janci

Yeah, the search in Thunderbird never worked for me, so I use the quick filter. Apparently it does not use the index (and is slower), but it works.

My setup: rsync to Synology NAS, snapshotting there, sync to remote Synology NAS over VPN. (The other NAS is at my parent's and they have similar setup syncing to me)

The best part: it is just files, not some proprietary archive. I have high confidence in this. I can restore with the most rudimentary tools.

This setup has worked for me well on linux, windows and now mac. I migrated to new computer&os by restoring the backup mostly.

This has MorningLightMountain vibes.

Power lines and pylons are superficially the same all over the world, but differ in details we subconsiously remember. The power lines in DayZ felt like home.

There are also Rivers - when spaces between words on multiple lines align vertically. Harder to control for than widows and orphans.

In my experience, GDPR works wonders here. After saying I do not wish my personal information to be processed and revoke any consents a few times I do not receive these calls anymore.

It seems application state is mainly maintained in the widgets. Reminds me of Delphi. Is there a similar concept for representing state in a well-suited data structures, that can be created and composed visually like the UI widgets?

But without an MS accoutn it would not be connected to the browsing history

My reasons to hate XML:

- element vs attribute ambiguity

- model of the document does not fit nicely to programming model of structs, dicts and arrays

- too many complexities (entities, cdata, parser directives)

- cardinality unknown without schema (is that a single value, or an array that just happens to have one element)

- order of elements may or may not be significant depending on schema

- not really extensible if the original schema does not explicitly allow for extensibility

- some types of valid XML documents are not representable by a schema (e.g. any number of different elements in any order)

- verbosity

- namespace identifiers being URIs that may or may not be resolvable

What I want for general data exchange is JSON with comments and sane namespaces.

Edit: line wraps

I'd love if that UI was part of the file manager. totalcmd.exe or Finder.app or mc or Krusader etc.

I never understood why file open/save dialog is a separate thing. I want to use my file manager to open and save files!

path-based auth middleware is a bad practice IMHO

Why put such crappy display on such a high power device?

As a kid I was intrigued by telephones. I got hands on two old rotary phones and I wanted them to talk together. I wired them in series with a battery. Despite my dad telling me it never gonna work - it kinda worked. You could hear the other side just well! It just did not ring.

I've made a great effort in making the phones ring. At that time I did not know it needs 90V (fortunately - I'd probably hurt myself). I figured out it needs AC, but how do you produce AC with only a battery? I even made a hack to rapidly reverse polarity using a relay in self-oscillating mode, only to get shocked by the induced voltage by the relay coil and no ring.

(Now I see that maybe if I used the coil voltage it would actually ring!)

This great article brought back nice memories of tinkering with the phones.

How was CSS supposed to protect against copying the encrypted data? We should not need to decrypt the video to duplicate the disc.