refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It’s still relatively easy to sign up for a major email provider anonymously.

In my experience, it is actually impossible. Either you get blocked (IP/ASN ban, endless captchas) or it requires SMS confirmation. I have not been able to sign up for any major email provider anonymously. I'm pretty sure that's by design.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

pretty sure it's because nginx was started about ten years before the JSON standard existed

[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (8 children)

It is not easy for privacy-conscious users in my experience. They have gone back and forth multiple times on banning registration/login via tor. And whether it's tor or a common VPN provider, they often will immediately ban you upon first login. Many common private email providers are also blocked. Plus for people that don't want to give anything to Microsoft or their AI training in the first place, it's already a non-starter.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If that does happen, I just hope there will be enough developers by then that can/will want to use it (as in, write rust code). Especially developers that can put up with the kernel process and its people.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

Distros are still free to make their own RPM packages, they can't go around the GPL there.

But having official flatpak release makes it very easy to update to the latest versions regardless of your distro.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In my experience most of the people that are vehemently against corporate influence in open source, are just against capitalism in general.

But most people don't want to drop off the grid and go live in the woods... a middle-ground compromise would be nice.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't consider myself hateful in the first place so I'm not aware of anything that needs changing, but I'm open to constructive criticism.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is why FOSS is so important. Then you can at least control the app and know that it's not being updated with malicious code.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I 100% agree with you, and my apologies if I came off as hateful, I really don't think I am, but my problems are only with the people who make it their entire identity as you say, they are just exhausting humans in general and I don't really care how they want to identify or whatever, I would pose the same arguments to people of any persuasion if there was a sizeable number of them doing it.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

And SMTP/IMAP do not support end-to-end encryption, so a malicious server can still spy on you even if it uses TLS.

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