While we're talking about cookies, can anyone explain what legitimate interest is? And if it's an exception to consent then why can I reject legitimate interest? It just seems like another hurdle to rejecting all non essential cookies.

Legitimate interest as interpreted by most companies making (IMO non-compliant) cookie dialogs as just a second attempt at consent that they think doesn’t have to obey the top level reject all they’ve finally been penalised into having.

Legitimate Interest per the law is intended for use cases like, having a list of people who owe you money, or keeping IP address access metrics long enough to use them for anti bot or paywall measures.

The irony being this site doesn't offer a decline all option.

My default firefox settings rejected content tracker and in the end no cookies were created at all, plus there was just one failed CDN request outside original domain.

Not bad.

> being tracked by IP + browser fingerprinting

That is also illegal under the GDPR; you cannot track me without my explicit opt-in consent, whither by 'cookies' or other means.

I continue to be astounded how little grasp some HN readers (a technical news site!) have of the GDPR.

I am aware it is illegal, and yet just like for cookie-based tracking, everyone gets away with it.

I've had the rm2 for a few years now. I recently installed toltec and koreader and I can now sync it with zotero with the zotero plugin. Reading 2 column pdfs in koreader is a much better experience and I also like the dictionary search when holding down a word. I just use the regular RM software as a disposable notepad now. I had to downgrade the RM software to get toltec, but I don't feel like I'm missing much from the latest update.

That Zotero sync seems nice! I wrote a daemon that does a (one-way) sync from a Zotero folder to my reMarkable that works pretty well, but it's rather hacky.

This reminds me of how the spins in MRI are manipulated in order to acquire the signal. Tracking the tips of the spins traces out similar looking paths. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vapJRr6gAds&t=2786s

Can you run qwen-code locally?

Thanks

Thanks, I don't need AI functionality (unless you mean the scheduling meetings) and tbh would rather avoid anything branded as AI

There is none

Not yet; Thunderbird is going to release such a feature in the near future:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunder...

> Assist is an experiment, developed in partnership with Flower AI, a flexible open-source framework for scalable, privacy-preserving federated learning, that will enable users to take advantage of AI features. The hope is that processing can be done on devices that can support the models, and for devices that are not powerful enough to run the language models locally, we are making use of Flower Confidential Remote Compute in order to ensure private remote processing (very similar to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute).

> Given some users’ sensitivity to this, these types of features will always be optional and something that users will have to opt into. As a reminder, Thunderbird will never train AI with your data. The repo for Assist is not public yet, but it will be soon.

Thanks, I'll have a look. I guess I should have said I was looking for a free client, but if it's good and long lasting then I guess it's worth the payment

Thanks. Do you use something different now? Is there a reason you left it

Actually I haven't. I used to use it on an old macbook but it became buggy. I'd consider using it if you think it would be suitable

It's what I use and it meets all your requests except maybe the hotkeys.

Ok, I'll have a look. Mac OS lets you change the hotkeys in the menubar anyway, so not a back idea

I use default Apple Mail. It meets points 1, 2, 4. 3 can be somewhat configured like you said.

Thanks for the suggestion