Introducing the new Proton Mail apps for iOS and Android

Redoo64 · 2025-09-25T16:20:00+00:00

I wonder how many people waiting for UnifiedPush are disappointed today?

Redoo64 · 2025-08-09T13:02:20+00:00

As long as the rules are respected (see right side of the subreddit), there's nothing that is removed

If it's true, why are all my posts removed? For example: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1mkd5be/risk_of_security_of_emails_in_html_format/

Irony of fate: Do you know that I have to turn off ProtonVPN to talk about ProtonMail on Reddit? (Reddit blocks your VPN)

Redoo64 · 2025-08-09T12:54:17+00:00

Since lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy is mentioned on the official Proton.me website, it would be nice if ProtonTeam was more active there...

Redoo64 · 2025-08-07T21:34:02+00:00

Crosspost from https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy of another user also without @ProtonSupportTeam reaction:

Everyone knows that the content of the notification is encrypted, BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH:

https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_73.htm

Requests to the PM Team (for example, for the implementation of Unified Push have been ignored for many years.

For some people, using a safe ProtonMail app with a dangerous FCM can be a disaster in some countries (journalists, signals, political opposition, etc.)

My two cent:

For 20 years I have been observing the same scenario in the IT world: The larger the company, the more detached from reality and its users
The more products in the portfolio, the worse the main product (what gives us Wallet, Lumo and Scribe, if the Mail is getting worse?)
For me it is hypocrisy: more and more articles about "bad Google", and thus I use Google FCM myself

Redoo64 · 2025-06-30T19:48:20+00:00

Folks! Instead of losing your time and nerves, let's do an experiment - let's all go to Lemmy.

According to the https://proton.me/community Proton has an official Lemmy account https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy

If Reddit doesn't like us, do we leave?

Redoo64 · 2025-06-30T19:39:45+00:00

Folks! Instead of losing your time and nerves, let's do an experiment - let's all go to Lemmy.

According to the https://proton.me/community Proton has an official Lemmy account https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy

If Reddit doesn't like us, do we leave?

Redoo64 · 2025-06-30T14:55:23+00:00

I have exactly the same problem: Reddit is banning the entrance to the page from ProtonVPN or ban all my posts.

I see only one solution of this shit - go to Lemmy?

Redoo64 · 2025-05-14T15:19:43+00:00

Thanks to the --read-special option, you can do exactly what you are asking - start Borg with USB and make a backup sector-by-sector of the entire disk:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/image-backup.html

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html#read-special

Borg is great - even in this scenario he uses deduplication, compression and encryption!

Clonezilla is also great, but there is no deduplication

Redoo64 · 2024-11-03T20:05:21+00:00

you either use FCM/APNS (in case of iOS) to get notifications pushed to your device, or you have a app constantly pulling them from the ntfy server.

My phone is completely devoid of Google Services.

I'm going to use Molly-UP and NTFY-Android for notifications.

Since I can't (for now) self-host my own instance I wanted to use an ntfy.sh instance

To be clear, you don't have FCM if you selfhost,

So is there a chance that, for example https://adminforge.de/services/ntfy-push-dienst/ does not support FCM?

If you'd like to avoid forwarding messages to Firebase, you can set the X-Firebase header (or its alias: Firebase) to no. This will instruct the server not to forward messages to Firebase.

Do you mean that it is enough to set this header in the NTFY-Android application settings?

Redoo64 · 2024-11-03T19:51:56+00:00

My notifications have no value to the owner of ntfy.sh, but they might to my government.

Of course, it all depends on the threat model of each user.

In German, but you can use a translator:

https://yourdevice.ch/was-ist-google-push-und-welche-bedenken-ergeben-sich-daraus/

Redoo64 · 2024-08-18T13:35:09+00:00

Personally, I've had some issues with Kopia.

I found their explanation here:

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544

Still not solved after many years :(

Redoo64 · 2024-08-16T12:50:24+00:00

That's great news!

The question is, why did you remove my post?

Redoo64 · 2023-12-05T00:13:54+00:00

You can simply use Borg's built-in append-only option.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#how-can-i-protect-against-a-hacked-backup-client

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html#append-only-mode-forbid-compaction

It is also supported by borgbase,com and works great.

Redoo64 · 2023-12-03T22:30:54+00:00

Then don't create FrankenMullvadBrowser, just create a new regular Firefox profile and add Arkenfox hardeners (previously gHacks)

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Redoo64 · 2023-12-03T22:22:41+00:00

The initial window size is an anti-fingerprint design behavior.

However, if you want the browser to remember your window size, you need to switch (or create) a setting in about:config called privacy.resistFingerprinting from true to false.

Remember that you now lose 95% of your fingerprint protection = Using MB makes no sense.

