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Serious question time. Does anyone else have the issue of realizing they haven't had any good experiences with anyone of any public service occupation?
  • Your experiences are anecdotal.

    by pulishing them they become measurable, which also removes the "anecdotal" flag with numbers, also maybe ask archaeologists how much of an evidence a complain written in papyrus actually is a "while" after it was written.

    also the studies that found out "why" public services don't serve in the first place have become quite old* meanwhile, which is the very opposite of anecdotal, but nothing was done so far to change the known state of not serving services for decades, so why should they have changed without changing actions affecting them?

    *) i read parts of them >20 years ago and the studies observations and conclusions i read fitted 100% of what i personally experienced/witnessed from within a family "working" in such services.

  • US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade
  • i meant improving society and strengthen its immune system against threats that would otherwise cause collapses. imperiums cause and collapse/vanish all the time, just try to count the already vanished ones in "known" history, i guess while you are still busy counting the known ones there will be even more "newly found" by archaelogists. while lots of them just vanished without trace, some vanished but just weren't found yet.

  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
  • clean up your writing.

    sorry if i missspell words of have bad grammatics, english is not my native language and just "reading" what exists in the internet does not help either.. would you please help me what you meant by "clean up" exactly so i can improve?

  • Russia asks at UN: If West aids Ukraine, why can't North Korea help us?
  • Which Western country has send troops to the Ukrainian front?

    so just choosing how to exactly limit the question changes if "help in war" was provided? what if western countries just helped with some nukes instead of only some normal rockets or whatever was sent there to help? what if western countries troops quick-changed their passports to be ukrainians instead?(guess that secret agencies already have enough passport printing capabilities,or just get them printed on demand), would that be sufficient to say no "western" troops were sent even if it were millions of soldiers "from" the west?

    but living in a propagandainfested country i'ld already expect such bad manipulations to happen instantaneous.

    what if western countries didn't send "troops to the front" but to the rest of the country so that invading military would have to fight western troops while ukrainian troops could concentrate on the front. would that also not be help in war by your (seemingly) position?

    or the other way around: what if one would only call the directly by russian soldiers occupied area (like 1m² where they each actually stand) would that still be an invasion or just a US-style visit with US style damaging of democracy and economics? manipulating questions is a bad propaganda habit and does not prevent wars, it creates them.

  • US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade
  • But democracy and the voting process brought us Trump! It brought us genocide

    the genocide filth that imho lasts >400years now has never been removed in the first place, i'ld guess it wasn't brought there by voting process, but it wasn't removed by it either.

  • US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade
  • "power vacuum" is when all the filth was vacuumed and there is a chance. that chance vanishes when filth starts piling up again and someone else gets into power, creating the need to vacuum again. i'ld rather like it tidy and clean than filth-controlled.

  • US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade
  • so then its fully okay for you if its the us thats to be broken then, thanks for admitting it. and after breaking the omlettes eater's own eggs for him to consume there's then a chance that no omlettes need to be made any more. a chance of improvement is always better than no chance for it.

  • Self-hosting a mail server with zero-access encryption for all emails, similar to Protonmail
  • well for e2ee you obviously have to let one e encrypt the data for the other e. (good luck with newsletters then) for usual services kindly asking them to support either s/mime or gpg for outgoing emails, that would at least make them know the wish, but good luck there too.

    i think the already mentioned solution with encrypting incoming messages on your side just before mda to your inbox should be the closest possible to what op wants. one would need to check if the message is already encrypted and skip encryption for those.

    if you only want the admin of that email (imap) server to not be able to read all emails, maybe placing a separate encrypting server (smtp+encrypt+forward) inbetween outside world and your email imap server could be a solution.

    one should have a look into the logfiles too as some mailers might log message subjects and of course sender/recipients along with ip adresses of incoming/outgoing servers which the op might not want to be readable as well (i dont know protonmail that much)

    also gpg IMHO allows for sign-then-encrypt hiding the signature within the encrypted data which could be wanted. also one might want to look exactly what parts of the messages contents and its headers are encrypted or plaintext on the server before feeling safe from the threat one wants to be protected from.

  • I thought this was a Windows disease
  • i'ld say this has nothing to do with linux (as linux is the kernel and what sucks there is your distributions choice of how things are handled), and i guess this is just one of tens of thousands of poisoned systemd crappy design "decisions". i went from systemd away for the same crap why i went away from windows. there are tons of very "interesting" similarities between systemd and windows and "it sucks" is just one of them. use a linux distro without systemd and stop complaining about linux when systemd is what actually fails for you. ;-)

  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
  • maybe they just want to remind the west to its weird feudalisms TTIP secret arbritation councils the public could'nt even notice any weirdocrappydictatorlike "decissions".

    at least done well for me, russia +1 in showing with just one public note how the west lies and abuses all the time. its not about russia, its about the wests foulness, any country could have pointed that out, but russia maybe just does not fear any attacks by those secret "arbritation councils".

  • The 20s
  • nobody changed anything, so why should have anything changed? development does not appear by pure wish or magic, nor by letting time passing by, people have to do it, or it just doesn't get done.

  • Not another email self-hosting question
  • you're welcome.

    what i'ld suggest... a general rule that i like to always follow is to use a test system for everything new. but that does not need to be a full separate system every time.

    lets say you have your mailbox and want to try getting new mails from it using fetchmail. first you can use uidl mechanisms to only fefch every mail once and besides that leave them all on the server, but i like it a bit more secure: create a second email adress/account at your mail providers service only for testing. thus you can do whatever you like to to test the mechanisms only without even touching your real inbox (maybe even fill it up with large emails and look how the system reacts, i once had an email account with a cheap provider that deadlocked the inboxes when full..). then when everything is as you want it, switch the account and password (or create another config file for fetchmail) and your're done. every change (not only fetchmail things) could go tested this way before going live with the changes. filtering could be done with procmail for example, but when the mda that is called by procmail somehow exits with success when the email really isn't delivered, then the email might get lost forever depending on the settings of course. so fiddling with new stuff always carries the risk of not fiddling correctly ;-)

    have fun !

  • "De-escalation through escalation"

    > The big picture: Israeli officials said their increasing attacks against Hezbollah are not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach "de-escalation through escalation."

    wtf

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    Buy a Ford, get a spionage vehicle instead.

    https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

    Looks like Ford just voted to NOT be my choice of car vendor in future.

    However getting this patent could be used by Ford to prevent such systems from beeing used by all vendors, but thats veery unlikely i guess.

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    Deutsche Telekom and their interpretation of their security obligations when beeing a public CA
    bugzilla.mozilla.org 1877388 - Telekom Security: Revocation delay for TLS certificates with basicConstraints not marked as critical

    ASSIGNED (Arnold.Essing) in CA Program - CA Certificate Compliance. Last updated 2024-07-19.

    looks like:

    • They claimed to be a trustworthy public CA (that can handle security incidents)
    • They made commitments to be included as trustworthy in common Browsers and OS'es
    • They now willfully break those commitments to rely on 2B2F only...
    • They do not even answer valid questions for month in a process that they should have already completed within 5 days as was defined in the commitments they agreed upon.

    Maybe Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates should show up again once more !?

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