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Re:Understanding Email Encryption (2025) on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:23PM (#50343967)
It's the only time of the day that's mine. Morning coffee and me. Silence, taste, and treasured bouquet. Sanctuary.

The last 20th century vice. It's mine.

Re:Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:30PM (#46126407)
Once having validated that it was not the product manager, or whatnot manager that decided that it was good enough to go, yes, sure, but are developers given the time to root out bugs?
Re:Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:58PM (#46125990)
Outsourcing testing to customers feels like a pattern these days. Apple is not alone in this game.
Re:Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:29PM (#46125540)
"I think as soon as companies realise that an iPad is "good enough" for email/excel/word workers, we'll see an even more precipitous decline of the desktop operating system experience."

This has a ring of SurfacePro as a corporate EUC choice. Quite common these days.

Re:The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:40AM (#46021576)
Charge the provider per view. Charge the sender of that spam email per message delivered. The new internet. Would this work?
Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:05PM (#45984418)
Sweet memories of several email clients mentioned here.

I also remember the mail client built into the old Norsk version of Opera. I loved that, a much as I loved that browser.

I take it mutt still does not have native Microsoft Exchange support?

Re:Disable AI in Firefox on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:00PM (#45697988)
If you want some DNS blocking without running pi-hole or AdGuatd, try something like https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I found family to do a decent job of not resolving ads and crapware. Other providers are available.

Re:Disable AI in Firefox on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:44PM (#45697802)
I've started using https://mullvad.net/en/browser for exactly that reason. No AI shibboleth.
Give syncthing a go.
Re:Smartphones and Being Present on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:42PM (#45583355)
I am still trying to turn the clock and read books (on paper), at least before bed. Decrement the screen. I must be lazy. Going back to the screen to do nothing is so much easier.
Re:Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006) on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:15AM (#19126853)
I think I'm starting to get the gist of it now. Thanks. I should have upwoted than, because I felt the sentiment to be valid in the context of the post and the conversation thread.
Re:Ruby in Twenty Minutes (2006) on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:56AM (#19126805)
I don't see why anyone should be downvoted for expressing his or her own consclusions that draw on personal and practical experience of using both languages. The comment is not inflamatory and it merely reflects your own experience. Perfecly valid.
Re:PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:42AM (#19126772)
I can see a mention of SQLite and MySQL. Also worth mentioning since this can affect any system:

https://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/html/gfix-sync.html

https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_man...

I wonder how Oracle handles this. Raw device/partition and its own FS business logic?

Re:Nine years of Go on Sunday November 11, 2018 @02:13AM (#18425342)
Many are mentioned here in the lists someone took the trouble to assemble for us:

https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

https://github.com/uhub/awesome-go

https://github.com/gobuild/awesome-go-tools

https://awesome-repos.ecp.plus/go.html

This one went further than just assembling the list:

https://go.libhunt.com/

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:04AM (#16351579)
You may explore Mattermost [1] if hosting on your own servers is a requirement. It is very easy to deploy and I found it very satisfactory, albeit testing with a relatively small team. I imagine scaling up would work. It ties in nicely with GitLab, which is another neat product for those who must not or wish not outsource information.

[1] https://about.mattermost.com/