@unixorn yep. Like who do these “it’s easy” send email to, each other? Fuck, I had to send my graduation announcements from my Gmail account to anyone using Gmail because it decided my MS365 account was spam? Makes no sense but there you are.
Like if people want to learn about how email works, I encourage that but you don’t have to set up a fucking public email server to do that.
20 years ago, sure. Nowadays? Oh god fuck no, you’ll spend all day every day dealing with attacks and security issues.
People who don’t know better will be in a world of pain they cannot imagine and anyone who does know better and still subscribes to this technolibertarian bullshit deserves all the pain they get.
Unless you absolutely have to, (and if you even ask if you need to, the answer is, again, FUCK NO), do. not. run. your. own. email. server.
@mwl from a purely technical point? Sure. I ran multiples for decades. The technical side is absolutely never the problem. It’s that email is the number one security attack vector, and so unless you are very experienced and understand certain things very well, you’re going to get pooched. Quickly.
I can teach a small child how to set up an email server. Which will be owned by various groups in an hour if you don’t do the constant work to stop them.
@mwl dude, you have been doing this for like 30 years. You cannot, can. not. expect someone with no experience to follow a fucking howto and have the same experience.
But I forgot I was talking to a Linux admin who can’t comprehend that everyone isn’t just like him. So I am going to do me and yeet you out of my world.
Life is too short to deal with people actively avoiding empathy of any kind.
@majors can I apply that to your field? So someone reads a book and hey, they’re completely able to fully understand the risks and details of kernel programming right?
Fuck no, and no one with a clue would run an OS kernel built by someone whose entire experience is “I read a book. Once.”
If someone wants to learn about email, how it works and why, that is absolutely good. I encourage that.
@majors But as someone with 30+ years in the field, there is a WORLD of difference between me running an email server and someone who read a book. There’s things they won’t know that will cause them days and weeks of problems, and potentially many other people problems.
The internet isn’t just one thing, it’s all kind of connected.
But sure, saying “this shit ain’t simple, it’s unending work” is being gatekeepy.
Rewind a few years. "Letting gays (openly or otherwise) serve will kill the military"
Rewind a few years. "Letting women serve (as anything but nurses) will kill the military".
Why, when they ask about "military members'" opinions, it's prominently of the grey-haired dudes at the VFW or American Legion club (yeah, I know: giving an opinion to a reporter while you're still in uniform is how you get disciplined)?
@Cdespinosa I’ve been trying to remember … was it in the pre-Jobs2, pre-Copland era that Apple first discussing and demoing data detectors, and summarizing emails? Seems prescient in the current era.
@atlauren@Cdespinosa oh yeah. The WWDC they reintroduced Stacks, during one of the last feedback forums, my obnoxious ass got up to the mic, and said to Scott Forestall “so with the reintroductions of Stacks to the Mac OS, I guess you can say that you finally shipped Copland.”
For a good ten seconds I thought that man was gonna come off the stage and murder me. Violently.
Still would have been worth it, the look on everyone’s face.
Sharing with the class because I am awful. Movie idea. Necessary background, this is the trunk of a honey locust tree. Note the thorns will puncture a traffic tire:
re: Scarlett Johansson I think it's interesting that Mira Murati told NPR that they didn't pattern the ChatGPT voice off of anyone and that she doesn't even know what Johansson's voice sounds like. Because that could totally be true.
Anyone else think Sam Altman might have just asked for input into voice casting, and (after Johansson turned them down) chose the actress whose voice sounded most like hers? Which, you know... illegal? No. Creepy? Yes.