what about the bitcoin cash fork, that increased block size to 8mb? What about Segwit2x?

> that increased block size to 8mb?

It increased the maximum block size. First to 8MB, then 32MB, and now it's automatically adjusted with a 32MB floor (Adaptive Blocksize Limit Algorithm): https://i.redd.it/ijnh2nep1fed1.jpeg

Aaaaaannd it lost all its worth

You mean monetary worth? BCH is the 3rd PoW cryptocurrency by market cap: https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/proof-of-work-pow

Segwit2x had 2 off by 1 errors and never worked

Onlyoffice is IMHO the best alternative to Google sheets. Services like infomaniak’s kDrive includes it, and for personal free gsuite-like suite, check out ik.me

But was it military-grade encryption?

I like the idea of not using heavy electron UIs, but really, I does not matter much nowadays, at least for me. Important features are synchronized notes, with mobile and desktop support, and syncing should be end to end encrypted. I should be able to link a note to another, include some media, and use markdown, that is easily importable/exportable. I still to this day couldn’t find a good foss alternative to Joplin with WebDAV or Joplin Server (or cloud offerings).

How much would you like to pay for a such an app? Let's say, 2 USD per month? What if it's FOSS, but you are using official company's servers?

I am not using Joplin’s cloud offering but hosting it on my own. But I think their cloud pricing is fair (2.40 euro/month for yearly payment, for the basic plan). I’d pay for that

Sounds good to me.

I don't like electron bloat but notes are something I absolutely need to be on every platform for portability, I'm willing to accept the trade off. To be fair to electron, the software I use (trilium), runs like a dream.

Do you mean encryption decryption happens locally of each individual note and only the encrypted string is stored online? How would you trust to sync the decryption keys across devices?

Yes. Joplin supports this (although sync gets slow when the number of notes is large). Syncing the encryption keys is your responsibility. I transfer them over the wire to devices I use without sharing them with a third party service.

Now with Joplin Server it’s getting better (compared to WebDAV), in terms of syncing speed

It's not FOSS, it's source-available[1].

[1] https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md

This feels like a madeleine de Proust: simpler times, so much left to discover. We ruined it

What about bitwarden (or its rust version vaultwarden), did you consider it?

Great read, I have seen this myself in the last 4-5 years with services surfing on the privacy wave - I mean, not just email, but also cloud drive. My conclusion, even regarding established privacy-focused email providers, is that it’s not worth the hassle, really. I use trusted and reliable email providers (according to me), and I just don’t use email for anything sensitive. That’s just right for me.

I know some people do need more privacy and/or security. But a lot of people think they need the same but really, they don’t.

Not sure how Gmailify is different from OSS project simplelogin.io (or similar services). Although this kind of service is targeted at privacy, they do exactly what Gmailify does, are very reliable and can be self-hosted, at least for simplelogin. Moreover, it does not come with such a lock-in. What’s the value proposition here?

Perl CGI is the way to go to get ready for 2026

Maybe Vercel and Netfly could think about doing Perl serverless.

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