A request for more email
To support Trump's executive order to close DEI Offices, cancel DEI-related trainings, and terminate any DEI contracts, the federal Office of Personnel Management has set up an inbox for federal employees to alert them of any DEI related efforts that should be shut down.
It'd be a shame if this inbox were so flooded with spam that it became unusable.
Wasn't sure of the best community to post this is, so feel free to spread the word elsewhere.
wanted: e-mail provider that supplies onion email addresses and allows users to use them on clearnet
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12515826
I’m looking for an email service that issues email addresses with an onion variant. E.g. so users can send a message with headers like this:
undefinedFrom: replyIfYouCan@hi3ftg6fgasaquw6c3itzif4lc2upj5fanccoctd5p7xrgrsq7wjnoqd.onion To: someoneElse@clearnet_addy.comI wonder if any servers in the onionmail.info pool of providers can do this. Many of them have VMAT, which converts onion email addresses to clearnet addresses (not what I want). The docs are vague. They say how to enable VMAT (which is enabled by default anyway), and neglect to mention how to disable VMAT. Is it even possible to disable VMAT? Or is there a server which does not implement VMAT, which would send msgs to clearnet users that have onion FROM addresses?
Public service search engine as an escape from enshitification and tracking
89,004 local governments existed in the United States in 2012. By extension, there are a shit-ton of public sector websites including schools and libraries. So why can’t there be a public-funded search engine just for indexing all the public service websites?
Citizens who need to access a public service should not have to visit some shitty Google-like search engine by a surveillance advertiser to find a public resource. Google and Microsoft should not be gateways to public access. They can offer their shitty service for private sector searches but governments should have sovereignty from that. If I have to ask tech giants what is the URL for my secretary of state, it’s a fucked up dependency.
It also shouldn’t just be a search engine. There should also be a hierarchical structured directory. A public service directory plus search engine would be inherently ad-free and tracker free, federally funded.
Progress needed.
Doctor wanted to send me test results via e-mail (Microsoft!)
The state of medical privacy has become quite appalling lately. I started using a young doctor in a new office and they are gung ho on modern tech. That’s fine to some extent but they want to send me invoices and all correspondence via e-mail. No PGP of course. I did an MX lookup on their vanity email address & it resolves to an MS Outlook server.
I asked them for my test results. They offered to email them.
My response: I do not want sensitive medical info coming by e-mail via Microsoft’s servers. I did not give you a copy of my email address for that reason. It needs to be snail-mailed to me.
Perhaps of greater concern is that the receptionist acted like I am making a unusual request, and that they do not mail things. Apparently I am the only patient who has a problem with sensitive medical info going to Microsoft. So the receptionist is investigating whether she can get approval to mail me my results by post.
I wonder if someone in that clinic will have to run out and buy stamps
If boycotting Israel, include Microsoft in your boycott
Microsoft faces criticism for funding Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision, reportedly carrying out surveillance on Palestinians and working in Hong Kong and Russia.
cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/984895
Microsoft finances #AnyVision to produce facial recognition technology that the Israeli military uses against the Palestinian people.
So if you oppose Israel’s brutality then #Microsoft should be on your boycott list.
If you are undecided, these stories might help with your decision:
- snipers target a red-cross medic for execution (2018) → https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/03/middleeast/razan-al-najjar-gaza-nurse-killed/index.html
- Hind Rajab (6 year old; 2024) → https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion/world/2024/feb/10/im-so-scared-please-come-hind-rajab-six-found-dead-in-gaza-12-days-after-cry-for-help
For Hind Rajab, my boycott is on until I die.
Resource needed to evaluate inclusivity of websites
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/5730013
Before sharing a link I would like to determine whether the website excludes people from access, and who is excluded. I can test for myself whether the Tor community is excluded, but what about:
- VPNs
- i2p
- public libraries
- #cgNAT issued IP addresses
- various regions
- particular browsers (e.g. lynx, w3m)
for example? I cannot check all those means of access. If a website is implementing some form of digital exclusion, I would like to ensure that I am not helping the exclusive website gain visitors.
#askFedi #netneutrality
8 prospective projects to grow the free-world portion of the Internet