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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Not sure if this helps you, but here’s my experience with email providers.

    After leaving gmail, I went to proton, was a paid user of proton for 2 years. I left it for a few reasons, the major one was lack of linux support in their services, like no drive app, late updates, even in VPN app. Some other small reasons were that it didn’t allow many custom domains, harder/complicated SMTP, since I like using Thunderbird. Later, I felt I am paying too much since I don’t need a lot of these services.

    Now, I am using mailbox.org with a €3 plan. I manage my own encryption keys. This means I cannot use the webUI, and I can only access my email on devices where those keys are stored. For my use case, this is really good. I can get so many aliases, I can connect so many custom domains. Considering it just as an email service, it is a lot cheaper than others.



  • I think if you open-source it now, a subset of people might be willing to take a look at it, some might even contribute to the code.

    Also, a majority of people, here, hate LLMs. Many are fine with locally hosted ones, but everyone hates the big tech.

    Your app relies on cloud hosted services, like for LLMs and messaging. Telegram is not FOSS, not even encrypted. We are self-hosters, this is just a small app which links cloud services to you.

    Also, the whole post content is AI-generated, probably your app is vibe-coded too. Considering you’re not a professional dev, how can you claim that the app you made is “safe”?

    There are so many things wrong with your post, and that’s why you’re downvoted so much.

    This is Lemmy/PieFed, not Reddit.





  • Don’t know about Google home, but google meet is definitely like this. You mute your mic from the UI, you speak, and a small popup tells you something like, “are you trying to speak, your mic is off”.

    Something like this also happened on Short Circuit (a channel of Linus Tech Tips) when testing Meta Glasses. Riley, the host was talking to it, and after the convo ended, he asked, “are you still listening?” And meta replied, “No”.

    So, yes, it is safe to assume that the microphones are always listening and probably recording. These things are spywares and do not belong in private places like homes.