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mxuribe commented on Omarchy Is Out world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy... · Posted by u/kristianp

jeswin · 3 hours ago

The world needs people like DHH.

When he saw issues with the Apple ecosystem, decides to make useful, well thought-out tooling for helping developers adopt Linux. When he saw how expensive the cloud can be, goes on to build open source tooling for deploying on bare-metal servers. Both have been successful.

Not just blog posts. Blog posts followed by hard work to fix the problem.

mxuribe · 3 hours ago

I don't know DHH personally, but seeing what he did by introducing ruby on rails, plus listening to his thoughts via the rework podcast, also reading about his company's move away from the hyperscaler cloud providers, and now both the omakube and omarchy offerings...yeah, we need more folks (with his kind of fame of sorts) to help others as well.

mxuribe commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

Telaneo · 3 days ago

> but folks outside of U.S. are perfectly cool with all manner of different TLS.

Users in other countries are very likely to be more familiar with both their own local domain, and have probably also experienced websites from neighbouring countries, while your average American has never even seen a website with a .us domain (never even seen it used myself), and are a lot less likely to have needed to go to a .ca or .mx website.

That said, I'd expect to get a similar reaction from people in other countries if you said your email was firstname.lastname@mydomain.christmas, or whatever other funny top level domain.

mxuribe · 2 days ago

> Users in other countries are very likely to be more familiar with both their own local domain, and have probably also experienced websites from neighbouring countries, while your average American has never even seen a website with a .us domain (never even seen it used myself), and are a lot less likely to have needed to go to a .ca or .mx website...

Yeah, agreed; that has been my experience as well. And in fact, i think that because folks outside U.S. are at least familiar with the TLDs of their neighboring countries, that fact at least helps them understand that there are more TLDs out there than simply their country's or only .com/.net/.org...its an awareness that they at least learn about...whereas folks in the U.s. might be - i don't know - maybe sheltered more in these things.

> ...That said, I'd expect to get a similar reaction from people in other countries if you said your email was firstname.lastname@mydomain.christmas, or whatever other funny top level domain...

True, there are just so many TLDs - well, outside the country code TLDs - now that it is hard to know what is real/valid or not. :-)

mxuribe commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

bsoles · 3 days ago

That hasn't been my experience in US. Login.gov, Social Security, Global Entry, etc. all work perfectly fine with Proton (@pm.me) domains. At least, so far.

mxuribe · 2 days ago

To clarify my point, i mean that over the years, as i have engaged with *human beings* in situations that involve in real life/physical interaction (like standing in line at motrovehilces, getting passport photos at county clerk office, etc., it had been an interesting thing having to briefly explain to folks that .com, .net, and .org are not the only valid TLDs for email addresses....and where i most encountered that is gov. services as well as customer service reps.

To your point, agreed that *logins* for web site/apps and mobile apps are usually not an issue for my non- .com/.net/.org email addresses. In fact, for logins, gov services tend to be quite accomoddating and i don't ever think i had any issues there, and usually not a problem...But, years ago i *DID* encounter a couple of commercial/business/non-gov websites where they only expected .com/.net/.org email address...so it was a problem there on the non-gov website side of things...but even then, it thankfully was not very often, and nowadays its nearly a non-issue.

Again, my recommendation was just saying that for real, human interactions, if its possible, pick a common enough TLD to make life easier. ;-)

mxuribe commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

wooptoo · 3 days ago

Zoho Mail is very good, priced well, and available in multiple zones- EU/US/etc.

mxuribe · 3 days ago

Same here! Quite low prices, has been stable, and i use my personal domain (for my family)...and can't complain.

mxuribe commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

TranquilMarmot · 3 days ago

I own a domain that I use as my primary email address, but it's a "premium" domain that costs quite a bit to lease every year. To me the main concern here is that my payment fails, I don't notice, the domain goes up for sale and somebody grabs it. Then they have access to everything.

So, I use my personal domain for all mail except anything that's "vital" like government websites, banking, paying rent, etc. for which I use my email provider's domain. And of course I'm registered with my domain registrar with a different email domain.

mxuribe · 3 days ago

Hi @TranquilMarmot, first off, i think the recommendation from @AnonC on their long term approach to registering a domain name is absolutely brilliant! Do that!

