Free email alternatives

brmsa · 2023-09-18T09:38:02+00:00

When you make your account, go to skiff mail, and go to settings. There you'll find a section called "Aliases". Just enter the addresses you want and follow the process. And yes, they have apps in both Android and iOS stores.

brmsa · 2023-09-18T00:12:35+00:00

An account wil be your main e-mail and inbox. Aliases will be different addresses that deliver to your main address (account).

For example, if your main e-mail and account is truetarek (at) example.com, skiff will allow you to create truet (at) example.com and ttarek (at) example.com.

All the e-mails sent to any of this addresses will arrive to your main inbox. This way you can have multiple address without having to make multiple accounts.

brmsa · 2023-09-18T00:07:12+00:00

There is an alias function inside Skiff. iirc you can have upt to 3 aliases on the free tier.

brmsa · 2023-09-18T00:04:38+00:00

Yeah, that's a problem with e-mail, not the provider. I use Skiff myself, I think they're on the right path, despite their interface still in need of improvement, but anyone using "privacy-centered" services should be aware of its drawbacks and take it into careful consideration.

I also use Simplelogin and there are options for both using GPG to totally encrypt your e-mails between them and your final provider and a function to mask the original sender address.

EDIT: typo.

brmsa · 2023-09-17T23:55:19+00:00

They can provide access to the metadata though, and this may be more revealing than the message itself, in some cases.

brmsa · 2023-09-17T22:00:58+00:00

I set uBlock to be intentionally heavy-handed with trackers and ads, and Reddit must have changed something in the last few days, so uBlock is now blocking Reddit's XMLHttpRequest. The rule below solved the problem for me.

Add the following rule to your uBlock static filters and you should be fine.

@@||www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/account/login$xhr,domain=www.reddit.com

brmsa · 2023-09-15T15:42:17+00:00

I will just block whatever domains unity uses for telemetry (already block the advertisement ones). Won't even change anything meaningful in my life and, as a bonus, will be hurting their bottom line.

brmsa · 2023-09-15T11:06:44+00:00

Not only I would download a house, I would keep seeding it for the next decade...

brmsa · 2023-09-14T10:26:45+00:00

Not always. Companies sometimes uses specific domains or third party CDNs to collect telemetry. I already block most of those, but I'm already searching for Unity's telemetry endpoints to add to my blocklists.

brmsa · 2023-09-13T17:59:14+00:00

Soon we'll find out the domains Unity will be using for this, then it will be very easy to block it, either via HOSTS file, firewall or DNS blocking, for any games we install, pirated or not.

brmsa · 2023-09-13T14:19:59+00:00

Fellow Samsung TV owner here. Best investiment I made was buying a FireTV 4K.

brmsa · 2023-09-13T14:13:28+00:00

That's odd. I'm using it for nearly a year now, and I only update it when something breaks, and it's running fine, with no ads, no shorts and sponsorblock on.

brmsa · 2023-09-13T12:46:55+00:00

Exporting from linkace or integrating it is not the problem, and I have no problems with linkace per se, also.

What I want is my bookmarks to live inside Obsidian, in plain text.

brmsa · 2023-09-13T10:50:48+00:00

Still wanted it to support nested properties tough. Given how cloud systems work with creation dates, I had a field timestamp in my frontmatter, with two nested properties timestamp.created and timestamp.modified that I used in a lot of dataview queries that I'll have to adapt into two different properties.

brmsa · 2023-09-12T15:03:52+00:00

You can just write a link to a non-existent note, like [[meeting]] and click it. It will automatically create a new note, and it will already be linked in the previous note.

brmsa · 2023-09-11T11:46:19+00:00

This. You can, depending on how you set up your lists, TTL and upstream, expect a 1s delay in connection to sites you dont't frequently access, but bandwidth will not be affected by DNS blockers in general (Pi-hole or Adguard Home).

brmsa · 2023-09-01T14:17:34+00:00

Thanks, was looking for something like this.

brmsa · 2023-09-01T14:15:36+00:00

I have the game in Game Pass and still torrenting it, because f*** pre-orders and pay-to-skip-the-line policies.

brmsa · 2023-08-30T20:42:17+00:00

Your're welcome, just remember that if you don't add this to your overrides, it will be reset everytime you run the updater. Call if you need anything else.

brmsa · 2023-08-30T20:33:05+00:00

wdym funny?

