Adding onto what’s already on the thread, you can try look at the newer Element Call, which is an implementation of Matrix’s native calls.
I’ve been using it a bit recently, since Jitsi seems to have stopped working reliably for me (to be frank, I’ve not put much effort into debugging it yet). It works well, but it’s still early stage, lacking some features Jitsi has. If that one works for you, I recommend you stick to it.

Yeah withdraw cash from an ATM and use it. The system sucks, but it’s not trivial to change for a myriad of reasons.

There’s no real way to do it. Unless you know someone who can trade you XMR<->cash and you somehow convince your employer to (break laws and) pay you in those forms, you can’t avoid it. At some point, you’ll have to get money on a real bank account, which requires real information to open.

As far as I know, modern cards don’t just send your CC info to terminals, they do some form of a cryptographic handshake (probably a pubkey signature or similar) which gets confirmed by your bank. I believe Caveman was talking more about online shopping, where you have to enter your card number, expiration date, CVC and often your name too.

That’s why I love virtual card systems like MB NET. You just generate a random virtual card for every purchase (or a recurring one for each subscription vendor, for example) and move on. Your bank still knows what you’re doing, of course, but vendors can’t correlate anything. Preventing your bank from knowing where you’re spending your money is much harder, for very practical reasons: fraud detection. The only real way is to use a secure crypto coin like Monero, but very few places accept it and you still have to deal with volatility.

Ah right, Molly. Have yet to tried it, but looks interesting.

I think I’m too afraid of moving my main stuff to Molly, lest I lose something :P But the UnifiedPush and multiple mobile clients is enticing.

This is a good suggestion. Docker is more mature and has more resources, so it’s better to learn the ins and outs of containers. After getting comfortable with it, you can move to Podman and have a much better time tackling its peculiarities regarding permissions and rootless.

I used Docker for years and only recently decided to give Podman a try, porting my Lemmy instance to it.

Yeah that’s a bummer. Signal has multi device support but only for desktop and iPad (yeah, not Android tablets), but you always need to have a master phone device.

It’s been an issue for so long, but this is Signal, they do whatever the f they want.

encrypted email

Besides being a form of messaging (so the text somewhat contradicts itself), typical email is a deeply insecure protocol.
In my opinion, it’s probably impossible to secure without making a new protocol or making such drastic changes that it might as well be considered one.

Here are some key concerns regarding the usual PGP-powered encrypted email:

• Email, at a simple level, works much akin to physical email — there’s an “envelope” containing important info regarding the communicating parties, which can’t be encrypted, otherwise the mailing servers wouldn’t know where to forward the messages. This essentially leaks a lot of metadata that can be almost as valuable as the message body itself.
• There’s no forward secrecy — one of the best cryptography features that has become pretty much a commodity in modern systems is forward secrecy, which prevents attackers from decrypting older messages after gaining access to one of the keys.
• While not an issue with the protocol itself, it’s the sad reality and we need to consider — most people use GMail, Outlook and the like, which ultimately need to read your emails in plaintext, for better or worse reasons (search is incredibly useful, but some big players don’t stop there of course :p).
• Another thing is the fact that it’s incredibly easy to have an imbalance of encryption, i.e. someone is encrypting their messages, but others aren’t. With the very popular email culture of quoting (be it top or bottom posting), an unencrypted party in the the conversation can leak important information.
• PGP is… peculiar, so to speak. I has a lot of issues, mostly stemming from its age (which could also be a source of robustness and security, due to being very battle-tested, but I don’t think that’s quite the case with PGP/GPG), tries to do too much and typically has a clunky UI, which impedes wider and proper adoption by less technically people.

This isn’t to say people should definitely stop using and promoting encrypted email, since it can be useful.
It’s just it gives, more often than not, a false sense of security and can lead less proficient users to send sensitive data through this medium which isn’t nearly secure enough for such use cases. Preferably, people with such threat models should opt for better alternatives, most suggested in that article (such as, but definitely not limited to, Signal, SimpleX, Matrix+Olm, XMPP+OTR/OMEMO, sharing files via MagicWormhole, encrypting with tools like age).

On a slightly tangential note, I think someone should make a Matrix client with an email client interface. I started working on a new traditional chat client (completely nonfunctional still, very much in-dev), but I’ve been honestly thinking more and more about making one looking like an e-mail client, where there isn’t much focus on instant room-based chats, but rather on longer-lived 1-to-1 and list-like exchange of messages.

Yeah Mullvad’s system is better than Proton’s, since the latter asks you to place your username inside the envelope. Mullvad’s random token is better in that regard.

More info on Proton’s cash payments: https://proton.me/support/payment-options#cash

Disclaimer: I’ve never paid in cash on either of these services.

I believe proton also accepts cash payments. At least I’ve seen that in their mail service.

For hosters, legality has to be considered.

I think security is a fair point, given caddy’s younger age compared to nginx, but I wouldn’t say it tried to do too much.

Why do you say that?

I’ve used both plenty and only once I thought Caddy was harder: caching. It requires you to install a plugin that also doesn’t have the easiest of configs. I think there’s a new and simpler one nowadays, but haven’t tried it yet.

I now use Caddy by default for everything new I make/host.

Honestly not that outlandish. Would be very interesting and most likely visually gory in typical The Boys fashion xD

Stan did survive yeah, Vichy blew up the driver’s head and let him out. I feel like he will play a minor part in S5 (maybe putting his manipulation skills back against HL?).

