It was that good in the 90s, enshittification is only more visible now as you have gotten older and better at identifying it.

This is for people who learnt C++ in 2008 and refuse to believe that they’ve never fucked up a malloc in their lives

Oh look just as the AV1 consortium is also deciding to do shakedowns. It’s a good thing the open source community have a history of building functional and well performing codecs, especially when it comes to media formats.

A reporter for the New York Times went to a bar during the Watergate hearings and asked if they could put it on the TV and he was kicked out

https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/devices-specification

That’s why I recommended this, their devices dual boot Android or Linux. One of their older devices quad boots by default

This isn’t a fly by night operation, it’s got a loyal fanbase, and good hardware and software support. They’ve been manufacturing for a decade, before that this guys were doing PDAs.

https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/astro-slide-5g

This sounds up your ally

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

Ambassador Bridge - Wikipedia

Stallman: “Oh man, not like this.”

“Info sec is full of Jews”

What the hell does this even mean?

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.