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  • Post programming questions online and you’ll inevitably get someone saying, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Why is it so bad to step outside the box?

    Am I reinventing the wheel when I use ext4 as a key value store instead of Redis? Or a sorted fixed-width binary file to lookup a relation instead of Sqlite?

    I think for answering programming questions, the default answers are like a one-size fits all t-shirt. Yeah, they will always cover you up… but usually not “optimal.” Why is that? I think its because these are common solutions that everyone understands even though there are many ways to skin a cat.

    It definitely leads to cargo culting.





  • It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

    I’ve experienced this. For me, it was important to be able to communicate w people AND to not give all my data to Facebook apple or google. Since I can’t make ppl care about privacy, the best I could do was stick w SMS/MMS.

    Obv, messages I send to ppl who use and android or apple device still get sent up to the mother ship by the receiving device… but I can’t control that.

    There are a lot of great apps out there and Signal is one of em. I think if Signal still sent SMS/MMS to ppl without it… I’d reinstall. But without that, I’d be using it all alone.

    Im getting rambly… what do I think? I think it would be healthy to move on




  • lntl@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPosteo pricing
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    6 days ago

    Yeah, maybe something like that. I switched to Posteo (from Proton, which didn’t have IMAP back then, and that from Gmail) like a decade ago. And something that I appreciate about it is that I’ve developed a practice/ habit of archiving or deleting old emails.

    I save important photos, documents etc to my local disk and then delete the email. For context, I have 70 messages in my inbox.

    Like I said above, the way I think about it is they don’t want the cost of guaranteeing additional storage, but it’s just a guess. If you were to send them an email and ask (I’ve sent a couple over the years, they respond to email), I’d be curious what their public response is.


  • lntl@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPosteo pricing
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    7 days ago

    Does Posteo do a bunch of stuff that warrants a high rate for the higher end compared to the very affordable low end?

    Posteo offers IMAP, CalDav, and CardDav. (Those were the features which sold me.) I think Tuta, and Proton don’t offer IMAP and none of them offer any WebDAV.

    But does that relate to their storage pricing? Hard to say. Usually when I see things that are priced higher than what appears to be market rate, I understand that to mean the service provider doesn’t really want to do the thing. (Guaranteeing the availability of lots of GBs of storage for many users)