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Cake day: January 21st, 2025
  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one?English
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been using Vim for over 10 years. The first few years I used it badly. Later I took time to really learn it. Now I can use it fairly decently, but I still learn new things every now and then.

    It feels like a really good investment. It’s been around forever, it’s gonna be around forever, it’s installed on almost all computers, and you’re going to be forced to use it at some point or another.

    I really enjoy being able to go to any computer and starting up a familiar editor, without installing or configuring stuff. I also use a very vanilla Vim. If a coworker’s laptop or some server has a different Vim config than mine, I can usually do vim -u NONE to get back to a familiar place.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Are there any good decentralized recommender systems in use?English
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    14 days ago

    Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies

    AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I’ve definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn’t the music or movies, it’s the recommendations. There’s a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don’t have a good way to find it.

    It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•What to use instead of gmail?English
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    14 days ago

    I like that Migadu gives you a ton of control over your email experience. You can create unlimited users, have unlimited domains, create unlimited aliases, sending identities, they have custom routing features, etc. The backend/management panel seems like it was made with techies in mind. The actual email users don’t have to worry about any of those knobs though.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•What to use instead of gmail?English
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    14 days ago

    two guys running email?

    Is it? I can’t tell from the about me. It says “In 2014, two of us, Michael Bruderer and Dejan Strbac, started…”, but nothing else on the page talks about the size of the company. It started as two people, but is it currently two people? Anyone know?

    no 2FA support

    The webmail client does have 2FA, but when connecting via client there is no 2FA. Although, not sure what this would look like. Would you enter a TOTP every time you want to connect to the IMAP server? Or do you mean more like an OAuth2 flow, like Gmail, and that asks for your TOTP?

    I actually haven’t gotten around to playing with purelymail. Not sure if they handle this differently. What service are you thinking about?

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•You see, here's the problem...English
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    23 days ago

    means you are now uninformed and unable to stop it from sucking

    This seems better than being informed and unable to stop it from sucking, which was what I was doing previously.

    closing down your visibility to, for example, news and politics that are negative puts you in a bad place to vote

    I mean, I kiiinda agree, but not totally. I definitely do vote. I usually block out a few days to research candidates and propositions before filling out my ballot. So I am making an informed vote.

    However, I don’t see how getting a play-by-play of the world falling apart is helpful. I get the summary when it’s time to vote, then I put it away. I can’t stop Trump from doing stupid shit. I can’t stop the war in Ukraine. I can’t stop Elon from befriending Nazis.

    put on your big girl panties and let’s get past the worldwide push for authoritarian take overs

    How?? All I can do is vote in my own country. And I did that. I’ve tried talking to friends and family, but I have yet to convince a Trumper of anything. They don’t care about reality. It doesn’t matter if I have all my facts straight. They don’t want to listen.

    I can donate to Ukraine for the war, donate to orgs suing the government, or go to a protest, but all of that seems orthogonal to watching daily/weekly news.

    It seems like being “informed” is just a way to “feel” like you’re doing something? Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.