joeldebruijn

@joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I also like to measure in jetwing money … This is like half a jetwing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another scenario would be all universities cooperate in one instance, like Surf does for all Dutch universities and colleges for vocational training.

  social.edu.nl/home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Store (and access) old emails⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Must admit, those fields are precisely the ones I use in my filenaming convention. Other DMS put that in their databases but alas that’s just trading one stack for another.

  Other ones put it in XMP metadata of the pdf themselves. But I guess the work involved would be similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Store (and access) old emails⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know.

  • I don’t need formatting but it doesn’t get in the way either. So I am not bothered by it.
  • Also pdf and especially PDF/A standard is widely used for archiving and compliance regulation.
  • If you want text the same tactic goes: just export in bulk to txt instead of pdf
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Store (and access) old emails⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had roughly the same goals ( archive search 2 decades of mail) but approached it completely different: I export every mail to PDF with a strict naming convention.

  • Backend: No mailserver, just storage and backup for files.
  • Search: based on filenames FSearch and Void tools Everything. I could use local indexing on pdf content.
  • Frontend: a pdf viewer.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also … not knowing you’re in a race is a sure way to lose it …