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Best Gmail alternative?

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  • Proton has some technical issues as well. Recently there was a day when email wasn't working at all for hours, maybe even half a day. I'm paying for their VPN sub and using it for years and not going to move in nearby future, but if I was picking something now I would carefully consider other options. Never heard about those mentioned in thread though, if they are new I wouldn't use them, I'd like something with good record track of at least one decade, better few decades.

    • How do you feel about mandatory 2fa policies?

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  • I hate it. I already agreed to use unique unmemorizable password for every account and store them all in Bitwarden and now this is not enough? Yeah, I store my email password in Bitwarden too. With phones it's even worse, since it's way more probable to lose your phone than to lose your money due to database password breach. I don't understand why those probabilities are not estimated when introducing practices like this. Also, I don't remember the details but in the past I lost some accounts and passwords just by factory resetting the phone which had password manager app installed (probably forgot to transfer passphrases from the phone before wiping it).

    • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 26th

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    • What are some lesser known music genres that you'd recommend?

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    • SuperStationᵒⁿᵉ: The world's first affordable FPGA gaming console. A recreation of the best console of the 90s. Open source from day 1.

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    • SuperStationᵒⁿᵉ: The world's first affordable FPGA gaming console. A recreation of the best console of the 90s. Open source from day 1.

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  • Exactly my thoughts. I can buy real PS1 for 50$ where I live, and there are 25$ chinese retroconsoles that are able to run SNES+GBA+SEGA+Dendy+PS1 games (with bad PS1 performance though).

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  • What book in the history of literature has any sentence that starts with "What book in the history of literature has any sentence that ends with"? 😏

    • Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?

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  • I also couldn't find him directly denying it, and you're correct those examples in referenced image are no good - in the comments there are video versions of those showing none of them looking anywhere similar to what he did. There are other videos of Macron and Camala doing some gesture, but they are fetching their hand far up in front of them in more of a waving to audience way, so it doesn't look like nazi salute.

    • Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?

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  • Elon didn’t immediately say “No, I didn’t do the nazi thing.”

    He did though: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1881746484229763524. My hypothesis: he practiced this and realized what reaction it would cause, and did it simply to hype himself up. The whole inauguration event in people minds is now associated with Elon doing "sieg heil" while being high on ketamine.

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  • It got a bit more popularity over the last half of year. Not as big as X, but not small AF and it's the best "easy" alternative. The best "hard" alternative is mastodon, what makes it "hard" is it's very fragmented and it takes some efforts to pick instance, to understand consequences of your choice, and to figure out how to use your feed for different scenarios.

    • Is there a way to locally archive an entire Twitter account, replies included?

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  • Why use photos when you can just memorize the picture in your head? 🫠

    • Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?

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  • interference

    If system relies on candidates not using legally allowed methods of advertisement (aka 'propaganda') that are deeply ingrained into every field of media and commerce, then probably there's a problem with the system in the first place. Many popular musicians, games or products gained popularity by the same kind of 'propaganda' working by the same mechanics yet people were always okay with that.

    • Has anyone here learnt to draw at a later age, like 30+? What has been your experience and process?

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  • I really like this idea a lot and it's applicable in a variety of fields, not only in drawing!

    • Evidence mounts that Marvel Rivals stealthily places losing players in bot matches, and I know because I'm the loser

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  • Last time I played Fortnite it was also like this. It was bots + other weak players like you. It felt quite okay, early in the match you got some easy bot kills and later you had some challenge dealing with actual players of your skill level.

    • Why have there been so many "free" streaming services for movies and TV but not for music?

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  • It's because streaming in movies is exactly the same one thing everyone thinks about, while streaming in music is dozen of different things and you meant just a single particular one while excluding all others. If we consider all types of music streaming, there are countless free streaming services for this: youtube, soundcloud, mixcloud, spotify, thousands of internet radios.

    • Have you noticed the effects of dystopia yet?

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  • The goal is to be on so many that SQL JOIN goes OOM 😅

    • In your opinion, what's the ideal work schedule (workweek)?

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  • 3-4 hours a day 5 days a week worked fine for me when I was working. Meeting hours mandatory and the rest flexible. Remote work. With on-site work short-hours-more-days is more problematic because you have to spend time getting there and getting home, choosing less days with more hours is an obvious optimization.

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  • I agree with this in terms of process, but not necessarily agree in terms of result. If you enumerate the state space of target domain, you might realize that all the constructions there can be achieved by randomly introducing errors or modifications to finite set of predefined constructions. Most AI models don't really work like this from what I know (they don't try to randomize inference or introduce errors on purpose), otherwise they could probably evade model collapse. But I don't see why they can't work like this. Humans do often work like this though. A lot of new genres and styles appear when people simply do something inspired by something else, but fail to reproduce it accurately, and when evaluating it they realize they like how it turned out and continue doing that thing and it evolves further by slight mutations. I'm not saying I want AI to do this, or that I like AI or anything, I'm just saying I think this is a real possibility.

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  • This is a cool way to put it, but I think even just errors and randomness in reproduction of source ideas sometimes can count as original ideas. Nevertheless, I also think it doesn't fully encompass all range of mechanisms by which humans come up with original ideas.

    • How many games do you manage to play at the same time?

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  • I'm also using the same system as you. Currently I'm playing Skyrim as a story/ambiance game and Doom 2 (community maps/mapsets, which are releasing every day) as forever playable game. I have time to play more, but I somehow settled on this as I find it very comfortable and enjoyable. Before current Skyrim playthrough I played Steins;Gate and before that original Silent Hill 1 and so on. As infinite games I also sometimes play Quake (community maps/mapsets) and modded Minecraft.