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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.

    I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?

    I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.

    The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.




  • And with SS7 they can get even more precise location, and you can’t really hide from that if you want to use a phone with a phone number, what is the point. This is an interesting way of attack, noone really thought about this before, but it’s not “oh-my-god everyone can be tracked via signal”. I guess the closest server doesn’t even selected via geographical distance, but much more depends on network infrastructure of your location, so Google Maps API can’t really help here.

    And again any VPN could defend against this, so if you want to hide which country you are in currently, it should be the 0th step to use a VPN.






  • My offline android music workflow:

    • Server: Navidrome but any music server supporting Subsonic API would work here. Navidrome has a nice UI, and reads MusicBrainz IDs, and can scrobble to ListenBrainz, that’s why I settled with this.
    • Mobile app: Ultrasonic, on Fdroid. There are a lot of ways you can set up caching. I set up that it should automatically download everything from my “Now playing” playlist, at home on wifi I just add a bunch of albums and playlists to the “Now playing” list, it takes a while but it transcodes and downloads everything in a couple of minutes. It has very good Android Auto support, and a widget. Due to an annoying bug I had to downgrade to version 4.7.1, but otherwise I love it.


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