What are you switching to?
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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~10year sub and merch buyer calling it myself. The board and their inaction have continued to disappoint me more than the idiotic actions of this one tech psychopath.
Oof. I had a friend who did pen testing. Only she never abbreviated it. I didn't hear the abbreviated form until much later. I think she just liked saying "penetration". Even after a couple kids at that point, she was pretty young. But I always thought it was cool what she did.
It's a shame Proton is going this way, since their product offering could rival Google. They could have partnered with Graphene, perhaps, to make Android more secure. Not sure if, as a Mac/iPhone guy, it would make me more likely to switch (though, the Fairphone 6+ caught my attention), but it would be good for Android.
Next phone I get will be graphene and MUST have a replaceable battery. Period.
I’ve already switched to Linux on almost all my computers. Still have one macOS and my son won’t let me switch his laptop to Linux. But everything else… Linux. And I’m learning a LOT.
Is there seriously a phone that supports GrapheneOS and has a replaceable battery? Graphene has a famously short list of supported devices.
Graphene only supports devices that have the hardware necessary to utilize the security features Graphene devs implement. Right now, the Pixel phones are the only devices with said hardware that also allow third party signing keys to lock the bootloader.
Apparently not. Dammit. Well, there are other linux phone options that do offer replaceable batteries. I feel like that's more important than the operating system.
i have so many email aliases holding up my accounts across the web i'm tired just thinking about the time it would take to go through them all. but i would love to be able to do this at some point.
I just found out the other day that Thundermail allow catch-all addresses in the basic subscription.
So that’s helped me out a great deal when I moved my custom domain from Proton.
If you do, consider buying a domain und using something like mail@yourname.com. Most providers allow bringing your own domain and that makes it way easier to switch providers in the future.
That completely defeats the purpose of aliasing though...
That depends on why you do it I'd say. Is it obvious for a human (or an LLM I guess) whether two aliases belong to the same person? Sure. But you can still separate which service an email you received belongs to, ie who leaked your data, or got breached, who sends you spam, etc.
not if you can use a catch-all for you domain. Then you can still do per-service aliases and filter them all accordingly.
Yes but they all return to the same domain. Your domain. That you alone operate.
If you have the privacy masking configured on your domain registrar then how would senders know who you are as the domain owner? What do you do for sites that reject emails from passmail.com (and other known email forwarding service domains)?
If you have the privacy masking configured on your domain registrar then how would senders know who you are as the domain owner?
They have their ways. And even if they didn't, they don't really need to, it's enough to profile you across sites.
What do you do for sites that reject emails
The only site I've run into that does that is GitHub. And what I do about it is to tell anybody who asks me to submit a bug report to GitHub to get fucked.
I think, maybe I am wrong, but you can use your own domain for email aliases. So the usecase of every site has different mail remains.