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mixcocam··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Have you tried moving 4 kids and two adults 700km in a day on an ev?

In the setup you are describing the EV would only be used for long trips. EVs are just not great for that.

mixcocam··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
I just bought a Caddy Maxi diesel for moving my family on weekend and vacation trips. In Europe the future is bike + metro/train + big diesel car.

If you live in a European city, you should be using a car for commuting.

mixcocam··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Would be very cool if you could type a long query and the model would just build an advanced google search query using what you typed. You could even ship a tiny model in the browser itself that does that.

Something like: "blog posts which talk about using sending emails to yourself as a notes taking mechanism".

The output could look like: "note taking" OR "notes" ("emailing yourself" OR "email to myself" OR "email yourself") (inurl:blog OR inurl:posts OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com)

mixcocam··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Why not use GH just as a front page you mirror code. You keep your stars but develop elsewhere, on a server you control.

https://lists.sr.ht/~machocam/public-inbox/%3C46e343ec-c932-...

mixcocam··on We moved all of our collaboration to mailing lists
Text = https://pastebin.com/JJn6wEiu
mixcocam··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
http://succulentoats.com
mixcocam··on Is it a bubble?
The amount of flak that this article is getting on HN is telling of something. Not sure of what, but it's for sure indicative of something.
mixcocam··on Delta Chat a secure messenger based on email
This app should get more traction. They are doing an excellent job - the chatmail implementation is amazing.

The efficiency of the servers is also insane. The smallest VPS can handle over 10k users.

mixcocam··on Why Self-Host?
Absolutely. I got mine setup in less than 20 min.

https://danneskjold.de

mixcocam··on Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong
please read before commenting
mixcocam··on Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Check out delta.chat thy have solved super simple p2p messages

https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime

mixcocam··on Benefits of choosing email over messaging
thats why online private archives like https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ exist. for a free version, use groups.google.com
mixcocam··on Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
take a look at the way https://delta.chat solved for that very modern/looking/feeling - just email.
mixcocam··on Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Take a look at delta.chat Your server can be a traditional email server you set up or one of their optimised devocot, smtp relays: https://github.com/chatmail/relay

The clients are great (they have reactions!)

there is even a really good app store associated : https://webxdc.org/

mixcocam··on Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git (2024)
Seem a lot like fossil-scm
mixcocam··on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
> I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.

RSS is just a protocol. You could make a reader now with any algorithm you want that displays feeds. In fact, I can’t imagine that no one is using the AI boom to say they will build a decentralized Twitter using rss plus ai for the algorithm

mixcocam··on I only use Google Sheets
I have heard that at google collaboration happens with: - making lists (google groups) - gsheets - basic real time chat with auto disappear

Is that the case? I find that super interesting. No sexy Slack or Teams type of thing?

mixcocam··on I only use Google Sheets
“Same amount of time”, that’s where you are wrong . Then again, I’m not the one saying Knuth know better than me, maybe not better than you though.
mixcocam··on I only use Google Sheets
Agreed. That is my point. If that company had built the app from the start it would have died building it.
mixcocam··on I only use Google Sheets
+1
mixcocam··on I only use Google Sheets
"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

- Donald Knuth

Start with a gsheet, when it breaks build something else.

mixcocam··on Why use mailing lists?
Are you the owner? Any way to DM?
mixcocam··on Why use mailing lists?
What is the simplest way to setup a self hosted mailing list on a VPS?
mixcocam··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
I hope they enforce the use of plain text versions of html email :)
mixcocam··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I’m not sure they could have been trusted at any time, their inventives are not aligned with HackClub’s.
mixcocam··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I agree that people like Slack. $CRM did pay over 27B USD for it! I just think it's a case of people not knowing what they want.

> They used the tool that was available at that time. I am sure they use internal chat apps as well in today's environment.

Surprisingly, Google for example uses email + real time chat today. All communication of value, meaning thoughtful "actual" exchange of ideas happens over email. Chat is has auto disappear so it's not used for anything which remains on record, it's for small quick asks. There might be a googler in this thread who could give us more insight.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

I hear you on the integrations. There is no shortage of tools which plug into email too though. If the integration doesn't exist, it's typically trivial to set it up since email is just plain text.

> Not sure have you received any of the long quoted emails recently, I have, and it can be a nightmare (and ridiculous that an email client from a USD 3 trillion dollar company cannot render it properly).

For sure! and it sucks. That is why I promote email heavily for *internal* communications where the community itself enforces rules to keep the mailing list sane. That tends to happen organically in most open source mailing lists.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

There are few tools which are not integrated to email. But I hear you, if you like working in a monolith that makes sense. I like using the best tools for each piece. Best real time chat, best video chat platform, best asynchronous com, best file storage solution etc.

mixcocam··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I'm sorry that you read my comment as "tone deaf". It was not my intention.

> This type of contribution is so incredibly both tone deaf and unempathetic, I wonder if you understand even how incredibly selfish the attitude is? Especially in using the word “just”.

I don't see how a comment which proposes a solution to the problem at hand can be "selfish".

I am the owner of a small business myself and am well aware of what switching tools requires. I'm also sorry that you think that modern tools like Slack or Mattermost for that matter improve communication over what email provides; then again that is obviously a matter of opinion.

> “Just” do this incredibly complex switch, which is utterly unsuitable to your users and how they work together, and which doesn’t actually solve your problem at hand since the article is about something else.

The article is about a simple yet painful problem. I am proposing a solution, I don't see how my comment is not pertinent. As for my use of the word "just", simple does not mean easy.

> Even with the absolute best reading of intentions I can give to your comment, I can only imagine you wrote it to make some microsubset of people still using mailing lists feel better about their choice and validated in one of the ever rarer advantages there are to using email as primary communication. > > Either that or you don’t actually know what Slack is. But then why comment?

False dichotomy. I truly believe that mailing lists are a great way to collaborate. Especially given the case that data ownership is now even more important to the author of the post.

Slack/Mattermost try to combine real-time chat with asynchronous information exchange. I think that that is not a great way to work, this is close enough to what I think of these solutions to [link to](https://basecamp.com/guides/group-chat-problems). Not only that but your data will always be locked away in their non-standard format.

Moreover, I emailed the author (good thing this "clunky" system exists), and offered help with a potential switch to using email. Thank you nonetheless for taking my comment into consideration. I can only hope it was more useful for other readers than it was for you.

mixcocam··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Google, microsoft, apple, amazon, netflix etc. were all *built* using email. I don't see why all of a sudden people think that it's low bandwidth.

Not to mention that basically every scientific breakthrough achieved since 1995 was achieved using email as the *only* form of communication (other than physical letters here and there).

mixcocam··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Mailing lists, just switch to mailing lists with a web archive for internal discussions. You can have a chat with messages which auto-delete every 30 days for quick discussions (we use the talk chat from nextcloud - not great but does what we need).

All of our real discussions are sent to a mailing list with a web archive (like lkml.org, except private). That way we can still reference precise messages easily. It has been working great for us.

mixcocam··on Some thoughts on personal Git hosting
only rational way to move forward!

but in all seriousness, i do think that there is a lot of merit in the LKML way of doing things. otherwise all of our servers would be on fire now!

maybe and the insane capacity to sell things from the githubs, gitlabs of the world have brainwashed us!

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