The fact that if you die tomorrow it will actually impact very few people and you aren’t doing shit to change that

Literally just spends all day commenting hacker news posts

Everyone would live edit in nano if they weren’t cowards

oh but it doesn’t have macros

You will use your $1000 keyboard and you will like it

It doesn’t sound like anything except trying to sell something to tin foil hat people.

SMTP is still an open protocol, the ONLY reason you’re able to email other servers is because it’s an open protocol.

Here’s the RFC for it.

Here’s the one for SPF and here’s everyone’s favourite “I don’t understand it, so I won’t implement it, dammit why is Gmail blocking me? This is all big techs fault!”

“oh but what about the weird protocols Microsoft uses for Outlook! They’re not proper protocols!” You mean MAPI(RPC\HTTP) and ActiveSync? Well, RPC was built because the idea of a client constantly hitting an IMAP or POP, CalDEV and CardDAV in 1990 seemed like a poor use of resources. ActiveSync is about pushing email to devices with very low resources which don’t have the power to constantly be polling a sever. Neither of these protocols affect SMTP, they are client protocols which were not thought about during the 70s and 80s when servers were logged into directly with terminals.

Both solve legitimate problems. You actually have Microsoft’s blessing to go build with either protocol because both are documented. Microsoft would probably love for you to improve on them because they are worked on by the engineers who care about protocols and performance. They do exist. But apparently being offered that opportunity is not good enough for the open source community because, while you will find a handful of projects with open source implementations of these, according to them IMAP is perfect.

In Dylan Beattie’s excellent talk on the subject of large email providers, he makes the point that a perfectly open system will be exploited by assholes. There’s a reason toad.com is blacklisted. It’s not a perfect system, but compatibility comes with massive compromises. S/MIME is a kludge and if anybody really could think of a way to improve SMTP it would not be big tech that’s stopping it.

ON A SIMILAR AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC: Big tech isn’t blocking Matrix adoption or XMPP. Maybe when they’re a bit older, but they’re not currently scalable or robust enough to take on proprietary solutions.

Evangelical Christianity tells you not only that you are the main character in the world, and are therefore owed everything, it also teaches that you are not responsible for your own failings and Christ absolves all. So, in affect, it encourages narcissistic tendencies and Trump shows through Narcissism you can be all powerful without any responsibility.

He is their ideal, therefore, he is their Christ.

Remember that time that Microsoft sunk a data center in the ocean, proved this was cost effective, was reliable and could scale? And now it’s been five years and nothing happened? Yeah that was annoying.

Anyway their site of glowing press releases is still up for some reason

Computers use electricity to do math. The more electricity you have, the more math you can do. In order to do the math, the electricity is handled in a way that outputs heat. Unfortunately, the most reliable, cost effective and plentiful materials that allow electricity to do a lot of math also get heavily impacted by heat.

Fuck whoever chose to make the acronym the same, but this is already possible by being a terrible person and sticking PAT behind traditional NAT

Noted.

I calmed down and started searching for some recommendations to counter this view.

Although at the moment I still think The Chinese Room argument doesn’t prove what Searle thinks it does.

Wow, agents built to monitor and reflect human behaviour, accurately model and reproduce human behaviour.

This is what is what shits me off when people complain “Oh this AI isn’t real AI” or “This isn’t consciousness” The limiting factor is is the training data. Humans have just had a few more million years of training data passed on through genetics. It’s replication and fakery all the way down. If this is you, if you fucking need the reassurance that you are better at being fucking conscious compare to a machine fuck the fuck right off and go do something amazing with it then. Compose something. Create something. Feel the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet. Fuck off, we’re all dirt.

I know this was a completely empty thing and Trump will never do anything about it, but who was this really for? Does this threat even make any sense?

I want you to stop talking about Epstein so I’m going to anger a very specific part of my base? The people angry about Epstein are his chronically online base. I don’t imagine the corn farmer base even is aware of most of his online presence, let alone this outrage. Corn farmers being told the president is taking away a source of revenue are going to attend town halls, going to call and yell at their local elected officials, not tell people on Twitter to stop talking about Epstein because it’s going to crush their livelihoods.

A lot of news articles are covering both parts of this (they are mostly unrelated stories), but only Rolling Stone was brave enough to put both parts in the one headline

I think the funniest thing anyone could do right now would be for HBO Max to delist the episode of Big Bang Theory he is in, because over two dozen posts he would

1. Claim he hates streaming
2. Complain that this is censorship and platforms shouldn’t be allowed to remove or restrict content
3. Talk about the viewing figures and repost the promotion of the currently airing second spin off and the upcoming third spin off
4. Nonchalantly state that no one likes or cares about The Big Bang Theory anymore or ever did
5. @jim parsons for help
6. Someone would mention that an episode revolves around his plans to get someone to Mars by 2020
7. Delete all these tweets

YES WE HEARD YOU, YOU ARE SCOTT MALKINSON BARBIE AND YOU HAVE DIABETES

Not sure how long they’ll work, but here’s the direct link to the audio from the article.

https://public.flourish.studio/uploads/2281856/4a7cec60-ca22-4eb3-9590-80874d2f9b84.wav

https://public.flourish.studio/uploads/2281856/f54efe40-97a4-428f-8019-04edd7451c82.wav

If you’re willing to look, you can always find a hater

Mentioned here

Link to this issue

I find it really frustrating that supporters of Open Protocols appear to live in cognitive dissonance of both wanting to be “used by everyone” and “to be a small gated community”.

You can’t keep money out forever and with that does come influence which I know. But eventually wouldn’t you like to talk to your mother on a protocol you trust, with a client she understands?

I know there’s people who could articulate it better than I can, but my logic goes like this:

• Loss of critical thinking skill: This doesn’t just apply for someone working on a software project that they don’t really care about. Lots of coders start in their bedroom with notepad and some curiosity. If copilot interrupts you with mediocre but working code, you never get the chance to learn ways of solving a problem for yourself.
• Style: code spat out by AI is a very specific style, and no amount of prompt modifiers with come up with the type of code someone designing for speed or low memory usage would produce that’s nearly impossible to read but solves for a very specific case.
• If everyone is a coder, no one is a coder: If everyone can claim to be a coder on paper, it will be harder to find good coders. Sure, you can make every applicant do FizzBuzz or a basic sort, but that does not give a good opportunity to show you can actually solve a problem. It will discourage people from becoming coders in the first place. A lot of companies can actually get by with vibe coders (at least for a while) and that dries up the market of the sort of junior positions that people need to get better and promoted to better positions.
• When the code breaks, it takes a lot longer to understand and rectify when you don’t know how any of it works. When you don’t even bother designing or completing a test plan because Cursor developed a plan, which all came back green, pushed it during a convenient downtime and has archived all the old versions in its own internal logical structure that can’t be easily undone.

Edits: Minor clarification and grammar.

Can’t wait for him to insult and defund the golden dome