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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Except its completely unencrypted

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?

If it's that important, write your email in code.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

So is regular mail. Should we stop sending physical letters?

Yeah its a waste of paper

If it's that important, write your email in code.

Or simply use a e2e encrypted service that does that infinitely better than u ever could urself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, your connection to your email provider is encrypted (I hope!) - probably with TLS

Your email provider will communicate with the receivers email server over an encrypted connection (probably TLS again)

Your recipient connects to their provider over a secure connection too!

Yes, your email companies can read it, but that is the case with lots of IM providers too.....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Why would u not use an e2e encrypted im service. Thats the bare minimum.

[–] LavenderDay3544 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

More widespread adoption of WKD (https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKDHosting) would be fantastic.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.

Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.