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As I keep exploring alternatives to Google services, I'm now looking into which email services can replace the almighty Gmail. I won't be looking at other big companies services, such as Outlook.com, since they have the same weird practices as Google. Let's look at our options !
Why quitting gmail Gmail is a great service. It's free, it has plenty of storage, uses labels, allows to archive messages, and generally looks pretty good. It's also using all your data and reading all your emails. That's the main problem, for me.
Proton Mail It's a solution designed to be as private as possible, where everything is encrypted, and no information is shared. Your email account can be created without giving any personal info, and it is of course open source as well. Proton Mail has a free tier, limited to 500Mb of storage and 150 emails per day, which is more than enough for my needs. More demanding users can part with about 4 euros a month, upping the storage to 5gb and 1000 emails per day. This tier also allows you to use your own email domain, and create up to 5 email addresses.
Interface-wise, Proton Mail looks alright. It doesn't have the clean, nice look of Gmail or Outlook.com, and the colors are not really to my tastes, but if you feel like it, you can use custom CSS to style it the way you like.
Proton mail can import your contacts, but unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any sync options with third party clients. The whole thing being encrypted makes regular email clients unable to read or access anything. There is an application, called Proton Bridge, that allows you to sync your email on a client, but it only works on Thunderbird, and is still in beta.
Net - Courier Net C, or Net courrier, is a european mail provider. They not only provide an email service, but also some storage space (500Mo by default), an adress book, calendar, and photo storage service. Creating an account is free, and lets you pick the domain name between a bunch of different propositions.
The TLDR is that free accounts are subjected to ads through third party cookies, including targeted ads, and premium accounts are not. Net-C won't read your emails, though, to offer ads specifically taileord to what you wrote or received.
Looks-wise, Net-C isn't that great, with a huge header, and boxy design, but it's clear enough, and can be customized, with different colors and sizes. If you don't like the webmail, though, you can sync email with any IMAP capable client, as well as the calendar with caldav and ICS, and the address book with carddav. Net-C also supports Exchange Active Sync if you're into that sort of thing.
Even the storage space can be accessed remotely through FTP or WebDav ! This is great, since it means that your Net-C email, contacts, and calendar can be synced with any client you'd like to use, thus escaping the ads present in the webmail.
Net-C offers a Premium package, for 12 euros a year. This includes 20 Go of email storage, 5 Go of cloud storage, the removal of ads, as well as the access to the POP3 protocol for mail syncing.
If you want more cloud storage, you can buy a "cloud pack", but prices are pretty high, with 500Go costing 40€ per month, so I'd recommend finding another solution.
Zoho Mail Zoho is a big company, providing services ranging from email, to a full blown CRM, to online document editing, project management, and many, many more. Zoho Mail is a full featured solution, integrating a mailbox, contacts, a calendar, tasks, and notes. Zoho guarantees privacy, and does not use or collect your data outside of what it needs to actually provide you the email account. Interface-wise, Zoho looks more modern than the other services I tried before.
The free personal account includes your "@zoho.com" email adress, as well as no ads, two factor authentication, imap and Pop sync for email, and caldav sync for calendar. Zoho is a highly configurable service, with a ton of preferences.
Free tier users get 5GB of mail storage, but you can upgrade, with prices ranging from 3$ a month for 30gb, to 6$ a month for 100Gb. Both these tiers include access to a ton more Zoho services, and the prices are pretty reasonable even for an individual user
Conclusion There are other email providers out there, but these are the ones that stuck with me. For more privacy-focused users, Proton Mail seems like the obvious choice. It has its limits, such a syncing with other clients, but this is the price to pay for full email encryption.
I now hesitate between Zoho and Net-C. On the one hand, Zoho seems like a full featured replacement for a lot of other google services, such as Drive, Docs, Keep, and many more. On the other hand, Net-C seems like a great independant solution, and is more in keeping with the "one provider per service" approach I'm looking for.
Street Artist Oriol Arumi By Oriol Arumi at Torrefarrera Street Art Festival in Torrefarrera, Cataluna, Spain. Oriol Arumí (Vic, 31 October 1972) is a Catalan painter and muralist living in the city of Lleida. His work is technically straddling between fi
Oriol Arumí (Vic, 31 October 1972) is a Catalan painter and muralist living in the city of Lleida. His work is technically straddling between figurative and abstract art, and thematically between reality and fantasy. This gives him a wide range of possibilities that allows him to do completely what he likes at any given time: “I always have in mind painters as varied as Johannes Vermeer, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt and Joan Miró, not to mention of sketchers like Hergé or Moebius ”.
