Here are a bunch of arguments pro and contra: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdcDuIZVvg

One thing that’s fishy about Proton is, the way how they’re turning away from the Fediverse when it comes to social media presence. It’s one thing when a company hasn’t discovered Mastodon yet. But Proton did have a Mastodon account, and they decided to abandon it. Not standing with the most prominent human-friendly (and in my opinion, most decent of all) platform and siding with the traditional, proven to be exploitative corporate platforms is something I cannot stomach.

The other thing is, I’m looking at my possibilities to replace Android with /e/OS in my degoogling efforts. And Tuta does publish their apps on F-Droid, which is a major advantage.

Dude, my email handling is a huge mess, no matter what angle we’re looking at it.

Let’s start with my private email on my private devices, as I have full freedom of doing whatever the fuck I want:

For more than 20 years up until about a year ago, my strategy was to keep everything in my inbox. That’s it. No custom folders, no labels, no filters. And I had been using the web UI, as it was clean, convenient and the search function was good, I always found everything I needed. I only deleted those emails that didn’t carry absolutely any value to me, like some promotions that didn’t automatically end up in Spam. I kept even registration confirmations just so I know when exactly I signed up on a website. This worked very well. At some point I created another account at a different provider, just to be able to pick a username that didn’t suck (as much as the previous one I made as a kid), and used that one for professional purposes only (job seeking basically).

Then as my long and painful degoogling process started last year, I signed up to proton (I should’ve done tuta instead), and I decided I wanna be more organized, because I’ve read how cool it was. I created a few aliases strategically: one I’d never share with anyone else other than financial institutions (I blew it right away with PayPal, because PayPal does share it with all webshops where you pay with it), I made one for personal communication (friends and family only), and a few others. Also, for a while I wanted to keep my old accounts to make sure I won’t miss changing my email somewhere important.

So I ended up with a crazy lot of email addresses, therefore I started to use Thunderbird on desktop and on mobile, but on mobile I also have to use proton mail, because there’s no proton bridge for mobile. But still, two email clients are manageable.

And I also started to create a meticulously designed folder structure in all my accounts, plus set up filters for every kinds of emails I regularly receive. I processed thousands of emails, and there are tens of thousands more in my inbox, and I’m so damn drained of dealing with them, I basically gave up. Now I have a half-baked solution, everything is all over the place.

I receive an email, I open it on my phone, but then I decide to deal with it later, and I forget to mark it unread. Then, when later comes, I try to open it on my computer, but I forgot which folder it was in (I have hundreds of folders by now), and it wasn’t marked as unread, so it wasn’t easy to spot. Also, generally, when I just receive an email, even if it’s clearly marked as unread, it’s still hard to spot, because the list is quite long on the left side when even just one account is not collapsed. I’d have to scroll a lot to actually see it.

Also, there are many emails that could fit in multiple folders. I hate that so much.

Thunderbird considerably slowed down due to the hundreds of filters, even though I have a pretty beefy desktop PC.

At work I don’t have much choice. We’re using Outlook and it sucks so much. I tried to do the same organization there, and even though I have much fewer emails there, I sucked at it the exact same way. It’s also a half-finished mess.

On top of that, Outlook filters don’t even work properly. You cannot apply the same condition twice within one filter (e.g. subject contains X AND subject contains Y), and those that I set up just simply stop working after a while. Some folders don’t indicate the count of new messages, some do. It’s the shittiest email software I’ve ever seen.

Overall I really like Thunderbird, it’s very flexible and it works well, I just suck at organizing my emails efficiently. Maybe I should just go back to the inbox-only mode, that one worked well.

Hold on! Can I still do some research before this happens?

One thing I’d do for sure is, transfer to a different primary school. A better one. I just don’t know which one, not even now.

Anyway, a 166 MHz Celeron CPU and 32 MB of RAM aren’t very performant, most likely I won’t do anything insane with it. I won’t be able to write Rust applications, as a Rust compiler wouldn’t exist yet. Also, my HTML5 knowledge wouldn’t be usable either. I’d have to descend to XHTML strict standard, and CSS will be a pain in the ass once again.

I’m just realizing, I wouldn’t be able to do much with my current knowledge.

Education and hard work, these are the two things I’d pursue at all costs. One of the biggest fuck-up of my life was at age 6, but it could be still corrected at age 8.

“Why’d I give you so much money for a taco? BECAUSE I’M CRAAAAZY!!!”

