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On a totally not entirely unrelated note, I have found ExifTool[0] to be quite useful for many tasks. Especially in combination with a bash alias or simple Automator action, to be used in the services menu, or as a droplet or folder action. [0]https://exiftool.org/TagNames/PDF.html

>Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it

Maybe, though I'm not sure it's without breaking a sweat. Also, someone is most definitely footing some rather large bills.

According to this blog post[0] the amount of data uploaded each day is over 4 petabytes. For Drive, Photos and Docs only, i.e. it doesn't even include YouTube.

[0]https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

People, please! If encountering a 418, consider adhering to ISO 3103: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Neat Droste effect when this article itself is featured: https://imgur.com/yrwMWnw

+1 for a git-annex integration! I'm hoping this may come to pass at least as a plug-in.

I'm pretty much ready to abandon org-mode for this, but the git/git-annex combo is harder to leave behind.

Would love to hear more about your setup!

There is indeed, and it's making me very hopeful for the future of org-mode. Beyond Filestash (great work!) there's the somewhat similar org-web [0], Beorg for iOS [1] and Orgzly for Android [2], all of which them leveraging the power of org-mode without requiring anyone hitting M-x or C-c even once.

What Markdown has going for it is a much wider acceptance as a simple, straightforward way to work with text. Especially on modern devices, users with little or no coding background are successfully being lured into (superior!) plaintext workflows by apps with a great UI, and appear to take to it. iA Writer [A] and Bear [B] are two prominent examples of such apps, and I can't see why they would be any worse (or less popular) apps had they instead opted for org-mode behind the scenes.

This is what org-mode needs to gain widespread adoption, and I'm hoping we're on our way there.

[0] https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web [1] https://beorgapp.com/ [2] http://www.orgzly.com/ [A] https://ia.net/writer [B] https://bear.app/

BorgBackup: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

Deduplication, compression, encryption, to local or remote targets.

Another happy user here, but I think they deserve much more credit than simply being a cheap offer.

They're big on both security and privacy (you can even sign up anonymously and send them cash through the mail), have some pretty cool PGP features, they strip the IP address from outgoing mail (underrated feature) AND they run a fairly updated XMPP server along with a Tor exit.

For €1 a month you get 2GB of storage, 3 aliases (includes catch-all for custom domains), CalDAV/CardDAV sync, along with 100MB WebDAV storage for their office suite (which I've admittedly never used.)

Good service, great price, pretty cool company. More people should check them out.

This is not entirely accurate. While many people do view their photos at small sizes on pretty poor screens, the dynamic range of the entire analog processing chain was typically much less than what even entry-level digital cameras offer today.

See for example: http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/dynamicrange2/

Also, for any print that is intended to fit in an album or a frame, there is little benefit over 3 MP. For really, really big prints? Maybe 8, to err on the safe side. Like most analog reproduction media, prints tend to be very forgiving.

Someone viewing their 12 MP photos on a 500 ppi HDR mobile screen is pretty much getting the best comparable experience since the dawn of image capture.

Which of course doesn't mean that the tiny, faded black and white print from a hundred years ago you find in your grandpa's old wallet doesn't convey much more emotion.

Edit: Too slow, crazygringo beat me to it.

Agreed. My first association is to back when lengthy Flash intros were all the rage. Some of them blew my young mind, but for the ones I remember, I have absolutely no idea whatever site was beyond that intro.swf.

It also reminds me about retail operations increasingly trying to make shopping an "experience", to lure consumers back from online shopping.

This primarily seems like a matter of definitions, no? Humans congregate, so villages tend to expand over time. Apparently there are different definitions to what an urban area is around the world, which to me seems kind of reasonable in itself as conditions vary.

But yeah, if you take photos from space, it clearly shows most of Earth's land area isn't actually occupied by humans dwelling there. Most of the humans have apparently congregated into what we now like to call urban areas, for which there may or may not be a new definition. Great.

Absolutely, and I have been happy to pay that premium. Still am for some product categories (iPad). But a mid-2018 laptop for $2400 that comes with 256GB of storage?

Given what a small piece of the pie Mac sales now represent, their company wide profit margins would be infinitesimally affected by equipping their flagship laptop with at least a 512 GB stick.

Bill it to marketing if it helps, but Jesus, throw us a fucking bone.

The machines released today were obviously in the pipeline long before the most recent wave of Mac backlash, so it's probably a mistake to call them a response in any way.

Still, when Apple spec out their base configs like this, at these prices? I find it hard not to get the message.

The entire line is under-specced by about 50%, or $500 too expensive. Fix that, and I'd still mutter about the Touch Bar, but I'd do it carrying it out of the store. Now? I'll hold off upgrading for at least a few more years.