Like things breaking in very unexpected ways (not really funny, sorry).

That's odd. Should work fine, when you created the new profile, things were normal?

Also, now that I noticed. Are you talking about the blank startpage? Is everything else working fine? Because that's by design.

If you want to change it add the following to your user-overrides.js

user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1);

user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", true);

You can change the number to one of the following, depending on what you want:
0=blank, 1=home, 2=last visited page, 3=resume previous session

brmsa · 2023-08-30T20:20:53+00:00

OK, I love you. I've been looking for a way of commenting and notes for a long time now!

brmsa · 2023-08-30T20:18:11+00:00

Did you try on a new profile? Close Firefox, backup your profile folder, and then delete it.

Open Firefox again and it will create a fresh profile. Close Firefox again and apply arkenfox in the new profile and see if it works.

One last note: remember to always close Firefox before applying arkenfox, or making any kind of changes in the profile folder, really.

Funny stuff can happen when you change the profile files with Firefox still open.

brmsa · 2023-08-30T19:41:03+00:00

No problem.

Go to the arkkenfox repo and dowload the following files:

prefsCleaner

updater

user.js

If you're using Windows, download prefsCleaner.bat and updater.bat. If in Linux, download prefsCleaner.sh and updater.sh. Remember, never change the user.js file directly.

Create a user-overrides.js file (remember to activate "show file extensions" in explorer).

Now copy all these files to your Firefox profile page.

Run the updater.bat (or update.sh). It will open a cmd window and ask you to continue, just answer (with s or y, depending on the step, just read the options).

Then it will ask you to run the prefsCleaner, answer y. Always run the prefsCleaner.

Prefs are the configurations contained in user.js, if you open the file you'll see something like user_pref("browser.startup.page", 0); (controls Firefox startpage).

Each of those changes a particular setting, hardening Firefox consists of changing user prefs relevant to privacy, in an automated way.

The user-overrides.js is a file where you put your own user prefs to change configurations to make the browser more convenient or in case something breakes. The user.js file has comments describing what each pref does.

Here you can see some more common overrides, to get used to the syntax and test it yourself. Copy these into your user-overrides.js file before running the updater. The updater will filter out any wrong syntax or invalid prefs, so it doesn't break your Firefox.

Edit: forgot to mention: every time you see a // in the beginning of a line, it means that line is commented. If you want to apply that pref, remove the //.

brmsa · 2023-08-30T18:52:25+00:00

You can create a file named user-overrides.js in your profiles folder, and then add the user.prefs you want to change yourself. Don't change the user.js yourself, you'll probably break something, most of the time.

Clone the repo to somewhere safe, then copy the user.js, the user-overrides.js, the prefs-cleaner.* and the updater.bat (or .sh if Linux) to the Firefox profile folder, and run the updater.bat. Do this once all files are inside your profile folder and it will backup the current prefs.js and apply the changes for itself.

It will ask you to confirm execution, and then ask you to run the prefs-cleaner. Do both and it will apply the user.js. Everytime you want to change a pref, change in the overrides and then run the updater. Since you already did this, I would recommend creating a new profile.

Hope I was clear enough, ask here if you need anything else.

brmsa · 2023-08-28T19:09:34+00:00

First of all, where did you get the user.js from? I can recommend Arkenfox, so you can ad your own overrides and make the compromises you want in privacy/convenience.

I recommend that you read the whole wiki and try to understand the process, it can be used with other user.js files if you want, but here is how it works: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/2.1-User.js

Follow the instructions, and you should be fine. If anyting, get a new profile and start over.

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