There’s definitely more to this story than OP is letting on, right?

police*

Any concerns around the fact that SimpleX Chat is Made in the UK?

And in case is stolen, you have a good amount of time to move your coins to another wallet.

In other words, restore the wallet to a different device using the master key, and then transfer the coins?

If the air-gapped phone is stolen, is guessing the PIN to unlock the phone the only thing stopping the thief from spending the victim’s money at that point?

and you can always just use an f-droid repository if they only publish releases there.

So Obtainium users can install F-Droid apps through Obtainium?

Are there any models trained on ethically sourced material? Even though this wouldn’t necessarily solve the environmental impact, there are still many times when a traditional search engine just doesn’t cut it. All else equal and without a self hosted workflow, I prefer tools that at least pretend to be privacy friendly (Duck.ai, AI Horde), and I had not heard of Proton’s Lumo prior to this post, so I do appreciate the suggestion even if it doesn’t meet all of our criteria.

Eh, yes and no. It may not have 1-for-1 feature parity, but it’s still an alternative insofar as two people can transfer files to each other. Yes, LocalSend requires them to be on the same network while AirDrop does not. I still think it’s beneficial for LocalSend to show up in search results for “airdrop alternatives” b/c it might be good enough for most people’s use cases and it is perhaps the most feature complete, easiest to use, free & open source option out there.

DCSs

Digital Combat Simulators?

I just read the blog post on pluralistic.net, and wow, that was a good read. So much to unpack, I’m kinda speechless at the moment. Thanks for the link.

Do you do much buying and selling of used goods?

In my area, Facebook Marketplace is unparalleled, alternatives such as Craigslist don’t come close.

yo dawg, I heard you like AI 😆

In case anyone else out there is unaware, the “paid” tier for Osmand is unlockable for free to OSM contributors, meaning if you make a habit of contributing edits to OSM, then all you’d have to do is link to your OSM account within Osmand settings. Not to dissuade anyone from contributing financially, just sayin’ b/c I think that is a nice little perk for editors from the Osmand team.

I personally prefer CoMaps (forked from Organic Maps), the UI is a little more intuitive to me than Osmand.

Can someone help me understand the likely outcome in countries that implement chat control? Will those governments force Google and Apple to remove apps that do not comply (e.g. Signal) from their official app stores? Will those governments somehow detect users who find workarounds and go after them? I figure most people in those countries will shrug their shoulders and move on with their lives, but how will this impact citizens who do not wish to comply?

Can you please share a specific example? I poked around in the settings for Fennec browser and could not find anything about switching profiles.

This has been my experience so far. When I posted this question, I was hoping there was an alternative or equivalent feature for mobile that I just didn’t know about.

I’d think A would work (pointing your custom domain to Anonaddy and linking the specific alias to their gmail as the recipient for that alias). This can be done w/ Anonaddy’s Lite Plan, which is $1/month and allows up to 5 recipients.

I see the problem now; however, if the aliasing tool has regex matching (and the matching pattern is hard to guess), then I believe that solves the problem of keeping spam out while enabling automatic creation, would you agree?

if you use catchall and later run into spam issues, it gets much harder to get rid of it, as you cannot turn off the catchall if you don’t even have a list of aliases to still let through.

If the forwarding/aliasing service automatically creates an alias when the first email is received, then that skirts this problem, right?

I forward those emails to an address which is random. For example: udhxhdjeiwk@example.com.

Can you elaborate on the benefit of using a random string for your secret/true inbox? Is it so that if it’s ever compromised you can just spin up a new random string as your new inbox, point all your aliases to the new one, and burn the old one?

Each alias looks like this: company_name-[eight random character/numbers]@example.com.

Same question, how do the random characters after the company name benefit you? Is it so that if you want (or need) to continue using that particular service after a data leak, then at least you can update your profile to company_name-[different set of random characters]?