Brewchin

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.

Doesn’t every Instagram user automatically have a Threads account now? (Even if they’re unaware of it.)

Meta faking Threads user count that way on top of what’s happened with X user count would explain this “milestone” quite easily.

I’ve been using SelectSpecs for 15 years. I think they drop-ship from SE Asia.

Mostly to have a spare set, but for the last year or so they’ve been my primary pair.

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.

That explains a lot, thanks.

American or South African chocolate products.

NOT an anti-American/-Saffer thing. They add butyric acid, which tastes like vomit to the rest of the world. (Accurate, as vomit contains it).

Presumably because the market there have been trained to expect that flavour for some reason. To the rest of us, a US or ZA origin is usually a sign to avoid.

Oops. You’re quite right, of course.

Had a manager who used to send notes intended for himself to our team chat. Psychotic behaviour.

Every phone has a note app. No matter how stupid you are, it works. But if messages to yourself floats your boat: why not.

The two already mentioned, plus Obsidian and OrgMode. The latter is used via Emacs (though there are compatible/companion apps, like Journelly if you have iOS), and both work on all modern platforms

Those 4 cover most of the journalling tools I’ve seen in recent years.

Top-right is an ibis? The Australian nickname for them is “bin chicken” for obvious reasons…

Thanks for checking and the update.

Some people get value out of it. Others don’t.

That’s why the blocking capability exists. 🤷‍♂️

Oh no… anyone know what this means for DuckDuckGo?

Is this is legendary mothgirl prophecy?

Le petit mort , ahem, comes in many forms…

What?! Think of the shareholder value! /s

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.

Inevitable, really. And zero surprise it’s coming out of China.

Reads more like an advertorial. Low on detail, high on “passkeys are the future”, and plenty of typos.

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).