Why is ease of hosting a mail server rated so well ? How is “leveraging email hosting services” decentralized in any way ?

Because somebody there doesn’t even understand you’re supposed to host an email server as easily as hosting a web server with a website. While in reality you’ll learn all the Satanish obscene lexicon before making big email providers accept your mail.

I’m exaggerating probably, but ahem.

That said, in my humble careless incompetent “let’s-go-back-to-year-2005” opinion we need a new email standard, spiritually same, but qualitatively different, like the upgrade from prehistoric email with UUCP paths to something more modern, only this time cutting down all the DMARC and DKIM bullshit and simply using pubkeys in To: and From: headers, with the email itself signed by the author, by mail server and maybe by something else. One can make encryption of email content the baseline norm while we’re at it. One can even get rid of the attachment of identities to mail servers and use servers similar to how NOSTR has relays. I mean, what I described already is just NOSTR with nostalgic aesthetics. Maybe also similar to some kind of Fidonet reimagined.

Do they host login servers and supernodes for the actual real Skype? Asking for a friend.

He wasn’t “progressive” in any real form. It was just a good brand when he became Pope.

I wouldn’t expect the “progressive” part to change rapidly up or down in the Latin church.

Just one mafia boss being replaced with a successor. Not big news.

Ah, yes. I’ll add to this that she shouldn’t be a sadistic torturer and probable murderer (just thinking of my first love).

It’s as democratic as democratic gets on that scale.

That’s kinda sad.

Any girl

EU is not democratic. EU’s ruling entities are formed by governments of member countries. Which are supposedly democratic.

And about never voted through - sometimes putting pressure is enough.

due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.

Oh, let’s all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?

Yes, I meant they are relatives and a lot of D’s are often similar between relatives. RFK Jr’s ideas, but JFK’s sister getting lobotomized for behavior that might come with ASD too.

But I can tell you my uncles and ancestors who were farmers, engineers, etc (extremely conservative men too) - dont like how ASD is a disorder. “Back in our day we called that an engineer.”

Yes, that’s a bit like my aunts resist putting ASD and my grandpa into one sentence.

Also they are too somewhat conservative, and the reaction to a single F-word in a good article was textbook autistic. Similarly to how I buy a bottle of some soda, not seeing the “pieces of something” small text (pieces themselves are almost invisible), and then try to drink it and spit it out.

but given that JFKs sister was lobotomized for being too promiscuous and California had a mass eugenics program until the 50s we won’t know.

I’ll dare suggest that RFK himself seems autistic a lot. With the absolute idiocy my father believed about ASD, I think RFK’s ideas might be a result of some childhood trauma connected to that diagnosis.

I think in that culture money follows social appreciation, not value. And that is connected to obedience and ritual. It’s as if his work in those decades was service as it should be, then he committed a sacrilege.

And he’s low in hierarchy. Asians love hierarchies.

I don’t know. Maybe that work ethic is wrong, in most manga\anime I’ve seen characters struggle against it, and then maybe deliver through pure genius outside it, only to be appreciated as “barely did it”.

But they have a point too about erosion. I see it everywhere.

FreeBSD ports with distfiles for things really necessary, with dependencies. I guess that would fit in 1TB and leave some for ebooks and music.

Also software RAID is not Frankensteiny at all, neither are storage clusters of Ceph or alternatives.

What those things necessary would encompass, I don’t know. I suppose similar to Slackware full installation.

It would all make little sense without the Internet. You’d suddenly find that a year 1995 machine, one year older than me, and a few friendly BBSes are not as unrealistically small as they seem now.

It’s no different than shredding or burning paper files.

Both are normal if you work with information you wouldn’t like to leak. Or something very personal.

They are that thing you said only if they are unusual for the circumstance. When that gives information that a person did something not normal.

Because that’s a sign of something, kinda similar to shaking hands and missing shovel and sudden lack of time for guests.

Encrypting everything on Internet-connected machines is not unusual. It’s perfectly normal. It’s f* obligatory.

Encryption is also criminal in some contexts, like encrypted radio broadcasts on frequencies for public use.

Because that’s almost jamming, if everyone could broadcast all they can, nobody could use those frequencies. And since you have to make space there, private transmissions probably belong somewhere else. Doesn’t matter when using wire. This is irrelevant to encryption.

It definitely belongs as a talking point in a courtroom, imo.

No it doesn’t. Even if someone suddenly started encrypting everything, no. Maybe they learned how the world works and decided to learn to do it just in case.

That’s correct, but your point is not clear. Public infrastructure is not a closed system. If your “closed systems” have to communicate, they either build and support their own parallel infrastructure or don’t, or communicate without encryption over public infrastructure. Which is not acceptable.

People used encryption for commercial purposes since Antiquity.

If your point is how it mostly was right “before radio transmission” - that latency would break civilization. You’d have to send messengers with safes for correspondence. The contents of which would be encrypted.

By the way, in those days nobody in their right mind would suggest banning encryption. If you need to read something - get a court order to read it first, if you read it without that you’ve committed a crime and it’s not admissible. If it’s encrypted, you could get the court to demand someone to decipher it, if it’s certain that they can.

A lot of steps, see, to not infringe on private life.

You mean, for everyone to have their own infrastructure, many times what we have now, and still some jerk can literally wiretap like in old times?

Or send messengers?

Encryption is not just not a crime, it’s a republican virtue, those arguments usually used about guns, they are even better applicable to encryption. Encryption is actually a civil duty, because of herd immunity being damaged by people not using encryption. That public institutes’ erosion we are seeing in the last decades - it’s because the technological progress made the need for encryption to blow up, not accompanied with sufficient public perception. That erosion is a result of bad people having gotten orders of magnitude more information about everyone to plan their actions.

Ah. OK. That’s nicer. Makes sense in the time of consumer hardware dominating frontlines.

That be radar or the bombe’s?

Lasers are more useful in surveillance and navigation and guidance and precision work in production, for a weapon they are, most of the time, out of place. Expensive, unreliable and weak.