fghtr

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fghtr··on Best paid email hosting service in 2019?

Based in Germany. 1 euro/month for 2 GB. Green energy. 3 aliases included. Anonymous payment with a post letter. Comprehensive encryption.

(happy user)

Upd: Free Javascript as confirmed by FSF: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-javascript-guideline...

Other recommendations by the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems

fghtr··on Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations

Mastodon can help here, because it is not a single entity, but a federation with independent moderations.

fghtr··on Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars

>It communicates by definition, and that is essential to its operation.

Communicating is essential. Storing this information forever is not. Processing and giving this information to "third parties" even less so.

fghtr··on Firefox 67.0 Released

Which sites?

fghtr··on Can we all stop using Medium now?

We now have peertube, which uses p2p to decrease the load on your server.

fghtr··on Open source firmware is important for security

>The boot loader should be simple and relatively dumb IMHO, then it is secure. If it should be bigger then it should be Open source.

I do not see why it would be different for any other software.

fghtr··on Open source firmware is important for security

Although mentioned in the article, I would like to emphasize that https://puri.sm are selling laptops with disabled and cleaned (with me_cleaner) bios. I hope more companies follow.

fghtr··on Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

So we need an organization like EFF for that.

fghtr··on PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format

https://pdfreaders.org

fghtr··on Librem 5 App Design Tutorial

https://puri.sm/faq/supported-networks/

fghtr··on ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography

> if the two parties understand how to send encrypted messages over web clients, isn't that still secure ?

It is secure, except that metadata are open go Google. And metadata is the new data nowadays.

fghtr··on ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography

I am happy with posteo.de.

fghtr··on Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

https://www.wikitribune.com/article/13988/

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806500

>you don't get to complain about being murdered later

Actually, you do; murder is illegal even if you were informed in advance. The same should be with the ad industry. See GDPR.

>Are there any companies than don't abuse our trust?

I guess you need to look in the direction of GNU/Linux. For example, company https://puri.sm. They have nice laptops and nice Debian-based OS and they are working on the phone (soon to be released).

fghtr··on Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

Then you do not really want to make a change. Things will not change themselves (except to the worse).

fghtr··on Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

You can also volunteer for them.

fghtr··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?

I suggest to follow research-based advises. For example, there is Harvard Schoold of Public Health:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

fghtr··on Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

Become a member of a charity fighting for your freedoms such as Electronic Frontier Foundation or Amnesty International.

fghtr··on Julian Assange has been arrested by MPS

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632449

fghtr··on Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff

See also: https://prism-break.org, but there are no "organizations" there.

fghtr··on No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick

Qubes OS has a defense agains USB attacks. It just reads the USB stick inside a dedicated VM and then, if necessary you attach it to another VM.

fghtr··on Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

Non-AMP-link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/09/chernobyl-hist...

fghtr··on Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

Check out Haiku OS: https://www.haiku-os.org/

fghtr··on Why Do Buses Bunch?

fghtr··on Ask HN: Do you still pay with Paypal?

Horror story time:

https://minifree.org/paypal/

fghtr··on Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

https://fsf.org/ryf

fghtr··on Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

> does HN have any advice for advocating for making the switch?

Maybe not precisely that, but https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/university.html

fghtr··on Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

> The question is, what alternatives currently available would do any better on the whole, for what you need?

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

(only for preorder, but the devkit already exists and looks fine)

fghtr··on Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

>Is there scientific applications where they would really need more than 40? Or is it just the author making some guess?

It is still not clear whether Pi is a normal number or not [0]. Such calculations could in principle give an insight here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Irrationality_and_normality

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