Hi,

I wanted to contact the owner/administrator of a website. Unfortunately, they didn't provide any means of contact ( email, phone number, online form, simpleX whatsoever).

So the only alternative that I had thought was to create a Mastodon account and publish an open communication with them tagged. ( who know with a bit of luck. )

Unfortunately, to create a Mastodon account, you have to provide an email 📧 address 😞 The problem with email address is that it can be correlated to track you down and more.. there are so many examples online, I will not cover this here.

So the workaround is to create a new email address dedicated just for that usage or service. But it's becoming merely impossible to create a free email account somewhere without giving up your identity. (phone number, ISP[^1] email address, paying online with Fiat[^2] , Cloudflare or whatever trick )

I've seen already few posts about this subject on lemmy and other platforms

• https://linux.community/post/388196
• https://lemmy.world/post/42242662
• https://lemmy.world/post/15049454

some quote from those links

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the current reality. In light of that reality, I believe that an encrypted email provider is a must-have for everyone in today’s age of rampant data breaches, insider threats, warrantless police access, and targeted advertising.

All the providers listed around the WWW are wrong ! Either they ask to identify yourself, or if you use Tor, you are blocked, or you cannot use it to register to any service online (third party).

See the table below \

Do not hesitate to propose any other, or maybe you have another solution ? Like self hosting email service ? I already dig up a little bit, but I found this and it looks scary. Thank you GAFAM...

So maybe it doesn't look like much? But actually, it's blocking me more and more. I cannot move/interact on internet or in real life ! because I get often "You have to register online" and that registration come with mandatory email..

Where I live, you better stay anonymous. Because what you say can definitely strike back to you. There is no freedom of speech. Please help to make internet free again.

Because we need it in our daily life and social interactions...

Thanks

mailbox•org 🤔

• not free, ~~only accept Fiat~~
• last check: 2026-05-21

Which payment methods can I use?

Cash by post (By letter and EURO banknotes only - no cheques)

Cash deposit into our bank account

disroot•com ❌

• Require a identification email address

gmx•com ❌

• various blocking methods ( depending on IP )

• last check: 2026-05-20  

inleed•com ❌

• Require a identification email address

• last check: 2026-05-21

mailo•com ❌

• Do not accept 3th-party registration email for an unknown period

• currently down

• last check: 2026-05-20

mailfence•com ❌

• Need to provide another e-mail address XD

• last check: 2026-05-21

proton•me ❌

• Do not accept 3th-party registration email
• last check: 2026-05-20

tuta•com ❌

• IP blocking

• TOR forbidden

• last check: 2026-05-20

[^1]: Internet Service Provider [^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Hi everyone,

So I am looking for a phone[^Floss]:

• around 100-150€/$
• screen ~6.50'
• a mini jack 🎧
• Easy to install/Flash another ROM ! ( let's dream, maybe the vendor itself guide/help in order to do so )
• Bootloader not locked !?
• Easy to be the root [^root]
• Not need to be the newer model

[^Floss]: Floss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

[^root]: And by the way, why we should struggle and trick so much just to gain root access? Do are we not the owner of our phones? Why not a simple option that asks to be root? And the user will take its own responsibility for it !?

Hi,

I trying to test two condition together (AND) under bash but it's not working...

The goal is ti have True when two variables are either not set or empty (empty string)

I've tried

if [[ -n VARIABLE1 && -n VARIABLE2 ]]; then
    echo "OK"
fi

Here I get the "OK" no matter what .

Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37077607

Hi,

I would like to get all the range of IP of the GAFAM and few more..

Preferred

• trough the Terminal ( Linux ) or Python.
• no sign-up of any form.
• obviously FLOSS

Thanks.

Hi,

I would like to get all the range of IP of the GAFAM and few more..

Preferred

• trough the Terminal ( Linux ) or/and Python 🐍
• no sign-up of any form.
• obviously FLOSS

Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36014616

Hi,

is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??

No thank you for Rapsberry PI

I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.

But it's really hard to found a Linux distribution that support

• RPI (arm64)
• sysVinit 💖
• And that I like

Please don't bring systemD in this discussion thanks.

[^1]:

Hi,

is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??

( first row is for reference )

last update: 2025-08-31

[^NEU]: Seem unavailable on the europe market..

[^boot]: Might not be bootable ! TBC

Hi,

I have this rule in my nginx config file

	location ~* \/(fileA.txt|fileB.txt)$ {
		return 404 'nothing here';
	}

but it's not working

but

	location /fileA.txt {
		return 404 'nothing here';
	}

~~is working....~~

Any idea what's wrong ?

Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/34280775

Hi,

I've recently installed FreeNginx[^FN]

I would like to use the geoip_module to have some "Stats" about my visitors..\

on the documentation we can read:

... using the precompiled MaxMind databases ...

.
.
.

But on the MaxMind website I'm facing a wall:

Sorry, we were not able to create your account. Please ensure that you are using an email that is not disposable, and that you are not connecting via a proxy or VPN.

So not working... And anyway I'm not a fan of using something compiled and more over not open source...

So do you know another solution to get GeoIP data with FreeNginx ?

Thanks.

[^FN]: https://freenginx.org/
https://programming.dev/post/12566209?sort=Old

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/34280775

Hi,

I've recently installed FreeNginx[^FN]

I would like to use the geoip_module to have some "Stats" about my visitors..\

on the documentation we can read:

... using the precompiled MaxMind databases ...

.
.
.

But on the MaxMind website I'm facing a wall:

Sorry, we were not able to create your account. Please ensure that you are using an email that is not disposable, and that you are not connecting via a proxy or VPN.

So not working... And anyway I'm not a fan of using something compiled and more over not open source...

So do you know another solution to get GeoIP data with FreeNginx ?

Thanks.

[^FN]: https://freenginx.org/
https://programming.dev/post/12566209?sort=Old

Hi,

I've recently installed FreeNginx[^FN]

I would like to use the geoip_module to have some "Stats" about my visitors..\

on the documentation we can read:

... using the precompiled MaxMind databases ...

.
.
.

But on the MaxMind website I'm facing a wall:

Sorry, we were not able to create your account. Please ensure that you are using an email that is not disposable, and that you are not connecting via a proxy or VPN.

So not working... And anyway I'm not a fan of using something compiled and more over not open source...

So do you know another solution to get GeoIP data with FreeNginx ?

Thanks.

[^FN]: https://freenginx.org/
https://programming.dev/post/12566209?sort=Old

Hi Raspberry Pi Community,

I would like to use radio remote's control to trigger an events on my Raspberry pi.

I guess I'll go with 433Mhz as I believe they are the most common available ?

So I will need a 433Mhz RX/TX Module to connect on the GPIO, so far I get it...

But how properly secure the communication between those remotes and the RPI to avoid any anyone to sniff the transmitting and replay it. In other words spoof it.

Wubba Lubba dub-dub...