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Brewchin

@ Brewchin @lemmy.world

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  • Help with email + alias provider

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  • I've been using Fastmail (Australian) for years. Costs ~AU$60/year, charged in your local currency.

    BYO domain if you want, Masked Emails (random usernames that you can reply from), multiple addresses, full username+

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    @ and/or

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    @username support, groupware suite (email, calendar, contacts, notes, etc), great native apps on all platforms, *DAV support, app passwords (for SMTP, POP3, IMAP, CalDAV, etc), flawless transfer of mailbox history to it (I did almost 15 years of Gmail without a problem), etc, etc.

    It doesn't automatically integrate with Bitwarden (AFAIK). They have a 1Password partnership that might, but I use BW with no issue.

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    Foreign Music

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  • The takeaways here are:

    • Listen to music from any/every country. If you've only listened to music from your own country (or only commercial broadcast radio), oboy... have I got world to show you.
    • You don't need to understand the lyrics. Good music is good music. It's not "Satanic" or whatever your bogeyman is, trust me. (Unless it is, in which case... 🤷‍♂️)

    Denying yourself the breadth of world music is like believing your country is and has the best of everything while never having travelled abroad once. Objectively laughable.

  • Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE

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  • What does Zionism have to do with this topic?

  • Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview

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  • Classic example of a buyer's market.

    Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely...

    When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they'll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.

    The interviewer probably doesn't even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.

  • Should I be using Debian?

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  • My recommendation is Debian for a server (real or virtual), or Proxmox. The former is perfectly reasonable and excellent experience; the latter is more flexible and more complex.

    Debian is the parent distro of numerous Linux flavours (including *buntu, which aren't suitable as a server OS, IMHO), so administration and services are all common (apt, etc). No need to learn dnf, pacman/yay, etc.

    It's still my preferred server OS, despite other options and being experienced.

    Though I do also have a NUC running Proxmox (for VMs and LXCs), and both a NAS and RasPi running Docker. 🤷‍♂️ My Debian server is a VM inside one of them.

  • New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer

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  • It's a good post, but shitty clickbait headline. I'm not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.

    Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.

    As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so "Blocked: This file's characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford" (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.

    And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from "age verification on adult sites" to "...and all VPNs" in mere months, and is heading to "age verify everything!" if they get their way.

  • Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released

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  • While user consent (default on vs default off, or any choice at all) is a different-but-related topic, Mozilla bake it all in, enable it all by default, and make it difficult to disable. (Settings would be "super easy" and would show it was intended as a permanent choice.)

    These aren't actions and design decisions indicative of having the best interests of users in mind. Especially given how closed the mobile client already is.

    It seems to be designed in a way that leaves Mozilla the option of removing the ability to disable it, presumably if it becomes profitable enough and/or they think they can get away with it.

    But for now on this point they get a pass from me on the desktop version in a personal environment where the user has the most control.

  • Guitar technology

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  • I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. "Loaded gun" doesn't begin to describe that. 😄

  • Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released

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  • Because the Argument of Excluded Middle (aka false dichotomy) logical fallacy is king now. With no middle ground for compromise, if you're not 100% for a position then you have to be 100% against that position. It's the rules.

    So, with that batshittery in mind, anything that allows you to optionally use something that people (justifiably) detest is, of course, the literal devil.

    I blame brain worms.

  • How to revert Firefox’s latest changes to address bar suggestions

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  • Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.

    Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but "number must go up" mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.

  • Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy

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  • Unless it was laid in the 1950s, in which case it's probably aluminium wire rather than copper.

    There's an area like that between the local exchange and my house, which meant internet speeds were like living in a time capsule before FTTC came along. Always 25% of what the rest of the town had.

    But other than edge cases like mine, I agree. Copper lasts a long time with minimal things to go wrong. Modern solutions like FTTC require their own power, air conditioning, etc.

  • Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder

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  • Agreed. But one climb down means potentially more, as needed. 🤞🏻

  • Kindly please stop the bug releases

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  • Can't speak for the rest, but the "shrinking when replying" thing is a known issue and impacts iPhone and Android.

    It is, I think, related to the iPhone theme in the app (was enabled by default on my Android, for some reason). Going into the settings and changing it from iPhone to Android fixed it for me.

    As another user said, the dev is doing a great job on this app with limited resources, and does test and check on the devices they have available, but "works on my machine 🤷‍♂️" is a real thing. Frustrating, but valid.

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    Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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  • Noooooooooo

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  • Blueberries? Is this another of those things that I'm not American enough to understand?

  • When he/she enters the elevator and you can't breathe

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  • An English friend calls this phenomenon "twinkle twat", as he says it usually indicates the person hasn't, um, washed in a while. Or at least long enough that they know they should have by now, and are trying to mask it.

    Now I can't unthink it whenever I encounter it... 😶

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • Yes, the "yet" is doing all the work here. Along with a heft dose of "Digg was great" for those of its who used it and, well, the inevitable enshittification that all PE-led startups follow. And Rose has proven he's no exception.

    A bit like Bluesky, where the USP is "just like Xitter, but without Elmo at the helm". The days are numbered, etc.

  • I survived college without becoming a liberal

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  • That's the perfect meme-based response. 😂 Yoink!

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • Perhaps where you live.

    Internet 101: Laws aren't the same everywhere.

    Edit: My point wasn't specifically about amateur radio (I'm also one) nor where I live, but about the old-as-the-internet habit of people scoffing about what is and isn't legal without even knowing where the person they're replying to lives.

    On the radio front, numerous countries require licences to legally listen to public broadcast radio (Switzerland, Slovenia and Montenegro are examples). If your handy dandy Baofeng UV5 can pick up broadcast FM radio frequencies, in such countries it will fall under licencing requirements even if you never transmit.

  • Android app UI issue

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  • Exactly the same with me. 😄