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fvargas commented on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws   itnews.com.au/news/fastma... · Posted by u/qzervaas
Felz · 7 years ago
If anyone's considering moving their email addresses over this, please take the time to get your own custom domain to host email on. That way you can switch providers more easily and actually own your email address.

As a shameless plug: Purelymail, the mail service I'm working on, could use some more beta testers. It's (to my knowledge) the cheapest way to get email on a custom domain right now. https://purelymail.com/

fvargas · 7 years ago
I only took a brief look, but I like the premise. The service seems far from something I would trust with handling my email. I still trust Fastmail (for reference). But I strongly welcome more alternatives to Gmail and services which prioritize user privacy. The attempt at monetization strikes me as extremely premature, given the competition. But I hope to see more.
fvgs commented on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws   itnews.com.au/news/fastma... · Posted by u/qzervaas
fvgs · 7 years ago
"We won't release any data without the required legal authorisation from an Australian court. As an Australian company, we do not respond to US court orders." [1]

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/security.html

fvargas commented on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws   itnews.com.au/news/fastma... · Posted by u/qzervaas
rishav_sharan · 7 years ago
Protonmail is great in terms of feature/security balance. Personally, I like using mail.disroot.org
fvargas · 7 years ago
Protonmail has also given in and paid out thousands* to criminals who DDoS their systems, no?

*In my original post I mistakenly wrote "millions"

fvargas commented on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws   itnews.com.au/news/fastma... · Posted by u/qzervaas
fvargas · 7 years ago
> Your 1-year Standard subscription expires on Sunday, February 24, 2019.

Good timing?

fvargas commented on The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard   davemart.in/resistance/... · Posted by u/startlaunch
burtonator · 7 years ago
This is my side project at the moment:

https://getpolarized.io/

.. but it's sort of become full time.

For me it started off as a need to manage my reading as I was working on another project around cryptocurrencies and reading tons of PDFs and web content.

Got majorly side tracked but launched it and so far there are a few thousand active users.

fvargas · 7 years ago
Thanks for sharing, this looks neat and useful! The pagemarks are an interesting concept. It would be cool if the top progress bar above the document showed, not cumulative progress, but the progress as it maps to the areas marked on the document, which aren't necessarily contiguous. Kinda like the progress bar you have for a torrent as non-contiguous chunks are downloaded. This provides spatial information about what parts of the document have been read.
fvargas commented on His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Discovered   nytimes.com/2018/10/23/ny... · Posted by u/danso
fvargas · 7 years ago
Based on the phrasing of the title, I half expected the "wheel" to be that belonging to a Tesla that somehow managed to remain engaged on autopilot for a week... would have been impressive.

That said, what's to stop a situation like that from arising as autonomous vehicles become more sophisticated?

fvargas commented on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?    · Posted by u/egonschiele
peatmoss · 7 years ago
Most important thing is to buy a domain so you can port your email address from provider to provider. I’ve had the same email address and several hosts over the years.

I’m currently on Fastmail and find the service good.

fvargas · 7 years ago
Fastmail has worked well for me with custom domains. It's nice being able to create custom aliases for when an address is publicly visible e.g. GitHub so I know through what funnel emails are coming from.

Like others have said, the Android app is not worth installing unless you're okay with limited and, in some cases, poor functionality.

I suppose you can set it up with the Gmail or Outlook Android apps? I've never tried, as this defeats the purpose of not having those companies as your email provider :)

Still searching for a good Android mail app...

fvargas commented on Show HN: Fileshifter – Easily convert files and videos between different formats   fileshifter.io/converter/... · Posted by u/mtusman
stevemk14ebr · 8 years ago
Many reasons. Primarily because of security and control of my information. Secondly because services like these tend to be short-lived and unreliable, if i host it myself i can trust it's there when i need it. And i hadn't considered the uploading time issue mentioned in a previous comment, but that is actually a very good point that self-hosting would solve as well.

I also just want to see the code because i think it's cool

fvargas · 8 years ago
Yeah, the primary benefit I see is if one fully audits the code and any future updates. Otherwise, self-hosting doesn't confer much in the way of guarantees for security or privacy.

u/fvargas

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