Another recommendation you should consider is to find a domain that ends in one of the common top-level domains - like .COM, .NET, or .ORG - because for using with *vital government services* you would not believe how many good natured civil servants (or for that manner even customer service folks in private/commercial companies too!) have no idea that email addresses can end in something other than .com, .net, or .org...and if you try to give them an address that, say, ends in like .FR, or .CC, or .ME, etc...They will try to place a ".com" at the end of it! My experience shows that folks in the U.S. know far less about other TLDs...and are more likely to commit this error, but folks outside of U.S. are perfectly cool with all manner of different TLS. I have had a somesurname.CC domain name as the mailbox for all my family members for more than a decade...and they are all trained to be LOUD and explicit when they communicate to government workers and customer service folks. So, i should have just gotten an easier TLD, but ah well. Live and learn! :-)

EDIT: Forgot to add that choossing the more common .COM, .NET, or .ORG TLDs for a domain name *tends* to be cheaper than many premium domains names. Each registrar wil of course vary, but mostly these tend to be reasonably priced.

mxuribe commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

tsimionescu · 3 days ago

I wonder how many more people have lost access to their DNS than to their email account. When you lease a domain (you can't buy domains), you have to periodically renew your lease - this is much more likely to be a problem than typical mail accounts. And if you lose your domain, and someone buys it, they now get all of your email - a much worse situation than Google locking out of your account. And there is no chance to appeal - again much worse than even Google's terrible user help.

mxuribe · 3 days ago

I have zero data to justify my assumption...but i assume less people lose their domain vs folks who lose access to their email. That being said, fully agreed that managing one's domain name - especially the one tied to your mail email address - is so critically important to protect. Big brand domain name leasers, er, um, i mean registrars (BTW, agreed with you on only being able to *lease* domains) tend to offer extra account protection like multi-factor authentication, which should be the bare minimum that is used. At some point, if someone is managing LOTS of domain names, i get that it can be a burden...but for low number of domains (or even just 1 or 2 domains for a family), i think focusing on good security and keeping on payment aspects is not so tough...and helps immensely from getting negatively impacted.

mxuribe commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg

w108bmg · 8 days ago

I honestly don't get the name hate? It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Exposing" word documents in the CLI.

mxuribe · 7 days ago

Hi @w108bmg i get where you're coming from...And, if your intent is to use this wonderful tool that you built for you and some small circle of friends, etc..., then the naming is of course, your choice, and you can do what you want! But, you did post it on hacker news, and you did ask for feedback. If your intent is to have this cool app be used by more users, then you should consider the feedback that you're getting here. Should all this feedback represent every single possible user? No! Let's face it, hacker news has a lot of tech-savvy users...so there's many different types of potential users not accounted for here, and so it would be good for you to get feedback from other users that you want using your app...if you want that.

This software is your baby...but if you named your baby something that possibly repels others, you should feel comfortable with that feedback going forward. i don;t mean that in a bad way, simply a fact of how humans (good or bad) respond to things. This is all simply a series of signals. What you do with that is your business of course.

By the way, have you considered a more boring name for the app like *DocSee*? :-)

mxuribe commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg

majkinetor · 7 days ago

I like the typo :)

I tried it, but some documents are not shown correctly as far as I remember.

mxuribe · 7 days ago

Both MS Word and Libreoffice leave me feeling bloated...so am thankful for a lighter weight offering like doxx...to help with my computing "diet"...Wait, are we still talking about food or apps? :-)

mxuribe commented on Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode github.com/tanrax/org-soc... · Posted by u/tanrax

bitwize · 11 days ago

Reminds me of .plan files from back in the day.

mxuribe · 11 days ago

Well, there is https://plan.cat ...which, hosts a user's plan files. :-)

I guess think of it as a little microblog for displaying one's plan file?

mxuribe commented on ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol forgefed.org... · Posted by u/rapnie

tcfhgj · 11 days ago

I hope ActivityPub is the right protocol for this.

I have been using Mastodon for a couple of years now and frequently can't access media which is more than a couple days old from other servers, and I see only a subset of the replies, toots and stars...

mxuribe · 11 days ago

Is AP the "right protocol", well, we shall see. i happen to think that, not so different from, say, smtp or imap, while AP does have some issues, i think AP will be *good enough*. I say, good enough, in order to get started, to get momentum...once that happens, then yes, things can be optimized...and by then the value of federation for things like code forges will be obvious, and then the next phases will be more about optimization - both technical and otherwise.