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12 MART CUNTASI ONLARI 54 YIL ÖNCE NURHAK'TA KATLETMİŞTİ Üç genç devrimci, Sinan Cemgil, Alpaslan Özdoğan ve Kadir Manga, 31 Mayıs 1971 günü Nurhak’ta katledilmişlerdi. İnekli köyü yakınlarında, Kürecik Amerikan radar üssünü basmak için yola çıkan üç devrimci bir muhtar tarafından ihbar edilmeleri sonucu jandarma tarafından kuşatılmış ve girdikleri çatışmada hayatlarını kaybetmişlerdi. Gruptaki diğer devrimcilerden Mustafa Yalçıner ağır yaralanmış, Hacı Tonak yakalanmış, Metin Güngörmüş ve Ahmet Erdoğan ise kuşatmadan kurtulabilmişlerdi. Daha sonra 6 Haziran da yakalanan Güngörmüş ve Erdoğan, Yalçıner ve Tonak la birlikte THKO davasından yargılanmışlar ve idama mahkum edilmişlerdi. Dördünün de cezası daha sonra Askeri Yargıtay tarafından ömür boyu hapse çevrilmişti.
After we reviewed a few services that allow you to switch from Google's, it's time to move on to something a bit more complex, but more secure as well: hosting your own services ! To do so, there is something fantastic, that can replicate most of what Google offers: NextCloud. It's not only a file storage solution, but it can also handle email, photos, music, calendar, an online office suite, and a lot more, since it has a giant gallery of apps that you can add to your own instance !
Give it the sudo permissions: usermod -aG sudo "YOUR USERNAME"
Log out of the root user: logout
Install Nextcloud: sudo snap install nextcloud
Setting up the server There are plenty of ways you can go about doing that. You could use an older computer, a rasperry Pie, or any machine at your house, and turn it into a server by installing the server version of your distro of choice. If you don't want to mess with that or you don't want to configure too many things, you can also turn yourself to cloud-hosted server providers, which is exactly what I'll do. There are plenty around, some geared towards having more storage space, some providing powerful GPUs for distributed calculations, and some oriented towards CPU power. Here, I'll be createing an entry-level server with Linode. I bet you didn't see that one coming !
Most providers will allow you to pick between pre-selected distro to install, or will let you choose a custom one to put on the server. For servers, debian-based distros are often the most robust, as are everything based on Red Hat. But here, Ubuntu has a distinct advantage over most other available options: you can install nextcloud with just one command line, thanks to snap. I know some of you aren't fans of this technology, but it's honestly the easiest option here. I'll be going with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which should be stable and perform perfectly well.
Here, I'll pick a small Linode, called a Nanode, since I don't plan on using my server for file storage, but if you're planning on replacing Google Photos or Google Drive with Nextcloud, you should get something with a bigger hard drive. Most providers also allow you to add storage to your existing server afterwards, so no worries.
Creating a user Once your server is created, and your distro has booted, you can access its console to install whatever you need. That's where we'll be installing Nextcloud through snap. To begin, we'll need to create a user that is not the superuser, called Root, so we'll login as root to do that. Enter "root" as the login, and the root password you selected when you created your server. If you installed Ubuntu on your own server, you probably already created a user during the distro's installation, so skip that step !
We'll just type "adduser", followed by a space, and the name of the user we want to create. We'll have to answer a few questions such as the user's full name and its password. The rest is not important here. Our user does not have the rights to run super user commands, which we'll need to install anything, so we'll start by adding our new user to the sudoers group.
Let's type usermod -aG sudo. followed by a space then the name of the user.
And we're done ! Now, we just type logout, to quit being root, and login as our new user, just by typing its username and password.
Installing Nextcloud and logging in Using SNAP, it's only one command line: sudo snap install nextcloud
Once the command has completed its task, we'll need to access our nextcloud instance. Simply get the IP address of your server. To do so, either look in your server manager, if you're using a cloud provider, or type: ifconfig
Your server's IP address is the first series of numbers in the first line.
Copy and paste that in a browser's window to access your nextcloud instance. You'll be asked to create an admin account, so just the username and password you'll want to use to manage your nextcloud instance, and you're in !
Now, this method is pretty easy, but is has one drawback: it will install using its own HTTP and mysql server, so if you want to use the same machine for something else on top of nextcloud, you'll run two servers at the same time, which is not that efficient, but for our simple purposes here, it's not an issue.
And that's it ! Now you have a nextcloud instance up and running. You can explore its various settings, the apps you can install on it, all from the gear menu in the top right corner. I highly recommend you register a domain name and install an SSL certificate, so your server uses HTTPS instead of HTTP, it will be a lot more secure.
