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  • As far as I know the 1DXIII is still being produced, nearly 4 and a half years after its launch.

    Single lens reflexes have one massive advantage: the sensor is not being used while you’re composing or idle, which means the sensor doesn’t heat up as much. Hot sensors generate noise, which you then have to compensate for (by doing an equal exposure with the shutter closed to remove the hot pixels).

    But mirrorless is faster, cheaper to produce, smaller. It’s inevitable that DSLRs will soon be a relic of the past. But they won’t be for a while: 30% of the enthusiast market in 2022 was still DSLRs.




  • I think you’re misguided about the APIs. Gmail supports IMAP and SMTP. Proton supports those too if you run an encryption bridge on your computer. Fastmail supports IMAP/JMAP/SMTP (they invented JMAP to try and innovate).

    Email providers most likely must provide SMTP and IMAP due to compatibility requirements with Apple Mail and other clients.


  • Email is ridiculously complex—the technology is dead simple, but the number of exceptions and (undocumented) rules you need to abide by or risk getting banned by half the internet without being told is nothing to sneeze at.

    I should know: I have built multiple support platforms that worked through email (amongst other channels).

    You mention wanting to start at the SMTP level, and then building a Qt interface. So you’re going to write an SMTP client, an IMAP/POP3/JMAP client, a storage engine, a user interface, and a better search system, all on your own? You’re describing a gargantuan task.

    No offense, but each one of those could be a project on its own. You probably think they’re all simple tasks (they’re not), and that you can follow a few RFCs to get things going (you can’t), and that it’ll be easy to debug (it won’t). Finally, I think you’re underestimating how large people’s email maps get.

    Why not write a plugin for Thunderbird that improves the search?



  • “Sound” when it relates to water comes from Germanic- and Proto Indo European languages. In Denmark, the Øresund (English translation “The Sound”) separates Denmark and Sweden. In Dutch, “zond” used to a be term for a sea-based water inlet into the lands. Many nordic languages still have “sund” in their vocabulary (Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, maybe Norwegian too?).

    In Proto Indo European, the “swem” prefix is related to things of the water, or swimming. “Zwemmen” in Dutch still today means “to swim”.

    Wiktionary gives the follow definition:

    long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.

    It also quotes a text from 1605:

    The Sound of Denmarke, where ships pay toll.