cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/21264024

Je viens de voir passer l'info dans ma inbox (gérée par infomaniak): on peut à présent chiffrer ses emails chez Infomaniak.

Tout le blabla technique est expliqué ici, mais je retiens que c'est simple (un bouton à cliquer) et que c'est dispo pour tous les comptes, même gratuits. Edit: le how-to, c'est ici.

(pour info, j'utilise aussi Proton et Tuta, pour leur chiffrement et pour les très rares courriers que je reçois chiffrés, mais il m'a semblé que c'était une bonne nouvelle, et un outil encore plus simple d'emploi.)

Surtout que le compte email gratuit de infomaniak (made in Swiss, si vous ne connaisez pas) n'est pas mal du tout pour quelqu'un qui chercherait une alternative européenne aux GAFAM.

Disclaimer: je n'ai pas testé ledit service (je ne sais même pas si c'est nouveau ou pas, je viens juste de voir l'info) et je ne suis pas sponsorisé par infomaniak. En fait, c'est même plutôt le contraire: je paye pour leurs services et c'est carrément moi leur sponsor ;)

edit: précisions

Je viens de voir passer l'info dans ma inbox (gérée par infomaniak): on peut à présent chiffrer ses emails chez Infomaniak.

Tout le blabla technique est expliqué ici, mais je retiens que c'est simple (un bouton à cliquer) et que c'est dispo pour tous les comptes, même gratuits. Edit: le how-to, c'est ici.

(pour info, j'utilise aussi Proton et Tuta, pour leur chiffrement et pour les très rares courriers que je reçois chiffrés, mais il m'a semblé que c'était une bonne nouvelle, et un outil encore plus simple d'emploi.)

Surtout que le compte email gratuit de infomaniak (made in Swiss, si vous ne connaisez pas) n'est pas mal du tout pour quelqu'un qui chercherait une alternative européenne aux GAFAM.

Disclaimer: je n'ai pas testé ledit service (je ne sais même pas si c'est nouveau ou pas, je viens juste de voir l'info) et je ne suis pas sponsorisé par infomaniak. En fait, c'est même plutôt le contraire: je paye pour leurs services et c'est carrément moi leur sponsor ;)

edit: précisions

I don't think anyone would mind reading some short stories revolving around our beloved typewriters?

Last year, I started reading a series of anthologies edited by Richard Polt (from The Typewriter Revolution) titled Cold Hard Type.

When I started it, I had no idea this was a series at all, each one focusing on a specific theme. I just picked up Escapements—a mechanism that enables forward movement, step by step because it was about people in the near-ish future doing their best (after our digital world has collapsed) while using their typewriters. After maybe the third or fourth story, I was hooked and rushed to order the first volume (I had realized I was reading the second one in the series).

I finished this first volume like a kid eating a plate of cookies he had just ‘borrowed’ from his grandmother’s kitchen, and started the second volume the day it arrived at my door.

Paradigm Shifts—Typewriters Tales of Digital Collapse, focuses on the collapse itself seeing how people manage to get through it… with their trusty typewriter. It was as much of a blast to read as the previous volume. I wanted more of those yummy cookies.

So I did what I had to do and and asked my grandm... ordered the last three volumes.

I've started the third volume, Dead Keys (horror stories) with some some great texts in there too but I must admit I have a harder time finishing it. Don't worry too much as it's probably just me being very picky as, beside a very few authors, I'm not much into horror stories. And then life happened and I had to put the book away. That was almost a year ago. Shame on me.

But I've picked it up again this morning, and this time I will finish it and then I will dive into the two remaining volumes. Margin Releases—a mechanism for bypassing the normal bounds of a line of writing and Backspace—A device that allow a typist to return to a former position (quite surprisingly, focusing on time travel).

Icing on the cake, each story is printed in its own typed form (with info on the exact model(s) of machine used). At first, I thought it would distract and annoy me but it has not. Quite the contrary.

There is also a few illustrations and photography.

I expected to read a kind of funny but odd little book, maybe slightly better made than our fanzines from the good old days. It ended up being a very exciting read and one of the nicest surprise I've had in a long time.

The books are sold through Amazon’s print on demand service. Which means no exorbitant shipping rates, no matter where you live, and they aren’t expensive: Cold Hard Type

Hello guys,

I'm new to the community but have been a Zettelkasten user for quite some time.

The thing is that my Zettelkasten is full analog, not digital. Yep, I use some pen to write on index cards that are then stored in boxes. Like some caveman ;)

It's low-tech not because I'm averse to digital, mind you. It's just that I prefer being able to freely spread and order my index cards on a table as I see fit, and a few other reasons like that (like being away from a screen).

Is the community digital-only, or would that be OK to post about analog too?

Thx

Hello guys,

I am not a member of sh.itjustworks, so I know I cannot become the new moderator/admin of any of your community.

That being said, I do have a question regarding one of your inactive community I have recently started trying to revive by posting regular content: https://sh.itjust.works/c/journaling

The community has seen no activity since its creation and I have yet to hear back form its admin I contacted a few days ago. Inactive or not, there are a couple hundreds members subscribed to it.

So far, I have posted 4 or 5 new topics and, even though modest, it seems to generate some activity. Which I find encouraging.

But before I invest any more energy into this, other users I have discussed the question with have suggested I should make sure I or someone else will be able to moderate the community if a troll, or worse, was to find their way inside.

Others have also suggested that it would be simpler to create a new community on my own instance (jlai.lu) and invite members of the existing one to join there. I could do that, but I am not a fan of the idea of creating a new community where there is already one existing unless there really is no other option. I mean, it's not new communities we lack on Lemmy, it's new and more active users in existing ones ;)

So, I am asking for your opinion: what do you think would be best if I was to spend more of my time posting in that community?

1. Let the community stay apparently unmoderated, and keep posting new content as any other member can do (if that needs to be said, I have zero ego-related issue in being or not being 'promoted' moderator, or whatever) and keep my fingers crossed that no troll comes in to poop on the table. As a side-note I would not mind be able to refresh its look. Obviously, that is not essential.
2. Still keep my fingers crossed, hoping that someday, maybe, someone from your instance may decide that it's worth their time to moderate/admin it and request to take hold of it?
3. Create a new community from scratch, on my own instance, and invite members of this one to join me there, by posting a message?
4. Create an account on your instance, so I would be allowed to take charge of it if that was something you would agree is a good idea?

Frankly, I am not sure I want to create a new account just for that. I quite like what you're doing here but I also have no issue with my present instance, quite the contrary. But I may seriously consider doing it if you have reasons to think that would be better/smarter.

I hope this makes sense.

If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them. I am also all ears if you have any suggestion.

Thanks

Dear Lemmy fountain pen community,

I'm well over 50 and I started using a fountain pen in school, when I was still a little kid learning to write. That was back in the 70s. All those years, I've always been using a fountain pen of some sort for most of the stuff I write, and sketch.

I was wondering how many of us were still using a fountain pen to write long-form content? I mean, are you using one to write letters, keep a journal, or for any other form of content?

Even though I don't have a nice handwriting, I know quite a few people who like receiving my handwritten letters more than a neatly typed letter, and so do I. It kinda feels more personal and unique.

Beside the now too rare handwritten letter, sketching and keeping a journal another thing I like doing when I work on a long text is to draft it using a pen. Only once I'm done with that draft I will switch to the computer for the final typed version. It sure is much slower to write longhand which is exactly what I'm looking for: less speed, aka more time to (try to) think. And less distractions too ;)