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

That looks a lot like PowerShell

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.

Be a shame if a truck on the side of the road containing highly volatile lithium ion suddenly got a bit hot

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.

https://open-slum.org/

This gives a good guide on how mirrors on each service are

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

The problem is not with crypto itself, it’s with the part of the community (certainly the loudest) who have been telling the public to treat it as an investment asset.

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.

It’s requests like that which end in torn perineums

My favourite fact is she thinks decriminalising sex work will lead to more sex trafficing.

Thanks to how public presential correspondence is (usually, but probably not any more) public record, we know what two previous presidents called their penises.

Warren G. Harding called his Jerry LBJ called his Jumbo

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

The one thing that always amazes me about white surpremecists, Republicans and idiots is the belief that the group they hate is in no way contributing to the economy. Maybe they believe there is a secret group of “good whites” that only they know about (Aha, the true illegals!), who will perfectly slot in and provide not only their economic output, but increase it.

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