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Eh... I'm not too sure about Thunderbird. For example on Android, they bought a very good product (K-9 Mail), rebranded it to Thunderbird and then proceeded to break every feature which made it stand apart.

Otherwise I 100% agree.

I feel like this is a common enough pattern with well-known translations from one form to the others, that a compiler might optimize it one way or the other. Or is it still too high-level for even modern awesome compilers/interpreters?

People here claiming "stick the ISP modem in a microwave oven, put on a tin foil hat and use your own device" -- do you truly, 100% trust that nobody but you has access to said "own" device?

What do you mean by a "private" service?

And what kind of monitoring?

Yeah, my bad, I got lost and frustrated while scrolling endlessly and trying to keep track of what was part of what. Look, clearly you are happy with the results, so all good for you.

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Does anyone feel like paying $274 and checking if the domains search allows gmail, hotmail etc? :o)

The same here...

What alternatives are there?

From the graph there, it seems like traffic peaked in 2013, and has been declining ever since. Blaming AI sounds a bit contrived IMHO.

And from having tried to contribute on several of their sites, it felt like they did not welcome casual helpers, but wanted significant investment upfront.

Not sure how much help a rebranding is going to bring at that point.

> Microsoft isn't thought of as evil anymore

Maybe you don't think of it like that, but please remember that, especially with some decisions made in the past months, more and more people are turning away from everything Microsoft.

Thank you for taking the time to answer so kindly

I went through the documentation and started a test project with it as I love the idea. Something about it bothers me, and I can't put it into words. Maybe it's due to not understanding enough about what is happening behind the scenes, and that it was based on Ecto which gives me the same ick.

Like defining relationships between the models, on one side you define "representatives" - the other side then magically gets a "representative_id"? Why remove the s, why change abstraction between an object and its id?

Why does the framework manage to add a return reference there, but in other places like between domains and resources you need to add the back reference by hand?

But in general, love the concepts and clearly a lot of work went into it.

Not only companies sadly.

I do often wonder how outsourcing such work to private contractor companies, who then suddenly have power over government branches, is supposed to work out.

Detention is already bad enough, but then reading something like this:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-bu...

"While every item in her bag was swabbed and dismantled, she was subjected to a full body search. "I was in this very loud, weird, industrial space with pipes and conveyor belts and lights and sirens, being told to open my legs. I was silently crying, watching all my stuff being torn apart as someone else was searching every crevice of me."

I can't understand how this is allowed to happen.

Ever heard of violentmonkey? Sounds like a good opportunity for userscripts

From what you wrote, it would be interesting if FreeBSD might be something you might enjoy more. Better SMP support, ports, Linux emulation for example

On top of uBlock origin, I can also recommend plugins to remove tracking elements from the URL, remove cookies, and running an own unbound + adblock (or similar).

Sadly then this becomes hard to maintain for non-IT people (i.e. the majority).

What kind of punishment does HR get if they reject good candidates?

I had a discussion with an HR person the other day, she was claiming things like "oh we would just paste their CV into chatgpt and ask whether we should hire them", "his belt didn't match his shoes so we blacklisted him", "he used forbidden words like 'but', not a good match". Maybe it was just an exception, but I have a feeling like it would be pretty common. Between that and black magic CV filtering software, they have all the excuses. Nothing human about anything in that process anymore.

First investor/manager went: so... Ideally it would be 100%, but we all know how the last 20% take 80% of the time, so, how about we ship a pre-release at 80% and see what customers think?

Second manager: ok so those guys did a pre-release full of bugs and they're still around, let's ship our release at 80% also. Pizza for everyone if we ship it before next week.

Third manager: huh. 80%. Bet we can ship it at 79% and re-use those two frameworks which are both half-finished, we'll just offer a free* bugfix upgrade to any customer who complains.

*lightbulb moment: why should it be free if we have to work for it? Let's lock our customers in with a cloud subscription instead, with increasing monthly license fees

So, which browser are you using?

Not too sure - I would have guessed that most of the messages are written once, read by the constant number of participants (say 1-100 or so) and then they disappear off the screen and are never accessed again, ever. Maybe a few people will scroll or search, or use some custom extension to load and export the history, but very rarely.

Nitpicking on your one claim that "taxi prices were transparent" - in some countries, maybe. In others, taxi drivers still have very creative ways of scamming their customers, with or without meter. This was actually the main reason I recall that Uber and others used to promote their services, clear upfront prices.

Terrorists and secret service agents both at the same time: "Ok ChatGPT, where, when and how would be the best way for the next attack?"

Sending encrypted messages with that cursive algorithm

As I understand it, what you get with this is a pre-installed VM image. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Please. Feeling better already. No more acid down my throat. Please. See. I'll even sing if you insist.

And yet it has so many concepts which are still lacking in other systems. Well, here's to hoping that they can make enough of a living from their work to afford hobbyist licensing some time in the future again.

Maybe what you wrote is clear to other LINQ users, but as a short feedback, your point is not easily understandable for people who don't know much about it.

As in, from outside, it looks like you are in there way deep, but it might need some more work to go and fetch the (assumed) target audience.

Still bitter about them ditching nearly all hobbyist licensing like they did. Sigh.