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by lucideer 4y ago
> The headline is absolutely, literally true It absolutely, literally isn't. The headline says the lab leak is the most likely origin. The lab theory being the least shitty theory absolutely doesn't make it a likely origin: i
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by lucideer 4y ago
What's the infamous label thing? Are you talking about IMAP or Gmail's broken implementation? I was under the impression the first public IMAP spec had support for "flags"... did it need later fixing?
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by lucideer 4y ago
> i figured by now that it would be far more popular than it is, and that it would have been implemented by many more entities by now. Oh well. Well IMAP is 37 years old and Google still haven't gotten around to implementing it pr
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by lucideer 4y ago
There's three considerations (a) is IMAP good / sufficient / fit for purpose (b) if not, is there a better alternative available (c) if there is, is it worth the development effort to support it. If we assume the answers to (
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by lucideer 4y ago
> IMAP is the better alternative. So the definition of the word "alternative" in this instance is "something other than IMAP" - the argument for JMAP is not competing with IMAP, there's a pre-determined assumpt
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by lucideer 4y ago
> what's the point of implementing something that is not used at all If this question made any sense we would never make anything new at all. How do you think new things get started?
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by lucideer 4y ago
> with so much of my time in the matrix world, i somewhat xpected to start hearing anouncements of alternatives to email. I presume you're suggesting a new alternative to email rather than Matrix being itself an alternative (whi
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by lucideer 4y ago
My hope is that they're both around (& actively developed & used) in 10 years, but yes: email is much less likely to die than Matrix.
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by lucideer 4y ago
Well I can't see Dovecot devs deciding to implement it if they keep reading comments like this dissuading the effort...
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by lucideer 4y ago
> its not worth the effort to implement for pretty much anyone, so it’s only idealists like Fastmail who’ve done so anyway. Worth mentioning that Fastmail use an open source backend: Cyrus[0] - which started adding JMAP support in 2015
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by lucideer 4y ago
> Responding to someone actively expressing interest in your product by offering them a demo definitely doesn't qualify as "turning it into a greasy sales pitch" Direct contact introduces social pressure into what was pr
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by lucideer 4y ago
It might be. Whereas the native lib should be. Just levels of trust. I'd happily use the former if the latter didn't exist.
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by lucideer 4y ago
You're right but upon reading the article it does seem to actually be a form of Whig history - the article attributes the actual first work on this to Galileo (not Einstein), so while the headline is misleading, the article content see
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by lucideer 4y ago
Maybe the self-hosted is planned but I was just going on this line which uses the managed service: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...
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by lucideer 4y ago
> I would be much more comfortable if they used something like Plausible for analytics Their intent is to migrate entirely away from Google to the San Francisco based InfluxData, which I guess is marginally better in some ways but seem
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by lucideer 4y ago
> it's full of glaring design mistakes with paddings, margins and centering issues everywhere. Have you tried it recently? I've always thought this but am now using it as my main DE (for the first time) & this seems to be
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by lucideer 4y ago
Despite the conservative party publicly acknowledging the errors of her ways in the late 90s, she had already moved the UK overton window far enough to pave the way for New Labour. I doubt Brexit would've been possible without two righ
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by lucideer 4y ago
> there are lots of people in the UK who rate Thatcher Very true. Too many. I did say "most", which doesn't mean "universally". Thankfully the (far too large) set of fans in the UK don't represent any kind
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by lucideer 4y ago
I've avoided KDE for decades - mostly because I've had a preference for lighter systems (big Openbox user), but even when I've used Unity & Gnome Shell, I always shied away from KDE because it was just so damn ugly (shall
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by lucideer 4y ago
If you're having a discussion with people who like Sturgeon & Ardern, who have some issues with Merkel & May, raising one of the most hated women in recent history seems an unusual take. Thatcher (& Reagan) are rightly reco
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by lucideer 4y ago
I wouldn't include May (see my reply to a sibling comment), but otherwise the only other person that seems slightly odd in that list is Merkel for being a christian conservative, but - even as a leftist - she's still one of the on
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by lucideer 4y ago
As terrible as May was, it does seem that a lot of the derision toward her is rooted in either scapegoating (from the Conservative side) or - more commonly - misogyny (from all sides). She certainly was not competent, and did a lot of damag
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by lucideer 4y ago
> IMO BigTech had the notion that for the most part I'm not sure this is "for the most part" Sure, FAANG may have had this notion (or at least FNG; not sure if the As ever had), along with the sort of religious/dogm
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by lucideer 4y ago
Have you read the article text or just the headline? The article says the same thing you're saying (trill dropped the case) & cites legal costs already incurred by then as being a burden on mycroft. --- [Edit] Ok you've edited
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by lucideer 4y ago
> companies apparently overhired. We hired more than we meant to. How does that happen? Everyone here is replying with various explanations of why these companies made the "mistake" of over-hiring but no-one is stopping to as
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by lucideer 4y ago
I assure you, considerably more people have heard of Yahoo than have heard of GitHub. The software engineering bubble isn't as big as you think.
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by lucideer 4y ago
> Well, as far as I understand, the fork forgejo is done by codeberg [1] so I see it as relevant. Wasn't that the commotion you meant? Forgejo was started independent of Codeberg - Codeberg later became the project's "cu
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by lucideer 4y ago
I dunno, the second one seems pretty barbarous to me...
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by lucideer 4y ago
The comments on codeberg aren't really relevant in this thread - codeberg is a hosting platform, any policies they implemented would apply to accounts on their platform only, not to self-hosting users of gitea/forgejo/whichev
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by lucideer 4y ago
This is an interesting move in the context of the recent kerfuffle around Gitea - context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33749757 I wonder whether this was part of discussion on the migrating within the Blender team

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