Heute vor einem Jahr sticht der Afghane Sulaiman Ataee mit einem Messer auf den Islamkritiker Michael Stürzenberger ein und ermordet den Polizisten Rouven Laur. Seitdem verschweigt die Bundespolitik sowohl den Namen von Stürzenberger als auch den islamistischen Hintergrund der Tat. Unterdessen lädt man auf der Gedenkfeier am Samstag in Mannheim zum „interreligiösen Friedensgebet“.
Während die Bundespolitik am Jahrestag des Anschlags verräterisch schweigt, gedenkt man in Mannheim dem islamistischen Attentat mit einem „interreligiösen Friedensgebet“.
Neue Google-KI ermöglicht Flut an falschen Nachrichten-Clips
Täuschend echte KI-Videos von News-Events und Protesten: Googles neuer Veo-3-Generator macht das bedenklich einfach. Laien können sie kaum noch von echten Aufnahmen unterscheiden. Neue Google-KI ermöglicht Flut an falschen Nachrichten-Clips
"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
It is with shattered hearts that we share the passing of Zeus, our beloved Western screech owl, who touched the hearts of people from literally around the world. Though blind, Zeus adapted remarkably well to his disability and had a calm, gentle presence that left a lasting impression on everyone who met him.
Zeus came to live at Wildlife Learning Center 15 years ago after being found on someone's doorstep. He was treated at a wildlife rehabilitation center, where it was determined that he was blind due to trauma-perhaps he had flown into a window. We will never know for certain what happened to Zeus; all we know is that he was found helpless, unable to navigate the world on his own, and would require human care for the remainder of his life.
His distinctive eyes, which appeared to hold a galaxy or stars, captivated everyone he met, from visitors at Wildlife Learning Center to his social media fame from around the world. His eyes told the story of a tiny owl with a vast spirit, sparking curiosity and awe. Zeus was more than an ambassador for wildlife; he inspired a connection with nature that reached far and wide.
Under our care, Zeus was monitored closely, including weekly weighing to track his health. Despite eating well, Zeus began to lose weight. Blood tests showed no abnormalities, so a CAT scan was performed, revealing a large, and sadly, inoperable kidney tumor. There was nothing that could be done to save his life, so we ensured he was comfortable until it was time to say goodbye.
Zeus will always be remembered for his unique way of connecting with people and for the fascination he brought to so many. His memory will live on in our hearts and in the countless lives he touched. We will continue to honor him by sharing his story and helping other animals like him.
The world feels a little less bright without our treasured Zeus.
But sadly, he is now no longer with us. I am glad he got to enjoy a long and loving life for an owl with a serious medical condition. I'm so glad he was found and cared for.
Rest in peace, little buddy. The world doesn't get too many famous owls, but you certainly were one! ❤️🦉✨
It is with shattered hearts that we share the passing of Zeus, our beloved Western screech owl, who touched the hearts of people from literally around the world. Though blind, Zeus adapted remarkably...
Interessant. So mancher Herr Hetero in der Christlich-Konservativen wollte und will keinen homosexuellen Bundeskanzler – Bedenken wegen des Kinderschutzes.
Der braune Arm des Adolfs reicht doch noch bis heute in die Mitte des Parlaments und die Realpolitik.
Solange sich die bürgerliche "Mitte" im Nazisprech suhlt, kann ich mich nicht vertreten sehen durch Politiker.
Bevor ich Berlins Antidemokratie-Bestrebungen unterstütze, helfe ich eher den 🏳️🌈
Warum müssen Anzugträger immer die eine Hand in der Hosentasche haben? Weil ihm dort das Messer in der Hose aufgeht? Weil er tastet, ob seine Preziosen noch da sind? Für TaschenBillard? Also warum nur?
Hello hello ! Aaah lala ça fait bizarre de parler d'autre chose, mais sachez que j'ai re-commis de la bd de vulgarisation politique pour la feuille de chou du député Christophe
Alors que 55% des électeurs français ont rejeté la constitution européenne, les médias ont préféré donner la parole aux désavoués, aux hommes politiques partisans du "oui". Cette spéciale répondeur est l'occasion de laisser s'exprimer la joie et (…)
L'UE devient de plus en plus autoritaire, épisode 35254.
