For anyone that has email on a custom domain, what do you use instead of Google Calendar? Nextcloud?
I'm using Etesync for half a year and it's working great for me.
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#22Nice. I was looking for an Email alternative based in a "non-eyes" country, but couldn't find anything except ProtonMail, which is fine from the privacy standpoint, but doesn't provide many features that one would expect from an Email provider.
I've seen people mention Migadu but I haven't tried them myself.
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#23Surprised not see Brave listed as an alternative to Google Chrome. Its a fantastic browser
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#24Related:
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817 - Aug 2020 (616 comments)
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#25For anyone that has email on a custom domain, what do you use instead of Google Calendar? Nextcloud?
Use Baikal or radicale. I’ve been running baikal in a docker container for a couple of years.
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#26Nice. I was looking for an Email alternative based in a "non-eyes" country, but couldn't find anything except ProtonMail, which is fine from the privacy standpoint, but doesn't provide many features that one would expect from an Email provider.
What are you missing ? Been using protonmail for a few years and it has the same features as my old provider (wasn’t gmail).
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#27You can start by not using a Google owned .dev TLD.
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#28Surprised not see Brave listed as an alternative to Google Chrome. Its a fantastic browser
I haven't quite been able to fully adopt brave for several reasons, but one simple one is it's (seemingly) lack of no-script like granularity of js blocking.
I know it has the block script toggle, and can be expanded to each script file granularity - but those file-level allow/block toggles are not persistent.
How do you actually save that allowance of js scripts? It always ends in an endless loop for me of captchas that don't start, allowing them, then a stated change, then needing to allow again, etc.
I realize the answer is usually, 'dont use any js, because it's highly insecure' - but that's pretty difficult to do in today's age. I wish websites were just html5 only most of the time :(
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#29When these things come up I always wonder, why do we believe what these services promise? For example, Duckduckgo is listed here and pretty much everywhere else as the best search engine for privacy, because they have a stated no-log policy. But there are no audits, and as far as I know we have no independent confirmation of this at all. I find it odd because when it comes to VPNs, there are independent audits and ot…
True, but even then if the provider has some secret agreement with a government agency, you really have no way to trust a VPN provider. I'm also guessing that VPN providers are high priority for government agencies to find vulnerabilities that provides them access.
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#30Nice. I was looking for an Email alternative based in a "non-eyes" country, but couldn't find anything except ProtonMail, which is fine from the privacy standpoint, but doesn't provide many features that one would expect from an Email provider.
I can recommend CTemplar, but I'm not sure what other features you are referring to, but it might be worth checking out.