https://search.worldcat.org/ is a good inter-library search site. My librarians use it (among other things, I'm sure) to find books/DVDs to acquire for me on ILL, but since the site is public sometimes I just do the search for them and send them a link to what I want when I submit a hold request.
The mail service has to be affordable (around 10 euros per year). Tuta was an option but their plans are somewhat overpriced for me. Anyone using their (Tuta) free plan? How is it?
Your boundaries on cost make it tough, but aside from Tuta you might have a look at mail.ee which has very basic features (no E2EE for example) and a retro web UI, but very high storage limits. They offer free accounts too, and support SMTP/IMAP/POP3. It's Latvian-based so comes with the "100% GDPR compliance" feature if that's of interest.
Zoho.com is another that comes to mind. It's very feature-heavy/slick (you can tell they're attempting to market mainly to small businesses looking for a cheaper Google Workspace), has been around a long time and I've read positive comments from others about the service. It's an Indian company though so you don't get GDPR protections (or similar) as far as I know. The low-end plans are in your price range and I think they still offer a free plan - that's what I have anyway.
I've been a Fastmail customer for decades now and it's exactly what I want a mail service to be, but it's out of your price range and has no free tier.
Infuriating to think that all these places can sell products with a 50% discount and still make money. The rest of the time how much are they raking in? But we are all scraping by and gotta do what we gotta do. Thanks for letting me vent.
_Every day, employees at Aurora Pro Services, a North Carolina home-repair company, would gather for a mandatory prayer meeting, according to a federal complaint. They stood in a circle while leaders, including the company owner, allegedly read Bible scriptures and prayed. In the circle, the owner required Aurora's employees to recite the Lord’s Prayer in unison and requested prayers for poorly performing employees, the complaint alleged.
... "If you do not participate, that is okay, you don’t have to work here,” Aurora’s owner allegedly told McGaha in front of other employees. “You are getting paid to be here.”
McGaha was fired in September 2020, six days after his second request to skip the meetings, according to the complaint_
Rosauers is one of the larger regional supermarket chains in E. WA, N. ID, and MT.
_The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday it had recovered more than $350,000 in back pay and damages for 602 employees of Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets.
Federal labor investigators said the company willfully violated labor laws at 23 of its locations. The grocer also must pay $72,000 in penalties for repeated child labor violations, according to a news release.
Rosauers also violated federal child labor regulations by employing minors, ages 16 and 17, to operate a hydraulic paper and box compactor at its Ridgefield, Washington, store.
What the hell? Employees need to be paid, and you can't have kids operating heavy machinery on the job?? Must be the influx of Seattle people and Californians making it impossible to run a business here any more! <smirk>
It's a bit odd, Rosauers markets are usually on the nicer side, and there's a small one in the wealthy part of Spokane that's almost like a co-op/'natural' market ... Of all the regional chains I'd have thought they'd be among the last to get caught up in this particular kind of bad management, but I'd have thought wrongly.
I was gonna ask - PeopleOfWalmart? I can see it now - a 400lb man in fur suit bikini, engulfing the electric scooter, half-eaten peach in one hand, half-empty Fireball nip in the other, freshly knocked-over produce display spread in front of him.
The Fediverse needs an r/fatlogic analog, made entirely of stretchy materials of course, where this kind of Fat Acceptance garbage can be posted. It's a special flavor of mildlyinfuriating, Now with 200% of the calories, but don't worry, it's healthy ... of course it is!
Ugh even the best piano is way too stringy for my tastes. That thing in the middle row looks like an organ. It should be easy enough to find someone to eat your organ.
skiff.com might be worth a look. Its services are E2EE. Its a lot like Proton in spirit but with better pricing and less nickle-and-diming. 10G of storage on the free plan. It's not a Swiss company though, if that should happen to be important to you.
Civil rights groups and Democrats reacted angrily to the US supreme court decision in favor of the Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, who argued she had a first amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Critics of the court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice in America....
