[-] oxf@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

Your story doesn't drive clicks though...

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I've spend many holidays alone at this point. Even last Christmas.

For New Years I usually try to get to the city, and walk around for a couple of hours enjoying the chaos around. You might bump into some random people, which could lead to who knows what?

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.

But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.

It's starting to be clear that the whole "ML - Leninism Marxism" was actually a big part of Lemmy.

I'm a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don't feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist...

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Old price: $20 - 136 kr.

New price: 175 kr. - $25.77

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but what? You actually raised the price for us in Denmark?

Old cost was 20 USD, and now you're marking it at 25 USD.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is a core aspect of how these "aliasing services" work.

You are able to simply hit the "reply" button, in which ever email provider the emails are routed to, and whatever you write will be delivered exactly like that to the person who sent you an email. From their perspective everything will look exactly as if they were talking to a regular email address.

This is a feature of both AnonAddy and SimpleLogin.

Regarding catch-all, that is basically also how I configured my usage of AnonAddy. Usually you would go and create a new alias, before you want to receive incoming mails on that address. All emails to aliases that are not already created will be dropped. But they also offer a, to me at least, superior version, where aliases are automatically created once the first email arrives on it.

This way you basically have a catch-all address, but with the benefits of being able to respond as all "identities", as well as toggle off individual ones if you start receiving spam. If you read below, avoiding spam is my ultimate goal with all of this. Your use-case may be different.

I have written a small add-on for Firefox, which will automatically generate a random forename.surname@domain.com for me, and create that alias in AnonAddy with the current URL as a note. But yesterday I was checking in to a hotel, and the reception asked for an email, so I just typed hotel-name@domain.com, which will clearly indicate to me that it was created for that hotel only. The downside to this is that it's easier to spot that it is indeed an alias address, but I'm also well aware of how spammers just buy active email-addresses in bulk, without caring about where the leaks come from, so I'm not too scared that it will stick out too much. You shouldn't do stuff like facebook@domain.com or github@domain.com though. That's gonna stick out like a sore thumb.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, you are correct.

If you're using your aliasing-service to "blend in the crowd", just like how TOR works, you may not want to use a custom domain.

For me, the purpose of AnonAddy is first, and foremost, to help me combat spam. Any privacy improving aspects I see as purely bonuses.

I will use the shared domains from time to time though, if I consider the risks to be too high. This goes from posting an email in a public forum, to signing up for a particularly suspicious newsletter for one-time benefits.

As always, you should take your own threat model in mind.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's very useful.

I have my own domain, which I use with a service called AnonAddy. It allows me to generate unlimited unique emails on-the-go, which I can then toggle off if spam starts coming in.

I use a unique email for every single service I sign up to.

Now, you are able to do this without a custom domain, but then you are putting all your eggs in one basket, and if the domain(s) you used for signing up, suddenly aren't being renewed, you will lose access.

Thats why I have my own domain for this. If AnonAddy goes out of business, I can just take my domain, and all my aliases, to another service, such as SimpleLogin for example.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Personally I'm more for using a custom DNS server to block ads.

I was using Blokada 5, but found that it used a bit too much of my battery.

Now I just set my DNS to dns.adblock.com, and it gives me the same result.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

There can be other reasons, and while it saddens me to say, we were forced to keep IE for specific web-panels, which hadn't been updated since the 90s.

Edge does, after all, allow for compability with such sites, which is a good thing.

Please note that this is work work-related machines only. I dont see how it's an issue when it has to do with your work account. You shouldn't be using this for other things than work.

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, yep, yep - Cheers!

Seems like I was looking for "Call Barring", whatever that means. I'm stuck at the part where I have to enter a password (tried 0000), but I will get in touch with my phone company.

Thanks for the quick reply!

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Auto Reject Calls (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by oxf@lemmy.world to c/android@lemdro.id

Hey,

I'm looking for a way to automatically reject all calls to my sim.

The reason for this, is that I'm running 2 sim cards, where one is explicitly used for 2FA, and other phone verifications online.

I'm hoping it will be possible to completely disable incoming phonecalls to this sim.

Thank you in advance!

[-] oxf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

LastPass is mpre known for being breached than being a password manager these days.

The last breach was brutal. Turns out notes weren't encrypted either.

Please look up the breaches of LastPass. Such things are simply unacceptable for a password manager.

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