FreeSchool=Co-Op+Friendship🔁? @freeschool@qoto.org

Isn't it ironic that a messenger that utilizes email protocols under the hood is pretty resistant to spam? For decades most people equated email with "spam" and yet, here we are. It's not the email protocols that cause spam but the fact that email adresses have been used as identity. #deltachat is moving away from this email address-as-identity model towards a cryptography based model where only chat contacts know your identity, and email is "just" the globally federated transport.

We have several ground breaking developments going on in the background, and frankly, it's sometimes hard to not pre-announce them excitedly :)

However, we struggle to acquire public funding after the OTF contract broke away in February. Current need is around ~50K per month for ~10 people. , and we would like to support some contributors to switch their day job.

Fallback: even if funding dries up, #deltachat is bound to continue to work. It's pretty maintainable and intrinsically motivated.

#openpgp traditions and #signal both bind a cleartext identifier, phone number or email address, to a cryptographic key. It opens up attack vectors as the servers/orgs controlling this binding can interfere.

#deltachat avoids such cleartext identity bindings by creating random #chatmail addresses, as transport only. The cryptographic key becomes the identifier and we want it hidden from the transport layer. Only people being in end-to-end encrypted chat need to identify each other, after all.

so is this #simplex a thing or not?

Anyway i think it needs privately hosted servers to be a real alternative to centralized services like Signal.
For the fun of it i set up a SMP & XFTP server - hosted in Germany. No Onion adresses at the moment, may follow later.

VPS is contracted for 1 year, so the servers will stay around atleast until April '26 (maybe even longer).

SMP: smp://rTQAEQ_imEoNOkRqOIFBeNfZCSk3OSg39DTAuNn4voM=:qvDriJcHnDZe62I5qPqU@smp.clttr.info

XFTP: xftp://JqCuLmVngaqbdAcjhszOEl2oNL_TWIIj9HVNSIlJrj0=:GFAIcBb3TtDZ4vE0IanS@xftp.clttr.info:4433

AdminForge has SMP servers as well: https://simplex.adminforge.de/

#simplexchat

Sailing Boats, Morning - Hiroshi Yoshida

so good I haven't got the words for it. I guess it's sublime? Transcendent? I look at the water and I can't believe it, the sun through the fog, I can't believe it. It's everything good about Reality, I think "Heaven" would be a collection of moments like this.

Maybe I'm so wound up in my day-to-day that seeing this transports me to a time when I was younger and my life was simpler.

@art #art #woodBlockPrint #work #love #impermanence #glow #simple

I'm really slow off the mark sometimes.

Soon after I got my first Android device in 2022 and installed F-Droid, I started finding apps from;

https://simplemobiletools.com/

They were so easy and pleasant to use that I promoted them here, encouraging anyone using using them to donate to the developer, Tibor Kaputa. I even considered buying the Simple Phone he was selling;

https://archive.is/ejIq5

(1/3)

#Simple #SimpleMobileTools

Many of us are migrating from US services to EU based ones, so I would like to give a warning, services like #mailbox and #posteo are great, very good value for money, based in Germany, private and secure, however there is a clause that can make you pause, if you fail to pay and don't do it within 30 days your account will be deleted.

From mailbox T&Cs | Cancellation policy

"Your account with mailbox.org is a prepaid account. If you do not deposit credit, or if the deposited credit runs out, then your account will be deleted after 30 days (Section 6 of our General Terms and Conditions). After another 30 days we delete all the Data that we stored for you (Section 5 of our General Terms and Conditions)."

It may not seem terrible, but if it is your main or only email account you may lose everything if you are unable to top up your account for some reason (like going on vacation to the US and being detained for no reason)

This is probably not an issue for many, but I think that it is something worth mentioning because some may not be aware while signing (although this bubble is likely to read the TOS in full) , services like #tuta and #protonmail at least have a free backup plan.

Plain text emails are awesome. 🤘

Be awesome. 👇

https://useplaintext.email

#email #plaintext #useplaintext #useplaintextemail #accessibility #awesome

been thinking of getting a non-google email. anyone know a service thats good and that I can try out without fear of it becoming expensive/bad in the future?

I’m changing if it works reliably, has (most of) its codebase open source, and can be trusted to not forward data from my emails to arbitrary buyers. I’d be ok with paying a small fee for it if its really good!

Ideally I’d setup my own email server, but that isn’t a real possibility for me within the near future.

#privacy #email

@markpitblado @adam We do! While it's available on the Google Play Store it's also available on F-Droid and on our GitHub repo as an APK (https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases)

#yahoo #email wants me to agree to their T&C in order to attach a document from my phone to an email. This is unbelievable. Speechless. #ProtonMail

@realcaseyrollins

I would continue to defend your right to speech. You dont see me threatening to block you at an instance or even a personal level do you?

You are supporting an enemy of the state if you are supporting Trump at this point. But even then you dont hear me trying to silence you.

@eriner @lnxw37a2

Obi-Wan to Anikin: “I trusted you!”

@Foxboron the fire in the background is not a volcano but the wildfires caused by climate change after over-consumption of electricity to by AI companies in Silicon Valley.

@simon_brooke I've just flashed 3 devices with #eOS and like with Aurora on CalyxOS, apps from Google Play can be installed anonymously and I've not found any problem yet: banking, e2e messaging, fediverse and my news apps works just like on stock Android, thanks to microG I guess.

@lillyfinch @kkarhan @freeschool @hzulla @m @DarkOptimism @mdione @walkinglampshade @JR_Kelly @vic

Humans never exercise "due diligence". We just rush to market, for profit, or to war. It's characteristic of our species, I think. 😐