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raven108··on India’s caste system remains entrenched, 75 years after independence
India vedas talk about “varna” - class system based on ability & skills, not caste system. Modern Indian caste system was introduced by British to divide and conquer. Economist with a long history of Hindu phobia and in the vein of colonial British rake it up every now and then. Caste comes from Spanish casta, no equivalent term exists in sanskrit for this.
raven108··on Firefox Browser: best for a free web
The problem is not the browser, but a lazy mgmt. Selling user privacy to Google for easy money instead of asking users to either pay for ensuring their privacy. But that will take real work instead of easy “royalty” payments from Google.

Between telemetry, safe browsing, sqlite database with all sites you visited & gvfs they siphon off some serious data. So bad for privacy but snappy otherwise, particularly the new versions. MDN is pretty good too, but they chopped off their tech team to “save money” for a top heavy mgmt team.

raven108··on Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)
Nihilistic post. Sure email standard has issues outlined. But given the recent Aussie laws and general political climate using plain text email is asking for trouble. I think Tutanota has done end rub around all these issues. Been using for few months and works well. AES, encryption at rest, plain email and shared passwords too. But given the EU tech law trend towards increased sifting through communication they are being and will be targeted. While Proton gets all the publicity but I feel they have better offering, including clients on all platforms.
raven108··on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate
Long time FastMail user. Never got a straight answer on privacy so moved to Tutanota for now. Much better, end to end encryption- nice clients too.

FastMail seems to have automated default address collection, backup of drafts & deleted email, ability to archive email. With no at rest encryption this could be possibly used for data mining too.

This new law is the last straw. So far they have not bothered to address the issue. Till few years back FM used to be awesome but feel they have not moved with time.

raven108··on Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
I have Tutanota to be quite reliable end to end encryption and no ip logging. Also provides ability to send encrypted mail with pre shared passwords. Good client apps too.

Given Protonmail trust issues Sir Lee ought to have avoided.

Signal mail service/client would be great too. Long time FastMail user but they too give fuzzy answers on mail privacy. Mailbox.org seems to be decent with encryption at rest.