Pro-active law enforcement seems to have disappeared in the sourthern interior of BC for over a decade. The police either enforce the law in highly-publicized campaigns (it’s Christmas, so we’re going to pull you over…) or respond to calls from the public.

Starred this one on Github. I’ve been using LXDE for 10 years and wasn’t looking forward to the ultimate switch to Wayland, but this – and the associated taskbars – make me think that it’s not going to be so bad after all.

When our local internet provider (Telus) first distributed wifi routers around 2004, they didn’t turn on encryption by default. I think I made use of nodes in the “neighbour net” for about three years before the majority began setting up WEP.

I’ve run an XMPP server for a small online user group for about 7 years. It was relatively simple to get a basic server up and running.

One challenge came when my wife and I decided to use it as our everyday mobile messaging service. I had to learn about and configure a number of extensions to get Prosody working well with Conversations (Android) and Monal (iOS).

Another challenge was filtering spam. I posted my administrator XMPP address online and got hammered with spam. It took a while to figure out how to effectively combat it.

With respect to why it’s not more popular, imagine if you were trying to sell people on email (with no business use-case). It’s a generic federated protocol. I don’t know if you can get much more bland.

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I register my domain with namespro.ca. If you register your domain with them, the DNS hosting is free.

Here’s a link: https://www.namespro.ca/DNSHosting

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This would be the perfect time to call out their hypocritical extension of copyright through recent trade deals.

American tech companies have made fortunes by violating licensing and copyright laws. Force Uber and AirBNB to buy taxi and hotel licenses. Put an intellectual property tax on AI. Prosecute Paypal for banking without a charter, ban cryto as illegal currency… the list goes on.

Akelpad is a nice replacement. I use it on my work laptop. It’s locked down so I can’t install anything, but I can use portable apps!

https://portableapps.com/news/2024-10-23--akelpad-portable-4.9.9-released

Understood. Thanks!

Also, when poor people stop being cooler than rich people :D

FreeOffice is listed here, but their paid product, Softmaker Office is not. They still offer a non-subscription Desktop Office Suite here: https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office

Disclaimer: I’m a user of the product. I have no affiliation with the company.

China, also: your dynasty is closing in on 300 years, huh? Good luck!

Cool. Your site is a great resource!

I just ordered a new SSD from them and received it in two days. Thanks for the recommendation.

Hi again. You can actually buy Softmaker Office versions outright (a non-subscription purchase), but they seem to have made the option harder to find these days: https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office

Since we’re in Buy European, I’m going to plug Softmaker Office. I bought it to replace MS Office at work and no one seems to have noticed. I used see formatting issues in word docs when using LibreOffice.

Cool! Thanks! I’ll add these after work.

That’s a strange error for Github! Glad it’s working for you again.

Yeah, ours has been holding a close-out sale for more than a month now. They just put the store in about three years ago. Makes you wonder about the management.