Works for me in Firefox. Do you have JavaScript disabled or something?

The average person already distrusts big tech

Not sure what crowds you’re running with, but this has absolutely not been my experience.

From a not-evil corporation’s perspective, how would zero knowledge proofs work exactly? Like is there a step at any point in the process where a person’s identity is verified by another human and then “forgotten?” I understand the concept of zero knowledge, but I’m not solid on how this system would actually meet the requirements of a so-called zero knowledge identity verification process.

What’s the downside if a VPN provider rents VPS servers instead of owning them?

Kodi is more of an OS, whereas Jellyfin is an app. I believe Jellyfin is available on Kodi. I mentioned Kodi b/c OP mentioned wanting to replace their chromecast.

When you mention big picture mode, are you talking about Bazzite’s big picture mode or just any distro w/ Plasma Bigscreen, or something else?

I can’t speak from personal experience, but I’d suggest looking into Kodi. It’s an open source OS designed for DIY stream boxes, meaning I believe you would need to install it on a mini PC or similar. Since I haven’t used it myself, I can’t provide you much specific advice on it, but depending on your use cases, it might be worth a shot.

Can you give some examples of activities that are locked behind government apps? And for those activities, can you not print a document and mail it in, or visit your government’s office in person? I realize this may be specific to your country, but I’m curious what kinds of scenarios I should watch out for in my own country. Thanks!

Thanks for the tip about the Wormhole app. It looks like PairDrop also supports multi-recipient based on a brief visit to their website and cursory review of their FAQ (that is assuming multiple recipients can join a room). Still good to know about various alternatives, though, especially for asynchronous transfers.

Good point about the word “safe.” A better way to phrase my question is, for sharing low sensitivity SFW photos w/ friends and/or family (e.g., a group photo at a bar or restaurant, or a family photo from Christmas morning), would you trust a tool like PairDrop or Destiny over “traditional” sharing methods such as texting the photo to everybody over SMS? (assuming we aren’t or can’t get on the same network, otherwise I’d probably just go w/ LocalSend)

So for notes, do you still just use markdown or have you gone all in on typst?

Is PairDrop safe for transferring photos from iPhone users to Android users and vice versa without having to be on the same wifi network? This is one thing I miss after ditching the iPhone. The website advertises this capability but I often wonder about sending stuff over the internet. I know about LocalSend, though I haven’t convinced many of my friends & family to install that app, either.

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

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]?

This is very helpful - thanks a lot!

Okay, I think I’m following, thanks for the detailed explanation.

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Nice!

Gotcha, so then without a catch-all, is it still possible to make up something on the fly or will I need to predetermine my aliases before I give them out? I guess it’s kinda rare, but I’m thinking about the odd circumstance where I need to come up with something on the spot and I’m away from my computer.