Une sanction prise dans la droite ligne des sanctions décidées hors du cadre légal habituel contre les médias d'État russes RT et Sputnik lors de l'invasion de l'Ukraine en 2022. Plutôt qu'une décision de fermeture, le Conseil de l'Union européenne, qui réunit les gouvernements des États-membres, a décidé le 20 mai dernier, à travers sa dernière fournée de sanctions contre les soutiens de la Russie, d'y intégrer le fondateur et gestionnaire de Red. Media, Hüseyin Dogru, dont la société-mère AFA Medya opère en Turquie.
Pour quels motifs ? D'abord parce que sa société "a des liens financiers et organisationnels étroits avec des entités et acteurs de la propagande d'État russe et qui partage des liens structurels profonds, y compris des interactions entre des membres du personnel ainsi qu'une rotation de ceux-ci, avec des organisations de médias d'État russes". Des éléments déjà rendus publics par deux enquêtes de médias allemands, le Tagesspiegel et Taz, avaient notamment pointé que Hüseyin Dogru était chargé de liquider les actifs du média d'État russe destiné à un public jeune, de gauche et germanophone Redfish... et que Red. Media avait ensuite réutilisé en les renommant les comptes de Redfish sur les réseaux sociaux. Elles mettaient aussi en lumière l'emploi par Red. Media de journalistes exerçant auparavant pour d'autres médias d'État russes, y compris Hüseyin Dogru.
Mais ces sanctions ont aussi été prises parce que Red. Media aurait propagé "systématiquement de fausses informations sur des sujets politiquement controversés dans le but de créer des dissensions ethniques, politiques et religieuses au sein de son public cible, principalement allemand, y compris en diffusant des récits de groupes terroristes islamistes radicaux tels que le Hamas". Un seul exemple est donné : "Au cours de l'occupation violente d'une université allemande par des émeutiers anti-israéliens, le personnel de Red s'est coordonné avec ces occupants pour diffuser des images de leurs actes de vandalisme - qui comprenaient l'utilisation de symboles du Hamas - par les canaux en ligne de Red, leur fournissant ainsi une tribune médiatique exclusive." Cet argument est le seul mis en avant par Red. Media pour expliquer sa fermeture. Il se rapporte notamment à l'occupation d'une université berlinoise ayant engendré l'enquête du Tagesspiegel. Et à la diffusion d'une vidéo virale d'un enfant poursuivi par la police allemande lors d'une manifestation pro-palestinienne – pour l'arrêter selon Red. Media, pour le ramener à ses parents d'après la police allemande. C'est aussi celui qui interroge le plus, notamment au regard du fait que les médias allemands sont encore bien plus pro-israéliens que leurs homologues français.
Comment expliquer le silence total des médias allemands et des syndicats allemands de journalistes ? Peut-être parce qu'en sus de leur refus éditorial de porter le regard sur Gaza, ils gardent en tête la croisade de Red. Media contre le journaliste de la Taz Nicholas Potter. Il a en effet été attaqué notamment parce qu'en sus de son enquête pour le quotidien berlinois, il a aussi publié un article attaquant Red. Media ainsi que les médias de gauche MintPress News et The Grayzone dans le Jerusalem Post. Le titre, "Au sein des médias d'extrême gauche qui, soutenus par Moscou, Damas, et Téhéran, attaquent Israël" ne faisait pas dans la demi-mesure malgré des preuves moins éclatantes dans le corps du texte – MintPress News, par exemple, a fermement démenti tout lien financier avec les pays concernés, pour lequel Nicholas Potter n'apportait d'ailleurs pas de preuve.
Dans son article d'annonce de sa fermeture, Red. Media met de nouveau en cause Nicholas Potter, ainsi que la Taz, le Tagesspiegel, les syndicats de journalistes allemands... et Reporters sans frontières (RSF), qui avait évoqué le harcèlement en ligne subi par Potter dans son rapport annuel allemand – RSF n'a pas répondu aux sollicitations d'ASI. "Red.Media aurait pu défendre sa position sans lancer des attaques personnelles contre Potter", fait remarquer à ASI le secrétaire général de la Fédération européenne des journalistes (FEJ) Ricardo Gutiérrez.
"Red. Media va fermer, voici pourquoi" "Red. Media va fermer, voici pourquoi"
Red. Media, 16 mai 2025
"Ceci étant dit, comme dans le cadre du dossier RT/Sputnik, la FEJ continue à regretter que les gouvernements européens, par l'intermédiaire de décisions du Conseil européen, s'octroient le pouvoir de censurer des médias, sans analyse sérieuse des reproches adressés à ces médias par un organe de régulation indépendant", poursuit néanmoins Ricardo Gutiérrez. Les sanctions décidées contre Hüseyin Dogru, avec des "accusations graves [...] ni démontrées ni étayées par des faits et des preuves", ont "pour conséquence directe la fermeture d'un média allemand, qui jouait un rôle d'intérêt public essentiel par sa couverture soutenue des manifestations pro-palestiniennes en Allemagne." Et le secrétaire général de la FEJ de conclure : "La FEJ condamne à nouveau cette décision intergouvernementale qui a toutes les apparences d'une décision arbitraire. Les médias qui ne respectent pas la déontologie et qui s'inscrivent dans une logique propagandiste ou déstabilisatrice peuvent certes faire l'objet de retraits de licence ou de sanctions, mais en Europe, sur base des standards légaux existants, c'est à des organes de régulation indépendants de prendre de telles mesures. Pas à des gouvernements."
