I’ve been using Fastmail for a few years and I’m quite happy with the service. Being a semi-large organization I expect their security to be OK, but if anyone has comments on that aspect I welcome them.

As for privacy, I always consider e-mail to be a postcard. If I want to encrypt something, I use GPG locally.

In Spain (not sure about Europe in general) things are slightly different.

I have been living in Canada for 9 years, and there if you see a transaction you don’t recognize in your credit card statement you phone your bank and they take care of that.

Here in Spain you need to go do the police, file a report, then talk to your bank, then they’ll think about it.

So when I came back I was talking with some guys I know and they convinced me that, at least around here, it’s still a good idea to use Paypal. You also get faster refunds, etc (and that could be due to some European regulation, not sure).

Just subscribed, thanks a lot.

With the new EU’s interconnection laws I hope I can WhatsApp from Pidgin, or even from irssi!

But no, I don’t use pidgin anymore. irssi, yes.

Also, some (most?) RSS readers don’t need the path to the feed directly. You give them the regular URL and they’ll figure it out. TinyTinyRSS does it.

Gnomon. A massive disappointment.

I wish I had known about Power Delete Suite. I nuked my posts / comments by hand :-(

In case it’s useful to more people: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Yes, these things are never dead. They just come back under a different name / pretensions until they pass.

I created an account a few months ago but I’ve barely used it. DDG provides pretty much everything I search for. This might be because I don’t typically do very “esoteric” searches, but for now I don’t see the need for a paid service. Most of the times, tweaking the query so that it looks for a specific source is good enough.

I’d love if DDG had a system to remove entire domains entirely from the results, though.

Where’s that? I just ran a test search but I can’t see it :-?

Yes, I’m aware those filters exist, but I’m asking about the practical implications of the set up I mentioned in the post.

I moved back to Spain after 9 years abroad. I discovered this country runs on WhatsApp. Not a chance this will change in the short term.

Is it overkill? I think it is. Does it work for you? Go ahead then.

I installed a dokuwiki for personal use and it’s great. Some people might say it’s too much, but I’m happy with my choice.

Yes. And on Microsoft Teams that triggers a chat call.

This is what I do: I have 3 KeepassXC databases (regular passwords, “security” questions, TOTP tokens) each with a different password.

I got a Nook in 2011 and it was my main reader device until it died a few months ago. I replaced it with a Kobo and I’m quite happy. Having backlight is a huge improvement.

I don’t typically give up. I mostly read non-fiction, so I always wait to see if there’s something for me past page 200.

I gave up on “Foucault’s Pendulum”. I started it as a teenager and obviously it was way above my league. I still want to pick it up again at some point in the future.

I also passed on “Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, because I couldn’t even understand the introduction.