Crazy Dave

What are you working as? No need to answer. Everyone knows for themselves. Now imagine if you’re constantly being recorded while on duty, every single critical step you make in your job. Even knowing nobody is gonna watch the footage unless there’s an accident.

In my opinion it adds a stress factor, and as someone who had terrible health consequences of growing up under constant stress, I’d most likely refuse to work somewhere, where I’m being recorded.

MentourPilot has outlined some possibilities though. Out of all ideas of applications in the cockpit, probably the best is when the interaction with instruments are recorded, not the entire cockpit. But then I’m not sure how useful that is. Yes, in this particular accident involving AI171 it would be absolutely crucial. But in other accidents? Every accident is different. The FDR already records the state of instruments. It’s highly unlikely that in other accidents such a footage would be useful. On the other hand, I find it likely that in other accidents other camera angles would be needed, which aren’t recorded.

It’s a really tough choice. Yes, safety first, but… pilots are humans too. We should rather do everything we can for them to not have any reason to do anything malicious, no matter if it’s accidental or deliberate. Prefer their mental health, their well being, their training, their work-life balance.

Dude, you are rich.

Actually, in Hungary (at least when I was a kid) they thought us, pedestrians, to use the left side, although this was more important when there was no sidewalk. The reason is, drivers might not see pedestrians very well, especially at night, but pedestrians do have a higher chance to see cars, as cars are usually illuminated. The pedestrian is facing forward, so it’s easy to see and react when a car is coming. But from behind? They’ll pass on the right side of the road, so there should be plenty of clearance.

And I was legit surprised when I moved to Germany, pedestrians here are using the right side.

I truly believe in Scrum, as it can make a team’s work very efficient when it’s done right. Been there, done that.

Now the thing is, it forces people to actively collaborate, and I’m quite an introverted person. Also, a good Scrum workflow includes regular demo sessions (perhaps even with customers), and I absolutely hate that. But I accept it, it’s part of the game and I think it did contribute to my own self improvement as well.

I guess, it depends on the dictatorship. For example if it’s the one being formed in the US currently, here are some ideas: https://theintercept.com/2024/11/14/trump-agenda-organize-protest-movement/

Ever since I got my own place, I’m significantly less stressed. So much, that my health condition pretty much got back to normal after living with a colon disease (AND my mom) for a long time.

Folks, do not underestimate the power of stress.

What could be the best possible way for Malaysia to commemorate the tragic event of MH17 on its 10th anniversary? Joining the terrorists who shot it down, right?

I’m using Qwant. Works better for me than DuckDuckGo.

Oh there’s a lot.

• When I was a kid, parents and teachers used to teach, if you have sore muscles a day after an extensive workout, you need to work out even more in order to reduce the soreness. In fact, however, you need to rest those muscles.
• I thought, pepperoni was pepper. (Like bell pepper, just smaller; similar to chilli). Then my girlfriend enlightened me after a confusing conversation, that pepperoni was a kind of salami. And then recently, at a company event before ordering pizza and after a very confusing discussion of what toppings we order, it turned out pepperoni was actually a kind of a salami, but not everyone agreed. So by now I’ve learned that pepperoni is neither of them. It doesn’t exist. It’s listed on pizza menus, and when you order it, you’ll get something for sure, but you won’t know in advance what it would be.
• This isn’t new, the realization was several years ago, but fits this list nicely: I thought, perfume was something for women. It turned out, there was perfume for men too.
• Parents used to teach, if you read in the dark (on paper, not on a screen, I must add), you’re ruining your eyes. But if you think about it: wtf does low light do to your eyes? By that logic, you’re constantly ruining your eyes while sleeping.
• For some reason I used to think, you could simply delete related entities bound by foreign key constraints in postgres, if you ran the query in a transaction. Once when I finally needed to do this, I learned the hard way I was wrong.

There’s a lot more than this, probably I’ll update this comment in the future. Or not.

Milk chocolate without any nuts.

At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they’re so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.

I set the timer on the dishwasher to finish approximately when I get home after work. However, that day I didn’t really know what time I would get home, as there was an after-work BBQ event.

When I arrived at home and stepped into the kitchen, the timer showed 0:00 and shortly afterwards it switched off.

My proudest achievement in like two years.

I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.

It’s easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That’s what terrorists do.

And do Israeli people actually approve of this genocide?

There are! FediTips usually shares some channels on Mastodon that they consider interesting. It’s worth looking their posts through: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo