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Tagged “privacy”
7 articles
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Why I'm Moving jcoffey.dev, coffeylabs.org, and My Email Out of the United States
jcoffey.dev and coffeylabs.org are headed to Germany and my mail to the Netherlands. It costs more, it is slower by a few dozen milliseconds, and it means rebuilding sender reputation from scratch — here is the hassle…
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OpenPGP and Email: The Hype, the Truth, and the Falsehoods
Encrypted email never became a mainstream habit, and the usual explanation — bad tooling — is wrong. The problems are structural, better UX doesn't fix them, and the privacy win that actually landed needed nobody's…
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Announcing ihasmail: a JMAP Webmail Built for Stalwart
Mail, calendar, contacts, files and a visual Sieve builder — one JMAP protocol, credentials never in the browser. AGPL-3.0, runs in a container, ships with a mock server so you can try it without touching real mail..
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Microsoft Windows vs Linux: The Future of Desktop Computing
Windows 10 dies in October 2025, Windows 11 won't run on a few hundred million working PCs, and Microsoft spent June walking back a feature that screenshots everything you do. An honest comparison of the two desktops in…
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The Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation
One fights for your right to read and change the software you run. The other fights for your rights online, in court. They get mentioned together and confused for each other. Where each came from, what each actually…
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Leveraging AI Tools to Increase Efficiency: Pros and Cons
AI assistants are genuinely useful for technical work and genuinely dangerous when trusted blindly. Where they save time for engineers and sysadmins, where they've already embarrassed people who believed them, and the…
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The Importance of Encryption Everywhere
Eleven years after Snowden, the web is mostly encrypted and most networks behind it still aren't. Where encryption protects you, where it only looks like it does, the key problem nobody talks about, and why post-quantum…