I spend a lot of time trying to figure out obscure undocumented data formats and cyberchef is absolutely incredible for that. Here’s a fun little preview of what that looks like
AFAIK one of its patches lets you stream in native res or full 4k60fps (something that only nitro lets you), so yes, I think it does because it patches the client adding stuff to it, and not actually removing it, so it should work just fine (Im sorry I mostly use it for the community theming and some minor patching, can’t say more about it). Here’s a video if you’re interested in it tho
So if you say “pants” people in the UK think first of underwear? I know they use trousers as well but I thought pants is still predominantly a word for jeans etc.
An email service that uses addresses like yourname-appname@port87.com to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like yourname-friends@port87.com.
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address (yourname@port87.com), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.
Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.
Google doesn’t even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.
So if you have abraxas@gmail.com and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using whatever@abraxas.me you want. There’s no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? lemmyworld@abraxas.me will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)
Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.
indeed. It comes in as reallyshadywebsite@squidspinachfootball.xyz, so not only can you easily filter/label them, but you can immediately tell who had a security breach and/or sold your email.
I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:
Receive unlimited mail, 500MB storage: Free
Send unlimited mail*: $1/month
2GB extra: $2/month
10GB extra: $6/month
20GB extra: $10/month
100GB extra: $20/month
1TB extra: $40/month
There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:
Native mobile app (right now it’s a PWA): Free
IMAP/SMTP/CardDAV for third party clients and to import/export/sync: Undetermined price
Custom domain with unlimited addresses: Undetermined price
Additional users for you custom domain: Undetermined price
The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.
I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)
PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.
Taking a chemistry class? ptable.com is the best Periodic Table site by far, packed with info and ways to visualize the relationships between elements.
Interested in what class doesn’t teach you about the elements? Theodore Gray’s Wooden Periodic Table Table website has a ton of very high resolution shots of the best samples you’ll find, along with detailed backstory on where each one came from or how it was used.
Same here, couldn’t care less about cosmetics on an app that I use to chat with friends while playing games. Non-cosmetic advantages aren’t really that great either, there are always better ways of file sharing when you get caught onto that 25mb limit. I guess it may differ for people frequenting on public servers though.
I've been using discord since mid 2018, and got Nitro shortly after. Loved longer messages, bigger file uploads, and HD screensharing, especially after Mixer went down (FTL streaming was the only service that let me share my gameplay to friends fast enough for them to react).
That moved to Discord Classic, I kept those things that I use daily, and its worth it to me. It took a lot of convincing to get my friends to migrate from my self hosted Mumble server to Discord for voice chat... Before Steam revamped it's friends interface, there weren't a lot of good options. What were you gonna use, Skype? Teamspeak?! Discord isn't nearly as valuable today, in 2023, but at the time it was worth it. Till it starts to come apart at the seams, not sure why to switch.
Idk how obscure it is but Paul’s Online Math Notes tutorial.math.lamar.edu are the best math guide I’ve ever had. It got me through an engineering degree
Yes, though just nitro basic. Discord doesn't show ads and claims to not sell my data. While I can afford to do so, I'd much rather pay a few bucks a month to keep it that way.
The number of people in this thread aggressively against a free-to-use service having any kind of way to pay employees and server bills makes me fucking depressed, and helps to explain why most free services I enjoy never seem to stay afloat with just an optional payment-based membership thing.
Edit: To people suggesting less corporate-based (whether FOSS or not) alternatives, that's totally cool! Just remember that the people behind these projects need some way to pay the bills the same way the corporate ones do, so I encourage you to contribute to them, whether that's through e.g., code improvements (which doesn't pay bills but is still helpful!) or plain old donations.
Exactly this. Every one demands everything to be free to use and then wonders why everything gets crammed with ads and micro transactions and data gathering. You want quality software? You have to pay for it somewhere. Even FOSS. Developers have to eat too. Either pay upfront or be enshittified. I’d rather pay up front.
I don’t wonder about it. I expect the ads to show up on free things, but I do not care. I will just move to the next shite free software, and be happy. The only program I would consider paying a subscription for would be a drawing program. You get to make money from a drawing program, so it levels out the subscription cost
I dislike the way discord promotes their paid subscription which is nitro. Not to say, discord went the regular way of all of the social apps from the very niche tool for one exact thing to becoming all in one app and trying to justify it as a reason for pressuring users into buying subscriptions.
While discord tries to be something for new generation of users it is still deeply rooted in partly old - partly new management view of what success is. And i, honestly dislike it. And disliking something doesn’t make me feel better about paying for it
Likewise, pay for full Nitro, I can afford it and it's a platform I use frequently and enjoy, I'm glad they let others who can't pay for Nitro have a pretty much equivalent service for free.
It's not free to run a platform, and it's unreasonable to demand everything for free. It could be more reasonably priced (basic is not too bad), but honestly I'm okay with subsidising others for something like this.
I sometimes gift it to friends I run a discord server with around 150ish people, so discord tends to be a platform I spend a lot of time on. As it stands now, I don’t have major qualms with the developers of Discord, so for now, I don’t mind spending money on it.
asklemmy
Newest
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.