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Re:Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:40AM (#28984543)
I guess if you really want to know how you'll die.
Re:OpenBSD 7.0 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:21AM (#28863879)
For generations the people of the artwork have been at war with the people of the song.
> If purchased via debt,

Wall St: "hold my beer"

Re:OpenBSD 7.0 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:44AM (#28863496)
Also the homepage is a bit of a giveaway:

> The current release is OpenBSD 6.9, released May 1, 2021.

Re:OpenBSD 7.0 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:37AM (#28863422)
Exactly, everyone knows it's not official until the artwork is out.
Re:Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:14AM (#28521748)
TIL 13kb is not enough to get mouse look the right way round.
Re:Org Real on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:52AM (#28499357)
A bit of a nitpick but the box drawing characters aren't ASCII.
Re:E-Ink Typewriter on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:44AM (#28431092)
Another adoring Pomera DM30 owner here. I use git worktree to sync writing projects with my laptop.

I could not bare needing to go through Freewrite's cloud.

Re:E-Ink Typewriter on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:40AM (#28431078)
I use Emacs for prose, mostly screenwriting.
Re:Airyx OS on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:53AM (#28104503)
Too late, the Linux fanboys have already struck!
Re:Cloud Naming Convention (2019) on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:26AM (#28071511)
No more reliance on GPS for me!
Re:Airyx OS on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:36AM (#28070232)
> It's a pity you are working with Linux, or it could have been of use to her.

FTFY

Re:Cloud Naming Convention (2019) on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:52AM (#27939540)
I was disappointed that this article was not about naming actual clouds.
> A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew

Installing Homebrew.

Re:Google has finally killed YouTube RSS feeds on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:17AM (#27818346)
Previously they've been time-outs, but this is the first I've got 404s.
Re:Google has finally killed YouTube RSS feeds on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:31AM (#27818148)
Until very recently, people could subscribe to a YouTube channel (or playlist) with a URL like:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[channel_id]
The title link was previously the feed for The Late Show. In their continued war on everyone, Google appears to have killed YouTube RSS feeds as these all now return 404.
Some feedback for the project, please reveal pricing/limits before signup.
Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:41AM (#27708827)
Oh sorry I did not mean to suggest Fastmail was a faceless megacorp, I was thinking of Google, MS, Apple, etc.

I fondly recall many years ago I had some WebDAV issue and got a reply directly from you saying you'd fixed the issue but you were just heading out to dinner and so you'd push to production when you got back. That convinced a few friends to join too.

After about 10 years, Fastmail felt it was shifting to a more "enterprise" focus, which I can understand, and I just wanted to try something a little more "indie web".

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:22AM (#27708707)
If you don't mind separating your mail from your CalDAV there is https://fruux.com

(I use a paper diary, YMMV.)

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:57AM (#27708565)
Yes you can have unlimited domains/aliases with catchalls and RFC 5233 subaddressing.
Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:51AM (#27708521)
The 2FA is just regular TOTP RFC 6238.
Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:53AM (#27708204)
> A person can get sick or just wish to take a holiday for a couple of weeks. What happens when service goes down or I need customer support urgently?

I think the expectation of urgency should be put into perspective alongside the $10/year price tag, i.e. if you need someone to get out of bed in the middle of the night $10 is probably not enough incentive.

That said, any issues or questions I've had have been resolved way faster than I experienced with Fastmail.

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:41AM (#27708143)
The webmail is RoundCube with Classic, Larry or Elastic skins.

I have had a handful of deliverability issues, but every one of these has been due to one of those awful "enterprise network solutions" that does everything wrong.

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:04AM (#27707965)
I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience.

It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)

Correct. I'm 36 and unless it was mild or asymptomatic, I'm sure I've never had influenza.

When people exaggerate a common cold into "the flu" I respond with equal exaggeration by insisting I take them to the hospital.

Yeah but also if someone can parody you by just being reasonable it may be time to examine some things...
Re:Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:46PM (#27298775)
Not for prebuilt binaries (variants are just separate packages) but because the pkgsrc repo is just a collection of Makefiles, you can cd into the directory and run

    bmake show-options
Then set PKG_OPTIONS.somepkg and

    bmake install
Or even just edit the Makefile.
I hope Drew DeVault appreciates that he has achieved a parody-spawning level of notoriety!
Came here to say that. They did the same thing with an iOS app called Paper. The ethics are strong with this one.

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