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New Outlook update sends passwords and mails on private servers to MS. Ulrich Kelber, TheCommissioner for Data Protection of Germany plans to submit inquires on Tuesday (www.heise.de)

Microsoft is singing the praises of the new Outlook and wants to persuade users to switch. But beware: if you try out the new Outlook, you risk transferring your IMAP and SMTP credentials of mail accounts and all your emails to Microsoft servers. Although Microsoft explains that it is possible to switch back to the previous apps...

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Damn this was unexpected. So it seems they’ll just proxying / serving all email to Outlook apps through their servers. Damn Microsoft that’s really fucking anti-competitive.

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Pixel because it supports GrapheneOS thus more secure and private.

Calyx isn’t as good as GrapheneOS, they do a lot of snitching on you (including to Google and Mozilla) and they overlook critical details such as this one allowing the OS to contact 3rd parties such as Qualcomm.

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golinuxcloud.com/mount-partition-using-systemd/#S…

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golinuxcloud.com/mount-partition-using-systemd/#S…

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BTRFS snapshots :P

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Search for it at forum.dirtywarez.com

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LibreOffice is just good enough for most paperwork with good MS-Office compatibility (neither I nor anybody I know ever had a single problem in years).

Are you sure, it can’t even handle simple typing and bullet points consistently…

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An alternative theory is that nobody is secretly scheming to do anything, least of all the chaotic EU apparatus, and that most politicians are not experts and they are simply responding to various competing stimuli, as humans do. Notably elections and media hype and lobbyists.

Yeah that’s a very big possibility for the state of the EU, I’m not gonna deny it.

You’re right that Americans will find this crazy in the way that we Europeans might not. Perhaps Americans are right.

Yes, I’ve seen a TON of American propaganda and people flipping out about central / govt issued IDs, driving licenses and whatnot. I also know that most US states use still use rudimentary paper-only documents to identify citizens… I mean the situation is so bad that even Apple is trying to digitize them.

Meanwhile here in Europe most countries / people have smartcards (that in some cases combine multiple documents, like the actual ID, social security ID, tax number, driving license etc.) and are using it to login to govt websites and to sign documents. It’s just crazy fun to see that in the US there are tons of companies offering ways to digitally sign documents in “a safe way” and even again, Apple, creating the means to scan a signature while here those things have little to no value and people are required to actually use their identity cards to sign docs. lol

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It’s as if a handwritten signature, even in PNG form, has a magical superpower to make a document authentic. A bit like the security theater at entrances to buildings and transport.

While Germany cards doesn’t seem to have a digital / smartcard component, French ones do. In Portugal and Spain at least you’re required to sign digital documents with your identity card, using a smartcard reader + a small utility app provided by the gov. Only those have legal value and this is enforced. Scanned handwritten signatures have zero value, and I know this also applied for other EU countries.

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A government doesn’t need to take away your papers to deny you its services.

Yes, people just need to be dumb enough to vote the typical half communist and half socialist parties to power and they’ll take care of ruining public services for everyone in equal measure. :)

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Systemd.

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Question is: why can’t the GNOME people that are so eager to reinvent everything dedicate a few bucks out of their new 1M€ funding and integrate it with systemd-networkd and ditch the old NetworkManager for good. That thing is inconsistent and to make things worse now we’ve the “new network settings” with some settings and then the NetworkManager window/GUI with more settings and things are as coherent as Windows 10’s new Settings vs Control Panel… Fucks sake GNOME.

For what’s worth in Windows I can pull the old Control Panel Network Connections settings go into properties and manage everything network adapters have to over with a simple tab based navigation. In GNOME right now it is a shit show of jumping around between the GNOME Settings and the older NetworkManager GUI to end up not being able to easily get a VLAN tag on some connection.

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That’s gonna be a good day. I’m sure they’ll have the common sense to include systemd-desktopd-iconsd and systemd-desktopd-slow-transition-animationsd will be optional. :P

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I just told you a few…

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And here I was thinking people were about to move to systemd-networkd so network would actually work decently on the Linux desktop and then I remembered that GNOME comes with the bs called network-manager.

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I can say I get your point however 30 users isn’t “scalability”, it is just a normal family. I usually try to test random versions of Nextcloud from time to time to see it they’ve improved however I can’t even make it work properly for myself let alone 30 people.

I’m not sure what you consider “great experience” but a lagging webUI that spits dozens of warning and errors into the console doesn’t cut it for me. Let alone a piece of shit webmail that isn’t even capable of making a bullet list display properly or compose messages in a textarea larger than 200x200.

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That said, the webUI doesn’t lag at all for me and I have no errors or warnings in the console.

Maybe its just because you’re not using the webmail, that thing is just poor taste.

Are you sure you set everything up properly?

Yes, I tried the full manual installation, docker images and whatnot, all about the same. About the lag… most time it’s not the UI lagging but every action is slow, takes time to load even on high end hardware. AMD Ryzen 7 5700X + 32 GB of RAM + NVMe Samsung 980 Pro 2TB.

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Seems a lot more frequent to me than what you describe, but yes it can be something related to the webmail.

