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I don't know how it is in other countries. We recently wondered what the right thing to do is and the Citystate of Berlin has an FAQ on recycling: https://www.bsr.de/die-top-13-mul…

Where do you have this information from? The State of Berlin says otherwise https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/121864/en/ : ------ Sufficient knowledge of German You must hav…

In Germany you have a probationary period of 6 months where both sides can give notice of 2 weeks without having to give a reason. The probationary period is really there to make s…

The better solution to these kind of problems is having a backup concept with an implementation and regular testing of backups. The encryption exposed a problem with your disks or …

Does one really need a jailed or chrooted instance when you can just create profiles? firefox -P

In practice you can use all three versions of GnuPG on three different devices without a particular difference. One problem you might see is if you are using the newer experimental…

I don't know where people would run three versions at the same time. The information from the GnuPG project is clear: You can run GnuPG 1.x and GnuPG 2.x at the same time, but you …

It doesn't anymore. With GnuPG 2.1 listing of keys shows the fingerprint.

Fair enough, when it comes to coming up with creative ways to solve the web of trust problem. I still do not know what problem keybase.io solves when they allow uploading of privat…

The go-to keyserver software is SKS https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Home and the network of SKS Keyservers can be found at: https://sks-keyservers.net/ Things…

I don't really get what keybase.io is supposed to solve, but it doesn't get in the way of importing keys into Enigmail. If you are in Enigmail's Keymanager you can import from a UR…

I don't see what information Carla Schroder is adding to the ownCloud/Nextcloud split.

There are multiple ways of using Let's Encrypt that don't have to take the website down.

Getting a copy of "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" also helps support Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas keep doing good work. I purchased a recent copy of the book (covering Debi…

Some ideas for useful addons to existing projects, keeping in mind I am not sure what your focus as a front-end developer is: Gnu Privacy Assistant https://www.gnupg.org/related_so…

You are welcome. I tried finding a way to contact you from the medium article that didn't require signing up to or signing into something. I gave up after trying to comment on the …

Author might want to check with the GnuPG developers again: He writes: If you’re using 64-bit Windows, don’t try to install GPG directly from the GPG website . It’s not supported. …

A friend saw me entering my longish, non-trivial passphrase into my android phone and commented that I must not have many friends if I have to enter this passphrase every time to u…

While there are pain points when it comes to hosting your own mail, it isn't nearly as difficult as you make it. It gets more difficult if you are providing a service that has to h…

It is not merely an ethical issue to use pirated software. The potential loss of security is a huge issue with pirated software.

While I wouldn't have traveled to Australia for this, I find the concept of an idiosyncratic conference like this very cool conceptually in addition to supporting the political sta…

In a court of law we should all be innocent until proven guilty. Outside of court if I behave like an asshole you have the right to not hang out with me or even suffer my presense.…

More people should learn how to run a mailserver, if only to better make decisions about when to outsource and when to keep inhouse.

Cool. Nice to have in contrast. My personal feeling is this: systemd might be a software blackhole that eventually eat and destroy everything it comes close to and that's OK. If it…

This might or might not be true. I would be inclined to agree more with it if the evidence from other distribution highlighted this argument. I don't see Debian or Arch developers …