Hosting an anti-trans speaker in a public school would tell “queer and trans youth that they are not welcome in public spaces,” Amanda Rohdenburg, associate director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit Outright Vermont, told VTDigger on June 16, four days before Heyer’s talk....
Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
It's annoying AF, much like the habit of people posting comments consisting of "Based" all over the place in recent times. The latter is dying down fortunately, and I hope the R meme meets a quick and painful death very soon.
What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?...
See https://www.arrl.org/ . In the US, you can get on-air with your Technician license, which requires that you pass a short FCC exam. Gear costs just to get started can be quite low, <$100 ought to be enough to get you going using a cheap VHF handheld.
My Dad was hugely into ham radio throughout the time I was growing up, and yeah, it was the quintessential nerd hobby before home computers came along.
I saw this posted to Hacker News just now. Looks like it might be the start of something useful. I assume that one can suggest additions (or other edits) by emailing the curator using the address on the upper right of the page.
Sounds great to me, but I'm not sure how many average people would be willing to learn to use git and get an account at the repo host just to submit update suggestions. It would be nice if the site owner had some documentation up explaining their plans, if any, for how this will operate in the longer term.
Hacker News has long been one of my main news sources. The majority of postings are tech-related but there's a lot of more general content and the moderation is very good. https://news.ycombinator.com/ . I generally use Feedly to browse it.
For excellent, in-depth analysis of world events/politics/economics there's the UK-based publication The Economist - https://www.economist.com/ - which is a paid service (expensive!) but has a lot of free content on the site, esp. if you're signed-up, even as a free user. It's not an aggregator though - more like a better NY Times without all the stupid fluff.
A handful off the top of my head (not sure if these sub names are case-sensitive in any way or not):
QAnonCasualties
PeopleofWalmart
Engrish
Spokane (the city in WA)
Seattle
Boston
AntifascistsofReddit
Scala
Fsharp
fatlogic
I didn't think to save my subscription list (duh) and I'll be damned if I'm going to log in again to do so. I'm done with Reddit at least until they fire that absolute ass of a CEO and back off on all of his dumbshit money-grubbing schemes. That means 'probably never' and I'm 100% fine with that, fuck them and a hearty hello to the fediverse.
This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ (jlai.lu)
What are some good private email service?
The mail service has to be affordable (around 10 euros per year). Tuta was an option but their plans are somewhat overpriced for me. Anyone using their (Tuta) free plan? How is it?
Am I the only one pissed off at these holiday sales? (US)
Infuriating to think that all these places can sell products with a 50% discount and still make money. The rest of the time how much are they raking in? But we are all scraping by and gotta do what we gotta do. Thanks for letting me vent.
Bites the peach and just leaves it there. (lemmy.world)
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CAPTCHA presented me with an ethical dilemma (lemmy.world)
Encrypted cloud backup on Android
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‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Civil rights groups and Democrats reacted angrily to the US supreme court decision in favor of the Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, who argued she had a first amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Critics of the court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice in America....
Before an anti-trans event at a Vergennes school, a prominent Christian law firm issued a warning
Hosting an anti-trans speaker in a public school would tell “queer and trans youth that they are not welcome in public spaces,” Amanda Rohdenburg, associate director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit Outright Vermont, told VTDigger on June 16, four days before Heyer’s talk....
Scamming the scammers: Using multi-lingual chatbots as fake victims to disrupt the business model of scam callers (techxplore.com)
Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls to waste their time and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy?
As per the title. I'm obviously an old Bustard. Somebody please explain Rule to me.
In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?
I'll start:...
What is a good hobby/skill that most people should give a try, and why so?
What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?...
Subreddit replacement directory (redditmigration.com)
I saw this posted to Hacker News just now. Looks like it might be the start of something useful. I assume that one can suggest additions (or other edits) by emailing the curator using the address on the upper right of the page.
What's the best place to get news now?
I got a lot of my headlines from reddit. Due to the impending death of my favorite app (Sync for Reddit) however, that's coming to an end....
What are some magazines you'd like to see on kbin that don't exist yet?
Are there any communities you've not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?...