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Re: Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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Post by Brakenshire »

jeena wrote: post #307
bad_user wrote: post #213

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Thunderbird is still under active development, I'm one of their users, being the best email client for the desktop. Unfortunately Thunderbird is also a dead end, being incompatible with Firefox's direction. Yes, XUL is dead and Firefox is evolving into a Chrome substitute and while people have serious concerns about it, fact of the matter is that Chrome was designed for web apps and almost 9 years after its release C…

But gmail and fastmail don't work offline.

That is only because they haven't yet caught up with the technologies available to them. Are there are email web apps that have adopted Service Workers? Although to be fair that's not going to work well for keeping a large offline archive.

Re: Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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Post by ycombinete »

supercoder wrote: post #184
bttf wrote: post #127

I have been working on a prototype for a competitor to Pocket and other save-for-later services with an emphasis on minimalism, privacy and ease of use. https://slushi.es Very early app, features are rolling out daily. My end goal is to build a recommendation engine out of user data, while keeping things anonymous. Although social bookmarking has been done plenty times before, I think execution has been sub-par in pr…

Read it later apps are dead. Why do you think Pocket just got absorbed by Mozilla ?

What would you say killed them?

Better optimisation for mobile viewing has given me less use for Pocket, but I still use it a lot, so I'm interested in your opinion here.

Re: Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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Post by vetinari »

icebraining wrote: post #359
flukus wrote: post #297

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Probably not. Developers are fickle and few like to do maintenance only work. So even if it's still getting security patches they are likely to be losing the institutional knowledge to continue that in future, not to mention keeping up with things like API changes for gmail integration.

Which Gmail APIs? Has there been an update to IMAP that I'm not aware of?

This one?

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

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Post by bad_user »

Accacin wrote: post #387
bad_user wrote: post #350

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The only time I find myself offline is when I'm flying. Not that big of a deal.

So you don't need or require backups of your emails offline?

For personal email I don't care that much for backups, I trust Fastmail to do it better than me.

I do use Thunderbird for offline backups, more because of the thought of losing important work email. But without combining it with an actual backup system, that's not actual backup, because IMAP does synchronization and messages deleted on the server translate to messages deleted on the client side as well. So I combine it with Arq Backup, which does daily uploads of everything on my laptop.

I do wonder whether using Thunderbird for backups is wise. I never recovered from a Thunderbird archive. Sometimes I'm thinking that a solution like OfflineIMAP or mbsync/isync might be better.

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Post by icebraining »

vetinari wrote: post #394
icebraining wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which Gmail APIs? Has there been an update to IMAP that I'm not aware of?

This one? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

I'm asking which Gmail APIs would Thunderbird have to keep up with. As far as I know, it never used that API, hence it doesn't have to keep up with it.

Re: Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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Post by icebraining »

flukus wrote: post #360
icebraining wrote: post #359

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Which Gmail APIs? Has there been an update to IMAP that I'm not aware of?

I haven't used thunderbird in a while, have they not added an easy setup for people using the popular online mail servers yet?

You don't need an API for that, just a few hardcoded settings that get auto-filled based on the domain.

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Post by dspillett »

baddox wrote: post #328
duckmuck wrote: post #311

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Urinals MUST count. Assuming that women's bathrooms have more sit-down toilets than men's, we are biased. It is unfair and sexist to allow female dominated companies more than their fair share of project managers! /s

Do women's bathrooms have more sit down toilets than men's?

Generally, though less toilets in total because you can cram more urinals into the same space. A common small office toilet space has room for three stalls so in the female room that is what you'll find. In the male variant the space of one of the stalls will instead be given to two individual urinals or a small "urinal wall" that comfortably houses two people or you can get three into if people are desperate. Larger rooms offer greater flexibility, but ultimately urinals take less space than stalls so you get more of them.

Of course that doesn't always mean more people going at the same time as some people don't like urinating so close to someone else so the second spot goes unused, and some of us prefer to sit for a no.1 anyway unless in a rush.

Re: Mozilla Acquires Pocket

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Post by ikurei »

dredmorbius wrote: post #349
apetresc wrote: post #32

Something I've always wished Pocket would do is download an offline copy of videos I add to the list (using, say, youtube-dl [1]), so I can watch them on the subway, etc. But they never did this, presumably either for legal reasons, or because it was a giant waste of bandwidth considering a huge percentage of Pocketed articles never get read. Now that Mozilla is promising to open-source this, I eagerly await adding t…

If you're on Android, I've found a set of tricks which work for this pretty well. Ingredients: 1. Termux App. 2. Termux API App. 3. Termux CLI utilities. apt install termux-api 4. Python: apt install python 5. youtube-dl: pip install youtube-dl 6. VLC App. Install from app store. 7. A set of shell functions for clipboard and application access: alias xc='termux-clipboard-set' alias xp='termux-clipboard-get' open () {…

I've played a bit with terminals on Android, but I only had real success using ssh. This seems very convenient, I'll play around with termux, thanks!

BTW, I'm unable to access /storage/emulated/0, it seems Termux doesnt have permission (and the app doesnt list it in its permissions). Is your phone rooted?

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