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by xte 8y ago
Mh, perhaps lot of people who never tried good modern MUA like notmuch-emacs or mu4e or perhaps even mutt&forks of pine&forks... I still have to find a webui more effective than my notmuch-emacs UI (with, of course, notmuch undernea
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by xte 8y ago
Completely agree. Chats are a perfect way to waste time and proprietary one are a perfect way to depend on someone else for no reasons.
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by xte 8y ago
Productivity require a good work organization, need a constant communication means a REALLY poor organization or even personal incompetence IMVHO. Urgent things should be passed by audio (traditional VoIP phone call, not bound to any desk s
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by xte 8y ago
Hem, plain classic emails offer the very same thing: it's up to you respond quickly or leave the message behind... IMAP IDLE is not exactly a new thing...
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by xte 8y ago
Any "big" try to offer "emails alternative" simply because emails are free, interoperable and decentralized, something IT's bigs do really dislike. They want control and they want people live on their platform not o
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by xte 8y ago
Any country that have an official religion, any country that is not a democracy with simple and well known rules for voting like Swiss is not a free country but a strong or light dictatorship and people inside it should know that and decide
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by xte 8y ago
WP reader should then write down a simple letter, perhaps a paper one, to the journal saying that they pay for a journal not for feed a company milking data from then. A simple claim: "I'm a Citizen, not a (paying) lemon to be squ
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by xte 8y ago
Unison it's not new and work flawlessly, all you need is the ability to reach all devices via network... BTW do not blame org for the mobile crappy OSes we have, they are not designed to serve us but to serve vendor leaving us small cr
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by xte 8y ago
Emacs-er (I'm a proud one) tend to live in Emacs, not in browsers so a delay it's normal :-) Especially since HN emacs interface offer a decent way to read but not a way to post and since HN itself is not much good in term of conv
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by xte 8y ago
org-mode, with org-capture and Emacs bookmarks. In the past I have used deft, before zim and even before a custom spaghetti-code tiny monster that was a series of script and text files...
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by xte 8y ago
Try to think about different scenarios: first not a nation vs nation attack but a simple dictatorship attack against some opponent, something like "hey see! This bad guy have done many criminal thing". Also think about what kind o
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by xte 8y ago
I simply do not need such kind of authentication for myself, at least I do the best to avoid such need. Try to think of a Plan9-like world, which means user-centered not "modern mainframe centered". We still need services, but the
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by xte 8y ago
Thanks for the link, yes I do not know these kind of studies before, and I skim read it just now, however I also see claim of non reproducibility and different results from other studies in this page. Personally I notice that force me to re
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by xte 8y ago
In the end what you say is really "I trust more my device and vendor then myself". Not really a concept I accept... Of course too many lusers use IT devices even for serious work but consider their "luser" characteristic
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by xte 8y ago
No it's not a joke, claiming that being harder to read help understanding things remind me the ancient Victorian era, the Cilicium idea, the "all work and no play" song etc. I do not consider it a scientific truth but only an
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by xte 8y ago
For me it's IRRELEVANT in the report is true or not, the very relevant part is that today's hw is complex enough to be a black box for 99% of buyers so it pose a super-serious security risk. Strong article from publicly known sour
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by xte 8y ago
Ahem, my knowledge of cognitive psychology (and psychology in general) are certainly not relevant but I pretend to be a decent reader... Sorry, your font is terrible to read. I spent more time in deciphering it than in understand the writ
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by xte 8y ago
Anytime someone say password are not good I reply: can you change fingerprint? Can you change retinal imprint? How accessible are such data? => biometrics it's no good. n-th factor auth: how can we trust a token? I mean at a hardwar
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by xte 8y ago
I use this news as a ignition for another point: in the past for business reasons we have evolved concept of "platforms" witch means independent software layers build like a trailer to carry on other software on top. Before we hav
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by xte 8y ago
Well I say something similar in the past, now have seen the GMail evolution path I change my mind, beside that I do not generally use webmails except when I'm with a machine without my environment, my main MUA is notmuch-emacs. I also
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by xte 8y ago
I pretend to be mature enough to understand my mood and the influence coming from it in my mails, thanks. Beside that I do not use webmails (except rare occasion) nor Chrome...
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by xte 8y ago
Me to, personally I drop GMail for a personal mail (20 euros per years, with a bunch of mailbox + unlimited aliases altogether with a personal domain. Benefit: alias to tell anyone a different mail so I know where the spam came from and I c
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by xte 8y ago
While I use notmuch-emacs instead of Neomutt and mbsync instead of OfflineIMAP I prize this idea simply because we need "easy access" for newcomers to spread knowledge especially since actual universities do not teach anymore &quo
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by xte 8y ago
It's hard to blind-trust certain statistics for a simple reason, many use mobile internet when on train/bus, waiting something in line out of their homes etc, however they really use internet at home/work from a PC. In terms
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, can someone explain how is different this idea from old Plan9 model, except from the big limitation of "web" tech?
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by xte 8y ago
The problem have a name: business. If research is public, well founded by government, and universities are public entity research is accurate and effective, otherwise it's only a matter of making money quickly and moving on.
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by xte 8y ago
My personal mail solution is composed of: - a good taxonomy on a maildir in my home and on my IMAP (thanks mbsync+cron+a small script to watch inbox with IMAP Idle) - a good automatic filtering/refiling (imapfilter, for now) - a good s
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by xte 8y ago
The evolution was simple: in the FOSS world we invent the concept of repos, this concept after decades of good work was grabbed by the proprietary world that understand the unsustainability of their traditional model and imported with a lim
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by xte 8y ago
Communism is red fascism. It was invented and financed by the very same people who have invented fascism/nazism. Lenin was payed by German Kaiser to defeat socialism in Russia, money that came from the same industrial-power that pay fo
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by xte 8y ago
Simply use email (eg. RSS2Email), you get your feeds sync-ed via standard IMAP without needing a AMP stack + relative webapps.

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