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Calishat

#UK #mail #solar

'In a process that will be familiar to those with side hustles, the postboxes can be used to drop off packages that have barcoded postage. Once customers have scanned their code – the postbox’s batteries store energy to power its scanner when there is no sun – the drawer on the front opens. They can then use the Royal Mail app to request “proof of posting”.'

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Royal Mail trials postbox with parcel hatch, solar panels and barcode scannerBy Zoe Wood
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Coreyartus Imagery

I just want to put out there that there are real strong virtues to writing letters and sending greeting cards that aren’t necessarily “present” in emails.

• They get you off line.

• They help you craft thoughts carefully and purposefully in ways email can’t because you have to manually write it without “deleting” it.

• They’re fun to receive.

• They physically exist and will continue to do so if collected and cared for even after you’re dead.

• They can be pretty if that’s your intent.

• They’re more personal and meaningful than email because you took the time to engage in the process of penmanship on paper instead of typing it out.

I highly suggest trying the art of correspondence someday. Because it can be just that if you let it. Try unplugging and decompressing with a nice pot of tea and your favorite pen & stationery. Try contemplating a rough outline of what you want to say or include. Then simplify.

Maybe do some fun doodling on the paper. Make it an extension of yourself that you’re sharing.

Enjoy it.

#writing#letters#correspondence
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Jools [Friendica]

Also jetzt hab ich doch echt kurz überlegt, ob das wirklich sein kann, dass ich 1,95 Euro zahlen soll, damit mir weiterhin E-Mails zugestellt werden... und wollte mich schon aufregen, dass man als zahlender Kunde nun auch noch extra zahlen muss und so. 🤡

Aber gut gemacht ist diese Spam-Mail ja...


#Telekom, #Spam, #Mail, #Phishing

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fenix

@daniel @stalwartlabs thanks for sharing your experience !

do you think this could be an inspiration for what have now in my hands : a low-volume ( KISS - simple layout ) newsletter / mail batch sending from our own debian server ?

#jmap #mail JSON API s / protocol rocks

thanks again four your feedback

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OMG 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 :linux:

@rikeriki
Posteo hab ich seit 14 Jahren. Die sind auch sehr nachsichtig, wenn man die Aufbuchung verschwitzt. Also nix mit Konto gesperrt.
Zusatzoptionen sind sehr granular. Strom von Greenplanet Energy und bei GLS.

Im Gegensatz zu Tuta hab ich das seit 14J bei Thunderbird mit meinen anderen Mailaccounts.

Tuta hab ich aber auch als free app und bin damit zufrieden.

Wie der Support ist, weiss ich nicht. Musste ich noch nie nutzen.

Mailbox kenne ich aus Empfehlung von Bekannten.

Sind alle 10000000besser als Google oder microsoft.

Zum Ende: Warum ich auch bei posteo bleibe ist, dass sie nicht wahllos Konten an die Polizei herausgeben, nur wenn der Rechtsrahmen erfüllt ist. Den fordern sie aktiv ein. Auch hier habe ich nie Anlass zur Sorge gehabt, aber da geht es ums Prinzip und Firmenphilosophie.

#Mail#nachhaltig#datenschutz
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Rikeriki

Kann mir jemand eine*n #Mail Provider*in empfehlen, die #nachhaltig, #datenschutz und #gemeinwohl orientiert sind?

Bei mir sind gerade in der Entscheidung um #googlemail endgültig zu löschen:
#posteo, #mailbox_org & #tutanota

Leichte Tendenz zu mailbox.org, weil mir #tuta für private Mails zu teuer, trotz konsequentem Datenschutz.

Kennt ihr noch andere sichere Anbieter*innen? Am liebsten mit Erfahrungsberichten. :)

#UnplugTrump#buyeuropean#datasecurity
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Paco Hope #resist

So to test this out, i put my phone in low power mode. Since i don’t do that often, i got this warning. It says “mail fetch…is disabled” which i expect for BACKGROUND fetching. But if I’m in the mail app asking it to check my mail right now, I don’t see why it should refuse. It will play audio books, videos, and many things that take more power than IMAP when it is in low power mode. That’s so bizarre.
#ios #iphone #mail

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Chuck Darwin

In an interview with Slate,
Wendy Weiser,
a leading expert on democratic rights at the Brennan Center for Justice,
estimated that
❌up to 21.3 million people could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act,
which “would also
💥completely upend voter registration[,]
💥end mail registration[,]
💥end voter registration drives[,]
💥end online registration,
💥and make it much harder to do automatic voter registration,”
she warned.

The SAVE Act’s passage would enormously
🔥disenfranchise citizens without passports,
as well as
🔥“rural voters, voters with disabilities, older voters,”
and other vulnerable people who are
“going to face special burden,” Weiser said.

Similar problems would occur should #mail-in #voting be dismantled
-- the practice has been a particular target of Republicans.

Now -- making use of fringe legal interpretations
and building upon an unorthodox Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision,
-- the Trump administration hopes to ❌establish the precedent that ballots received after Election Day are invalid.

As Diaz commented,
“Egregiously, the executive order tries to
override state laws in 17 states.”

Local laws ensure that late-arriving ballots are counted,
as long as they’re postmarked before Election Day.

Diaz points out that barring this method is also going to ⚠️disenfranchise overseas service members
who very commonly vote by mail.

And internationally mailing proof of citizenship documents is not a safe or viable practice.

“All the policies that are in [the order],” Diaz said,
“are things that individual states have tried before
— and they’ve all been disastrous.”

For instance,
proof of citizenship requirements in Kansas and Arizona
necessitated a vast administrative burden to review documents.

Those laws also faced a bevy of challenges.

After years of litigation,
Kansas’s rule was struck down.

“They got sued, and they lost,” said Diaz.

But in the meantime, the rule “ended up preventing tens of thousands of eligible American citizens from registering to vote.”

truthout.org/articles/trump-as

Donald Trump
Truthout · Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of ElectionsHis order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions, but multiple lawsuits have already sprung up to challenge it.
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Matt

Steal this postal idea

I was thinking about how much fun it was to get mail as a kid. These days, it is all bills and Kafkaesque forms from the government, which gave me an idea.

What if there was some sort of inexpensive subscription service where you got a nice or fun letter in the snail-mail post each month? Maybe customised for you in some way. Perhaps also some postcards from random parts of the world.

Perhaps when you sign up for a year of nice mail, you could opt in to a postcard exchange. Opted-in people would get their postal address added to a handful of nice letters with a prompt to maybe send them a postcard. Thus, subscribers would get nice things by post from the service and also from other people who like sending cool local postcards.

For added niceness, opt-ed in people could get a birthday mention. Or put on the postcard part of all the letters.

Something like that anyway. There would have to be an opt-in component because I’d not be happy sharing my address otherwise.

#letters#mail#post
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