DamonHD

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721.
by DamonHD 3y ago
Some small Mastodon/Fediverse instances might do what you want...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Done... Tell me if it works for you!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I'll set up a specific RSS feed this evening. If you revisit then a link for it should be prominent at the top of the page... B^>
724.
by DamonHD 3y ago
Well, let me bore you with one of mine then! https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
725.
by DamonHD 3y ago
What sort of material are you after?
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by DamonHD 3y ago
LI does definitely like to add more and more and more categories of email/notification, and yes you have to turn those off to remail sane. (And I often turn too many off and visit less frequently as a result - but who said marketing w
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I am happy doing most diary stuff across multiple calenday sources including Exchange and Google and local, though my macOS Calendar clients.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Not me. Nor did I get hit with the recent Fediverse SPAM run. But I think that I'm probably still getting the usual several thousand email SPAM attempts per day, so the world is normal!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
If yout put the word "just" in there like that then the strong implication is that it was an obvious thing to do and only a fool would have failed to try/do it. It's called a leading question. If that's not what y
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King Charles' crown appears in change of logo on government's Gov.uk website(bbc.co.uk)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
If you start from the position that they are a fool with the words that you use, you are unlikely to get anywhere good. Your colleague may be a fool, but that's not the way to learn anything useful from them, or to verify the fact.
732.
by DamonHD 3y ago
One issue based on a recent HN item ... Do not imply in your question that your colleague has overlooked something obvious or easy in how something has been done: avoid "Why don't you just X?" for example. And do try to ask
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I don't want to write email on a teeny-tiny screen with a crappy virtual keyboard, so nothing of value lost there. Short messages (SMS, Signal) are fine. Syncing contacts has always been a mess right back to the Nokia Communicator bri
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by DamonHD 3y ago
On the other half of your question! - I consume content with the browser. (On the laptop I do my banking with the browser and would be very unwilling to run a native app without good reason.)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I do banking from my laptop, which I consider much more secure, and authentication is with debit card and dongle.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
On my Android phone I have never signed into the Google app store, nor told Google my ID, and things work fine. I did this for better privacy and security. (I sideloaded exactly one app: Signal.) FWIW I occasionally play media content suc
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by DamonHD 3y ago
On frugality: I've always lived like a student, right though being an undergrad and then at masters' and running my businesses, to being a student again 30Y+ later! Skip the fast cars, save that for food! Do you have local busine
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by DamonHD 3y ago
You can turn that off in Mastodon's Web interface with "Slow mode". I run one of my accounts that way to avoid missing anything on its fairly tightly curated follow list.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
AFAIK the Wayback Machine respects redirects and similar in the live site/domain, for reasons. I doubt that your original pages are lost, but getting to them may be hard.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Ah. I interacted with him a little for HotBits, and provided my own public random number (entropy pool) source for a while.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
There's a few newsletters from government funding/innovation agencies and research groups that are worthwhile for me. Plus the very lightweight one that my group puts out (of course!) as liaison between our local authority and loc
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by DamonHD 3y ago
None (just a data point for you!) - with very few honourable exceptions I detest email newsletters and being force-fed stuff...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
For resilience I keep some third-party accounts open, including an ancient Hotmail account from before it was Microsoft (!), and now a university account. Either would do in an emergency to some extent (like when my upstream ISP years and
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Sendmail and POP3/dovecot here, and a small static IP address block and a business service plan that allows server hosting. And yes, rDNS got more fun when I was no longer managing whole class Cs!
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by DamonHD 3y ago
I've been hosting my email since the 90s, and it still basically just works. Currently sendmail and dovecot on a (off-grid) RPi that I use for a bunch of other services too.
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Probably straight-up illegal in most places, IMHO. (I was a director of a regulated small e-money issuer and we had to do KYC!)
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by DamonHD 3y ago
The various EU transparency laws/directives may mean that such data is freely published via ENTSO-E or similar...
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Indeed, and thus I stand by my original point, though downvoted! The UK Wireless Telegraphy Acts made it illegal to listen to something that you weren't meant to by fiat without need of any proof of harm AFAIK, so there could easily be
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by DamonHD 3y ago
The earliest radio receivers that I built as a kid were entirely passive, eg a tuned circuit and a diode, and the captured energy was enough to drive a ('crystal') earpiece. I was many many (tens/hundreds of) miles from the
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by DamonHD 3y ago
Please put (2018) in the title, since this isn't new news.

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