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Enjoying terminal user interfaces: aerc, newsboat and tooi

Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while. With Gemini I started reading gemtext, but that was mostly it. But then the tooi-client for _Mastodon_ really became a game changer, both because of how well-made _tooi_ is and due to how easy it makes it to…

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TeleGuard und Swisscows: Marketing, aber wenig dahinter?

Im Mai 2022 haben Adrienne Fichter und ich in Wieviel Datenschutz steckt in Teleguard und Swisscows-Email drin? Spoiler: Nicht viel einen Blick auf das Messenger- und Email-Angebot des Schweizer Anbieters Swisscows geworfen. Wir fanden damals Lücken, wir fanden Halbwahrheiten in der Produktbeschreibung und wir fanden einen Anbieter, der bei konkreten Rückfragen Mails gerne mal unbeantwortet […]

In Response To Draft2Digital's New Fees

For those unaware, Draft2Digital is a platform that helps indies publish their books on different platforms (Amazon, Apple, Kobo, etc). I use it for several vendors and libraries aside from Overdrive. However, they sent out an email this week, imposing new fees on authors. A $20 fee for new authors, and a $12 fee for those who make less than $100 a year. On top of the large cut they take already.…

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Proton is letting parents reserve a child's email before birth

By the time most kids are old enough to understand what a privacy policy says, they've already spent years inside Gmail. Proton is now offering a different path: parents can reserve a Proton Mail address for a child and keep it sealed — no inbox, no activity logs, no profiling — for up to 15 years, until the kid is ready to use it. — Read the rest

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