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Just remember to go through your commit history if you ever plan on making that repo public.

I commonly flatten repos (by copy and create) when I share them. Its rare that the other person needs the commit history.

I have often thought it would be nice to have a good tool to retroactively view and tidy them, but everything I've seen has not quite hit the nail on the head.


I use the Pieter Levels commit history strategy of all my commit messages being the single word "commit"

https://x.com/levelsio/status/1590908364393156608


With the new API for GPT-4o image gen releasing soon, we'll probably see a wave of hype products (ie "generate your own Studio Ghibli-style photo album"). I expect these will die down rather quick, but first mover advantage should still net you some profit here.


/newest has already been flooded with those generators for the past few days. Spammers always seem to move the fastest.


Which country is your company based in? And which countries are you selling your services to?

Legal/tax things are always different in every country. B2C also makes things a lot more complicated. Overall, lots of sharp edges to look out for.


Company is an LLC registered in Austin TX, and am expecting mostly US customers. But I’d ideally like to support as many countries as is feasible.

Do you know of any books or guides that outline those sharp edges? Or is it too business dependent/am I going to need to consult with someone? If so, where do you think I should go to get credible advice?


Would you recommend moving from Google Workspace to Proton? Including emails and so on.


I'll give a different point of view.

I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and received from people using Gmail, Office 365, etc.) I was interested in trying Proton more to support a plurality of service providers.

As such, I'm probably not Proton's target customer. That means the compromises Proton makes to enable E2E are not worth it to me.

Some examples:

* Search is like going back 20 years.

* The lack of automatic filtering (e.g. Gmail's automatically applied Promotions, Updates, etc labels) has made the signal to noise ratio in my personal inbox so low that I'm considering just taking the app off my phone or suppressing notifications, at least. I don't have the time to set up manual filters for everything that comes in.

* The lack of automatic filtering and decent search means that my personal email is now pretty much useless.

Similarly, it's pretty hard to migrate away from because you can't just use IMAP to shift your email history to another provider.

This isn't a negative review of Proton. This is just to say that choosing Proton Mail means living with the compromises necessary to enable their main feature (privacy) and I don't care enough about that one feature to make those compromises worthwhile (because my email is going through so many non-private services anyway).


Yeah this is why I chose Fastmail when migrating off Gmail - I needed something more usable, not private


Well, there are no (classical) office tools. There is a text editor, but no spreadsheet. Their "Drive" solution is very mvp, you can collaborate on text docs, but it's very minimal.

Email is great, looks great, fast, nice feature set. Calendar is mvp-ish, I can accept invites and they go into the calendar and they have nice links to Teams or Meet etc, pretty seamless. They also have widget for a iPhone now, but it's early days.

ProtonPass is great, at least as great as BitWarden, sharing credentials with family and colleagues is a lot easier (not that "organizations" stuff, just click, share, done).

My iPhone syncs pictures to Proton Drive, but the app needs to be opened to do that, which is annoying. Other than that, works well, pics are safe. I really want a Linux client and an API (or rsync endpoint?) so I can push backups there (I have 3 TB drive for the family/business combined).

Their Bitcoin wallet was wasted effort if you ask me, would have preferred video chat or something. Make it more like NextCloud with a dashboard perhaps.

But when they make a new product, it's mvp but generally immediately works very well. I have a lot of trust in their solutions to just work.

But you can use almost everything on the free tier, so just try it out! The migration tool also works really well.


Important to note that the migration works well one way only. If you later want to migrate out it'll be more painful.


Yeah, there are no export tools, but technically it would be up to the other party (like Google or MS) to make those right? When you want to go Proton -> Google ;)

I guess with the bridge you can move your mail uit via imap, the Drive you can just download it all. Calendar will be annoying I think because there are no open protocols like caldav (by design, and I do miss that!!!).


What's a good alternative to Proton? Still haven't migrated my business away from Google Workspace, and I was thinking Proton would be a good alternative, but apparently not if they don't even support IMAP/SMTP.


Mailbox looks very solid, although I don't have long-term experience: https://mailbox.org

It provides email, online storage, video conferencing, calendar etc., all of it privacy-preserving by default. You explicitly don't have to provide any personal details.


Seconded. I'm using mailbox.org for my business for 4 years now, and haven't had any problems so far.


Fastmail[0] is what I use for my personal email. They support all the standards, but are also pushing things forward with standardising the JMAP protocol[1] which is much better suited to mobile clients than IMAP.

