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Shut-in, keeper of weird hours.

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Thanks! I only wish I could use "Bypass Paywalls Clean" on Mull; even if I enable the Iceraven addons it just gives me "Bypass Paywalls for Firefox" which isn't as effective.

EDIT: I was also slightly alarmed recently to discover how many cookies Fennec was retaining; I'd like to be able to keep the one for BH so I don't have to log in every time, and maybe a few others, but not if I have to keep all of them.

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Cookie whitelist?

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Excellent! Thank you very much!

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Doesn't quite cover all the bases, but there's this: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb

Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza ( www.reuters.com )

Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find "credible or reliable" Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo....

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Didn't read yet (but will) . . . "may" be violating international law?! Bold statement indeed.

EDIT: Biden has basically forced me to not vote for him over this; I'll be leaving the box blank next to his name.

EDIT EDIT: This does not mean I'll be voting for Trump!

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I can get away with it because I'm fortunate enough to live in a very blue state; if Biden can't win my home state, then he's got bigger problems than the hedgemeister not voting for him. I'm all ears if you have a better suggestion.

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Ah, well then there is a definite dilemma there.

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I would recommend instead to specifically voice your concerns to Biden or to your congresspeople. It won’t do all that much, but it will do infinitely more than just silently voting and nothing else.

Done and done 👍. The next bit is a bit trickier tho ...

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We did this by voting "no preference" in the primaries.👍

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Proton Notes?

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Thank you.

After the fall of Small Press Distribution, is it time for “Bandcamp for Small Presses?”

[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...

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Super nice! 👍

Email service that integrates well with Thunderbird?

I hope I'm not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I'm looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux desktop...

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Ok, duh, is cPanel the same as Roundcube?

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Mailbox.org looks like a winner! Tell me though, does it make sense to start setting it up from the web (mailbox.org) or from Thunderbird?

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Mailbox.orgers (wow, that looks weird, but anyway), what mobile calendar and tasks app(s) do you use with it (besides DAVx5 which I guess is just for syncing purposes)?

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Does Calengoo integrate with Thunderbird?

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I do indeed like coffee, but unfortunately (please don't laugh) I can only drink decaf now because regular ☕️ will sometimes trigger a panic attack. 🙁

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You guys across the pond are so lucky to have the NHS, though I think I've read that the Tories have done their darnedest to destroy it. Two things (at the very least) that should never be run like a business: education and healthcare.

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🚬Dammit, I knew I should never have quit smoking! 😉 I should run out right now and buy myself some Camel Lights; they're still like $2.50 a pack, right? Ugh, a pack-a-day smoker during college who never drank or had a sip of coffee the entire time. What a weirdo!

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

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It is, yes, but arg! Its toolbar buttons are too small!

https://beehaw.org/post/11142391

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Tried Openstreetmap? OSMAnd? Organic maps? Both of which use OSM. HERE maps (not open source)?

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Tried AnySoft keyboard?

I've never understood the appeal of Spotify; I'm used to owning CDs, FLAC, or mp3 albums.

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OSMAnd is good in many ways (and has come a long way too), but the app suffers from too many settings and too much menu diving for my taste. OrganicMaps is good because it's like having "OSMAnd lite." Used to be that without Google Services that there was no voice navigation, but now I'm able to use RH Voice with Organic Maps. MagicEarth is another map navigation app, but not open source.

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I'm just old I guess, and rather set in my ways. I remember not being able to search their catalog to see what they had or didn't have without signing up, but that was quite a long time ago. I think Spotify may short change its artists, but at the same time I'm guessing it's probably a lot cheaper than buying albums.

Can't you also do 1,2,&3 with YouTube as well?

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I think you can do that with Invidious or FreeTube...? NewPipe will let you do that, I'm pretty sure.

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https://www.instantstreetview.com/

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One thing I really liked but quit because it wasn't FOSS was WorkFlowy. I did try logseq a while back and thought it was ok, but had too many other bells and whistles in addition to what I really wanted which was just a collapsible list with infinite hierarchical depth. I really wish someone would add this functionality to an email client like Thunderbird as part of its tasks.

Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

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https://web.archive.org/web/20210710030151/https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/1309380464118030342

and

https://libreddit.pussthecat.org/r/ProtonMail/comments/b847n7/it_has_been_7_months_since_protonmail_said_we_are/ejysilb/

Have a look at their Wikipedia article as well:

"The source code for the back-end remains closed source.[26][27] However, Proton Mail released the source code for the web interface under an open-source license.[28] Proton Mail also open sourced their mobile clients for iOS and Android,[29][30] as well the Proton Mail Bridge app.[31]"

EDIT: people seem to get mad if I post anything from Restore Privacy, but in any case here's their take on Proton: https://restoreprivacy.com/email/reviews/protonmail/

EDIT EDIT: looks like I should have done some homework before posting 🙄 oh, well...

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What qualifies as being truly private/anonymous email in your book? Or does such a thing even exist?

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Nice!

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I can't get contact photos to display on PM. Tuta doesn't have this feature at all, but the fact that PM appears to, but doesn't work; well, it shouldn't, but little things like that drive me crazy.

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For what it's worth, I think if you add the izzysoft repo to F-Droid (https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo) then you'll get the ProtonMail App; I think regular F-Droid has only the VPN.

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@helenslunch, sounds like you're a Linux user; does any paid version of the desktop client have dark mode . . . ?

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As far as I can tell, the Linux desktop client doesn't have it yet, but has been promised.

EDIT: Ok, duh, on Linux Mint under System Settings>Themes>Settings>Miscellaneous Options, Dark Mode I selected "Prefer Dark" and voila: Dark. Proton's the only app I have that that setting seems to have any effect on . . .

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Could you tell me where the setting is? I haven't been able to find it.

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Another vote for GIMP, though I believe they still don't have full CMYK support yet. VIVA (?) I think has a Photoshop clone, but pretty sure not open source.

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