Unfortunately I have also found it to be a huge impediment to making friends with other millennials who aren’t techie. I sort of left a crowd that was always on xmpp and signal and found myself rather ostracized. Things are changing slowly and most of them are now on Signal and with the usernames it’s easier to exchange contact without relying on phone numbers that feel like a bigger commitment. But unfortunately passed explaining why you won’t support Meta, and why alternatives like Signal are good there isn’t much to do.

Private to whom? You’ve just moved the observer from your ISP to your VPN provider and whomever is upstream from them.

NLNet

Unfortunately some verification providers don’t allow VoIP SMS numbers, I’d say it’s always about 50/50 whether it’ll work or not very frustrating. But otherwise yeah, VoIP.ms is great! And indeed Montreal based!

Shit for privacy, but that should fix it

Did you run the token generator thing? Worked for me a couple days ago (but not over a VPN).

KeePassXC has an option for shared database.

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_database_sharing_with_keeshare

But QubesOS wins because Xen is better at it because it’s faster because it’s type 1 but vbox or qemu/kvm is type 2 hypervisor.

This is incorrect, Semi/KVM is also a type 1 hypervisor. KVM has a slight edge on performance due to better cpu pinning.

At 43" you’re in luck, and not needing a tuner, there are still some options

https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/BDM4350UC_27/brilliance-4k-ultra-hd-lcd-display

Also: Samsung - Odyssey Neo G7 43"

For internal emails yes they are encrypted on the client side. OP can use PGP or S/MIME for that too.

That’s not really true, S/MIME is a thing

That’s true of protonmail too

That can easily be achieved with dovecot and a sieve script.

Kinda depends on your threat model too, like if you don’t want your traffic going through the US signal is gonna be a big no no.

Dino is nice in GNOME as it’s native Gtk which gets you a nicely integrated and modern look and feel. It’s a little low on feature but fully usable.

I don’t disagree, but taking notes in Signal gets you syncing automatically which is convenient and something OP asked for 🤷

There’s a note to self feature in Signal

https://beets.io

2 years? Try ten!

Instead of a paid subscription for OsmAnd, you can also just install OsmAnd~ from F-Droid and get all the features for free… But it’s fantastic software, consider a donation!

Glad at least one person got it!

Claude Shanon.

A huge part of the bootloader stack is opensource…

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/fastboot/

https://android.googlesource.com/trusty/lk/trusty/

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/avb/

Sounds like you want GPG and the web of trust.

The hostname is also sent out, so generic hostnames or a hostname randomizer at boot is also useful.

It’s far more useful for them to maintain that image while essentially acting as a giant Room 101 for the entire internet. The three letter agencies, the fusion centers, and the Five Eyes of this world caneasily just parallel construction their way into what ever legal shenanigans they need.

Why use a catch all when you can configure postfix to use _ as a separator instead of +. and then you can configure dovecot to automatically classify the selector into directories!

I don’t know about our mountains, but our cops sure love blowing stuff up. Sometimes even themselves!

Prosody is also a great server with a ton of functionality.

For the tech crowd I think Signal was just very enticing as it was easy to convert non techies with smart phones. That’s the discovery arguement, but I find that point moot since a properly configured setup should allow one to use the same address as ones email address for XMPP (much like gtalk). Now signal claimed to have social graph anonimity, but for the longest time that was not true at all for a state sponsored adversary (it has technically improved but I’m not 100% sure that is true in practice).

There is a XEP for server side history, it’s been around since 2012: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html

XMPP died for no good reason, we absolutely should be bringing it back instead of trying to reinvent the wheel again and again unsuccessfully.

Define “modern features”?

HTTP is old too, what’s your point? It get’s constant updates via XEPS, and currently runs: WhatsApp, Messenger, Zoom, iMessage, and more. It’s perfectly capable. And offers federation out of the box.

The single reason XMPP died off in the tech crowd is that Signal killed it.

Or good old XMPP!

I believe they use a special camera for this, if you opt out you don’t go in front of it. But s, yes, surely there’s a ton of other facial recognition in airports using security cameras and stuff. Total Domain Awareness is everywhere. But every bit counts.

On Android for example, trim only runs every 24h, if the battery is above a certain charge level, and maybe some.other conditions. So it’s not entirely bulletproof either. Recent things can be recovered.

You absolutely can opt out of facial recognition at the TSA! But you have to be on your guards and make sure you request it! They might fake not knowing so you should insist!

Better I don’t know, but it’s ran by Peter Sundee (aka brokep).

Doesn’t change much for a correlation attack though if you already suspect a small subset of endpoints.

Actually this technique would be a lot more useful using a VPN due to correlation attacks.

Another brand you might want to look into is Reolink. Whether it’s just for the cameras (with something like frigate & home assistant) or cameras and NVR combo.

because the English are pussies

You spelled complicit wrong…