Posts by Wizardling

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

Well, I never… :-D

Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Re: Email is dying

I actually prefer webmail nowadays on the desktop, and good webmail - like Fastmail's for example - is certainly not second rate.

With Fastmail's webmail I've comprehensive keyboard shortcuts and all the tools I could want, except for tasks in the calendar so repeating events don't need to be used for tasks and this clutter the calendar up. But that's my only gripe.

Gmail is also nearly as good.

Not to say native desktop email clients don't have their place, especially on laptops so one can continue to work offline. But the gap has largely closed IME, to the point where it's been over a decade since I last used anything but webmail at home.

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

We should all work to actively poach the USA's scientists who are purged.

The USA is done for - a failed experiment in wonky extreme right government and fanaticism. Let's reap the rewards by poaching every disaffected scientist.

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet

Re: We've come a long way in 100 years

Yeah, but Ukraine in 2024 isn't much like Great Britain in 1914. For one thing Ukraine has a large population of Russian speaking citizens, many with strong Russian cultural ties. When Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 a troubling number of Ukrainian officials and military welcomed the Russians, even actively helped them.

It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives

Re: Who is the judge ?

Your claim that fabric masks lower O2 levels is absurd piffle of the kind that can only survive thanks to lies and misinformation. Whatever point you thought you were trying to make, you just made the opposite in the minds of rational people.

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

These comments are something I'd have expected to find on Usenet back in the '90s.

You guys realise no sane well adjusted person ties their self worth to which OS they use or who made their hardware, right? :-D

With Skype, Microsoft's messaging strategy looks coherent at last (almost)

For well a couple YEARS now, Skype for Mac has lacked previous versions' menu to access Mac Contacts multiple numbers. You can only dial the first number for any contact. There is a workaround where opening the contact's profile reveals all their numbers, but this is stupid, pointlessly difficult, and anti-user.

Skype for all platforms has also done away with personal voicemail greetings, because hey - that's not something anyone ever uses, especially in business. Oh wait...

Trying to SMS using Skype has never ever worked for me, whether I associate my cell number for replies, or not. It just throws my balance into the void, without even bothering to report that it never worked.

And yesterday I received an important call, and 30 seconds into it Skype forcibly ended the call the by signing me out because I'm using an older version without the missing and broken features of the latest versions.



It's like Skype _wants_ me to abandon their increasingly awful anti-user service...

How on Earth can The Register claim MS's Skype strategy is "coherent"?!? It is in fact an utter disaster!