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I live near the US / Canada border. For 30 years, lakes have been completely or partially frozen by this time of year, but we had a big thunderstorm and downpour last week. It's wild.

As an "SV outsider" geographically (but a tech founder at heart) being part the Pioneer program and a part of the founder community is incredible. As a Pioneer you become part of an alumni community that enables you to travel to a ton of cities[1] and have the chance to meet up with other incredible founders.

The tournament and program are also great, but the founder community is what makes it incredible.

[1] https://pioneer.app/winners

There will be paid plans.

Yes, I will be launching paid plans.

1. Yes, only @owlmail.io domains for now. But, Owl Mail will allow for custom domains soon.

2. An upcoming feature will enable the creation of sender 'allow' and 'deny' lists for each Owl Mail address (With default sender 'allow' lists for top sites). Currently I track my account credentials in a password manager. A browser extension is also on Owl Mail's roadmap.

If you give your personal email address to hundreds of services online one of them is bound to sell or leak your email.

By using Owl Mail (or Firefox Relay, etc.) addresses everywhere, you reduce your attack surface to one security fastidious company.

And, even if Owl Mail (or Firefox Relay, etc.) were to experience a data breach, at least it would greatly increase the effort required to match emails to your identity.

To really protect yourself, use a double relay!

  External -> Relay 1 -> Relay 2 -> Your Inbox

Then you will have some serious resilience :D

There is an additional problem with catch-all emails on a custom domain, the domain itself is a uniquely identifiable substring (easy for data-gobblers and advertisers to trade or sell).

Why not use a relay service like [https://relay.firefox.com] or [https://owlmail.io]?

Since most senders aren't using PGP/E2EE your effective security risk is equivalent. Plus you can still discover address misuse/sale/leakage, disable addresses at will, and your privacy increases.

This gives you the benefit of disable-able email addresses, but not the benefit of privacy. Those companies (and once leaked, anyone) can use your custom email domain as a fingerprint for your online activity.

(Source, I'm the creator of Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io] and this is a common question.)

I've looked into building this for phone numbers. The main problem is that phone numbers are expensive to own.

All the solutions that exist "rent" you numbers temporarily so that prices are reasonable.

Hi niftylettuce – I'm working on something similar – Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io].

I've discovered some cool new products in this thread and Forward Email looks great. I'm glad there are other people out there working on solving this problem!

Founder of Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io] here. It's easy for me to promise Owl Mail will not shut down without significant advanced notice (hopefully that never happens, but if it does I will provide a clear transition plan for all users).

As a token of confidence, I've moved all ~150 of my online accounts (including all banking, financial, and healthcare accounts) to Owl Mail – it needs to exist for my life to operate smoothly.

Might be worth checking out Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io].

A few bonuses:

• Larger attachments, 5MB + some wiggle room depending on the message size.

• Replies (single and multi-party) in beta.

• More addresses (a generous free tier, paid plans on the way).

• Fast and simple UI.

If domain succinctness is your dream, have a gander at Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io].

I built Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io] to solve this same problem. I think you will find Owl Mail a fast and easy to use alternative to FF relay.

Congrats to FF Relay – more products in this space will be a win for better privacy online :)

Only if Firefox makes it easy and free to create unlimited addresses and/or disposable address.

I use owlmail.io for hundreds of accounts (major sites included) and haven't had an issue.

Using your own private domain does not give you the same level of anonymity. Your domain name becomes a globally unique identifier that companies (and once leaked, anyone) can use to fingerprint you activity online.

(Source, I run https://owlmail.io and this is a common question.)

Yes, but that comes with a caveat –

If you use a custom domain (without thousands of users), you lose the anonymity benefit of Owl Mail (the custom domain itself becomes the identifier). Which means BigCoA and BigCoB can still trade/sell tracking/advertising info on you.

Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io]

• It's like Privacy.com virtual cards, but email addresses.

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• Easily create incognito email addresses.

• Owl Mail relays messages to your normal email address.

• Easily deactivate an incognito address when a company leaks or sells your account information.

To add another point sample –

I work mostly in Chrome, iTerm, Sublime, and Pixelmator on a 2019 16" MBP and haven't had any issues. I was hoping to wait for the larger-screen Apple silicon MBP, but my old laptop didn't hold out. There's been so much negative sentiment around the Touch Bar MBPs that I was bummed to buy one. However, after using it for a few months I'd say that feeling was completely misguided. It's been great.

I typically use `⌘ [` and `⌘ ]` for back and forward navigation. It's rarely in conflict with other hotkey combos, unlike `⌘ →` and `⌘ ←`.

Which OS doesn't support multi-button mice?

Unless the government kills privacy (with law), I couldn't disagree more. I'm building https://owlmail.io to help improve your privacy online by reducing the "personal email everywhere" problem. Owl Mail is just one tiny project among countless others working toward a world with better privacy.

I started building Owl Mail [1] about 8 weeks ago to make it easy to create incognito address for your online accounts. It's become an essential part of my privacy toolbox.

[1] https://owlmail.io

This is why I started building my latest project.[1] I want better privacy from all digital services (that use my personal email for logging in), and better security for my inbox (eliminating spam, phishing attempts, malware).

A world where digital advertising fades away, and security and privacy are always prioritized, can't come fast enough.

[1] https://owlmail.io

That much cash-on-hand is typically stored in a bank. Banks needs cash reserves for lending. The money isn't sitting idle.

This is why the Stellar blockchain looks promising. On the Stellar blockchain, you put your trust in anchors and issuers (human entities) and each blockchain-subset (roughly the trust-union of specific-token issuers and specific-token anchors you choose) can create a highly distributed / decentralized blockchain from each users perspective, depending on how many anchors and issuers you are willing to trust.

It's a wonderful hybrid of "high-social-trust" networks run by humans (banks, governments) and distributed trust via code / your choice.

What can a government provide for free that neither causes inflation, nor requires tax dollars?

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• The above stands whether temporary or ongoing.

• Land distribution is kind of free as long as it's unclaimed and there's plenty.

To fix democracy we need to decrease divisiveness / polarization / party orthodoxy, and increase collaboration / independent thought.

Steps that reduce the 2-party power, and increase individual power (Ex. widespread ranked choice / runoff voting) would have major benefits.

Yes.

Any normal attacks that could be executed against a server on the internet could now be executed against your local server.

Which means, if your local/dev API endpoints have vulnerabilities, you will be exposed.

To help protect against attacks, you will want to block all 3rd party requests.

A possible solution would be to use HTTP basic auth (assuming tunnelto passes along the basic auth headers).

Ex. https://user:pass@t1.tunnelto.dev/api/hello

Then on your local/dev server, check user & pass.

Incredibly high debt to cash ratios.