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I really liked the mission of the company I worked for. The management was poor and they did nothing as they saw my coworkers going out the door. Then I left too. That doesn't mean I want to see my former company and its mission suffer. That may not be completely rational but preposterous seems a bit harsh.

I'm not trolling, just anonymous and being goofy about it. Kiss my butt :D

In the US, telegram service ended in 2006! https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11147506

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Facebook and Twitter in the Safari browser are good. You can put them on the home screen and they feel more or less like the app. I don't need notifications from these.

I would love lite apps. Specifically, I want a Discord Lite app that is smaller and chat only and a Google Maps Lite that is only nav (I guess this is pretty much Apple Maps).

> First, the addresses are too damn long and unwieldy to really be used; and second, even most people reading this, tech people in a tech forum, struggle to really grasp the inane IPv6 address shortening rules!

I have been using IPv6 for at least twelve years and I will agree that at first - maybe the first six months or year - I found these things confusing. But I think your assertion is based on lack of familiarity. Fundamentally, IPv6 works well, and just needs some open-minded people to spend time with it.

Feedback: Email is just fine. It is mature and should just be left alone. It is not something that should be reinvented.

The next thing should not be email at all. It should be something fundamentally different, not another iteration of email.

Seeing some downvote criticism on this comment, let me clarify.

I understand the value in working on an established set of federated protocols. Everyone has an email address and this is a very convenient way to start. But it was invented decades ago and has had many kludges bolted on to it to deal with problems or to very slightly improve the user experience. Who's instead going to be more bold and go for a greenfield project to do asynchronous personal communications?

If a scammer scams you out of a scam, do you come out ahead?

Everything is better when you have a hand in building it afresh, and everything is worse when you come in later and have to maintain someone else's code. "What do I do?" - you learn to make it tolerable. If there's some tech debt that makese everything miserable, work on it. Get some satisfaction from that. If possible, start improving on the software so that you can have some ownership and agency in it.

The state of MUAs isn't bad/sad unless you apply a pile of unreasonable constraints, as you have. Then, yeah, you can't find anything. Loosen up. "Written in C" is an issue for you? And you use Linux? Just give Evolution another try and give it a little time.

Man, I used Remedy 20 years ago. I can't believe it still exists. If I saw that in an IT stack today, I'd be running the other direction too!

I recently had a small rant on Twitter about a certain web technology; I used the word "crap."

One of the main authors of the tech spotted my post and replied saying my rant was offensive and that they had worked hard and done the best they could.

It had been a long time since I felt that much shame in myself. It could have been me pouring myself into something and then the other guy calls it crap.

Never trust a man who can look in two directions at the same time.

Can't help but notice that two of the frontpage articles feature "balls" in their titles. Sincerely, -buttocks

I haven't adjusted the spam filter. I have been using it in the default configuration since I signed up and it filters out most. YMMV.

HN is a hard place for people who like Microsoft but I'll tell you that a single user Office 365 Business Essentials subscription is a great deal. Along with e-mail you get a terabyte of Sharepoint (OneDrive) storage, online versions of office apps, and Teams. $5/mo. There's an IMAP migration tool. Just turn on IMAP on your Gmail account if it's not already enabled and let the O365/Exchange wizard suck all the e-mail down.

So forget about the feed. Really, who cares about that stuff?

I am not an apologist for LinkedIn but I got my last three jobs through recruiters that found me that way and think it is an awesome tool, for free.

That is a blast from the past! Thanks and sorry for the unnecessary nerd-splaining.

I have found some of my clients in end-user forums related to the tech for which I specialize. In some cases, they have found me.

An ASN isn't needed unless you are multi-homed. If you're connecting through just one ISP, you can do BGP peering with them using a private ASN. That said, if you do need an ASN, I don't know why they should be so expensive.

This was not my experience with ARIN at all. I requested resources as an individual (sole proprietor) and they were issued to me under my own name. The only requirement is that you have a justified use and $250 per year, which is the cost for 3X-Small allocation (/40 or less of IPv6, /24 of IPv4). As of this year it is also $50 to have an "org" created. This is not prohibitively difficult, though it might be prohibitively expensive for some.

Fun with terminals for those who have never experienced them:

Run Sim390[1] with MUSIC/SP. Then get a TN3270 virtual terminal software to connect to it.

3270 is screen-based--think of it like filling out web forms and submitting, then receiving the results. This is far different than line-based terminals (e.g. your typical *nix TTY).

Compared to IBM's terminals, DEC's terminals seem completely unremarkable.

[1] https://www.canpub.com/teammpg/de/sim390/index.htm

It would cost $50k just to paint. Every 5 years.

Yes, reword that. "Cross-device synchronization" is not a core function, is it? Sending SMS from the web appears to be the only function you are demonstrating. By the way, SMS handling is a sensitive topic. Don't be surprised if Google gives you a hard time about this.

Speaking of Twitter, follow @noipv6 for some great commentary and/or heckling of ISPs who make false claims about IPv6 to defend their lack of support.

Mobile technology evolved very quickly but XMPP did not. I remember using Pidgin to chat on Google Talk. Then Google decided (rightly) that more secure auth was needed, and implemented an XEP to add OIDC authentication. Now third-party clients had to decide whether they wanted to implement Google's auth, or not. Ultimately it is easier to control the protocol and the app--and along with those, the tracking, the display of ads, the feature set, and so on.