Tetsuo

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Having worked on email servers in the past, I can say that emails is one of the worst means of communication available today. It's totally unreliable, complicated to secure, can easily be a vector for all kinds of dangerous malware. It's used everywhere for everything yet is absolutely terrible as a communication tool.

I genuinely think we NEED email to die and start with a blank slate.

To secure an email domain you have to implement SPF, DKIM DMARC and all kinds of others add-ons to emails to barely control the amount of spam and phishing that will target you.

Emails will often be silently refused by a recipient mail server because they were falsely identified as spam. So the recipient will not know someone attempted to contact them. Spammers are still having lucrative businesses despite the 3 security add-ons I mentioned before and many domains are still completely unprotected. And these have been the guidelines for decades. And it's still recommended to always check the spam folder because everyone needs to keep in mind that emails are unreliable. They are an outdated technology like the fax machines are/were. By the way, even a fax machine is more reliable than an email.

Filtering spam will always mean false positives and lost emails. And it's quite expensive to get a good anti spam filter.

Emails are bad. They need to go. If anything remotely looks like an acceptable replacement we have to go for it.

/rant

I realize this comment is a bit off topic. I just wanted to point out that despite being heavily used emails are on paper an absolutely terrible communication medium. Maybe it's not such a bad thing if people use it less.

Genuinely, the most frustrating technology I had to admin so far and by a long shot.

I kind of get why a business would want to stop providing email services. They are so annoyingly complicated to host.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In France at least I doubt it.

The only time I remember caps on landlines was when 56k modem were still the norm. Once ADSL was rolled out there was pretty much no caps anymore.

I think the fact that we had some healthy competition for landlines from the get go in my country meant the ISPs couldn't get that much greedy and put caps in place. So it never ended being common where I live.

And when it was old school modems, well you were already paying for the phone communications anyway when connected to the internet so it wasn't really unlimited anyway.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sorry if this is nitpicking but as far as I know, there is no such thing as unlimited mobile data plans.

In most contracts they will say that you have to use reasonably the data plan and you cannot for example constantly max out your connection. Like 24/7 constant max bandwidth used.

In most case it doesn't really matter but I really don't like the fact that ISPs get to say it's unlimited when it definitely isn't.

It's unlimited*

  • Some restrictions may apply.
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Meanwhile my windows computer wakes up from sleep in the middle of the night to update and starts a light show in my room.

You can't easily deactivate that behavior.

It's not really my computer, it's Microsoft's computer that they lend me.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think there is plenty of SMS usage in Europe.

It's easy as a technically savy user to lose sight on what less proficient users are using.

Yes, my parents both use perfectly fine their WhatsApp but they still send/receive a lot of SMS.

For context, I'm in France.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really want to start a debate on the Signal SMS dropout but ...

They could have put a big red warning and a disclaimer you have to read once for the unsecured SMS. It would have been fine.

Yes, you would have to maintain that but I think it would definitely have been worth it considering how much reach they lost dropping this feature.

I stopped using Signal when they did, and that's one less tech user advertising their secure app.

It's a shame because I think this will slowly kill the project.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

That's interesting!

I'm just not sure the "security" of WhatsApp is preserved in that case but it's certainly better than not being able to talk to certain people at all.

Also I think these kind of meta chat apps have been tried before and it usually doesn't end very well so I'm not sure I would be super optimistic.

Any of the chat provider can break their link to beeper and since they probably don't really care about it it shouldn't very reliable.

But a cool find nonetheless!

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago

Probably could have added :

Source: Fox News

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I started boycotting LTT when he had his shit take about blocking ads being essentially stealing.

Well I sure don't steal Linus anymore that's for sure.

And I would be stealing Linus for sure considering the absolutely crazy amount of ads there is on this channel.

Ever watched a WAN Show without any AdBlock or sponsor block ? That's like 40% of the duration of the video if I include the LTT shop.

It's by far the channel on YT that I watched that pushes the most ads/sponsors. And I'm not even accounting for the YT ads themselves.

Fuck LTT seriously, he can push as much ads as possible AND on top of that you have to watch all of them religiously.

If that's the price for his content, not worth it for me.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 59 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I just thought about the "Duh it's fake" comments that were slowly inching me to insanity on reddit.

Please don't bring this over to Lemmy. Please.

80% of popular posts had a popular comment saying something is staged or fake. It's so uninteresting, unoriginal and beating a dead horse so to say. Even for litteral movie scenes we had popular comments saying it's staged.

Sorry for the rant and it's not particularly for your comment. It just was a massive trend I noticed on certain subreddits. Could probably farm karma just making a bot saying some variation of "it's fake" to every posts.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 40 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.

It's less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.

At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.

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