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      It keeps my data in plain text files, integrates well with git and simply does the most things I always wanted a note taking application to do, when compared with anything else I have tried so far.

      Yes, I would be happier with an open source application, but the first two are hard requirements for me, which already removes the majority of the alternatives.

      On the other hand, I will never understand why anyone would use brave, given how shady the thing is.

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      Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary “features” on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)

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        1 month ago

        Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.

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        I use it for school shit because they don’t work with iceraven(my preferred mobile Firefox fork)

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      I use it to pirate sports streams and thats pretty much it. It just works better than Firefox for some reason.

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        So does Librewolf. What’s the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don’t think chrome is superior over Firefox.

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              Wow I got downvoted a lot on that I thought it was a generally agreed upon fact. Source (graphene os)

              I still use firefox btw because I prefer it for many other reasons but chromium is definetely more secure.

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                GraphaneOS founder has fetish for Chromium and he hates F-Droid 1

                tldr: he accuse f-droid not being secure and citing this bs post https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ and he promotes accrescent.app

                • they contain closed-source app
                • they have very flawed understanding of open-source and security 2, 3

                here is some examples:

                Open source doesn’t necessarily mean more secure. I’m aware of many open source apps with numerous well-known security vulnerabilities, as well as many closed-source apps that are highly secure. Furthermore, Accrescent will have a filter to, for example, show only open source apps, so your treatment is incomprehensible.

                Accrescent doesn’t claim to serve only open-source apps and never has out of the belief that an app’s source model doesn’t inherently make it more or less private or secure. Qlango doesn’t violate any explicit or implicit Accrescent policy by the properties you listed, so it would be inappropriate to remove it.

                …In addition, “trackers” are subjective. Accrescent has no plans to enumerate specific libraries or classes and blacklist them solely based on the fact that they connect to Google, Amazon, etc.; collect analytics; or contain proprietary code. This approach isn’t scalable anyway because it is trivial to bypass such detection methods.

                So I take everything GraphaneOS says with a grain of salt

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                  daniel micay:

                  You’re well aware that the CalyxOS / F-Droid community has made multiple attempts at having me killed through severe swatting attacks

                  holy shit that’s batshit crazy. is there any proof this actually happened?

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    How can Thunderbird be the third favourite Email service, when it’s not even an email service? It’s a mail user agent.

    Or do they mean the Thundermail service available in the Thunderbird Pro Subscription?

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    I’m considering swapping from Proton Mail to Fastmail. The fact that it allows 3-year subscriptions is good (I’d prefer a lifetime plan but I understand why that’s a non-starter), the fact that it’s based local to me is good too.

    EDIT: I wish it also at least offered a rolling 3-year subscription.