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Cake day: November 20th, 2025
  • erebion@news.erebion.eutoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How to skirt websites that block known domains of email forwarding services?English
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    8 hours ago

    Well, in my case I just add an alias to my mailserver each time. Your mail-eage may vary.

    I don’t want to use plus signs as that always let’s anyone kow what the real address is.

    I forward those emails to an address which is random. For example: udhxhdjeiwk@example.com

    This address is never used anywhere. So I know all emails appearing there aren’t spam but from the original sender.

    Each alias looks like this: company_name-[eight random character/numbers]@example.com.

    If I ever get spam, I simply delete my account at the company, as they had leaks (I often know way before Have I Been Pwned) and delete the alias. This way I have no spam (only on my personal address, which I hand out).

  • erebion@news.erebion.eutoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOSEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I also feel concerned about GrapheneOS. Here’s why.

    I got banned from the GrapheneOS Matrix chat simply for asking a question, it was worded similar to this:

    “Hey there! GrapheneOS is cool. I noticed CalyxOS added support for eSIM, are you planning to add that as well?”

    The post got deleted, I thought I had not sent it and posted it again. It was deleted again. I asked something along the lines of “Wait, where has my question regading eSIM support and doing the same as CalyxOS gone? Seems to have disappeared, lol”.

    THAT was also deleted.

    Then I posted something along the lines of “Huh, my questions seem to be disappearing”.

    That was NOT deleted.

    Then I asked something like “Anyway, are there plans to add eSIM support just like CalyxOS? :)”.

    That was ALSO deleted.

    I got a private message from a mod saying I was banned.

    That was alle the interaction I ever had with the GrapheneOS project. I might have started contributing, but I could not even ask a simple question. It seems that they don’t like it if you mention any other custom ROM, I guess.

    (This has been a while ago, so I don’t remember my precise wording)

  • erebion@news.erebion.eutoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Tumblr or Mastodon? Or is there a third service I should use?English
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    2 days ago

    It always depends strongly on the use case, so I don’t mean the following as “use this”. Matrix has got me back into XMPP. And I was suprised how much that has improved. Ten years ago it wasn’t usable on mobile devices and people used OTR (I can re ommend trying it again to everyone who’s used it years ago and hasn’t tried it since), now I just use it for my day to day communication with family and friends. My family does not know the term “XMPP”, but they know they have to use an app called Snikket to reach me and they’re pretty happy with the reliability. However, people have different neeeds and threat models, so I am not recommending it blindly.