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Psy-Q's Braindump

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Psy-Q's Braindump is a personal blog at psyq123.wordpress.com about culture, politics and web. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on backing up and migrating email from one provider to another. The linked post covers command-line tooling such as isync/mbsync for moving mail.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Thoughts between technology, society and culture

What Hacker News says?

  1. I found isync/mbsync to be a reliable tool to migrate my mail from one email provider to another.[1] You have to be into unix-y command line, though. [1] See e.g. https://psyq123.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/backing-up-email-fr...

    Comment linking /2015/09/22/backing-up-email-from-any-imap-server-plus-syncing-and-migrating/

    on “Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding”
  2. Submitted To defend the free web, save Mozilla as a story · 163 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Your freedoms are eroding as technology becomes more closed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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