Hacker News: holigot

New comment by holigot in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

holigot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:40:54 +0000

What a nightmare - hope everything will end well.

Concerning all those 'bricked' devices it would be really nice to get some more details concerning the 'block'.

Can you use your iPhone to call someone, can you use your MacBook overall? Login, use Apple Passwords(!), looking at photos within photos app and so on...

Or are all those devices completely locked?

New comment by holigot in "Major outage at mail host Migadu"

holigot — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:04:21 +0000

Is there any comment from Migadu, why it happened?

New comment by holigot in "Tell HN: I'm getting spam on an email address only ever used to sign up to HN"

holigot — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:34:31 +0000

As far as I know they don't. At least within my interface it is telling me so.

New comment by holigot in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"

holigot — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:47:50 +0000

Wise words! Most of the people think, that Strongboxsafe is an Open Source App, which is definitely not the case!

Overall a good app, but if you want true Open Source KeePassium is the app to choose.

New comment by holigot in "Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA"

holigot — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:39:30 +0000

Which service does have separation?

New comment by holigot in "1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)"

holigot — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:37:54 +0000

So you don't like 1PW - but what's the alternative in your opinion?

New comment by holigot in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"

holigot — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:26:40 +0000

Don‘t know if Strongbox is working well? Developed by a single programmer… and no Audits available.

New comment by holigot in "Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API"

holigot — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:38:22 +0000

Good question.

It really is a tough choice. Microsoft does have the best products for their and mobile platforms (including iOS,iPadOS) with really good Offline Features and so on. But it still is Microsoft and Exchange behind...

A better product is Fastmail. But also US Servers and AUS company and a lot of downsides concerning offline usage and other privacy points.

What else? I try to avoid Google as much as I can.... Well there is Proton with it's Proton Suite getting better and better. There is german mailbox.org (worse 2FA) but overall a good privacy mail provider with own domains. There is migadu.com from Switzerland with EU Servers (rented at OVH Data Centers) and some other players like Tuta and others...

New comment by holigot in "Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API"

holigot — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:33:54 +0000

Especially the point about Fastmail really is a good point! You nailed it with your comment. With JMAP in particular, they have been given huge potential with a huge feature set but have not implemented it (especially not in their own products). Especially Offline Usage...

New comment by holigot in "Fastmail comes up with new plans (incl. Duo and Family)"

holigot — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:09:32 +0000

Hi,

yes - I'm also a bit perplexed. Looks like they do some sort of 'testing'? No one knows...

New comment by holigot in "Fastmail comes up with new plans (incl. Duo and Family)"

holigot — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:02:16 +0000

Super statement! Thank you.

Fastmail does also have contacts within their portfolio and you can manage own (static) websites with their service. They do really have a great feature set.

They're the developers of JMAP (with great features for now and in future), they do have Masked Mails built-in and much more.

Overall a great service!

New comment by holigot in "Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS"

holigot — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:14:03 +0000

Hi,

thanks for this nice App. Will have a look at it.

There is another cool app coming up. It's called FMail2 http://fmail-app.fr

Maybe it's also interesting to compare it. Just to let you know about.

New comment by holigot in "Fastmail comes up with new plans (incl. Duo and Family)"

holigot — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:30:19 +0000

Hi,

you need to register a new account - then you can see the new plans (and you also get a 10% discount when choosing them).

But this is only for new customers.

New comment by holigot in "Fastmail comes up with new plans (incl. Duo and Family)"

holigot — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:16:11 +0000

Yes - it is. But be aware that's a 12 month plan. If you renew every month it's $14 which actually also is a good price!

So sad to see, that it's only available for new customers.

Fastmail comes up with new plans (incl. Duo and Family)

holigot — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:36:49 +0000

Hi,

Fastmail is testing new pricing schemes with some very nice plans.

Looks like they want to change their whole billing system to Paddle so that it's possible to deal with international currencies.

When clicking a new account you can choose those new plans. And even get a 10% discount.

https://imgur.com/a/CwvAZJc https://imgur.com/a/IVlbZCg

Examples: - Family: When paying $11/month for yearly subscription you get 6 accounts (30GB each) and all the features from actual standard plan - Duo: When paying $8/month for yearly subscription you get 2 accounts (30GB each) and all the features from actual standard plan

The full comparison is included within the screenshots.

Hopefully these plans will soon be available for existing users too. They're currently only available for newly registered users.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438370

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New comment by holigot in "Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation"

holigot — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:50:08 +0000

Thx for this detailed feedback.

Is there any reason why you did change mail away from Fastmail after such a long time and now use Google as Mailserver?

New comment by holigot in "Trello Allegedly Breached"

holigot — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:43:24 +0000

You got banned while using a Fastmail address? That's hard.

New comment by holigot in "Tell HN: Swiss surveillance monitoring nearly everything – impact on Proton etc?"

holigot — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:46:52 +0000

Overall it seems that the best way is to use some provider like Proton or use PGP locally. Everything else seems to be insecure. And if not know than with a press release in near/future time saying that country X or Y is making it like other countries did already.

So it's all about encryption.

New comment by holigot in "Tell HN: Swiss surveillance monitoring nearly everything – impact on Proton etc?"

holigot — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:43:16 +0000

Wow. Well done and thanks for the detailed explanation!

Interested in what others like Migadu and/or Infomaniak will report on this points!

New comment by holigot in "Tell HN: Swiss surveillance monitoring nearly everything – impact on Proton etc?"

holigot — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:35:22 +0000

Yes - but I think this one is one step further.