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N0RMANon IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act

I don’t understand the IP location criticism at all. At least for my experience across Europe all locations that are being reported by the common databases are within 250km of the actual customer.

N0RMANon Firefox is the best mobile browser

I think that’s not true for EU devices? Not sure if there are any browsers with an alternative engine are actually available though.

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

N0RMANon Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem

Am I the only one who thinks that this post-mortem for a margin of email users worldwide is a pure marketing gimmick to attract more "technical" users?

N0RMANon Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

What‘s next? Bing Maps is „leaking“ data to Microsoft?

N0RMANon Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules

Does disabling Private Relay[1] on a DNS-level prevent this?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for...

N0RMANon Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy

My main reason to move from Mail-in-a-Box[1] to AWS WorkMail[2] to finally Microsoft Office 365[3] was that there is no other implementation which supports all MS Outlook features like native MS Exchange.

Are there any (Self-Hosted?) alternatives nowadays?

1: https://mailinabox.email 2: https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/ 3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/excha...

N0RMANon Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

Why would anyone in Europe ask for that. All ISP publicity said they have more than enough capacity available.

Also it would be the first time that a U.S net company does something voluntarily just by kindly asking.

N0RMANon Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

So they are throttling because they can't fulfill the demand and want to save money on network traffic?

N0RMANon Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial

Have a look at 3cx! Free for basic usage, great mobile apps and very easy deployments.

N0RMANon Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

Someone explain to him that you have to click the Verify button on both browser.

N0RMANon Updates from YC

Sam who?

N0RMANon Bye, Bye, Google

I'm really happy with Amazon WorkMail. Only their webmail is unusable. Outlook works 10/10 though.

N0RMANon Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

Again you can clearly see WikiLeaka mission: Randomly attacking and potentially damaging businesse.

N0RMANon Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

Just being female is a qualification at your workplace?

N0RMANon A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt

Wouldn't a jammer do the thing?

N0RMANon CO2 shortage: Lessons learned from a storm in a pint glass?

Welcome to Schweizerhaus (https://www.schweizerhaus.at)

N0RMANon Apps of a Feather

„there is no way for its developer to fix these issues.“ ... few paragraphs further down: There might be a solution in place.

N0RMANon Riseup moves to encrypted email in response to legal requests

Off Topic: Does anybody have an invite left?

N0RMANon Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

tl;dr Only available in us-east-1 (N. Virginia)

N0RMANon Swift is Open Source

http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-psut...

N0RMANon The Nightmare of Replacing a Battery on a Mac Laptop

Me too. Got my display replaced for free within an hour. A Premium Reseller/Service changed my logic board at no cost within 12 hours.

N0RMANon Maps.me goes open source

Despite that Maps.me is now open-source, how does it compare to Here (Maps)?

N0RMANon Popcorn Time in Your Browser

Source: https://github.com/vmanin/popcorninyourbrowser

N0RMANon Show HN: iOS App Packager – Share Your App Without Requiring Testers to Register

No download link provided?

N0RMANon Show HN: App that protects you from getting hacked remotely (and it's super fun)

Differences to Threema? https://threema.ch

N0RMANon Google Inbox

You can request an invite by sending a E-Mail to inbox@google.com

N0RMANon Is Julian Assange still in the embassy?

just hard coded at the momemnt, though I think I should make it self-updating, maybe by twitter trends.

N0RMANon Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend?

Streisand (https://github.com/jlund/streisand) on Digital Ocean, 5$/Month

N0RMANon Show HN: Javelin Browser

Why do you offer it for free?