resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@yunohost @nwalfield @rysiek but certainly the #EFF's endorsement of #Signal today is despicable

@rysiek @nwalfield @yunohost EFF's article which correctly criticizes collaterally damaging email practices long predates Signal. It was written when email was the only game in town

@yunohost @nwalfield @rysiek i'll say to them in a written letter: "i can't send you email because your server blocks me.. you need to give me a phone number or discuss by letter", and their reply is "send us an email and we'll go from there".

@rysiek @nwalfield @yunohost i'm running into lots of cases where a business or gov. agency or NGO service assumes (and expects) me to send them email. Then their server blocks me. The assumption is quite damaging because alternates are not offered. There needs to be pushback on the assumption. I'm actually taking companies to court over this.

@rysiek @yunohost @nwalfield i've not suggested walled gardens. #Jami is a decent option that is not a walled garden. It's more inclusive than email, signal, and whatsapp.

@rysiek @nwalfield @yunohost i oppose both Signal and WhatsApp. they are even more exclusive than email. But email is also exclusive. A premise that email is a "common denominator" is a broken premise

@nwalfield @yunohost @rysiek the point to security is /availability/ (ensuring that ppl can communicate). Spam degrades quality, but blunt anti-spam efforts actually kill availability, when the whole point to fighting spam is to increase availability.

@rysiek @yunohost @nwalfield in Europe you can't self host unless you pay more. In the US, you can self host but most recipients (dominant tech giants in particular) will reject. That's not "the point", it's missing the point. EFF wrote a good article on the collateral damage.

@rysiek @yunohost @nwalfield You've simply gotten lucky with your IP address. Or if it's not luck, you paid extra for a static IP / business account. Most residential IPs from the US are blocked, and in Europe most ISPs block egress port 25 packets so you can't even attempt to send your own self-served mail.

@nwalfield when small companies DNSBL firewall their inbound mail, it's an overreaction to spam. When big corps do it, it's to monopolize under the veil of anti-spam. Either way, two-way email is dead to me.

@nwalfield i can receive email, but I can't send it.. unless I dance for them and conform to relaying my mail through a 3rd party & needlessly expose metadata, and also give up the ability to see if the receiving servers accepts the msg.

@nwalfield I agree with your thesis & most of what you're saying, but I can't relate to email being the common denominator. Since #MS & #Google have broken email by restricting inbound msgs on the basis of IP, I can no longer email most people and businesses.

Reminds me of a flemish commune that chose a different distance from the curb for their sidewalk, and even refused to make the sidewalk match up to the existing sidewalk at the Wallonia border, so everyone crossing the city boarder has to go across grass to get back on the sidewalk.

warning to #neomutt users upgrading to #debian #Bullseye: the "mutt" package became "neomutt" & the original #mutt took on the pkg name "mutt". So if you inadvertently install mutt, you'll run into problems like mutt using the variable smime_self_encrypt while neomutt names it smime_encrypt_self. And /usr/share/doc/muut/NEWS.Debian does not mention this.

@YourAnonRiots Hitting F12 in #TorBrowser to inspect headers & payloads apparently no longer works. Was that removed?

@JohanEmpa thanks for pointing that out.. it's quite deceiving. I think I saw the "unofficial", but figured the source is still #EFF. I didn't think it through enough to realize that EFF would not be reading their mentions. The acct name should really be @effbot or something more clear. It's a bit disturbing to find that EFF's presence is exclusively #Twitter.

@koherecoWatchdog @koherecoWatchdog @free_appalachia @yogthos @kumicota If not, certainly people should #petition their state gov to draft an anti-trust law specifically banning the practice.