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willya, in How do you spend your idle time?
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Lemmy, podcasts, music, YouTube, games.

Backbone is a great controller for gaming.

captainlezbian, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

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

FractalsInfinite,

Looks like its down for the moment

meekah,
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Lemmy hug of death

angrystego,

Works for me.

meekah,
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probably just less traffic now with the thread being a bit older

ElBarto, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?
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It was hard enough getting my mate to use discord, I’m not gonna try to teach him how to use another one.

talizorah, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?
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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.

paddirn, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

I’m not really sure what the point is. I use Discord regularly, but have never seen any ‘must-have’ reason to get Nitro.

whereBeWaldo,

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.

Deconceptualist, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

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.

hperrin, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

port87.com

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.)

Tuggles,

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.)?

kaffeeringe,
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It’s not Google. I’m sold.

atoro,

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

emptiestplace,

It is trivial to strip +xyz from all of the email addresses in a list.

bitwaba,

Same for -xyz…

njinx,

If you read the website they have a workaround. Email sent to the bare address will Be denied and receive an automated response.

Forbo,
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Buy a domain, set up a catch-all and use servicename@yourdomain. Boom.

rappo,

you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use appname@mydomain.com

abraxas,

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.

rappo,

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)

abraxas,

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.

squidspinachfootball,

Are you able to differentiate between emails as they come in? E.g., seeing an email was sent to lemmyworld@abraxas.me vs spammynewsletter@abracas.me?

rappo,

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.

xigoi,
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Where is the pricing?

hperrin,

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.
xigoi, (edited )
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That sounds reasonable! Though personally, I definitely wouldn’t use an e-mail service without IMAP support.

hperrin,

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.

flameguy21, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

Don’t trust anyone who paid for Discord

Anti_Weeb_Penguin, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

Dollars are a luxury here so no.

ohlaph, in What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?

A good pair of pants.

feef,

For 20€? Lol

meekah,
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I really wanna know where you get good pants for 20€ lmao

Mr_Blott,

Wait until you find out what pants are in other countries 😂

meekah,
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If I want a pair that lasts longer than a year I can expect to pay 80€+ here

Globulart,

For underwear…?

meekah,
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do you call your underwear “pants”?

matter,

Idk if they do but the whole UK does

meekah,
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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.

Globulart,

Some people up north do I believe, I had a mate in uni from Manchester who would use pants for trousers but the majority think underwear.

Generally it’s kind of a childish term for underwear, and usually you’d hear people referring to boxers/briefs/bra/etc.

meekah,
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I see, thanks for that insight!

Globulart,

Yes that what Mr blott was getting at I think. Pants are underwear in the UK

meekah,
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Ahhh gotcha. Interesting.

notExactlyI20, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?
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Vencord is a thing, so no 🤔

PeWu,

FakeNitro really comes in clutch here

Gorgeous_Sloth,

Never heard of it. Looks really great !

meekah,
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does that support streaming my monitor/applications with sound?

notExactlyI20, (edited )
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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

tetra, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?
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With 20k GitHub stars not really obscure I suppose, but maybe someone doesn’t know it:

gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

Works offline and you can chain recipes.

chaorace,
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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

lud,

Fixed link

You have to escape all the “)” otherwise it ends the link.

chaorace,
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I don’t know what platform you’re on, but from the web frontend my link works as-is. Here’s what the escaped version you sent looks like:

A screenshot of the prior comment showing a really fucked up mess of text instead of a link

If you’re using a mobile app, I would suggest that you report the link rendering issue as a bug

lud,

You’re right. The rendering in my app is broken.

danileonis, in What do you use to backup all your photos and documents, cloud or external drive or both?
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Syncthing

zacher_glachl, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

Man I wish my friends were still using teamspeak.

scottywh, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?

Hell no

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