Notices by firebreathingduck (firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net)

@dalias @jherazob @AlexanderMars @ehproque @rk @SecurityWriter @protonprivacy @nextcloud

No, Microsoft especially has started taking the policy that email coming from a domain without a long-established reputation is automatically spam, and you have to jump through hoops to get it delivered. But all of the major providers have started doing this.

I've been running my own mail server using the https://mailinabox.email service on my own domain with a fixed IP for six years, and I still have delivery problems. I am not a spammer, a quick look in Thunderbird indicates I had 28 email conversations in the past 12 months.

@killyourfm

The hard part is the gentle sell. Nobody likes being pushed to a change that wasn't their idea in the first place. If we push them anywhere near as hard as Microsoft is, they'll go with Microsoft anyway.

I tried the hard sell on Linux to family members ten years ago, and it didn't go anywhere. A few years later, two family members switched on their own.

@quinn

I'm getting my news here and paying for a few brands outside the main - most notably Mondoweiss. I just need more money to support the rest.

@quinn

That's fair. But the assholes are getting an enormous amount of attention and the information holding power to account gets swept to the side.

@quinn

This is just more evidence that the news media exists to protect a conservative status quo. If they talked about the real reasons for the election results, people might want serious changes.

Their owners can't allow that.

@yogthos
there is a philosophical / economic movement around this called 'capability approach' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach

I've seen it expressed as "a man with no money has the freedom to buy food but that's useless without having the ability".

@baldur outstanding.

Another way to express labor arbitrage is "making engineers fungible".

Daniel Sockwell has an interesting video on this with respect to programming languages. https://youtu.be/MCKozTfcWr4?si=dkk17B8hn9Sbefzh