create as many accounts as they like to circumvent per-account limits.

  • Flash loses memory over many years. I'd use like 3 different mediums and always keep a hash of the key with the key.

  • Cryptomator is made for that exact purpose.

  • AFAIK, this is a Windows-specific option which requires the user to have purchased a license for the Windows HEVC decoder on the windows store.

  • The reason is software patents and asinine licensing for HEVC. Thank the greedy fucks in suits for that.

  • Are you spoofing your user-agent or have enabled other fingerprinting "mitigations"?

  • Hm, I thought it had something like this but it does have languages but your display language appears to be your local language. Perhaps it different though; worth checking.

  • Have you spoofed your country? Check the Aurora Store settings.

  • If I can get the portal to just forward every keypress (or a configurable subset) to an xwayland window, that'd work for me. (I am aware of the security implications.)

  • I'll take "didn't get the point of FOSS" for $3.14.

    What the heck.

  • I've got three hard problems preventing me from using Wayland (sway/wlroots) right now:

    1. No global shortcuts for applications, especially legacy applications; I need teamspeak3 to be able to read my PTT keys in any application. Yes I know that could be used to keylog (the default should be off) but let me make that decision.
    2. Button to pixel latency is significantly worse. I don't need V-Sync in the terminal or Emacs. Let me use immediate presentation in those applications.
    3. VRR is weird. I'd love if desktop apps were V-sync'd via VRR but the way it currently works is that apps make the display go down to 48Hz (because they don't refresh) but the refresh rate never goes up when typing; further exacerbating button to pixel delay.
  • That is just a specific type of drive failure and only certain software RAID solutions are able to even detect corruption through the use of checksums. Typical "dumb" RAID will happily pass on corrupted data returned by the drives.

    RAID only serves to prevent downtime due to drive failure. If your system has very high uptime requirements and a drive just dropping out must not affect the availability of your system, that's where you use RAID.

    If you want to preserve data however, there are much greater hazards than drive failure: Ransomware, user error, machine failure (PSU blows up), facility failure (basement flooded) are all similarly likely. RAID protects against exactly none of those.

    Proper backups do provide at least decent mitigation against most of these hazards in addition to failure of any one drive.

    If love your data, you make backups of it.

    With a handful of modern drives (<~10) and a restore time of 1 week, you can expect storage uptime of >99.68%. If you don't need more than that, you don't need RAID. I'd also argue that if you do indeed need more than that, you probably also need higher uptime in other components than the drives through redundant computers at which point the benefit of RAID in any one of those redundant computers diminishes.

  • Without any cold hard data, this isn't worth discussing.

  • And that's just tail-pipe emissions. PHEVs have much greater production emissions due to their batteries too.

  • The problem is that it's not just 15W; I merely used that as an example of how even just two "low power" devices can cause an effect that you can measure in euros rather than cents.