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hagen2022on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

The issue is that there are no proper replacements for Gmail. Too many people (whether opensource fellows or privacy or both) suggest do not use it but there are NO good answers. One cannot expect a local shop or university to host email services 24x7 AND provide world-class security. This is like excel/word/ppt becoming a default file format and use of MS office. Sure libreoffice works but when everyone is using MS products - one has no chance but to use MS.

hn always loves fastmail but I bet they cant run a billion logins.

No local govt or company has the employees to manage such good features.

(Example; I tried once to use apple email, calendar for 20 people. Too many sync problems. When asked in Apple forums they often told me Apple infra is designed for families and not for 20 people)

hagen2022on Dutch digital identity system crisis

After attending many fsfe events I am a bit annoyed as they do all these statements but nothing fruitful comes out. Telling common man/woman these is not helpful. Many of fsfe people themselves use G-Pay etc.

hagen2022on Austria Buys JavaScript from Brendan Eich

FTA: (is it a joke?)

Austria will also announce three changes to the language:

1. Adding a “sleep” function.

The NSA popularised Javascript to prevent aliens from learning about American military secrets through dreams. Despite its dangers, Austria will likely add a “sleep” function to annoy the American administration.

2. Assigning front-end frameworks to political parties.

Sources say that the Austrian government is still defining the mapping of frameworks to parties. However, they noted that “Angular is surely neoliberal; Vue is more of a hippie commune.”

3. Adding a “goto” keyword.

A recent study has shown, in addition, that the “goto” keyword can actually cause you to “go to” places you don’t want to go.

hagen2022on India seizes $725M assets from Xiaomi unit over illegal remittances

Executives of infosys/TCS be careful if they travel to China (not taking sides) but see this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...

hagen2022on Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

One can always compare the per capita and blame the rich world for many issues. This is nice for a debate.

But at the end, poor + middle class of India suffer due to this. Sure the rich world ruined environment, but that cannot be reason to say India can do similar. The first to get affected will be the poor world (yes, incl. India) and then only the poor people in the west.

I understand this is a sensitive issue, as my wife is from India, and people do not like complaining about India (especially they do not like foreign news organisations like BBC/CNN/NYtimes posting negative news).

Please start thinking as global citizens (heck your people are running Twitter, Google, MS).

hagen2022on Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook...

Start here...

hagen2022on The Effect of Folder Structure on Personal File Navigation (2010)

Please use the direct link from the journal. Researchgate forces one to register before download:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.33...