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  • Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.

    A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.

    I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.

    Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.




  • Is there any other platform other than github for submitting issues?

    Depends on the developers. Some rely entirely on the repo’s Issues, but many have alternative channels like Telegram, Matrix, Discord, etc.

    I reckon it is time to turn away from github like how we switch from reddit to lemmy

    Many are doing exactly that. Sites like Codeberg are popular, if your project is FOSS.

    Or you can host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance. The latter is what Codeberg runs on.














  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAds on YouTube
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    24 days ago

    My take on ads is this: I’ve been using the internet since 1989 - before search engines, advertising, SLIP/PPP/ADSL, etc.

    When ads began to appear on websites in the late 90s, I was OK with it. A banner ad here, etc. Then they started to move. And flash. And make noise. And then popups, and pop-unders.

    At that point I started to BLOCK THEM ALL. If your business model is a game of distraction from the site I’m visiting, then fuck you, your family, and anyone you’ve ever met.

    Moving on to UI web-based stuff, the demise of excellent sites like AltaVista (with its superior search syntax) and the growth of Goooooooogle (with its astonishingly and intentionally shit search syntax), the progress and intention was obvious.

    There was a brief period where Google, etc, provided what people wanted. But that time has passed. Now it’s all in on GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

    tl;dr: Once advertisers started to behave like gambling sites, they were yeeted to the hell in which they belong.




  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNice one
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    25 days ago

    Agreed.

    I didn’t mention that I also spend time after every meeting I host putting together a summary of what was discussed along with a bullet point list of deliverables, who agreed to work on them, and due dates and then send it to all attendees, invitees, and stakeholders.

    It deals with the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme problem and “magnanimous work dodgers” - those who promise the world in meetings but then seemingly disappear off the planet.

    It probably should be noted that many of the meetings I host are recurring, often weekly or fortnightly, so it’s easy to find a rhythm (and identify the problem children).