Nobody goes through things quite like the Kool-Aid Man

#comic #funny

@davidoclubb #Gwleidyddiaeth

"144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

CORCA creates a 'national intelligence hub,' housed in DHS, which allows ICE to collect personal data on anyone they deem to be suspected (not charged) of retail theft. The bill doesn't include a single safeguard limiting what data can be collected, how it can be used, or who DHS can share it with."

https://bsky.app/profile/leftistwonk.bsky.social/post/3mlswjfmr5k2k

If you do not want to fill the personal information in the petition form to oppose Bill C-22, you can simply find your representative's address here and email them directly: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

#BillC22 #Privacy #Canada

Question to you.

What is a good email solution for non-profits/community groups in the United States?

Base Requirements:
- Emails that use our domain name.
- Allows individual email accounts for users (roughly 20 to 50).
- Allows email aliases / groups to where emailing one email delivers to multiple users (eg info@domain.ex goes to three specific people or foodrescue@domain.ex goes to those working on the food rescue side, etc)

Ideal requirements:
- Cheap or free
- Privacy / security oriented
- Managed (I don't like the idea of hosting our own email server for example)

Those ideal requirements have some contradiction in it, of course.

So high level, I've looked into:
- Google
- Microsoft
- Proton Mail

Here is the quick overview for those:

Google:
- https(slash)www.google(dot)com/nonprofits/offerings/workspace/#!#workspace-pricing
- Cost: Free
- Con: They actively scan and read all emails. So we become the product.
- Pro: They are used by many non-profits and are well liked from a usability standpoint

Microsoft:
- https(slash)www.microsoft(dot)com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/nonprofit-plans-and-pricing
- Cost: $5.50 per user
- Con: They actively scan and read all emails
- Pro: They have a more robust app offering.
(I don't think we need this level of IT for our group though)

Proton Mail for Non-Profits:
- https://proton.me/business/plans#plans
- Cost: 20% off Business Costs. If we just went with email, it'd be about $5.60 per user per month
- Pro: They are private and secure and can't read emails
- Con: Much less app support but we really just need email for this

Tutanota does not offer non-profit discounts within the US - So it's a similar offering as Proton Mail for about three dollars more per month.

Startmail is also similar in price point and features as Proton and Tutanota

Mailbox(dot)org may be ideal in this space as it's only $1 per user per month. I have to check and see if we can use a custom domain, etc.

Google is free... which matters. You are the product. Also folks know it - the UI is good. Making a cost benefit analysis here, I have to bring up the "we don't have anything to hide" sort of thing. As an individual, that doesn't fly - right. But as a community group / potential non-profit, we are already transparent. None of our communications contain sensitive information. And we have a lot of folks coming in and out as it is.

So, what would the threat scenario around an org using Google for email be?

Any other ideas?

#privacy #email #solarPunk

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LOL
｢ Early last month, Meta began forcibly moving at least 1,000 top engineers to a new Applied AI Engineering division working on tools and data to help research scientists develop better generative AI models. Anyone refusing a transfer faced the prospect of a layoff, an unusual threat in Silicon Valley where technical employees typically have the option to move to other teams during a restructuring ｣

#ai #aislop #meta

welsh is awesome https://mastodon.social/@jessie/116572724408290228

Reply guys used to really bug me, but these days my reaction is more quizzical. Like, "what do you even hope to get out of this interaction?"

I guess for some people attention is the next best thing to validation.

@idzie I live lower than the mountains, higher than the desert, in the valley directly next to mancos shale formations that once held marine life but now house tough drought resistant animals including prairie dogs, coyotes, red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. Saltbrush and sagebrush rule the land, but hookless cacti and junipers add variety. One of the few North flowing rivers brings life to the area before joining the river strong enough to carve many of North America's steepest canyons.

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@ZachWeinersmith USB, maybe?

i'd say "touchtone phones", except it feels different for something that's been multiple kinds of supplanted.

@zackwhittaker
#FatCats

Hier is die Welt noch ein kleines bisschen halbwegs in Ordnung.

@lowqualityfacts Not mine. They fell out...

@halcy Luce is a girl

I just emailed a strongly worded letter
to my government representative to oppose Bill C-22.

If you are Canadian, you should too: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1

#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli #CndPoli

@ProPublica How hasn’t ice sent that fraud away yet?

@richlv @Ketakater @Vivaldi

I would say that the reliance is just different.

For us we are trying to do the best we can. We evaluated the options available to us and we found Chromium to be the best one for us, where we can make the most difference over time. It was not an easy decision and I would have preferred for us to have our own codebase written from scratch, but that is just not realistic. Every other codebase we had to choose between had risks and we felt Chromium was the least risky, base d on our own experience of writing the code from scratch and our experience competing in the browser market.