Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I don't think any of them give two shits about pushback. Unless that pushback takes the form of forcible removal from power, they wont care in any way.

The trouble is that the problem is not confined to just Trump. If he dies, Vance becomes president. If they both die, Mike Johnson does. This is not a coup by a single person, this is an entire philosophy - neo-fascism - thats now in charge of the US. Its goose-stepping turtles all the way down.

Depends what you want. If you want an experience like Proton with its own app then use Tuta. If you're happy with IMAP with a client like Evolution (Linux) or FairEmail (mobile for Android) or access via a website then mailbox.org are very good.

I'm more and more convinced the Trump administration is not negotiating in good faith. I don't believe the minerals thing was anything other than something Trump thought Zelenskyy would never be able to say 'yes' to. Trump doesn't want to support Ukraine, but he also needs to find enough of an excuse to save some semblance of face. So when Zelenskyy indicated the minerals deal could be done, with modifications, Trump/Vance cooked up that cowardly shitshow to try and paint Zelenskyy as unreasonable in order to give them enough of an excuse to walk away.

I understand why Zelenskyy is desperate for US support but I'm pretty much certain at this point it won;t be forthcoming. Even if Starmer/Macron et al persuade the two of them to re-meet it'll just be something else next time.

The US, as a political force supporting stability and peace is no more. Its time the rest of the world accepted that and moved on because its not outside the realm of possibility that a US/Russian political/military alliance might exist relatively soon and we might need to be ready for that.

FairEmail has a good reputation.

It's been a few steps in a concerning direction by them recently. As of right now, it's still OK to use IMO but I'm sincerely hoping this is the extent of it, or even that they row back some of the recent changes.

However, I still want it to exist because its the only viable alternative at the moment to Google's dominance. Yes there are plenty of forks (two of which I use) but they still rely on Firefox as the core product. I don't think any are hard forks (or am I wrong?). I'm very uncomfortable at the thought of using a browser thats based on Chromium and/or unable to run the full version of UBO or have Containerised tabs.

I'm not convinced Trump ever really wanted those minerals. He floated the idea knowing Zelensky would never say 'yes' to the deal as originally presented. But then, when Zelensky seemed prepared to make compromises, Trump had to find another excuse to get the US out of being involved and went with the pathetic, shameful, cowardly performance we just witnessed.

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1. Realm of the Elderlings saga by Robin Hobb (completed I think)
2. World of the Five Gods series by Lois McMaster Bujold (ongoing)
3. Wall of Night series by Helen Lowe (ongoing, link goes to first book in the series)
4. Innsmouth Legacy series by Ruthanna Emrys (ongoing, link goes to the first book in the series)
5. Piranesi by Susannah Clarke (standalone, not a series)

Depends on your threat model - mine is to make it as annoying and difficult for data sellers and advertisers to profile me as possible so in that scenario a reputable VPN service makes perfect sense.

There's no such thing as total privacy and each service/software is simply a piece of the puzzle. If my government really wanted my data I'm sure they could find a way but making it as difficult as possible for techno-fascists is fine by me.

Thats a good point, I might set that up myself!

At the moment I do a once-a-week encrypted export from BitWarden and Aegis (authenticator) and put those exports onto an encrypted USB pen drive to avoid the issues you mention but I think your way is probably better.

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What assurances do you have they won’t go full proton in the future?

Absolutely none. That applies to all services that exist now or in the future. The only way around that is self-hosting but that path has its own issues including a very steep learning curve if you want to be secure as well as private. Maybe this could be a longer term project to work towards?

For services:

• Mail - Mailbox.org seems the best option right now
• Calendar - don't know.
• Drive - either Cryptomator used with literally any service or a dedicated service like Filen
• VPN - Mullvad
• Password Manager - Bitwarden
• Documents - I just use LibreOffice offline or CryptPad occasionally if I'm collabing with someone.

In truth none of these are perfect. Privacy has got a lot harder recently as Proton and StartMail/StartPage have politically shit the bed and the UK seems determined to kill encryption which means I have to avoid really good services like IceDrive just because they're in the UK.

EDIT: Calendars. Mailbox.org's included one works fine. You can sync using CalDAV. The process for Thunderbird (desktop) is here.

The process for mobile is a little more complicated. First you need Davx5 to actually get the data, but thats all that app does. It's not a Calendar app. It does work with the native Android Calendar but I used FossifyCalendar.

So install both of those then login to your Mailbox account in a browser and create a Calendar (or use an existing one). Get its unique URL by looking under the heading 'My Calendars', clicking the three bars icon, click 'Properties' and you can then copy your CalDAV URL.

On your Android device open Davx5, tap the plus icon then specify 'login with URL and username' tap 'continue' then paste in the URL you copied earlier, your email address and your email account password, tap 'login' and that should work.

Now, switch to your Calendar app. I used Fossify Calendar so if you are too, open that up, go to Settings, scroll down to the CALDAV section and turn on CalDAV sync. It might switch to your new Mailbox calendar now, but if it doesn't, tap 'Manage synced calendars' and activate it there.

Privacy focused company move off privacy respecting service and suggest following them on privacy nightmare service. Are they trying to kill any trust in their own company?

Such a weird thing for them to do - why would a Dutch company highlight a connection with a US Trump supporter? Is it a very recent thing? Like Proton's CEO massaging Trump's ego?

Wonder if there's a Ukrainian restaurant in that town.

Sadly, 99% of people - wherever they live - won't really do or say anything until it affects them personally.

Star Trek memes. I didn't even know I liked Star Trek until 2 years ago.

Lemmings have a huge obsession with shit being both free and adfree

Not sure thats very accurate. There's a healthy percentage who donate to instances and developers, because on open source platforms/services/software you don't have just trust no ones selling your data for their profit and its good to support that.

If Google open sourced their clients, got rid of adverts and all tracking and stopped selling or giving away user data but charged a reasonable fee I'd happily use YouTube.

Not immediately or probably for some years. Facebook's main problem is the fact its got an aging population and no young people joining. That's why Meta bought Instagram and is desperate to get their grubby paws on TikTok or force it to close down in the West.

I think internally, over the next decade, FB will start to die off organically as Meta put ever increasing focus on retention and young people.