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Yeah good question. I do a lot of email on planes and travel where there is no internet. In fact I refuse to use any software that isn’t offline first these days. I was a Fastmail …

A very good point.

Someone had to stay behind and muck out the stables...

This. Just silo the monolith out into tenants. Salesforce, not exactly a small monolith company, did this for a very very long time.

Got it. Fuck that. JSON has no part in an email stack. Have we not learned from our failures as a species. Edit: I've got 99 problems and 98 of them are JSON on a regular basis. Po…

I like the look of it but I don't know what JMAP is and what the advantage is over say IMAP / SMTP.

I envy you :)

The web site whitelist is global on iOS if all engines are Safari. As are any VPN tunnels. Which is the issue.

Yeah he was persuaded to do it, ironically considering YT is Google, using a video on YT which was trying to sell him VPN software. I blame the paranoia from the constant VPN indus…

It's pretty obvious. They're not disallowing it. They are removing the integration with the home screen so that it will run in third party browsers. That limits it to the smallest …

ALL problems are human problems. Don't try and write this off with that one. I can go all day on these. Second one ... corp Android phone. App update ships own browser engine to di…

I'd like him to leave for Mars. I'm not bothered if he gets there or not...

Well exactly. The point is that both sides of the argument are somewhat more nuanced as they are disingenuously promoted.

This is actually a big problem on Android. My ex father-in-law literally had his bank account ripped off (£18000) from rogue app installed from outside the app store. And Google's …

Yep. Microservices! AWS! Everything Gartner and Thoughtworks says! It'll look good on my resume... ..several years later.. Escalating cloud costs, high staffing cost, staff turnove…

Perhaps this is just "all we could deliver by the compliance deadline without compromising platform security" ? The truth is usually a lot less interesting than the hypothesis.

Ah yes, the poor end users suffering and the security being bullshit. I really can't wait to clean the first malicious browser out of a relative's iPhone and try and unsubscribe fr…

I've heard this a lot over the years but I disagree entirely. It's a matter of self motivation. I started on BASIC in 1981. They taught us Pascal at university. I moved to C on Uni…

I like clown-fiesta. That's accurate. I've been a clown. It's about plastering layers of shit on top of something which was never designed to do the job it is doing by people who h…

No they haven't but they have destroyed usability, my laptop battery and left a lot of brain damaged people who are incapable of seeing when a simple solution for a problem will do…

Ban anyone over the age of 60 from politics. It’s all senile old men trying to kill each other with younger people.

Glad to know that :)

I had a girlfriend who unpackaged a lot of stuff she bought at the checkout so she wouldn't have to deal with the trash. I thought it was insane for a bit but no it's quite reasona…

Yeah that's about it. They slowly made them prohibitively more expensive. I've actually had the same shopping bag for 27 years and have gone from being seen as a hippy weirdo to ne…

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