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Review: Helm Personal Server gets email self-hosting (almost) exactly right

As Ars security-meister Dan Goodin noted in his initial write-up back in October, the Helm Personal Server is a small-ish ARM-based email server that sits in your home and does for you what Gmail ... read more

Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

Recently I decided that I wanted to run my own MTA. Downloaded qmail, applied a couple of patches and it was done. The problem is making sure my mail is not marked as spam by the major MTAs out there, ... read more

Krebs on Security

For personal privacy reasons, I’m not interested in sharing the name of the VPN service that I’ve paid for and trusted for years. But I can say with some gratification that they are one of the highest ... read more

Partisan Bias, Motivated Reasoning, and the Debate Over the Kavanaugh Nomination

This kind of bias can influence our views on almost any question on which we have strong feelings ... should this nomination fail. It may well depend on exactly who Trump chooses. Lack of investment i... read more

The Best Amazon Alexa Skills

A recent update to our Echo review shows that the original ... With Ask My Buddy, get a spoken-word lifeline to personal responders. Texting on the phone is for chumps. Get set up on Molly, and you ca... read more

You Might Not Want To Use Your Google Account With Pokémon GO

However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address ... Pokémon GO is the talk of the Internet right now and it seems almost everyone is ju... read more

The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election

As a graph of those tweets over time shows, those “right” and “left” Tweets peaked not during ... user registered the account with a Russian phone carrier or a Russian email; the user’s display name c... read more

Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

So far, I've found a wiki to be almost the most flexible in keeping all manner of raw information kind of organised, but lacks useful features like reminders, and minimal tagging support, no easy way ... read more

Sterger will cooperate with Favre investigation

and Sterger’s willingness to cooperate at a time when she has no legal obligation to do so will give the review/investigation more steam than it otherwise would have. The situation undoubtedly will be ... read more

Some More Words to the New Atheist Blogosphere on Unscientific America

This movement is most vociferous on the Internet and, more particularly, on science blogs like Pharyngula, where its adherents seem unswervingly certain their way is the right way ... Then Coyne began ... read more