smolsky

Oh, great, people are still latched onto the Electron hype.

We now have another 150MB/window application. Great. How about pushing the envelope further and using a Quake engine as the base (it has a console).

Right, it looks like the tech progress has been exponential.

Yes, dude, I feel you. I was there. I got the same shit. A few more examples of their wonderful software: - GMail sometimes accepted mail from IPv4 but not IPv6. - I rebuilt the VM running postfix, got a new IP address and then mail was blocked due to "IP address is known as dynamic end-user"

Worst of all, the mail does not always bounce... and when it does, this is no one to email and ask. What are mail admins supposed to do?

I ran my own mail server (a few VMs in the cloud) for about five years. It's fun as you have control over accounts, aliases, forwarding, sieve tricks as well as backups. It's good to know that your broker and doctor's mail is delivered directly to your server and not Google.

It sucks ass when your mail does not get through as GMail/Hotmail rejects a connection from the IP address your cloud company allocated for you, in spite of DKIM etc. Or they decide to mark your mail is "suspicious" and it goes into the recipient's Spam folder. Fighting these huge hosting companies is impossible as they don't want to talk to you.

Also constant tweaking Spamassassin is not fun. My setup worked well for for the first four years but then started letting more crafty junk through... So, I had to compromise by moving the mail to Fastmail.

I've been using Thunderbird for the last 11 years daily at home and at work. Generally, it has been a remarkably stable and pleasant ride.

I remember a few bumps around 08..2010 where I ran beta builds because of some bugs. Also, I used to have extensions that colorized patches and highlighted quotes/threads... but those eventually broke and disappeared.

So, right now I am running a stock Thunderbird with a few profile customizations that tweak fonts (colors and sizes). Hitting GMail (work) and Fastmail (home) servers every minute or so.

Go Thunderbird!

I suggest the following:

1 get off work no later than 6pm

2 walk/jog/exercise

3 cook your own tasty+healthy dinner and share it with friends

4 read a bit

5 find some hobbies

Do this for a few weeks. Then figure out what you want to do next.

Oh yeah, watch "Office space". Seriously.

Here is a presentation: http://www.softmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Soft-...

I use Tomboy (open source, C#, Windows and Mono): http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/

Oh, hello to Russian spam. Please delete this noise.

So, have you seen this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

The aforementioned site claimed that amazon.com is down... yeah.

So, your private data is still in Google's storage? I know it's convenient, other than that... I pity you.

Is there a "PM" feature? Well, in any case, I can highly recommend this lady: http://nadya.smolsky.net :) Please see her portfolio under "Web", "Academy of Arts" and "Identity" sections.

Well, yes, this was obvious from the very beginning. However, all these pieces are nothing more than a glimpse into what was non-encrypted, semi-private data that probably has no monetary value. In any case, all of it pales by comparison to what people willingly give to Google by using GMail. That would be one's entire digital (personal) and financial life, an no one has a clear understanding of how that data is analyzed and used now, or in the years to come...

I export encrypted backups of PasswordSafe into Dropbox's magic folder. This serves as a convenient automatic backup.