The fact that so many Russian oligarchs have fallen out of windows really goes to show billionaires are degenerate gamblers when thinking the dictatorship will work for them
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Or even better, it takes about 10 minutes to learn how to host a hugging face model yourself, and you can find tiny models, with safeties turned off that can run on a ten year old laptop. If could spend a little time putting effort into your gooning maybe we could save the Sudan as well but you're so lazy and dumb we all fucked
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.
"Well, we couldn't put 'costume' cause then all the comments would call us furries!"