Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 9

@freakazoid as @juliobiason said, paraphrasing: “I didn’t expect Google to fuck it up so soon…”

@deshipu get well soon

@codesections I use the simple default iOS mail client. But then again, I also think email isn't very important. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-03-18_Email_is_the_New_Snail_Mail

@kmckaig just an example: “the present interpretation does not subject ProtonMail to any mandatory data retention directives” – but I think email providers of a certain size must keep meta data for a few months. So are they disguising this by saying my interpretation is wrong, or because meta data is not data? Who knows! And there are minor similar issues.

I’ve been noticing the #OurStreets tag in my timeline. In case you want to take a look…

I think the quantity of cat and dog and bird posts I see are a sign of people longing to post positive things. It’s hard to post about good news because it doesn’t get reported widely. And so the good news we post is always private: the food we eat, the friends we meet, the things we see, and most of that we do using pictures because we’re not too good talking about our feelings. Anyway, make sure to follow the right amount of positive posters. Cat pictures for mental health, so to say.

@ohyran @PresGas Yeah it’s all fixes on top of fixes – run an irc bouncer on top of everything else… but really, in the end, there simply aren’t any good solutions.
@masterofthetiger

I was dreading self-hosting #mail again and so I was very happy to learn from @sir about Migadu.com. I’m going to give them a try because they have straightforward instructions on how to set it up using my own domain names. Swiss based but as I said elsewhere, I don’t quite understand why that is a benefit in terms of security. I do understand that it’s a benefit in terms of tax evasion, of course... Oh well. They’re hosting their stuff in France, by the way.

@alephnull the name alone drives me into the arms of Baphomet! I used iTunes. And then… aaargh. But at least no longer using iTunes left the files and directories in a usable state. Phew! I guess all the album covers that iTunes kept in a separate folder instead of adding them to the MP3 metadata were lost where I hadn’t added them myself. But most of the files seem to be ok.

@ondra picture of old man shaking fist at the sky or something! 😂

Importing pictures from the Olympus camera, which is just as proprietary as the phone, using USB or a card reader… no problem, of course.

@ondra Well, I have been struggling with GNU/Linux since SuSE 4.4 when I had to figure out the modeling settings for my monitor using black magic in order to get X11 running with 8MB of RAM after upgrading it from 4MB also I feel I had my fair share of fiddling and IT FUCKING PISSES ME OFF BY NOW. Perhaps as I grow older and the end is coming nearer I get the feeling that I’d like to spend my time doing other things. Nobody ever died wishing they had fiddled some more.

@ondra I’m not convinced I like the alternative better specially since I can’t pick and choose the features – it’s a complete package. I’d be angry about outdated Android systems, mandatory Google ware otherwise, or lack of support and hours wasted fiddling with rooted phones instead. And all complaints can be shot down with a similar reply – and yet no good alternative is to be found.

Apple software I don’t like: hundreds of pictures on the iPhones so of course I can use Photos (nope) or Preview to import them. Preview it is. Select 647 of the 731 pictures, import… wait… and it crashes after 554 images. Ah, right! How could I forget that this piece of software the developers seem not to be using themselves crashes somewhere between 200 and 300 images. Every single time, it seems.
Just let me mount the phones as external drives, you Silicon Valley brainiacs!