Syncthing. It’s not so much a backup as redundancy, though.

I have machines in the network that rarely get powered on, however, so I could possibly consider them offline backups.

No email provider will go to court for you for €3.99 per month.

From the start of the article:

Key Takeaways

• Proton Mail shared payment data with FBI through Swiss authorities via legal treaty
• Credit card payments eliminate anonymity despite encrypted email content remaining secure
• Third known disclosure reveals pattern of Swiss legal compliance over privacy promises

Viewer? Probably just Quick Look. It’s built into the Files app.

If you want to edit, just use Apple Photos. Everything is in there anyway.

Guess I’m using Links2 now…

Buy and use a burner phone while you’re there, and remember that VPNs are illegal.

Same

Ah. That’s not an issue for me, per se, but it is wholly unethical. I guess I’ll stop using it then…

I trust Mullvad with my card number a lot more than Amazon, and I did mention that I would have paid with Monero if only I had any.

As for Posteo, great experiences all around. It mostly just gets out of your way and, unlike more popular providers, isn’t always telling you about how great it is. However, the SPAM filter could be better.

I use that too, and I also still have Libre.fm.

So far, though, I just haven’t seen any reason to stop using Last.fm.

Damn

No, I mean hacking. Breaking into computers remotely, malware production, etc.

SimpleX?

Tox would also be fantastic, but they need to improve their encryption and get it audited. Also, some nicer UIs in the various clients would be nice.

Bitwarden.

If you’re just writing those languages, here are my picks:

For Linux and Unix:

• Xed (just called “Text Editor” in the menu)
• Geany
• Notepadqq
• Micro (terminal, but very friendly)
• Nano (also terminal, also friendly)

For Windows:

• Notepad++
• VSCodium

For macOS:

• Micro
• Nano
• VSCodium

NOTE: URLs written in italics are unofficial/self-hosted instances of their respective version control systems.

• Forgejo (https://codeberg.org/) and Gitea (https://tildegit.org/) are great.
• sourcehut (https://sr.ht/) is fantastic, and also offers Mercurial hosting.
• source.community (gemini://source.community) is interesting.
• Fossil (https://code.rosaelefanten.org/) is also interesting, and doesn’t use Git.
• Savannah (https://savannah.nongnu.org/) is the version control system used by the FSF and the GNU project. Uses CVS and Git, with ViewVC and cgit frontends. You must make regular commits, otherwise your account may be pruned.

My firewall varies from installation-to-installation, as it’s always client-side with a custom DNS provider. Right now, I’m using YaST Firewall on my main machine, iptables on my old ThinkPad, and my other machines are currently between operating systems. In the past, I have also dabbled in ufw, pf, and awall.

In addition to that, I generally use NextDNS (though I also get excellent results with Mullvad DNS).

My policy is simple: reject all incoming connections, except for Torrent and Syncthing.

This was mentioned in Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. So, what do we do about it?

Yeah, this is so fucking annoying. I’ve been banging on about Signal for years, but everyone except a small handful of my wisest friends insist upon using WhatsApp and Discord.

Almost everyone I know also uses Instagram, and no other social media. I am yet to meet someone in real life who even has Mastodon.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! What the actual fuck, Google‽

I swear to Hephaestus, at this point I’m considering switching to UBPorts or Sailfish OS or something…

I2P is brilliant, yes, but I can’t use it for clearnet sites.

Besides, in this case I would be using it purely for tunneling without detection by my ISP. Anonymity would be more of a bonus.