They only have email and calendaring though, no equivalent of Drive/Docs/Sheets.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com [1] https://jmap.io


I have used Fastmail for well over a decade, but they have their servers in the US, so I have been looking at alternatives.


And Australian law doesn't quite offer the same protections as GDPR. In fact, being a Five Eyes country, it's effectively the opposite.


Australian businesses have to provide GDPR protections to EU citizens, regardless, just as EU companies operating in Australia have to obey Australian law.

I also have a feeling the Five Eyes agreement is about to end.


I also have a feeling the Five Eyes agreement is about to end.

That's certainly possible, but as long as the servers are in the US, that's not really meaningful I think?


I am very very happy with Fastmail. I know they have some presence in the US but I think they scaled that down and are entirely an Australian company.

Their integration with 1password and masking email aliases is also very useful [0].

If however you want to host your own emails, I did once write an extensive guide [1].

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/features/masked-email/

[1] https://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/



Second Tuta. Their feature list might be limited when compared to Proton or Fastmail, but their core email service is solid.


It's an alternative to Proton because it doesn't support open standards (like IMAP), but it has the same problem - vendor lock-in.



https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

I myself use neither [0] but that's my nihilism defaulting on convenience.

[0] I've moved my own domain to iCloud+ custom domain offering.


Not mailbox.org (!) unlike many have suggested. In last few years mailbox has gone into the gutters in almost every aspect (almost) - I am stuck there because of a large recharge/purchase I had done and they don't do prorated refunds anymore.

There are other options - tuta, posteo, runbox etc (I have just made a longer comment and I am sure you can find more on the net).

IMHO - we should not ignore other things when looking for a service replacement I mean aspects of a service other than privacy and for me responsiveness and customer service comes near the top or at the top.


I use migadu with thunderbird. Can't complain. Cheap and does what I need it to.

https://www.migadu.com/index.html


I use Zoho for my personal email. They aren’t European but they aren’t American.

Crucially though it’s easy enough to migrate to another provider of self just by updating my mx records.


Note - Zoho is from the country I live in. You ought to expect nought privacy from here, or maybe even negative (yeah, that can be a thing :D).


context: Zoho is incorporated in US and made in India.


Mailbox.org is one I like

For a more business oriented replacement that can (mostly) replace gmail, google drive, docs, sheets, etc.. Zoho One is pretty good.


Maybe I'm missing something, but: just use a local ISP? We use Hostpoint (Switzerland) for our websites and email.


Fastmail should offer tenancy outside of the US, either in Australia or in the EU/Singapore.


This happened to plenty of people with Stripe as well.

Doesn't mean Paddle isn't a good place to start - but as you get bigger, you should probably look at other solutions as well, to de-risk your payments infra. It's just that at the start it's too expensive, even in B2B, to think about multiple payment providers to spread risk.


That doesn't really work as long as you have legislation like the CLOUD Act, which means EU-based businesses have to think twice about using any US providers, especially if they handle sensitive customer data and also since the DPF is on the way out.


Only because the US refuses to properly protect consumer privacy and seemingly can no longer be trusted at all. If Trump forces Microsoft to turn off Office 365 for example for the EU, or blocks AWS, GCP or Azure from doing business with the EU then European businesses are screwed. We’ve now realized these risks are potentially real and European countries are scrambling to look for alternatives (and realizing that they don’t really exist).


Considering the PCLOB has lost some of its members, it's questionable whether the DPF can continue to exist in its current form. If it does go out the window, then Trump won't need to tell AWS/GCP to stop doing business with the EU, since European companies wouldn't legally be allowed to transfer data to US companies anyway.

I expect the EU commission will take a _very_ long time to actually act on this tho. Maybe we'll see Schrems III first.


Surely one of the 10000 todo list apps we get every year out of coding bootcamps will be good by now. /s


It's also a common interview question before the standard became movie listings. I believe the bootcamp and university standard is food delivery apps now.

There's plenty of code out there, but the student ones are underengineered and the interview ones tend to be overengineered.


Late to the party, but there's a "canvas mode" in Obsidian where you can sort of group notes together and drag them around. Other than that, it's also got a graph view, so provided you tag and link notes properly, it will show you related notes in the graph.


As far as I can tell this is without the planned C++ rewrite though, and the documentation at https://beancount.github.io/ still says to use v2.

Is there a point in migrating already?


I'm still waiting on better migration instructions.

The maintainer says here that v2 is officially deprecated:

>You should not use v2 anymore.

https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/iTdRuvZnE4E/m/o9V91W...


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