I like Bitwarden, largely because it’s open source and audited by a reputable third party.

Ah, I was just looking at planks, thinking of something like this. Larger boards would certainly cost more.

And that oak board is only 6’ long…

Yes it is. If you can set up the app on a new device and access all your old messages, then that means anyone who can get your account creds can do the same. That could be a hacker, an ex, or law enforcement.

I’ve seen a lot of hobby projects using .io because it looks high tech or whatever. I’m just saying people should avoid using country TLDs unless they live in that country or do business there.

I’m not saying I’m “concerned” or anything, just that the impact will be fairly large and noticeable.

Tuta won’t work w/ Thunderbird, but they do have a desktop app.

Proton should work with their bridge.

The security gains may be illusory, but the privacy benefits are significant.

I’m guessing it’s for the outdoor units so the discs don’t get damaged. They wouldn’t need any AC indoors.

I’m doing basically what you’re doing, with the main difference being that I have a VPS that tunnels external traffic through a handful of exposed services. I do this so I can get TLS working properly (they all use LetsEncrypt certs, and auto renew).

Yours is simpler, and if it works, great! I would echo what others said here, don’t expose Plex unless you actually want to access Plex remotely. Once something is exposed, it’s going to get hit with all kinds of automated spam.

I saw one sitting out behind a retail store among other trash, so they haven’t even bothered properly disposing of them.

Most people weren’t following the Chagos Islands news, and I doubt most people with .io names bothered to check any notifications here. A lot of people just pick them up and set them to auto-renew and generally don’t think about it again. Those people won’t be impacted today, but they will be once the domains get transitioned away, and it’ll be a rude awakening for a lot of people.

The simple solution is to not buy country TLDs unless you live in that country or something.

There’s no technical reason why they couldn’t sync messages, but there is an attack if they do. Basically, someone could set up a new device with your account and grab all of your past messages. Since Signal doesn’t sync messages, they’ll only get messages going forward.

It should certainly be an option to sync, but I don’t think it should be on by default (or at least it should ask on setup).

Yeah, and this, right here, is a huge reason why I don’t buy vanity domains based on country codes. Political structures can change quickly, and I really don’t want to have to rebrand something just because some country decides it wants to restrict its country-code TLDs (e.g. the .ml TLD is owned by Mali, and they could totally push to restrict it to Malian residents).

I stick with the normal ones, like .com, .info, or .org, or content-specific ones like .games.

Dang, that hits too close to home for me too. I have kids, and sometimes I forget how old I am because I care far more about how old they are that it just isn’t as important to me.

Sounds like our second apartment, which was a huge piece of crap.

I’ve seen movable washing machines and dishwashers than can stay in a closet when not in use, and then wheeled into the kitchen and hooked up to the faucet and drain as needed.

Looks like a gang, similar to the 764 gang in the US.

Eh, I’m honestly trying to give Yahoo another shake now that Google is so terrible. That said, Yahoo still sucks to use, and it lost most of the charm that it had in the 90s. And BTW, the xFire suit was around 20 years ago, so you may be older than you want to admit.

Eh, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. There is a lot of room for improvement, but it works pretty well today, especially if your rooms are relatively small (e.g. a few dozen people) and you don’t use an overcrowded instance (e.g. not the main Matrix.org one).

If you can host your own, you can adjust the resources so it works well for you. If you can’t, just avoid the main instance.

It’s not “security” gains, it’s privacy gains, and not storing messages in a central location is a privacy feature, not a bug.

That said, it’s not for everyone, and I respect that. That said, I don’t use Signal for things that need to stick around long-term, it’s just an SMS replacement for me, and messages are only relevant for a week, at most.

Isn’t it generally better if you use a smaller instance/host your own? Most of the complaints I’ve heard have been on the busier instances.

That said, I only use it occasionally to catch up on dev updates.

And it’s why I, as a self-respecting SWE, refuse to apply to big tech jobs. Yeah, I could get paid a lot more, but it’s not worth it for the work culture. My current org seems to respect my opinions and values, and that’s worth a lot more than money.