Does anyone have a recommendation for an email service that is privacy oriented and uses green energy? I know there are several, mostly European based, What are your user experiences? #email I would be willing to pay a small fee to support the independence of such a service but my needs are pretty simple.
I use @protonprivacy for a while now (free and paid account) and so far so good. It does worth it and it's quite interesting to support an independent (foundation) service challenging big ones like Gmail, outlook...
Regarding the green side of the force I can't really say honestly. I think it's quite average even if encryting is more energy consuming. It's still better than self-hosted email server but differences must be not notable.
I'm a happy paying fastmail user with a custom domain setup. Switched over some 10+ years ago from self-hosting when it was no longer reasonable to do so on my own.
It's def. not perfect as a non-European company but I thought at least they have a track record of making good decisions, they exist for a long time, and their business model is not ad driven or based on reselling my data.
Also: I asked their support about a detail in their new plans and got a human to respond v quickly.
re. green energy: realistically mail hosting doesn't need much storage or compute compared to everything else we're doing nowadays or even compared to the business activities around the hosting so that was not a concern to me at all.
Disclaimer: I do work in the climate space and understand that this take might be controversial. I just try not to lose myself in details here.
@djh That's fair. Probably most important to avoid use of LLM. Since I'm changing anyway to something more in line with my values I'd favour businesses committed to green energy but it's more of a gesture on my part.
@tillgrallert @christof @seanfobbe Posteo seems like a very values oriented company, committed to the environment in every detail. I want to work there for the organic lunch! Seems to have good user satisfaction too.
@christof Mailbox looks interesting; you get quite a lot of tools along with email for your few euros: online office tools and video conferencing . Have you used these?
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if people don't have jobs, they don't have money and they can't buy things so a bunch of people have dire consequences and are the sacrifices and a bunch of companies go out of business
that seems like the inevitable outcome of companies rushing headlong into firing everyone
Every survey I get from every software vendor I use has multiple questions like "How critical do you think AI is to your business" and I wanna scream. I don't want fancy autocorrect in any product I use except my phone keyboard.
This is the video statement by the man who self-immolated in front of the "israeli" consulate in Boston on 11 September. All we know for sure is that his name is Matt Nelson.
**DO NOT let them depoliticise his sacrifice.**
Credit to @freePAL2020 on twitter for finding the video.
(If you can, please save it. We don't know how long it'll be up on youtube. I have a copy, if you need it.)
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'Intentional' Israeli attacks behind two-thirds of aid workers' deaths worldwide: Report
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The videos of Australian police beating protesters reminded me of IRGC and Basij in Iran.
But hey, no one dares to condemn those criminal police brutalities that are becoming the norm against antiwar, anti military and anti genocide protesters worldwide.
Ww have come to a whole new world. With fascism is now an acceptwd part of the "civilized west" when it comes to dealing with protesters.
Isn't it lovely to live in the free world?
We have all the freedoms in the world, aa long as we don't criticize Israel, capitalism, greenwaahed corporations and of course the 1984 style police state building up around us.
"[Rafah] is uninhabitable … the army has been hitting all its main central squares and destroying water wells, educational facilities, universities, and all evacuation shelters that Palestinians had been using pre-incursion."
Early this year, the government opted to pause the long-awaited renovation and expansion of the Airdrie's existing urgent care centre while they reviewed an undisclosed proposal to add One Health—a private partner—to the public facility. After much public outcry, the government announced the public project would resume. But mere weeks later, they confirmed they had quietly provided an $85,000 grant to One Health to develop a business plan for a new private health facility which would include a second urgent care centre in Airdrie. The full details of this proposal have still not been shared with the public. ...It sure looks like Airdrie is being used as the test case of a new for-profit model of acute care, which would be a major shift in how we deliver health care.
It is a human thing, it is a fact, and you must look at it very deeply, and you must feel ashamed and scared because is your fault. Look at it with your conciuosness, not with your memories and experience, keep experiencing the fact.
No, this is methodical, mechanical brutality and extermination. The human factor has been forsaken in favor of the same frame of mind which created the death camps.
It is, because when you share this things you try to hide that human mind in you, you try to hide fear with a pleasure, it is worse even killing people, because it is the seed of such a dull mind.
Olivier Leroy
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in reply to Fiona Gregory • • •I use @protonprivacy for a while now (free and paid account) and so far so good. It does worth it and it's quite interesting to support an independent (foundation) service challenging big ones like Gmail, outlook...
Regarding the green side of the force I can't really say honestly. I think it's quite average even if encryting is more energy consuming. It's still better than self-hosted email server but differences must be not notable.
Daniel
in reply to Fiona Gregory • • •I'm a happy paying fastmail user with a custom domain setup. Switched over some 10+ years ago from self-hosting when it was no longer reasonable to do so on my own.
It's def. not perfect as a non-European company but I thought at least they have a track record of making good decisions, they exist for a long time, and their business model is not ad driven or based on reselling my data.
Also: I asked their support about a detail in their new plans and got a human to respond v quickly.
Daniel
in reply to Daniel • • •re. green energy: realistically mail hosting doesn't need much storage or compute compared to everything else we're doing nowadays or even compared to the business activities around the hosting so that was not a concern to me at all.
Disclaimer: I do work in the climate space and understand that this take might be controversial. I just try not to lose myself in details here.
Fiona Gregory
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in reply to Fiona Gregory • • •posteo.de is fantastic, I've been using it for years. Green energy and good privacy/security offering.
It's also family-owned and operated, I believe.
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