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.

mail-eage

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.

I’ve seen this approach mentioned in other threads. Where does one configure catch-all, is that in the settings for the mail provider or the domain registrar?

Oh, I see. I must’ve misread a tutorial at some point then. I did not realize one could install an app directly into profile #2, I thought root had all the apps and then specific apps had to be pushed to the other profiles. Thanks for clarifying that.

Got that part, but what throws me is, in order to install a Google app on that secondary “google” profile, don’t you have to first install the Google app on the main profile so that you can then push it to the secondary profile?

What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I’m familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven’t internalized the separate profile thing yet.

Excerpt from the article:

The researchers… call their approach “WhoFi”, as described in a preprint paper titled, “WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding.”

Who are you, really?

Re-identification, the researchers explain, is a common challenge in video surveillance. It’s not always clear when a subject captured on video is the same person recorded at another time and/or place.

Re-identification doesn’t necessarily reveal a person’s identity. Instead, it is just an assertion that the same surveilled subject appears in different settings. In video surveillance, this might be done by matching the subject’s clothes or other distinct features in different recordings. But that’s not always possible.

The author asserts that re-identification doesn’t necessarily reveal a person’s identity, although I suppose this is similar to how a single fingerprint or DNA sample doesn’t necessarily reveal a person’s identity, right up until somebody can connect your fingerprint to your identity, say, by correlating your location with other tracking methods or something.

There are tools for enabling one to save a bunch of ISOs on a single USB thumb drive so that you don’t need a whole fleet of thumb drives. One such tool is called Ventoy, and there’s another one out there, although its name escapes me atm.

Profit

Any surprises you wish you knew about beforehand that you’d care to share? Any bullshit around financial stuff, filing taxes while abroad, etc?