Here examples of warnings and errors that are constantly spammed to the console:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3d14c210-b469-4bff-90e2-e6ad15179cd8.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/df8bcac4-87c5-49a2-a913-ed12851cd104.jpeg

And there is the smallest message compose window the world has even seen:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/aacddcbc-2038-4b15-99cb-d34ce85f724e.jpeg

Just because “it makes sense”, you’re required to use an hidden menu to enable formatting tools in every single message you want to type, no global toggle available in settings:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0a95bb3b-9938-4f6e-8fb8-eb1e6a236f01.jpeg

And obviously that Nextcloud wouldn’t do it like any sane WYSIWYG since Office was announced in 1988. You to select text to get into the formatting tools, no way to have a permanent toolbar at the top:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4089d193-fcd1-4631-91f0-424a5c1ff684.jpeg

And of course, here it is the infamous bullets that never get rendered:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d6de22c5-b157-4673-b232-651533911548.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c85784b8-9c04-46df-b0b1-05b07b466bd9.jpeg

If you send the email they’re there, but the editor never shows them.

And that was it, Nextcloud in 2023.

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What do you think about this screenshots: lemmy.world/comment/5490189 ?

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NextCloud is a shame, they should be ashamed of calling themselves an alternative to Office365 / Teams / OneDrive. They’re pretty much like Tesla, if they didn’t spend most of their time over-promising + under-delivering people would be surprised with the progress they’ve done instead of going for scrutiny.

Here is the thing, I would love to have NC working decently but I’ve test almost all of their releases on the past year and the issues are always the same. Here is my main complaints:

  • Syncthing sync is robust, it doesn’t fail and handles tons of files with little resources, NC uses a lot more RAM and once you get to around 1 TB of small files it will stop working randomly;
  • NC Webmail UI is poorly designed: compose window is just a small box on the center of the screen, there’s no way to have the markup tools permanently show up;
  • NC Webmail UI is broken: if you select a bunch of text and turn it into a bullet list, the bullets won’t even show up on NC, other e-mail clients will see them tho;
  • Integration/SSO with IMAP is cumbersome: not well documented, default configuration doesn’t even handle a simple “login with the email email and password as the IMAP account” type of setup that is commonly expected;
  • WebUI is slow and fails often: if you open the browser console you’ll find lots of warnings and errors.

I do have a lot of complaints related to mail but if NC is any kind of useful replacement for MS365 / Google Workplace a decently working webmail is the bare minimum. RoundCube is WAY better than what NC is currently offering.

I spent weeks researching and trying to tweak things and at the end of the day NC always performs poorly. Most of the issues seem to be related to the poorly implemented WebUI but the desktop app also has issues with large folders. Also tried the docker version, the “all in one” similar results it simply doesn’t cut it.

With that said, for around 30 users I’m not way better with this setup:

  • Dovecot+Postfix working as mail server / “identity provider” for my users;
  • Syncthing to sync desktop machines with the server (not across each other);
  • FileBrowser for web access;
  • WebDAV access for iOS/Android clients;
  • Baikal as CardDAV/CalDAV server;
  • RoundCube for a decent webmail experience with a lot of Kolab plugins (Contacts, Calendars, Tasks from CardDAV/CalDAV);

Both FileBrowser and Baikal were modified to authenticate against the IMAP server and create accounts automatically if the username/password check out. I’m deploying this to the user’s machines via Ansible and/or iOS/macOS profiles so most things are automated by now. To onboard a new user I simply have to create the email account and then run the playbooks.

My future investments will be:

  • ejabberd with the IMAP integration and setup plugins for audio/video chat, push notifications, presence indication;
  • Integrate converse.js or Jitsi (jabber web client) into the RoundCube webmail (simply add a tab with an iframe + pass the webmail auth);
  • Explore a better multi-user Syncthing setup - possible create a small app that uses the Syncthing tech but does authentication against IMAP as well. Custom backend to automatically manage the creation of user folders and managed shares;
  • Microsoft Exchange / ActiveSync: while it might be possible most of my users are either on macOS or they don’t care about Outlook / use Thunderbird or the Webmail.

Although this setup still misses some important stuff (aka replace Zoom) and I’ve been working on it for a while it outperforms NC in all ways so far. The investment was totally worth it.

I really hoped that NC would do all those things properly and I still try new releases but it doesn’t seem to get any better.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

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Bruh, you’re literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos.

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But there is no easy way to detect all extensions, instead most popular ones

It doesn’t really matter if its easy or hard, I’m sure Google already has automated processes in-place to detect all extensions published to the store and fingerprint browsers. They might even have the same for Firefox extensions, who knows.

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This is the definition of clickbait, bullshit articles… they didn’t even bother to take their own screenshots of the suggested alternatives. I also don’t really know what’s the point of this article, Linux users know what’s out there and although I dislike LibreOffice and have strong thoughts about it it is vastly superior to the other alternatives suggested to the point said alternatives aren’t really alternatives.

Also, Cryptpad? Fucks sake.

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Finally someone who learnt how to use systemd.

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