Of course I will need to be in a disposable income situation to get one of these.

The prices I’ve seen for the simple plug-in PVs are terrible. I can only imagine it making sense on frequent road trips or camping, or perhaps in situations where you live in an apartment and have no rooftop real estate for proper panels.

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Can’t reach the tor-hostile article, so I’ll just comment on the topic.

JP Morgan is always the biggest offender worldwide on the annual “Banking on Climate Chaos” reports. There’s quite a bit of dirt on them here:

https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md

So of course anyone decent boycotts JP Morgan Chase.

The article doesn’t seem to answer the “why” question too comprehensively… just mentions some performance differences.

I saw a Tesla in Europe with a bumper sticker like this: “I bought this car before Elon went crazy”. So I would not neglect the cultural factor.

PM’s apps perform the encryption on your own device because it’s your device that runs the apps. That is e2ee, but still only in the two scenarios I mention and even then it’s also vulnerable to targeted attack. PM could ship malcious j/s if it wanted (the likely case being to comply with a court order). It’s better if your own non-j/s FOSS MUA handles the crypto, which is actually easier if you don’t use PM.

If mailbox.org works the way anonaddy works, then that’s not e2ee. The msg payload is seen by the server that does the encryption, in the very least. The sender’s ESP would have already seen the msg.

Indeed, which is more reason to not blindly block dynamic IPs.

Consider self-hosting HALF the service. Something like this:

Outbound

local Postfix on dynamic IP → relay (optional and configurable) → recipient

You can configure Postfix to use a relay depending on the recipient. E.g. if you need to reach alice@outlook.com, MS will reject your dynamic IP. But if you have bob@outlook.com, you can tell Postfix to relay via MS servers using your bob@outlook.com account for all *@outlook.com recipients. And yes, you can still use a different vanity address in the FROM: field, like Gobbel2000@nerds.org, if that’s what you want to be known as. You can freetype whatever your want as the FROM: address if you use a good MUA like mutt.

You can even hack postfix to send over Tor. And you can make it possible to support *.onion email addresses, which is something that no non-self-hosted service offers.

When I email someone for the 1st time, say it’s alice@someunknownneverseensvc.xyz, I first configure my mail server to relay to @someunknownneverseensvc.xyz over Tor. If that fails (and it often does), I configure Postfix to directly send to that server from my dynamic IP (or VPN if I have that running). That’s the default, in fact. If that fails, then I can cave-in and compromise my privacy by relaying through a 3rd party, if I choose. Most importantly, I am in control. If I really want to send the msg but I really do not want an additional MitM, I may be able to create an acct on @someunknownneverseensvc.xyz and then use that as a relay to recipients on that host.

Rise-up has an onion SMTP server. So if you have a riseup acct you could use their onion as a relay.

Inbound

(your acct @ rise-up or disroot.org or danwin1210.de or autistici) → POP3 onion using fetchmail → local Postfix → dovecote or procmail → local files read by your MUA of choice

You avoid a lot of complexity and labor by not maintaining a WAN-listening server. Though you still have a fair amount of effort in configuring your junk, you need not do all the configuration up front. You can do it on a piecemeal per-outbound msg basis to spread your config effort out over time. Of course you need to use a forwarding service or do some DNS arrangements if you want an address that does not tie you to an ESP.

This approach relieves you of the reliability problem… you need not maintain a server always online, up, and listening. But of course you lose some privacy because all your inbound traffic is seen by your ESP. At least you can potentially circumvent your ESP on outbound mail.

BTW, you might want to crosspost to !email@lemmy.sdf.org

(update) my complaint with Postfix: no Tor support out of the box

Postfix needs some hacking to get it to work over Tor. As old as Postfix and Tor both are, they should work together out of the box.

side note: downside is, your data there is more snoopable, less so with something like proton.

Can you elaborate? AFAIK, Protonmail only gives e2ee in 2 rare situations:

• Both parties use PM
• The non-PM user has a PGP key and the PM user is competent enough to add the key to their PM address book. (This is where Hushmail is superior to PM, but HM is not gratis)

In all other scenarios (no e2ee), PM traffic and data-at-rest is just as exposed as conventional non-PM.

True, but sending from a static IP that is linked to you yields less privacy. I’ve decided: fuck these email recipients who demand I compromise privacy in order to give them the convenience of relying on IP reputation. Sure, google and MS servers refuse email from me, but I prefer that anyway. I use postal mail for such recipients (and yes, that’s most recipients).

Looks promising. Hopefully the dinox fork fixes this embarrassing bug:

https://github.com/dino/dino/issues/971
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076963

Both Dino-im and Profanity neglect to use e2ee by default.

Someone plz track down the Debian maintainer of dino and mention dinox to them. Would by nice to get that into Debian. The *.debian.org sites have been under an ongoing attack for weeks now… I’m blocked by fastly.

They apparently stole the brand of a FOSS router firmware (an openwrt alternative).

Bit annoying that their README does not actually state a basic overview of what their app does. It’s quite hidden in small print above the file list… easily missed.

What if you want to sell the house

I’ve not read the contract yet. Considering they include removal an reinstallation labor for free if someone renovates their roof, they theoretically might as well relocate them to another house when moving within their service area (which is constrained as well by the region of the green certificates).

What happens when you want to exit the contract within the 30 years?

Certainly you can buy the gear. And if you buy all the panels you are out of the contract. Price per panel as they age is something like this:

• years 0-5: €850
• years 5-10: €750
• years 10-15: €650
• …
• year 30: €0

If you want to exit the contract and return the panels, I have no idea. But since these prices seem to be heavily inflated to cover their labor, I imagine it’s quite uninteresting to return the panels because they likely factor in the labor.

When the sun is shining at peak brightness, what’s the guarantee that you get to use all of it?

All the boxes have LCDs. The 1st box shows the power generation. Then another box shows what of that you are consuming. I don’t recall what the 3rd box shows but I can only imagine it’s the energy fed to the grid. I assume the original electric meter is still installed, in which case it might be possible to check the math.

There could still be shenanigans because it’s probably hard to verify. I think as a low consumer I might be better off buying the panels and getting an i/o meter (not sure what the correct term is but something that compensates me for what is fed back to the grid).

Anyway, I appreciate the reply. I’ll have to mirror some of those questions to the supplier.

I can only guess. I don’t think that could even be in contract. My guess:

• another company buys it: the buyer takes over the contracts
• liquidation: normally assets go to the creditors. But every homeowner is a creditor for the property in the future. So I think a reasonable court would just turn ownership over to the homeowner. OTOH, the energy company is also a party to the deal because the energy supplier gets the unused power. Perhaps the panels would be taken over by the energy supplier until the 30 year mark.

The cost of installation, wiring and transformers is more than the cost of panels.

They likely factor all those costs into the panel costs. But would labor and parts overhead represent 9/10ths of €8500, for example? Looks like they install 3 boxes in the basement plus panels for around €7500.

That may be where the fat is. So I’m tempted to say this is only a good deal for someone who really wants hands-off on-grid solar power for 30 yrs. And perhaps a bad deal if someone foresees going off grid and doing their own labor.

After the 30 years of “borrowing” the panels, who pays for their removal and recycling?

I assume that’s the homeowner because the supplier simply makes it all the homeowner’s property after 30 years… likely so they don’t have to deal with it.

You can’t even get people to oppose livestock subsidies, and you’re talking about proactive blocks? The action you propose has the least chance of success. Individuals with self-control is the only certain action you can count on.