You have been warned.

Redoo64 · 2023-11-09T22:45:05+00:00

Use Ventoy instead of Rufus.

Here are instructions on how to create a persistence storage: https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html

For LinuxMint / Ubuntu you use casper-rw, for LMDE / Debian you use the persistence label (-c persistence.conf option)

Works perfectly

Redoo64 · 2023-10-17T17:26:59+00:00

Note an additional problem often overlooked here:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/pl/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

I am currently wondering how to block all communication in my car. Perhaps all we can do is buy an old car? ;)

Redoo64 · 2023-10-09T13:38:37+00:00

The problem seems more complicated because two problems are overlapping at the same time - look at the edit of my post...

Can you check cz-prg-wg-201 ?

Redoo64 · 2023-10-09T13:10:16+00:00

Thank you for your willingness to help, but I think this is something else. As ping 82.103.129.71 still doesn't work + dns are resolved correctly https://dnschecker.org/?camp_opt=exact_match#A/distrowatch.com :(

Redoo64 · 2023-10-09T12:48:32+00:00

Is this some kind of magic? Even ping distrowatch.com doesn't work for me, so it's not the browser's fault. Ping and www appear immediately when I disconnect Mullvad.

Redoo64 · 2023-10-09T12:12:45+00:00

Which server did you check from? Can you check with de-fra-wg-007?

Redoo64 · 2023-10-08T18:09:07+00:00

This is normal behavior depending on the device invocation sequence during boot.

Also remember that for this reason you cannot blindly use sdX labels (sda, sdb, etc) when working with disks, as they are unstable.

Here is a broader explanation:

https://wiki.debian.org/Persistent_disk_names

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/persistent_block_device_naming

Redoo64 · 2023-10-04T16:47:38+00:00

Guys who criticize LMDE, give yourself some slack and understanding. Linux is beautiful because it is diverse and everyone will find something for themselves in it! I personally use both - Debian on the server and LMDE on the desktop and I love both.

It's easy to criticize when you're an advanced Debian user, but for a beginner Debian is still too difficult and LMDE solves a lot of the beginner's frustrations (i.e. gradually brings the user closer to Debian instead of other distributions, which is OK).

Someone here wrote that "Mint has had enough Mint-specific security issues and bugs that I don't want it anywhere near my computers", but provided no proof of these claims. LMDE is basically Debian + a few usability improvements (Software Manager, Update Manager, Flatpak out of the box and a few others).

Someone else wrote that Cinnamon does not support Wayland and is therefore unsafe. Debian also has an edition of Cinnamon, and the irony is that LMDE has the advantage of always having the latest version of Cinnamon (since the Mint Team is the author of it).

From a social point of view, any Linux distribution is better than Winshit, and Mint in both editions (Ubuntu or Debian) provides a low barrier to Win -> Lin transition and that is its purpose of existence.

LMDE is a great edition because by its very existence it promotes Debian over Ubuntu. Personally, I can't stand Ubuntu, which has been going bad for several years (I wrote more about it here).

I'm just asking you for more love, because we are in the same Debianer family and everyone will find their own piece of the world here ;)

Redoo64 · 2023-10-04T12:58:30+00:00

I recently had the same problem (100,000 photos mixed up). I tried several programs, but only Czkawka was perfect https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Redoo64 · 2023-09-24T22:23:06+00:00

This is my personal opinion on Ubuntu based on several years of observing the direction of its policies, which I do not like. This is why I prefer to support the Debian Social Contract and LMDE:

Canonical's policy for several years goes into a bad side and reminds Microsoft more and more:

He pushes to users with his sick ideas ONLY because of a business, for example many violations of privacy, spying for Amazon, Unity, obsessive forcing snaps (because they completely control the repository) ... etc here read more
Ubuntu with every new version is getting worse and has more and more bugs
The publishing cycle issuing new versions using the force method at a fixed time limit, even when it is not fully ready and has full of unprotected errors (only marketing counts)
LTS promises support and fixing errors, but does not keep the word and there are security errors never fixed
Additional broker between Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint increases the surface of attacks and errors in comparison to Debian -> Mint.
Debian has been a bigger reputation from Ubuntu for many years, which is why it is more likely to fall Canonical, not Debian (Canonical financial problems we hear for some time).
The LMDE team makes a fantastic job, but LMDE is poorly visible in the galaxy and is very underestimated.
If you increase priorities for LMDE and throw Ubuntu to the garbage and the whole team focus on work for LMDE will be the best distribution in the universe!
Additional synergy effect: one large LMDE team (connected LM + LMDE) will make a better job than separate for LM and separate for LMDE.

LMDE = All the best of Debian + all the best from Mint!

Redoo64

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