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Archive for April 9th, 2024

“Skiff – Private, encrypted, secure email – 10 GB free” was too good to be true: discontinued (“sunsetting”) at 2024-08-09

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

Skiff (email service) – Wikipedia already mentioned them as too good to be true for a while:

It launched in 2021 and was developed in San Francisco, California. In November 2023, it reached its own record of almost 2 million users (17 months since launch).

In a 2023 article, PCMAG reviewed Skiff pointing that Skiff offers “End-to-end encryption for email, collaboration, and calendar”, making complements to the fact of its services being free and easy to use (while being available as Apps for macOS, Android, and iOS).

This was all in the midst of me trying to find another place for our mail than GMail, and I am considering Proton Mail (which is profitable and offers both paid and free plans).

I had heard about Skiff Mail, and was lucky to not have included them on the shortlist as mid February, the above Wikipedia articled was updated to contain these two sections:

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How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

Since about a week, Discord started showing ads. I am pretty sure the default setting is against GDPR regulations.

Lifehacker indicated how to disable them. I added numbered steps for readability:

How to turn off Discord ads

Discord doesn’t make it super clear, but there is a way to disable these in-game rewards advertisements, as well as the tracking that goes along with them. To start,

  1. open Discord,
  2. then head to Settings > Privacy & Safety.
  3. Here, disable the toggle next to In-game rewards (aka Quests).

[Wayback/Archive] How to Block Ads on Discord (Mostly) | Lifehacker

Screenshots (sorry for the dark mode):

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Duotrigordle – find 32 simultaneous Wordle solutions in 37 steps

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

I wish my language skills were better: [Wayback/Archive] Duotrigordle

Guess all 32 Duotrigordle words in 37 tries!


Based on

Source on GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] thesilican/duotrigordle: Play 32 wordles simultaneously (source in TypeScript and CSS)

–jeroen

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NASA broadcasted the solar eclipse’s shade on earth as seen from the ISS

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

International Space Station footage from the shadow that the solar eclipse projected on earth.

Via

From a GEOS

Twitter NASA account joke @NASAMoon  blocks  @NASASun ☀️ as visible from @NASAEarth :

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