No way dude,
Most popular encrypted messenger of all time?!
It’s true… Matrix is blazing above 100 million active users, with some reports saying 115 million, and others way more. Signal only has half that (like 40-60 million). And now Linux distros such as Mint are including Element in the default programs.
I have bitched many times about Matrix’s centralization with matrix.org on cloudflare, using Google captchas, and Gmail verification of accounts. But here’s the thing about life man, you can either sit around complain or you can be part of the solution.
To help combat the Big Tech monopoly, Simplified Privacy is now hosting a Matrix Server.
Join our public group:
#public:matrix.simplifiedprivacy.is
You can join the room with an account from ANY server, but if you want an account just DM me from ANY protocol or platform till we get a proper DDoS web captcha setup (that isn’t google) @support:matrix.simplifiedprivacy.is
This is true, but many of these services use Big Tech in their stack. So it’s a philosophical, security, and personal choice.
Mail-in-a-box is good for beginners, it’s a script that does the setup and then spits out the DNS information. But the downside is that uses the whole VPS for just email.
You are correct that Email is not private. However, this is more of a power issue, as many services won’t let you just do a password, and demand this non-private email. Including many custodial bitcoin wallets which are really bank accounts.
And you got a link on Proton doing whirlpool?
You can’t host it in a residential home because it gets flagged as spam then, and residential IPs usually change. But a cheap VPS can forward it to your house if you want.
So nostr:npub1tmsm8rquag9d5yjw5tg2dy790a06l643z23z7aehxm94jk6mgcyqts208a is asking how spam email reputation works for self-hosting email.
First off, it's NOT true that self-hosting doesn’t work, or that there’s no way to avoid spam block lists. And for the email setups we do, we guarantee you're off spam or your money back.
There's 2 main aspects to avoiding spam lists,
1. Having the correct domain name (DNS) entries, and using a program that gives you those entries.
Mail-in-a-box is good for beginners, it’s a script that does the setup and then spits out the DNS information. But the downside is that uses the whole VPS for just email. Luke Smith has scripts as well. For the setups we do, we put Mailu in a docker container, so it can be moved from VPS to VPS easily, and other services can be using the same VPS.
2. Having a provider that isn't on the block lists.
This is a tough game because the KYC providers are more likely to be off the list than the anon crypto ones, but it does exist. Also with most providers, even if you're on the spam list, you can request to get off it. Spamhaus will demand you fill out a form on their site, and you have to use a residential proxy, and not a datacenter VPN. Further, not only does the VPS provider matter, but also the domain name registrar, and their nameservers. Make sure to ask them before you buy it, and then check in the Spamhaus database as soon as you get the IP to complain/dispute.
Important point: ALL domains will be on the spam list for 1 month when they are first registered. This is NOT a permanent ban, it’s an unavoidable 1-month thing. So if you’re doing it on your own, first buy the domain, and then the VPS a month later.
And if you don’t feel like reading the docs, consider our program, you get email, XMPP, Cryptpad docs, and whatever else you want (Nostr relays, SimpleX relays) on there, and then we hand the whole thing over to you, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/index.html
what service isn't allowing self-hosted?
Most banks do, Most social media does
As long as you're off block lists
gotcha, do you have some good links on cloudinary? maybe we can write about it
Their official Proton account did say shitcoins on twitter. And where's your source on the lightning and coinjoin?
Protonmail has a BTC wallet?!
Yup it's Bitcoin-only Layer-1-only tied to your email.
So now all I need is your email and I can see all your transactions. They claim it makes a new address, but this is propaganda if the input/outputs are being used together. This is the worst of both email and Bitcoin privacy.
You shouldn't be using a web app in a browser for your L1 Bitcoin, it should be in a local wallet like Electrum. Just like their email, you don't know what's going on in the cloud. They write "not your keys, not your coins", but they don't even let you use your own PGP key for email.
Further, they called everything else other than Bitcoin a shitcoin. Even if we ignore Monero, they still don't even accept lightning for their vpn/email. Lightning is far better at privacy than L1, and more economical.
This shows they are basically a honeypot propaganda outlet, with a World Economic Forum rep on their board, that hands over thousands of emails a year. Now they can add bitcoin transactions to give context to those compromised emails.
Once again, I urge you to consider self-hosting your email. Any small VPS is barely more money than proton's paid plans, and we have cheap plans to set it up for you if you're uninterested in reading technical docs, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/index.html
Stop living in web apps. You can really be self-sovereign.
Facebook screws over Google and Microsoft
Of all CEOs to go open source with AI, it’s Zuck
Meta is releasing the largest OPEN SOURCE AI model, that cost billions to develop.
Llama 3.1, which he claims can beat ChatGPT and Google’s bullshit, on multiple benchmarks. And now he’s completely just giving it away. And it’s cheaper to setup server-side also. [1]
Quote Wired,
“Meta CEO Zuckerberg compared Llama to the open source Linux operating system. When Linux took off in the late '90s and early 2000s many big tech companies were invested in closed alternatives and criticized open source software as risky and unreliable. Today however Linux is widely used in cloud computing and serves as the core of the Android mobile OS.
“I believe that AI will develop in a similar way,” Zuckerberg writes in his letter. “Today, several tech companies are developing leading closed models. But open source is quickly closing the gap.” [2]
Sources:
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/23/24204055/meta-ai-llama-3-1-open-source-assistant-openai-chatgpt
Find someone you like, look at who they follow, comment on those
With enough demand, it’s possible
I’m sure these bugs will get solved
Monero Nostr Client Out
It's not made by our team, it's Retrnull doing a fork of Amethyst for Android, he's named Garnet.
I can't vouch for this because I didn't make it. I tried it w/ a burner, but I could not fund the burner:
"Failed to construct transaction: Invalid destination address"
https://github.com/retrnull/garnet
Ask him questions or complain:
https://bounties.monero.social/posts/94/42-420m-nostr-client-for-monero
He has multiple tipping modes for different privacy options (public, anon, ect), and it can search bios for XMR addresses.
Get News on the Internet and Avoid Cable Television
The goal of Cable Television is to force-feed you content, instead of having you actively decide or evaluate choices. This trains you to accept authority, as eventually the two choices can turn to one.
In his famous book from 1928 titled “Propaganda”, Edward Bernays, who produced media for the United Fruit Company (and therefore the CIA), to overthrow Latin American governments, pushed the idea that propaganda ought to reduce the choices the consumer make. He promoted the idea that propaganda should push the consumer down to binary thinking.
Even if you were to decide between which websites to stream from, that would be better than just turning on the Cable TV and consuming whatever is on. Because the internet forces you to research options from an infinite dataset and then make a choice, which is training your mind to question and consider alternatives.
I know you’re sick of hearing about this, but right now is the time to speak out.
CrowdStrike is Operating System level surveillance, that reports back to this single company, the actions of ALL these different devices around the world, even when they are offline.
If your job forces you to use it, you got 3 options:
a) You can use KVM Linux and do your job in a CrowdStrike Windows VM. It can't do cross-OS AND breakout.
b) Rent a VPS physically near you, put CrowdStrike on it, and remote into it.
c) Stand your ground and make them pay for the 2nd PC up-front.
I can help you set A or B up. I’m not shilling Linux tech support because there’s a Windows crisis today.
I’m shilling Linux support because every day is a freedom crisis, but you only realized how centralized the data collection is today because it went wrong.