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This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£
  • 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.

  • What are some good private email service?
  • 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.

  • Am I the only one pissed off at these holiday sales? (US)
  • Don't forget "Giving Tuesday" - designed to manipulate you if have any money left after all the rest and feel guilty about that fact.

  • Bites the peach and just leaves it there.
  • 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.

  • "Being overweight not linked to dying early, study says, but questions remain | CNN"
  • 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!

  • Encrypted cloud backup on Android
  • 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.

  • CAPTCHA presented me with an ethical dilemma
  • 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.

  • 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. > > > > Behind the scenes, however, school district officials were receiving a different kind of message about the event: warnings, from the high-profile Christian law firm Liberty Counsel, against canceling it. > >

    https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/27/before-an-anti-trans-event-at-a-vergennes-school-a-prominent-christian-law-firm-issued-a-warning/

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    Scamming the scammers: Using multi-lingual chatbots as fake victims to disrupt the business model of scam callers
  • If you think scambaiting is good entertainment and you've somehow not come across Lenny, today's your lucky day:
    https://www.youtube.com/@ToaoDotNet/videos

    It's gonna be wonderful to watch the Lennys of the world become increasingly more sophisticated/human-seeming and less random.

  • I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy?
  • 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.

  • 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?
  • The Thunderbird desktop mail client is far better (feature-rich, stable, interoperable) than any webmail or phone app mail client I've ever seen.

  • Subreddit replacement directory
  • 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.

  • Subreddit replacement directory
  • If it's not obvious, the referenced site is https://redditmigration.com .

  • Subreddit replacement directory

    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.

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    What are some magazines you'd like to see on kbin that don't exist yet?
  • 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.

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