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sherr commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst

pjerem · 2 days ago

Is there a reason why you don’t use FastMail’s CalDav server ?

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Se...

sherr · 2 days ago

I had to think to recall the reason. I had a support ticket at Fastmail about this in 2024 - I wanted to host my own CardDAV server and have Fastmail use and sync to this. This was not possible - I was told that two-way sync with other services was a "calendar only feature". I might re-visit.

sherr commented on Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/mnmalst

sherr · 2 days ago

I've used Thunderbird ever since it was released as a standalone mail client and like it - although it has sometimes been a rocky experience in the past. I use it now with Fastmail as my mail provider.

One thing I might be interested in is the "contacts" side of mail. In an effort to move away from too much Google, I ditched Google Contacts and host my own CardDAV using "Radicale" [0]. This works, and I also access it via DAVx on Android.

But would a CardDAV server be something worthwhile via Thundermail? Or perhaps too small a service itself? Maybe part of their scheduling tool "Appointment"? I might prefer having this hosted elsewhere than in my house.

[0] https://radicale.org/v3.html

sherr commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov

lenerdenator · 16 days ago

I've never felt like I knew how to use Tor correctly, or trusted anyone to be able to guide me on that.

sherr · 16 days ago

I sympathise with a bit of paranoia about this. Personally, I'd use a platform like "Tails" (do your own research) which wraps Tor up in a USB bootable Linux OS.

https://tails.net/

sherr commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx

stephen_g · 21 days ago

The distribution was called Vyatta. VyOS is now very actively used and developed, it's way ahead of EdgeOS since that's been basically dead for years. EdgeOS was basically just a nice web UI over Vyatta but the one key point was that the EdgeRouters had hardware acceleration (Cavium CPU with offload, but Cavium got acquired by Marvell since) and only EdgeOS has the proprietary binary blob and integration that you need to use that on the EdgeRouter hardware.

So even though VyOS exists as the modern day Vyatta fork that is active and fully-featured, you can't really run it on the EdgeRouter hardware and since Ubiquiti stopped development, they're basically e-waste.

I still run one in a network but really shouldn't, since Ubiquiti are very rarely shipping security updates...

sherr · 20 days ago

Funnily enough, they've just released an update! Yes, I was taken by surprise a bit.

EdgeRouter 3.0.0 [1] adds official wireguard support (I've been using the "wireguard-vyatta-ubnt" package from Github [2]), UI changes and some other improvements/fixes. I haven't tried it yet but will. I have an Edgerouter3-lite and an ER-X.

[1] https://community.ui.com/releases/EdgeRouter-3-0-0/33ee3852-...

[2] https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-vyatta-ubnt

sherr commented on BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia jakartaglobe.id/business/... · Posted by u/breve

jampa · a month ago

He drives a Xiaomi SU7, which seems like the best car out there for the price.

Honestly, it amazes me that Xiaomi built the car that you would expect Apple to come up with after all these years they spent researching and coming up with nothing.

According to Wikipedia, the Xiaomi SU7 Max has 1,784 hp and is priced at 73,000 USD. In some YouTube videos, they raced against Ferraris and Bugattis, and it fared better than much more expensive cars. I have no idea how they did it.

sherr · a month ago

This is the point that The Economist made this week about Xiaomi. It looks like Lei Jun, the CEO, has a bit of a cult following in China.

"With the successful release of the YU7—its second electric vehicle (EV) after the SU7, a sporty sedan launched in March last year—Xiaomi has pulled off a feat that eluded Apple, which ditched plans to make its own EV after burning billions of dollars on the effort over a decade."

There's also a brutal price war going on over there. Those cars will be exported worldwide. Western countries are in a bind: protect the local manufacturer or allow the (much) cheaper and environmentally sound EV in from China?

"China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed" [1]

https://archive.is/4o8hM

sherr commented on What to expect from Debian/Trixie michael-prokop.at/blog/20... · Posted by u/exiguus

sherr · a month ago

Looking forward to the release.

I use Debian Stable on almost all the systems I use (one is stuck on 10/Buster due to MoinMoin). I installed Trixie in a container last week, using an LXC container downloaded from linuxcontainers.org [1].

Three things I noted on the basic install :

1) Ping didn't work due to changed security settings (iputils-ping) [2]

2) OpenSSH server was installed as systemd socket activated and so ignored /etc/ssh/sshd_config*. Maybe this is something specific to the container downloaded.

