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I've been a Threema user for over 7 years now and I have my most important contacts there.

Telegram is no E2E-Messenger. I know you can enable it per chat, but that's so solution. And groups are always not encrypted. Also they use some non-standard encryption. Why?

Signal needs my phone number. I dislike that idea.

I use Discord for anything unimportant. I prefer to not use it though. For voice I still prefer TeamSpeak, because of the end to end encryption and self hosting.

I don't know or don't use the others.

I agree about the Spotify desktop app. It got worse and worse. But for me there are different reasons. Especially the performance got worse enormously. Still running the 0.9.7. The old Android apps were way faster, too. I really miss those times. Hardware got better but software got so much worse it's pure insanity.

I've been a Posteo user for over 7 years now and I couldn't be happier. I also use it for calendar and contacts sync. It just works. But I doubt it is a Gmail replacement. It is a great email service provider though.

Firefox 84.0 6 years ago

Firefox has it at least since the last version. Probably it's disabled on your Firefox for some reason?

Water! This might sound a little weird, but I use a nose spray (any atomizer will do) filled with water and spray on my closed eyes when I feel like it. I started doing this this year and it helped me tremendously. No more eye strain!

Before that I tried EVERYTHING!

* Dark Mode

* Night mode (Flux etc.)

* Changing Brightness

* Changing ambient light

* a few different eyedrops

* Looking away more often

* Sitting farther away from my monitor

* Different monitor positions

* Different monitors

* Sitting less in front of a monitor

* Bigger Text

Nothing helped me. I asked my doctor and he couldn't help me at all. Sprinkling some water onto my eyes? It just works.

(I guess my eyes are just overheating or something? But honestly I have no idea.)

I have this issue with my T470. I'd love to use some Linux distribution, but not waking up brought me back to Windows. A temporary solution was just keeping it on, which used up about 13% of the battery per night, but that's not a long term solution.

Instant.page 6 years ago

Except it’s not bullshit. EasyList does exactly what they promise: privacy. Prefetching is always privacy issue because you don’t know what’s running on the server side. They will log what I’m looking at and which sites I’m probable to view next. That’s almost Amazon level on page tracking. I think I could probably build an invisible grid and use that script to track users more precisely, but I haven’t looked into it. Prefetching can be misused and therefore should not be allowed. And yes, it’s theoretical. So are XSS, CSRF, and others.

If that was the truth I don’t understand how anyone would come up with the first statement, which is just to precise to be a miscommunication or whatever the reason is. That just sounds like damage control. I am really disappointed at how bad the whole test went through today. Hopefully they get everything sorted out ASAP.

I was wondering about that, because I always thought, that HN was pretty open about everything and there wouldn’t be a lot of moderation or any at all. What is this? Facebook or Reddit?

I love that idea. I use mail as my todo list and I prefer having such things in my inbox than digging through RSS or anything since I’m already using my email everywhere.

Also I had the idea of having an RSS to email service in the future a few months back which kinda goes into the same direction. So that would be one daily mail for all subscriptions.

Godot 3.2 6 years ago

I feel like I used Godot wrong when I read these comments. I did three small games and it seemed to me that everything in Godot was put on the same complexity level. Everything is simple, but super simple tasks have become harder. And then there are inconsistencies like the sprites are not in the node tree but in another space. I don’t get it. I found it really hard to get my ideas into the engine. The low level approach would take just a fraction of the time for me.

The issue with Google is, that Google doesn’t care about privacy and randomly changes its behavior, like recently closing thousands of accounts for using the live chat in YouTube. This company isn’t trustworthy.

I’d prefer such applications to run offline with automatic instant synchronization, so no company can tell me what to do or not to do.