Fedi doesn’t support secure communication, that’s why (the last time I dove into the subject) lemmy has a profile field for yer Matrix account. Encrypted communication. Mails are usually hosted on “reputable” services and has some sort of privacy agreement, something I’ve yet to see on a fedi site.

And if you think of lemmy or mastodon as a communication service rather than a publishing platform, you’re probably being spied on more than you expect.

Fedi logins would require an account backend, which is quite a way aways from the fediverse as far as I know. Not to mention it would require a stable, permanent fedi provider with absolute trust.

For a simple e-mail server you could use a server management suite like YunoHost, comes with a working mail server right out of the box. For only recieving registration mails and notification you wouldn’t even have to mess with online spam filters due to not being GAFAM.

Someone mentioned UnifiedPUSH, which is nice but has very limited platform support at the moment as it has to be added to every single site and app. As far as I know it also sends notifications only using transport encryption so the server admin would have access to your notifications. Better to self-host, best to self-host at home on your own hardware.

It’s the great equalizer, everybody will suffer and die equally while those hiding in bunkers will be sealed in with concrete by angry ghouls.

In the vast majority of cases, certainly not. Anybody putting up any sort of threat will be… Policed. Anybody pretending they didn’t just lose everything - by design - will be policed. There’s a chance some people will be retroactively policed for making posts like this.

Wallabag has the same RSS features and can export to several formats, epub included, but the annotation system is only supported in the web interface. Even the official android app doesn’t support it. No Wallabag client on any platform supports self signed certs so forget about anything but web UI if you run it on a closed LAN.

Because according to the devs it’s more secure to run a public facing server with a CA backed cert that on a closed LAN which I VPN into with a self-signed cert. Even a toggle to allow it is too dangerous.

Switching protocols reconnects you to the VPN. Unless you manually select a default server, even reconnecting to the same country is likely to give you a different IP. 🤷‍♂️

Being logged in means they can track what you watch. Being logged in via a VPN means they can’t track your location.

Literally valuable information.

No, NordWhisper is for people to connect to the VPN, not for the VPN to connect to youtube. It’s all about what IP’s Google knows are VPN’s. If you’re blocked, switch server or country and try your luck.

Plug’em back in, disconnect them while inside. Seems like a painless death.

Imagine the power, nourishment and bandwidth drain on a strained society, and then there’s the problem with a stationary facility connected to the matrix will eventually be located.

I do have this idea that you can save encrypted files to a cloud server and pull it out and unencrypted by a light weight program

Sounds like Cryptomator would work for you.

Thanks, I need to have another look then.

I don’t see it, care to elaborate?

Nearly there!

When I meditate I relax to the point where I can’t feel my body anymore thus I can’t feel myself relaxing. In one way, that’s too much relaxation.

You post this under “Humor” but it’s clearly madness.

True, but that’s only two of exactly two hundred recognized problems in our time. That’s why I left that last percentage open.

99% of what sucks now won’t bother you later in life.

Had enough issues with it to not find it helpful. But I’m not a native English speaker and support for my local language is so-so, so might as well be me that’s the problem.

taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning

Them people won’t get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.

Yep, same. I’m not a fan of people thinking I’m not old and grumpy, but they usually find out.