(Takes a deep breath)

We obviously need to have a talk about the fact that most hackers are pretty socially liberal and personal liberty driven. That means we typically fall in line on ideals with libertarian and civil liberties organizations and pundits.

It seems that some people are just discovering that occasionally techbro and traditional libertarians push things at those orgs to an extreme that not only do we not support and have to call out, but even the good people working there object to.

You do not need to be a universal apologist for those organizations because they mostly do good stuff. It’s unbecoming. Endorsing very bad stuff and fascist enabling is in fact, super bad. It needs to be resoundingly condemned, immediately.

Frankly it’s gross, and I’m disappointed in a few of you. I donate to ACLU and EFF and I will absolutely call out their rare policies and statements which harm marginalized people.
*Walks off shaking my head at the Proton apologists*
@hacks4pancakes I’m writing a tutorial on how to migrate off Proton and self host. I asked politely for a refund and was pointed to some buried paragraph on their ToS saying no. They don’t care about their customers, or optics apparently. I’ll take perverse pleasure in knowing every page hit to my guide is another dissatisfied user who wants off their services.

@jamon I'd be intertested in seeing a modern email self-hosting guide. I ran my own mail server but when our colo decided to pack up the servers and move them across the country without notice, I quickly begged for and signed up a Google Workspace accounton the "free forever" plan, which they've actually honored.

But if I could easily self-host and integrate with my Nextcloud instance, that might be an interesting thing to try.

@ktneely honestly https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz looks great. Anything I come up with is going to match that broadly speaking. The proton specific bits will be mainly around using their bridge app to make a backup using IMAP
GitHub - LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz: Script that installs/configures a Dovecot, Postfix, Spam Assassin, OpenDKIM Debian web server

Script that installs/configures a Dovecot, Postfix, Spam Assassin, OpenDKIM Debian web server - LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz

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@jamon I came across this today. Not only the book, but the thread has a lot of good advice:
https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/113869040625065994
Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I didn't plan on this, but it turns out that releasing my new book on running your own email server was SUPER TIMELY. #sysadmin https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms

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