i really don’t want to run my own email

I’ve done it before, professionally and personally, but I don’t ‘think’ I want to do it again. But I also know that once it’s set up, you can mostly forget about it other than maybe managing DKIM reports.

I think it’s still probably prudent, at a minimum to pay for someone else who manages traffic relationships to handle upstream SMTP. You’re already sending that out in the clear, everyone you’re emailing is already mining and selling that data, there is no advantage to privacy there.

TikTok doesn’t have any worse misinformation and disinformation issues than YouTube and Facebook. And The latest policy changes in Facebook indicate they’re going to go squarely into misinformation without any fact checking.

Disinformation is an excuse to ban the platform. Zuckerberg has been lobbying Congress for a long time to ban them while pushing his platform to be able to do exactly what he claims they’re doing.

There’s a lot of reasons to hate TikTok, but this disinformation stuff is nothing but red herring to get them banned because they’re competition.

To be honest, many of not most CEOs probably privately think that way because it’s advantageous to their business. It’s a product of how the government is owned by the corporations. We all hate it but it’s simply The current state of affairs. It’s literally his job not to let it out into public that he feels that way.

Meanwhile go watch Youtubers vacationing in China, a lot fo the narrative we’re being fed is BS.

Not all of it mind you…

Blocking a troll. got one less problem without ya…

participation by both the sender and the receiver in order to take place. are you saying that if everything you tell someone is dismissed as “fake news” and ignored, then it’s your fa

How in the hell did you get that as a take away from what I said?

Anyone who had any other understanding has failed to communicate with the American public.

Their servers aren’t open source, and they’re full of my data.

Their mail service by necessity is going to collect data on me.

They’re going to have DNS on their VPN side. How do I know the VPNs aren’t logging me.

They have given up data on people before which makes me rather certain they’re logging.

Android SMS and mail apps are open source too right?

Yep, it is ribbed for your protection. :)

Absolutely, many governments in many countries do an absolutely adequate job at managing healthcare soup to nuts.

The problem is that the whole health care can’t be run by the doctors. You need the might of a corporation or a government with a tax stream income to be able to afford the equipment. Well outfitted hospitals are mind-bogglingly expensive. So the problem becomes how to not attach the greed to the healthcare, But still process the billions of dollars required to set up and maintain institutions.

Tell me you haven’t worked in a large private company without telling me you haven’t worked in a large private company.

There is actually a shred of truth in that.

The insurance company is supposed to watch dog and make sure that the doctor’s office is doing the right thing.

Since the average patient doesn’t know what the hell the doctor’s supposed to be doing anyway, capitalism makes for some pretty shitty health practices. Like the $60 tylenols.

To eliminate private insurance you also need to create oversight and limits on the healthcare side of things too.

I worked in IT in health insurance years ago, those mom and pop doctor’s offices would submit the same bill six or seven times back to back. Our system at the time had no ability to de-doop so they just kept getting payday after payday until we caught on.

Not all health care providers are good people either.

Actions man, actions…

They are thoroughly compelled by the government there to remove any anti-government sentiment and ban the accounts. But before you judge, that’s going to be the next target in the US once facebook and twitter finish canceling “woke” and promoting whatever flavor of nazi-ism they’re in the middle of promoting.

Pop!_OS is worth your first install.

Debian 12 is also hat in the ring worthy, nv support is fine.

COME ON VIRTUES, LET’S SIGNAL THIS CHODE.

Flush facebook it back down where it belongs.

yeah, totally still on the market, but that’s a move I don’t want to make twice in a row :)

This whole OH BTW, this service that looked trustworthy is run by an asshole has me considering self-hosting.

headscale, I won’t even surface stuff I don’t want absolutely public. I’d probably have to do my DNS, smtp, video and image hosting public. Everything else can be extended over private networking to all my devices without giving anyone outside any access.

I’m capable of hosting my own mail, not sure I’m willing. I need my email to be reliable, but I don’t need it to be fancy. I don’t need a web interface. just Postfix, OpenDKIM, openDMARC, let’s encrypt and POP3/IMAP, DNS and maybe spamassassin.

Nextcloud, base filestore, contacts, calendar, syncs with android. Honestly as a drive replacement, Nextcloud is slow as balls and wants to injest my FS data into a data/meta base . I’d probably use Synching and just go full-ass Dropbox style on my storage.

Vaultwarden, 2fa, password storage, I’m perfectly happy with Bitwarden, but if I’m going to have personal servers, monitoring and alarms, let’s go whole hog

2nd copy of Vaultwarden, this one is public-facing and is just there for Vaultwarden to send.

gluetun, maybe. Could pair it with any generic provider like PIA. This would be mainly for torrents.

Peertube, public, but unfederated. Host my own random videos for links to the fam.

Immich, same but for pictures

matrix, would be nice to have my own branded chat, though signal is still damn good. but if something ever happens to it…

gather all logs together in ELK

Monitor with Graphana and Uptime Kuma.

Alerts via ntfy

Backups would script app shutdown, db export and turn the services back up. Syncthing would go encrypted directly back to my house.

Do all these in docker. Stand up two cheap boxes in Hetzner or something, Run K8S so if something explodes it would just come back up.

It just kept me from transferring my google crap to them. Time to search out alternatives

So literally one guy can change your entire network lifestyle?

Seriously? You’re going to question people on loyalty when they find out the person in charge of not selling their data to the highest bidder is an oligarch wanna-be?

Hell yes. If you give me red flags in how a company I need to ultimately trust is run/staffed, I will find a better solution.