taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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The problems with email are many but the two that would warrant rebuilding is that the technology is a mess of under specified 1970s "standards" and the fact that email should really be replaced with multiple different systems according to modern usage.

Only a tiny portion of modern emails really use the "anyone can send an email to anyone unannounced" capability that cause all the trouble with spam.

The usage for a password reset and universal access system for accounts all over should really be split into some kind of specialized system.

As for the rest, most emails seem to be messages from systems where we have accounts or performed some other kind of signup, those could easily be authenticated with a key provided at signup both to make filtering and easier and to be able to revoke authentication, not to mention prevent selling of addresses or usage by third parties after a security leak. A more structured format for common messages (e.g. invoices, notifications about instant messages on some website,...) would also be a good idea.

Seems to be working great so far /s

It is a grim world where people only recognize these patterns when they happen to the country or group with the same name. Genocide can only happen to Jews, Nazis can only be Germans,...

The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies when in reality every single company that existed in history has behaved this way if they weren't stopped by regulation.

Not that I necessarily disagree that China would do it on a huge scale but what makes you think the US under Trump and his billionaire buddy psychopaths wouldn't do it on a catastrophic scale already?

Well, maybe desert is a bit much for SF but among the cities where they are active it seems noticeable that there isn't anything in a more humid or colder part of the country or really anywhere very green (where road signs might be obscured by growing trees, that kind of thing).

What if you don’t have mainstream social media?

That is literally inconceivable by the self-centered assholes who make policies like this.

Was hoping at this point in time Waymo would be expanding more aggressively.

I suspect the tech doesn't really work anywhere but in the bright sunny desert climate of the cities where they are active now.

Is that different from the unencrypted email we have now that is 99% spam and the other 99% are delivery problems due to anti-spam technologies?

Not all of them, some are averages of many people's guesstimates.

IMAP

Speaking of something that needs tearing down and building anew, email is a good candidate for that.

You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.

Depends, if it is an ad for an orbital laser that targets marketing executives it might work on me.

It doesn't really matter if Israel became news, the only thing relevant to the election should have been if voting Harris, Trump or not voting was likely to have different outcomes for the topic of the genocide and there was no reason to believe that there was a chance of that.

Especially the ones who refused to vote for her on the basis of the genocide in Palestine as if Trump wasn't just as bad or worse in supporting Israel and as if the American establishment hadn't always supported Israel. That idea that somehow not voting for her in that election would improve a single thing about that genocide was so stupid.

Discussing cost for something like that per month but not per kid without mentioning the number of kids you are thinking of would be kind of weird.

So what you are saying is that if it is permanently cloudy and never sunny anymore in the future it is because of the people who love AI and hate solar power? I could see that happening.

The kind of places where daycare is 5K a month are probably the 5% most expensive areas in a first world country. If you don't have a high paying job in those areas your job is very likely available elsewhere.

Are you talking about the ads for nitro?

If you think everyone using the Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Rocketchat/... generation of chat with inline image display and all those features, voice and video chat and screen sharing is ever going to switch to IRC at this point you are simply delusional.

The problem with that theory is that 99% of news are not by the company running the news website either. Not to mention that they wouldn't get any traffic if nobody was allowed to link to them.