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So... Is your suggestion to ban tracking, marketing, analytics etc. non-essential cookies altogether?

Texting and driving is a real problem.

When mastodon.technology shut down, the operator commented on this, see "Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?" here -- https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

Incredibly useful for some definition of incredibly useful. What I see:

- I now regularly receive AI-written spam emails (marketing pitches, "vulnerability reports").

- I was receiving AI-written garbage quality pull requests. It got so annoying I closed pull requests on my project's repo.

- When I try to contact some company's customer support these days there's a good chance I will be fed slop by an agent posing as a customer support person, this is absolutely infuriating.

- When I search for information on the internet, for certain queries, 90% of the results is slop.

- AI crawlers are DDoSing websites.

- The already mentioned things – hardware getting more expensive, climate impact, unethically sourced training data.

Specs don't make it clear if it supports BLE sensors (HR strap, power meter,... ).

uBlock Origin's "annoyances" filter lists also do the job.

I think the viability of the fork primarily depends on whether it has enough people motivated to maintain it long term. A turtle can win a distracted hare.

Please reconsider Kagi's partnership with Yandex.

I have fond memories of Flash 5 in early 2000s. At the time I knew BASIC and Pascal. I could figure out how to draw things, how to animate them using keyframes and motion tweening, and how to make things interactive with ActionScript, all by poking around and reading the help manual (F1) on our underpowered offline PC.

What analogy might work better, i.e., be less charged but as precise?

I've realized this as well, the bigger the company the worse the experience.

The more customers they have the less they care about any individual customer.

The more products they have the less they care about any single product.

The more employees they have the less they care about each individual employee doing a good job. And there's no they any more, there's a big, soul-less profit glutton.

Perhaps do the last 5% yourself?

Oh, interesting, I stand corrected!

I was investigating this 5 months ago and the answer their slop machine gave was:

> Does Mollie retry failed payments (dunning) and track subscription states? Mollie does not currently provide automatic dunning or retry logic for failed subscription payments. Subscription states like active or past due are tracked, but you need to implement retry and notification logic in your system. This is a common feature request and may be on the roadmap, but no official release date is available.

From your link, note though:

> If your subscription payment does not succeed, Mollie may attempt it again up to 5 times (once a day), depending on the failure reason. After all retries have been exhausted, the subscription will be cancelled.

If there's a payment issue, I would not consider cancelling the subscription 5 days after the first failure as reasonable. I would expect the subscription to go into "past due" state, and to keep retrying.

Do you know of any EU payment processor that supports recurring payments like a SaaS would need (subscriptions, subscription state tracking, automatic retries of failed payments)?

I looked but couldn't find any. Adyen does not do this on its own AFAICT, only with 3rd party addons that implement recurring payments on top of it. Mollie claims it does this but is woefully incomplete (no failed payment retries for example), and appears to be all in on slop.

I hope that changes and people start valuing simplicity and robustness over electric gimmicks (I know many people already do, but we need critical mass).

> I just don't get it!

This is open source, volunteer developers often focus on doing things that are fun to them, or that scratch their own itch. I can't imagine dealing with Google Photos semi-broken exports is fun to anybody, and you only deal with the pain of the import once, afterwards there's no itch to scratch.

Or maybe somebody at the decision table had sentimental feelings for Volvo. Like Kyoto.

I use notes on paper amd time.

Notes on paper: writing down my thought process helps me think. Extends my context window if you will.

Time: when I'm stuck on a decision, just letting it sit helps. Good ideas come during walks, bike rides, showers.

I do not think a digital tool would help my process.

You can accidentally create a bug that you yourself cannot find.

It would be interesting to see vanilla postgres on a VPS and vanilla postgres on a bare metal server included too. I understand it's apples and oranges, but would it be slower, would it be faster, by how much?

I add a note in the password manager's notes field for sites where I've added Yubikeys as the second factor. I can get the list of the sites using search, and from time to time I go through them to check if a backup key needs to be registered. I create new accounts infrequently.

A little nice thing the cars could do is automatically calibrate the speedometer from GPS when on a long stretch of a road. You would get the accuracy of GPS and the reliability of speedometer even when in city jungle, underground, during slow speed manoeuvres etc.

A dumb and simple solution is separate physical routers for the home stuff and for the homelab stuff. Each group of clients is behind its own NAT.

Watermelons are better at everything the apples are doing except perhaps a bit of weight and for making apple pies.

More similar feedback from users here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1s27q5w/object_sto...

Can we see some discussions that got people perma-banned?

Confusing title, "self-hosted mail" and "self-hosted email gateway" are two quite different things :-/

What is stans and pols?

Same with ISPs.