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New comment by wisidisi in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

wisidisi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:55:46 +0000

Predecessor of Firefox was Firebird, and before that it was even called Phoenix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Name_changes

New comment by wisidisi in "Benefits of choosing email over messaging"

wisidisi — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:14:44 +0000

I oppose. Mails are superior in announcing to multiple people. If people want to participate they can in many ways. It is well structured, well documented and offers coherent discourse. Slack/Teams are for just-in-time dynamic, collaborative conversation that are quickly fading and missing out on all the strengths mails have in terms of permanence, archival, search and general quality. Something that totally gets lost in instant messaging like Discord, Teams and such where context is basically non-existant and may be gone completely in minutes.

Remember Google+ ? What lasted was Gmail and barebone simple Mail.

New comment by wisidisi in "NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable"

wisidisi — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:33:14 +0000

It is certainly intentionally that NCBI is miraculously down for no real reason. But usually when the political debates are heated it happens more often. What one can observe now is just funny nothing of unhappy political activists.

New comment by wisidisi in "NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable"

wisidisi — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:25:10 +0000

Everyone can set-up their own blast database. Usually if you are specialized on a certain species you have your own DB cached in memory somewhere locally for efficiency. Also there are alternatives. NCBI blast is just one of many. Also all the sequences are globally kept and in sync in different regions of the world, so if one Datacenter goes down you still have the option to use the exact same data from Europe or Japan and so on.