There are a few standards now, DKIM, SFP, DMARC, maybe more now, I don’t know. If you send emails without these configured correctly the reputation of the domain and IP are lowered.

Past some internal threshold, you go from inbox to spam, and from spam to silently dropped.

Further, if you send too many emails in a short time, or more emails than usual, your reputation is lowered.

I’m sure there’s more, but these are the kind of things that make it difficult. You make a config error, don’t realize, then people start not getting your emails. You fix the config, but there’s no way to get the reputation back and nobody at Microsoft or Google to ask to re-evaluate you.

Deliverability to major providers like Google or Microsoft. Can be just getting your emails flagged as spam, or them being sikently dropped and never delivered even to spam. Making it impossible know if your emails are being ignored by the recipient or not even delivered to their inbox. It’s also impossible to troubleshoot.

Mostly reputation of your IP address and domain, things which are hard to untangle. If you manage to get a clean IP you might be all clear.

There’s other configurations that are required and if not right can harm your reputation, it isn’t something you can set and forget.

I hate that it’s come to this, but you are right.

It’s not that it’s too difficult, it’s that there are too many things beyond your control due to the central duopoly of Google and Microsoft for email. If you end up in their bad graces it’s hard to get out, and they don’t care about you, there’s no support or someone to talk to to get off the ban list.

That’s not how many car deaths per year, in the us it is in the 40,000 range for the last several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

Not sure where three million came from.

TBH, I wanted to volunteer on a local crew that maintains hiking trails. I didn’t… because they were all about taking endless pics and u/l it to their FB and maybe IG. So I avoided sth I wanted to do make my city better. But no way could I avoid their need to share everything with big tech.

Its hard, and this is a common issue. I have to stop and ask what good am I doing by avoiding it? Usually it’s worth the price, because making the real world a better place out weighs most big tech issues.

At least that’s how intrt to evaluate things, while still minimizing my own footprint where possible.

Same. I’m more confused after reading.

That is because signal already stores media for 45 days as part of ensuring delivery to every device in your account.

As a regular user, besides tap to pay what do you use NFC for? I get your point that it works, but what uses are there besides tap to pay for most users?

Hope you’re right, because it basically spells the end of customizing.

What do you get, app/feature wise for verified boot vs. Play integrity app? Does it increase the amount of apps that work on it?

Transit card is linked to your credit card which is linked to your identity. Unless you pay cash and obtain a new cars/pass each time.

Its a fair point, and definitely worth pointing out. They aren’t as bad as the others in that very specific way, which is commendable for now while it suits them. The moment they can make more money by selling vs. holding your data, I have no doubts they will pivot.

I was just nodding along, reading your post thinking, yup, agreed. Until I saw there was a PR to fix it that signal ignored, that seems odd and there must be some mitigating circumstances on why they haven’t merged it.

Otherwise that’s just inexcusable.

That’s perfectly fine for some things, but for most people letting their browser choice dictate what sites they use is backwards

Did you forget the ./s or something? Lemmy itself is developed on GitHub, as are plenty of other “valuable” open source projects. To pretend nothing of value is built there is putting your head in the sand.

If you’re developing software on GitHub you have a chance at getting some useful feedback, bug reports and maybe even PRs. Like it or not, the network effect is real.

You can easily migrate custom domain that to proton for email, calendar, and drive. What you’ll struggle with is docs and sheets.

Proton drive has windows and Android clients that work well. I’d love a Linux client for drive and for them to fix the photo upload issue on android, but eventually those things will come.

Seems the second group is a vocal minority. This feature helps the first group, but doesn’t help the second group.

According to Signal, the first group is the larger group and this helps the most users of Signal.

Could it be better? Sure. This is still a good step in terms of privacy, even though it doesn’t really improve anonymity.

While it is an electron app, it’s a pretty decent one. Because it’s not full of tracking and other crap it’s pretty responsive.

Their web and mobile apps are pretty good. Its definitely not as polished as gsuite or office, but it’s still good and you are the customer not the product.