K-9 mail is literally Thunderbird. It’s been rebranded and taken over by Mozilla. They’re keeping the k-9 branding as its own (otherwise identical) app as a nostalgia token for the people that have used it for a long time.
Firefox automatically updates to install new privacy-abusing features like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974112. So getting all the settings right once isn’t enough—you need to be constantly vigilant.
Like you said, a fork is a much better option, since they take care of stripping out the user-hostile nonsense for you. I like Librewolf.
The CIA playbook to disrupt fascists recommends malicious compliance. People shouldn’t be resigning from these positions, they need to stay put and subtly destroy, sabotage, and slow the fascists’ progress in small ways each day. Or “Delay, Deny, Defend,” if you will.
The color ones have lower resolution screens and less contrast+brightness than black and white. If you read comics it’s a big step up, but if you read mostly black and white text, it’s a downgrade.
We shouldn't need to read tea leaves. He should come out and say, "I don't support MAGA and their cruel attacks on minorities."
Same vibe as Musk's "controversial gesture" where everyone was saying it was just an unfortunate accident. When Musk could have easily said, "I despise Nazis and everything they've done" afterwards, and didn't.
Matrix and XMPP don't hide metadata (who you're talking to, when, and how often). This is OK if your users are all on the same private server that you self-host/trust. But in practice most users will be on the Matrix equivalent of Gmail, and you'll be sending this metadata to the largest server in plaintext for every conversation involving one of those users.
I also have trouble where iOS "instant" notifications in SimpleX aren't delivered--hopefully this gets fixed.
Even if your phone is OFF, it can still track you from the towers and transmit your audio (this is documented in court cases bringing down the mob). It's built into the chips themselves, at a lower level than the operating system. Do not bring your phones to protests.
K-9 mail is literally Thunderbird. It’s been rebranded and taken over by Mozilla. They’re keeping the k-9 branding as its own (otherwise identical) app as a nostalgia token for the people that have used it for a long time.