Good to see that at least one journalist doesn't fall to the hype.
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
Yet when tech CEOs do the same thing, people tend to perk up.
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
Eternal Father, you inspired the Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, to visit Elizabeth and assist her in her need. Keep us open to the working of your Spirit, and with Mary may we praise you for ever. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
EU is getting more authoritarian by the day. Kill the beast !
In January 2025, The Economist delivered a devastating verdict: Romania had become the European Union's first "hybrid regime", downgraded from its previous "flawed democracy" status in the British newspaper’s yearly Democracy Index. The trigger was Romania's Constitutional Court annulling the first round of presidential elections based on what The Economist described as "murky intelligence reports" with evidence that was "at best, questionable".
Who better foreshadows Romania’s plummet in the democracy index than General Rog, head of the cyber division of the Romanian intelligence services, boasting of his executive overreach over a year ago?
As one German commentator observed: “The planned ban on Russian gas imports has little to do with the war in Ukraine — and everything to do with the American trade war. The EU is capitulating to Trump. The cost of that capitulation will be devastating, especially for Germany”.
This is not about “stopping Putin’s war machine” but about pre-empting any normalisation of EU-Russia relations — at the cost of deepening dependence on the US and accelerating deindustrialisation
AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.
Your enemy is capitalism.
Your enemy is the corporation.
This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
you know the 40% rule, right? Profit + growth "must" add to 40% So if you're growing at 60%, it's ok to have a 20% negative profit. That is one of the reasons we are where we are.
As with many other tools with tremendous potential for humanity and good governance, AI is and will be misused by the capital for dystopian domination and extraction.
there's also this "funny" framing that corporations themselves *are* functionally agi paperclip-maximizers, only they run on human workers instead of sillicon.
"funny" because the various ai doomer talking points, are already shown to be true for corpos:
-(microtargeted) mass manipulation -(occasional) warmongering -government/regulatory capture -the "alignment" issue (mostly on climate) -convert all available matter into rent-seeking -gaslighting opponents (a'la the basilisk wager)
I fundamentally disagree with this characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is not an entity. It has no meaningful intentional stance. It is a model of interaction only. It is not the enemy.
The enemy is those who wish to apply this model upon us no matter what the costs to us. This enemy consists of people. And these people have names and addresses.
Generative AI intrinsically alters the political landscape in ways that put fascists at an advantage. The way people are using it to cognitive offload pretty much any given workload is crippling their own ability to engage in critical thought. Assuming access to a sufficiently advanced model, malicious actors in positions of power can use it to fabricate evidence of crimes and weaponise the state's violence against opponents. It's eroding people's trust in the authenticity of literally all online communication that's not coming directly from an already trusted source. Surely you understand how a tool that's pretty much purpose-built to flood the zone with shit is inherently beneficial to a political project that's been relying on exactly that tactic for its entire existence, right? It's not a coincidence that this technology's most vocal proponents in the political sphere are all basically Hitler.
@Walk_blesseD I’m not saying “AI” as branded and developed by Silicon Valley/Big Tech isn’t *a* problem. I’m saying the socioeconomic system that leads to it being developed in the manner in which it is developed is the problem.
Machine learning doesn’t have to be planet-scale. In fact, it’s more effective when it’s not.
At its core, there isn’t anything that evil about iterative matrix multiplications used for pattern matching in data sets.
But yes, of course, AI as it exists today is a problem. But it’s a symptom of the core malady which is capitalism/corporatism.
All that said, I really don’t think we’re stating different things 😀
Elon Musk Timothy Mellon Miriam O. Adelson Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein Kenneth C. Griffin Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass Paul E. Singer Stephen A. Schwarzman Timothy M. Dunn Rob Bigelow Diane Hendricks John Joe Ricketts Shirley W. Ryan Warren A. Stephens
A pretty sure sign of a dying civilisation if you ask me.
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot [...]
The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn't care either.
It's so emblematic of the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.
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