/r/selfhosted also got tons of new submissions, all unmaintainable AI slop. Now that they are only allowed on Fridays, it calmed down again. But I guess folks who insist on AI superiority think that’s a productivity gain.

The people spamming built bad stuff because they don't know any better. They would have built zero software without AI, so to the extent that anyone built anything working at all, it's basically an infinite productivity increase for those people.

> I feel like I am the only one who absolutely loved ActionScript,

I never really worked with it, but it seems whenever it comes up here or on Reddit, people who did, miss it. I think the authoring side of Flash is remembered very positively.

Huh. Never had that here (Germany), otoh it’s super common in South Africa

I don’t have fiber access, but at least for cable, my provider (formerly Kabel Deutschland, now Vodafone) allows me to put the modem/router into "modem only" mode, which then allows me to use my own router. Outside of Fritzbox (which is again a whole integrated thing; with questionable features) there aren’t many DOCSIS modems freely available, and the no-name china devices don’t seem much better than my Vodafone Box.

> allows me to put the modem/router into "modem only" mode, which then allows me to use my own router.

Telekom Speedports also have a modem only mode (the ones for non-fiber, dunno about the ones for fiber, but it looked like those are only modems and not a router as well). I don't make use of it since I manage the wifi for my family, but I do know it exists.

FWIW, the feature works just as well for me with my FM inbox (I still have my old gmail address and check both spam and the inbox once in a while).

Looks like it’s sadly mobile-only

As someone who never got any of those, is that like cold spam messages for businesses you don’t have as contacts? And can’t you just disable messages from unknown contacts?

Thought I'd have another look at mail providers, but from what I can see, none support the features I use with fastmail (custom domain, security key, unlimited on-the-fly aliases for sending).

I've been looking at mail providers too, and it's starting to look there are no real alternatives. Not just in Europe, but worldwide. I've been a happy user of Fastmail for quite some time now, and it's sad the the current geopolitical situation pressures me into migrating away.

The alternative that's looking best to me so far is Kolab Now. I don't see a lot of user reviews of it on Reddit though, or anywhere else, so it seems to not be very popular at first sight. That's perhaps not a good sign.

In any case I'm planning on trying it out for a while, with a domain I don't use it all that often, before deciding to migrate to it.

Doesn’t seem to support on-the-fly aliases for sending, requiring instead to set it up in advance. I use a custom mail per website/contact workflow, and with FM any reply uses whatever alias I used to receive the mail, with the option to change it to whatever I want without extra steps.

They don't, but you shouldn't feel too bad as fastmail is australian, ie not american, which (at least personally) is where we're trying to divest.

Their servers are in the US

Do they have any plans to move off the US?

No plans according to some recent reddit threads, but you can probably email their support for a more up-to-date info.

US servers, though.

Ah wasn't aware of that, thanks.

Gandi.net offers mail with custom domain and unlimited aliases. You need to have your domain registered with them though.

I wouldn't consider them an option since they got bought and had extreme price rises.

If you consider single digit €/m "extreme", sure ...

At least for C#, the quality of the cloud offering is rather mediocre, so I don’t expect this model to be that useful there. It’s very overeager, suggesting tons of stuff that I never accepted because it made no sense. It’s also producing bad code, wanting me to use `.Result` for async calls instead of simply await-ing.

It's a bit undertrained on C#, we'll continue improving on this!

I used eclipse in university around that time (2005), then first switched to netbeans which I already liked more, then discovered IntelliJ and have been using that ever since. Everything about Eclipse felt worse in ways neither of the others did, but all of that was still during university (though I now use JetBrains professionally).