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Since I run my own email server, I get around some of those issues by configuring Postfix's recipient_delimiter to use . rather than +. I've never had a site treat accounts.company@mydomain.com as anything other than a normal email address. It certainly doesn't justify the effort I've spent dealing with deliverability issues, but it's a nice perk.

I'm running it on an Oracle Cloud Free Tier server, it's nice because the 1Gb of ram they include is less than the requirement for k8s but plenty for k3s

I've had decent results from Hetzner, although ymmv

From my understanding S/MIME is pretty much enterprise PGP, so if you don't have your old certificates you can't access old emails that were encrypted using them

> If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.

People have been trying to call them out for this for quite a while. Apple hasn't created an iMessage app for Android because a large part of their business relies on ecosystem lock-in, and they won't implement RCS for the same reason.

Honestly I think Mastodon is already about as easy to use as possible. The real problem is the network effect, and the fact that the average person really just doesn't care enough about the benefits you get from it. What we really need is a libre, decentralized social network that's "cool" enough that non-tech people would have FOMO if they don't join. That's a much harder problem, one that I certainly won't be able to solve any time soon.

Wouldn't Briar have to be reimplemented anyway to build an iOS app? If they did it would be dual-licensed from the start so it shouldn't be an issue.

I think a pretty reasonable compromise is to reserve custom implementations of potentially dangerous things like crypto for personal projects. As an end user I'd rather run software that just uses sodium, but as a developer I agree that it's necessary that we get experience doing it ourselves.

I run a Matrix server with Dendrite, it was pretty easy to set up. My biggest complaint is the RAM usage, but if you don't join large rooms it's fine.

I've been looking for a way to keep something like notes or a to-do list encrypted on my computer, but still edit the files quickly without having to decrypt and re-encrypt them every time. The only solution I came across was Vim's :x, but it's well known that it uses outdated, insecure encryption. I decided I could write a shell script to do something similar with Age, hence this.

I recently started using abook as well and quite like it, the integration with neomutt is nice to have

I'm not saying you're wrong, but that particular source is well known for making big claims with insufficient evidence, and it reads like it was written by a conspiracy theorist. Many of the author's claims have already been (imo, pretty solidly) refuted by Proton.

Disclaimer: using protonmail until my current subscription runs out, then selfhosting

With Stadia et al. your computer sends keystrokes and mouse movements to Google's servers, and the server returns a video feed that's then displayed on your screen. Today's multiplayer games send and receive movement information and such, but the graphics rendering, which I believe is the main issue here, is still done client-side.

Not an expert or anything but I'm partial to Cormorant

IMO that's exactly why we need good ethics courses. If ethics isn't treated as a priority in university, it won't be treated as a priority by companies.

> Or when you receive an e-mail notifying you of a message in some walled garden.

In all fairness if the message contains sensitive information, I can see why an organization wouldn't want to have to worry about data breaches from third-party email providers.

> outside of their roles as students or employees or whatever

I think trade secrets count as inside you role at a company

If the Wikimedia Foundation stopped development or decided they didn't like indieweb, it wouldn't affect this site; worst-case scenario, they could just move to something else. That independence is the point of indieweb, not to specifically avoid software from other people or corporations.

Isn't that more or less the idea behind LBRY?

Yes. There aren't many people on there, but pretty much anyone who makes content related to Linux is, so it's worthwhile for me.

On the other hand, would hackers target something that small? It seems to me like the benefits and drawbacks of open source for security would kick in around the same scale.

Passports are optional while national ID card would be required and likely issued at birth. People tend to have an aversion to things that are required rather than recommended. Also, while passports are in theory only used when travelling across borders, ID cards would almost certainly be used domestically.

Personally I don't think ID cards are a huge threat to civil liberties - here in America Social Security cards basically already serve the same purpose, for example - but I can see how easy it is to draw that conclusion about a mandatory program to give every citizen something the government can use to identify them.

Moreso than Amazon? From my (limited) experience blockchain storage solutions are often less expensive, although I've never worked with petabytes of data so maybe it's different on that scale.