3) Systemd-resolved uses LLMNR as an name lookup alternative to DNS and pinging a firewalled host failed because the lookup seemed to be LLMNR accessing TCP port 5355. I disabled LLMNR.

Generally, Debian version updates have been succesful with me for a few years now, but I always have a backup, and always read the release notes.

[1] https://linuxcontainers.org

[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues....

sherr commented on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/spenvo

kuhsaft · a month ago

Most enterprise PCs are Windows machines and integrate with Microsoft services easily. The only way Microsoft is going to lose the enterprise market is if enterprise PCs move away from Windows.

But, for enterprises, the only reasonable migration away from Windows is Mac. JAMF Pro for Mac can be hosted on-premise on Linux. The majority of enterprise software runs on Mac. However, Macs are expensive so it's unlikely to overtake Windows enterprise machine usage.

Hardware support for Linux PCs is poor and lacks the manageable of Windows PCs with Active Directory and GPO, or JAMF for Macs. Enterprise software usually doesn't support Linux. Linux PCs are uncommon for personal use and corporations don't want to train users how to use Linux.

sherr · a month ago

"Hardware support for Linux PCs is poor and lacks the manageable of Windows PCs with Active Directory and GPO, or JAMF for Macs. Enterprise software usually doesn't support Linux. Linux PCs are uncommon for personal use and corporations don't want to train users how to use Linux."

I would dispute the "hardware support" comment. Linux has pretty good hardware support nowadays. And "enterprise" software is a vague term here. For desktop Windows, of course Microsoft will have that covered every which way, but for things such as authentication, authorization and security, Linux has a place. A comment about adding "Redhat" to the mix is not talking about desktops (necessarily) but servers and security.

sherr commented on India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email thehindu.com/business/Eco... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

crop_rotation · a month ago

India is just screwed. It is in this insane democratic autocratic hybrid where you don't get much freedoms but every government has to have a short term focus to win the next election and thus igniting caste/religion/other inflammatory issues.

Social media has caused this mass delusion where Indian problems can not even be discussed openly without being labelled a foreign agent or something worse. If you stop talking about the problems they don't just disappear.

For westerners, one quick thing you need to understand is that in India the written laws and constitution are totally irrelevant for day to day life, so the written law providing 100 freedoms is irrelevant. Anyone who has power can mostly do whatever they want to a large extent (offcourse there are limits basis how powerful they are). Just like in America it is said that the poor think of themselves as temporarily poor and rich someday, in India most people dream of gaining power and that sweet corruption money someday. People spend 5-10 years doing nothing but studying to get one of those sweet government jobs where bribes are universal and easily >5x your income.

Like in India everyone knows where black money is, well except the Government it seems. If the government had any interest in fixing tax avoidance they had many easy ways, but the Government is mostly interested in power.

sherr · a month ago

This article in The Economist recently would tend to agree : "Why all Indians are rule-breakers [1]

"IF YOU HAVE ever relaxed with a cold Kingfisher beer at the end of a long, sweaty day in Mumbai, the party capital of India, you have almost certainly broken the law. Specifically, you violated section 40 of the Bombay Prohibition Act of 1949, under which you must hold a permit to drink booze. A first offence is punishable by a fine of 10,000 rupees ($115) and up to six months in prison. Welcome to India, where everything is against the law."

[1] https://archive.is/ONfHw

sherr commented on Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

chasil · a month ago

It might be necessary to ensure that your exit node is not in the UK or another locality that is otherwise blocked.

That procedure depends upon your platform and client.

http://www.b3rn3d.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes/

Edit: Use this link instead (thanks mzajc!):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180429212133/http://www.b3rn3d...

sherr · a month ago

I get a "badware" risk on that link from uBlock Origin (Firefox).

"uBlock filters – Badware risks"

sherr commented on French 'merveilleux-scientifique' fiction reframed reality aeon.co/essays/how-french... · Posted by u/rbanffy

sherr · 2 months ago

This was interesting and I was waiting for H.G. Wells to show up, which he did. For anyone interested in the far reaches of science-fiction literature, and much else, see "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". It is used to be a thick book but is now online, and includes a decent entry on Maurice Renard [1]. I often worry about the quality of the translation for works not in English though.

[1] https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/renard_maurice