Ash might appear in Gen V S2 (sometime next year?) even before the main series’ last season. Anyway, I hope she will appear in ep 1.

Yeeeah, it was a jam-packed episode, lots happening.

I’m surprised they went down the list in the tower in the same episode. I was totally expecting that to be a next season thing.

Same tbh. We got some quick (bro) scenes and Ashley’s V 💉. I bet the first episode of S5 will feature the aftermath of this purge significantly. HL is just isolating himself more and more. Stan’s comment from that dead ass scene is getting realer :P

But man it might be one of the best seasons yet. Every episode was a banger.

I actually thought it wasn’t the best. In between episodes, I started rewatching S1 (ended up finishing it all up and going through S2 and S3 too… I’m terrible >.<) and man, it was so freaking good. First season is peak The Boys for me. Second and third are also good, but the first one is so solid. The fourth one had more ups and downs imo. The fourth episode (with HL’s visit to his ex-home lab) was an obvious up, but there were weaker episodes imo, like the one where they got Stan out (sad we didn’t get to see him in the finale, he’s out because of Vichy, is he not?).

To me it felt like the writers just wanted to have her back (because she’s very cool, let’s be honest). They’ll most likely flesh out her motivations more in the next season.

The ending was indeed very cool. Incredible episode.

Grace’s little emotional breakdown moment, recalling her grandkids was great, she should have just let Ryan breathe for a second, he only asked for time think, at first…

And yeah lol, the Butcher upgrade was quite jarring XD Though it’s V, it’s pretty much magic.

That whole U-turn was a gut punch ;-;

Holy freaking shite, what a finale!

Random assortment of thoughts:

• Nice and quick joke at the WB Batgirl debacle with the A-Train movie getting pulled out.
• Erin Moriarty’s performance as both Annie and the shapeshifter was jaw-breaking, loved it! Finally she got some great scenes.
• Shapeshifter’s skin peeling is disgusting as hell.
• Karl’s makeup for sick butcher was spot on. Also love Kessler’s portrayal, very well acted.
• Ryan’s actor(s?) is doing a really good job too, he’s got some talent at a young age.
• Still on that topic of Ryan, nice to see him disobey HL. Half expected a brawl in that scorched room.
• Shapeshifter’s quick correction of psycopath -> sociopath was interesting to see. Again excellent acting from Erin. Great insight into Annie’s character too.
• HL is just a complete wildcard at this point, he just freaking ratted Vichy like that.
• Rip Ashley II, kinda poetic that she was killed by Noir II (with a murder boner lol). Cold death though.
• Ashley I took V! Looking forward to seeing her powers in Gen V S2, maybe??
• Always love Frenchie’s lab scenes. Reminds me of S1.
• Connect 4 was cute. Grace fucked it up pretty badly and pushed Ryan too far. He shouldn’t have killed her, but she was playing with fire.
• Deep just disgusts me further every episode.
• Firecracker got a classic HL treatment, she’s probably starting to think more about her life choices.
• Annie’s escape scene was absolutely brutal. The special/visual effects on this show are quite something.
• Shapeshifter’s rampage on the bunker was nice, loved the use of dolls for that guy getting bent backwards.
• Kimiko getting her neck 180’d was… yeah.
• Annie vs shapeshifter 🔥 though I thought it was a bit short, was expecting a bit more of a fight. Was sorta nice they didn’t get Kimiko back in time to help Annie, and instead let her have it all by herself.
• Hughie and Annie’s little fight was pretty cute, ngl. Her comeback later with “shapershifter syphilis” was great xD
• Vichy’s call to Hughie was touching.
• I kinda expected the pub writer to live, but the Deep is HL’s little puppy.
• 🇫🇷🥰
• Butcher’s realization that Grace’s death was fucked and his slow nod to Kessler was 👌
• Oh my gawd! Vichy’s death was so fucking brutal and unexpected, jfc. Poor Zoe, had to watch that and get sent to Red River (though she was quite violent too). That’s some bad stuff brewing for Gen V S2, I smell it.
• Butcher was looking sooo much healthier, though. As soon as he yielded to Kessler, he stopped being sabotaged by it. Fuck cancer.
• Sage is such a wildcard too, but at least we got to see some of her motive? Does she just want to test some theories of her at a real scale, thus cementing how brilliant she is? Does she just want power because that’s ultimately what somebody can achieve in their lifespan (doesn’t make all that much sense)?
• Rip Dakota Bob
• HL’s last speech and close up was nice. From what I can tell, they are closing the gap between the show and the comics.
• The U-turn on The Boys’ escape completely caught me off-guard, but was pretty good. As I’ve seen mentioned, t’was a bit of a Endgame portal moment, but nice nonetheless.
• Kimiko’s screams and pleads were devastating 😭 Sam was just completely unfazed by anything :/ Kind of expected Frenchie to commit suicide, but I guess he can be more useful to make some sort of antidote to the virus?
• Poor MM, with his Love Sausage encounters. It was the 3rd now! Nobody deserves a phallic slap.
• Why did they get Eleven™️? I thought she hated Vought&Co for all the shit they did to her. Felt very out of place.
• On the other hand, Star(f)light go brrrrrrrr. Dunno how she draws power when flying in the sky…
• I swear to god they played a tiny snippet of the Avenger theme, completely out of tune, when they panned to Soldier Boy’s face, in the mid-credits scene. Curious to see his role in the next season.

Well, that was quite lengthy lmao. But it was a very packed episode, much more so than all other 7 episodes in this season, I feel like.