Posts by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
(DIR) Post #AVcHLimVhvdtcNQGq8 by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-05-13T09:19:17Z
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This concludes this morning's stream of consciousness.Tune in tomorrow!
(DIR) Post #AVwPKVswjSUsNG0lm4 by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-05-23T08:25:22Z
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Something that’s surprised me running Gmail and Big Mail push notifications side by side for the past the month: the Gmail app fails to deliver a surprising number of notifications a day. On my primary account it can be a good handful. I'd be curious to hear if anybody else has noticed/experienced this?
(DIR) Post #AVwPWpM4Ac9SEWVIau by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-05-23T08:37:10Z
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@noim “Google® Magic!”
(DIR) Post #AWFVVtufYVUohCmSbw by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-01T12:33:04Z
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Hello (again) ! Big Mail got rebooted. Except this sequel is better than the original. It's more Terminator 2 than Batman & Robin.I'd love to hear what you think!💌 https://bigmail.app
(DIR) Post #AWFVVw3FbZY5KOoLGS by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-01T12:49:37Z
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One of the more ambitious aspects of this project was how to bring Big Mail into the cloud: V1 was DOA without push and rapid sync. But how to do it and still claim to be on-device/privacy centric?My answer to this is Big Mail Online. A totally optional, private push and sync service. I had one simple rule developing it: no message data get processed, parsed, or stored, on any server, ever.
(DIR) Post #AWFVVxEHE3xkysyf5c by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-01T12:52:29Z
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The Big Mail app on your device grants Big Mail Online a temporary access token to listen out for new inbox events. When a new message arrives, Big Mail Online sees only the response "EXISTS". This is then silently pushed to your device, which wakes up and connects directly to your mail provider to fetch the message.Not even Apple see the contents, as it's just an empty push notification.
(DIR) Post #AWFVVyPepEf0eTJGT2 by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-01T12:56:50Z
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Despite going to great lengths on this, I know it still won't be for everyone. So you can still use Big Mail without any of the Big Mail Online stuff.One of the reasons I gave BMO a distinct brand of its own, is so when you're in the app, any feature that uses it will be obvious.(Plus it was a fun excuse to get nostalgic with MacOS 😅)
(DIR) Post #AWgLsAIvsOHEb7BOHA by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-14T09:39:06Z
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Posting incase any IMAP/SMTP buffs follow me:Gmail copies whatever is sent via SMTP into IMAP. If you try to APPEND the same message to Sent, you get a dupe. If you APPEND to All Mail though, then immediately store a \Sent label, it doesn't duplicate…90% of the time. So why does this work most of the time, but sometimes fail?When it's working the server seems to return both EXPUNGE and EXISTS simultaneously. If it fails, you only get an EXISTS.
(DIR) Post #AWgLsBRpcmzQ90M0mm by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-14T09:46:16Z
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I could detect if I'm connected to Gmail and just not append of course, but I'd like to understand what's happening.Inspecting Apple Mail's traffic, I can see it's appending to All Mail as well, but it doesn't seem to ever duplicate. Perplexing.If anyone knows anything I'd be very interested!
(DIR) Post #AWgOjKjI2vrSBdzXJw by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-14T13:04:54Z
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@noim yeah I thought that too, but spoofing the agent name doesn’t make a difference.
(DIR) Post #AWjzG3HuvHGPN7oS1I by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-16T05:52:23Z
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The schadenfreude I’ll have when the Reddit board eventually vote to remove this clown. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview
(DIR) Post #AWjzG4YcCgDNJCdIga by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-16T05:57:55Z
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OpenAI aren’t gonna pay anything. They’ll just ‘accidentally’ ingest Reddit. To alienate your top users over a few million dollars is incredibly stupid.
(DIR) Post #AWjzG6phk74aMmdybI by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-06-16T06:15:45Z
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And he was fine with third party apps until he realised the developers were making money? Really? This guy doesn’t have a coherent world view. And by being so defensive is obviously clutching at straws.
(DIR) Post #AXaULZsDS2YZAu4D3o by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-11T14:12:45Z
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Shop local? Shop indie! So many cool apps on sale today and tomorrow. A few stand outs:40% off Kaleidoscope (!!) @KaleidoscopeApp 20% off Tasks @mufasayc 60% off RapidWeaver @dancounsell Amazing work @matt1corey for organising 👏https://www.macstories.net/linked/two-day-indie-apps-sales-event-begins-tomorrow-with-over-100-apps/
(DIR) Post #AXcyuoUCZrg5WDvkGW by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-12T14:04:52Z
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Little birdies tell me VanMoof has officially collapsed. They'll be making a statement shortly.If you own one of their bikes now is the time to grab your encryption keys before their servers go offline: https://github.com/grossartig/vanmoof-encryption-key-exporter
(DIR) Post #AXcyupprYobBhh4YfQ by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-12T14:10:28Z
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And so it begins…
(DIR) Post #AXcyupupGMZJx5OWP2 by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-12T17:17:25Z
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Annnd here we go. The Verge is now running the story.Courts have appointed two administrators to take over VanMoof. They've run out of money.https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792143/vanmoof-e-bike-payment-suspension-bankruptcy-sale
(DIR) Post #AXer3nhuQqxKON2JSC by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-13T10:51:21Z
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Own a VanMoof? You need to act NOW and backup your bike's key.The folks at Cowboy just published "Bikey” and it makes this really easy.They were kind enough to send me a preview build yesterday and it works great! https://bikey-app.cowboy.bike
(DIR) Post #AXer3ol8WL8DefYP7g by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-07-13T10:52:57Z
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If VanMoof’s servers go offline, it’ll be impossible to retrieve this key and you’ll lose access to your bike forever.It’s really awesome to see Cowboy step in so quickly and help keep these bikes on the road!They've stressed it's a beta, but it worked great on my Moof.
(DIR) Post #AaT1d0Ja8WxDlxxG4G by phill@mastodon.notsobig.co
2023-10-05T17:37:02Z
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This will likely be a sentiment shared by many of you already, but I still feel compelled to say it each time I see fresh nonsense:Leave 👏 trans 👏 people 👏 alone 👏