I'm very uncomfortable with entities wielding massive amounts of power and influence deciding what is to be discussed and what not and what is acceptable or not. We developed all kinds of checks and balances for governments as we realized such a lopsided balance of power tends to yield all kinds of nasty situations. The big tech companies arguably have more power than many nations around the world yet few if any of the same checks and balances exist. They can wipe you from the many things they're involved in and simply move on without consequence. They don't even have to tell you why. I don't like the continuous narrowing of what's considered normal and acceptable and I don't like the idea of causing what's potentially a fair amount of harm to people's lives or livelihoods without recourse. If companies are going to wield that kind of power they should be accountable. Them using that power to wipe a bunch of dicks off the web doesn't make it any better.
It will be re-assuring to know that the USA supreme court Masterpiece Cakeshop case did not establish that it is ok for a company to refuse service to anyone. This wasn't even up for discussion / decision in the case. It was a very narrow case with an even more narrow ruling. It wasn't even a liberal vs conservative decision as Breyer and Kagan were with the majority.
I feel no pity for Parler but am concerned with the general precedent. We have very large and powerful companies with significant control over the Internet that are wielding that power. Ok so Parler was an easy target, but what next?I'm very uncomfortable with entities wielding massive amounts of power and influence deciding what is to be discussed and what not and what is acceptable or not. We developed all kinds of checks and balances for governments as we realized such a lopsided balance of power tends to yield all kinds of nasty situations. The big tech companies arguably have more power than many nations around the world yet few if any of the same checks and balances exist. They can wipe you from the many things they're involved in and simply move on without consequence. They don't even have to tell you why. I don't like the continuous narrowing of what's considered normal and acceptable and I don't like the idea of causing what's potentially a fair amount of harm to people's lives or livelihoods without recourse. If companies are going to wield that kind of power they should be accountable. Them using that power to wipe a bunch of dicks off the web doesn't make it any better.
Email. I am quite happy to run my own mail server if I'm honest. However that's not really feasible now due to how the Internet has turned into large corporate islands. Your email has to be spurged out of and delivered to one of them rather than self hosting it otherwise you end up in a mire of RBL systems and some upstream MTU's telling your impolitely to fuck off even if you have SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up properly. There is also no process to appeal to some provider so you can send mail to them either. To do business via email you need to play in the cloud still.
I’d argue that it’s a wasted effort running that for a 5 person org. You could be generating more revenue doing something else. Outsource it to someone.
A wonderful recent problem I’ve seen is Amazon SES which has outbound delivery problems occasionally because someone on SORBS keeps listing their address ranges.
I’d argue that it’s a wasted effort running that for a 5 person org. You could be generating more revenue doing something else. Outsource it to someone.
I apologise, I read your post as "I can't make self-hosted E-mail work so I've outsourced it to fastmail". I was simply pointing out that you *can* make it work, but you appear to have that sorted. I'm a bit behind.
A wonderful recent problem I’ve seen is Amazon SES which has outbound delivery problems occasionally because someone on SORBS keeps listing their address ranges.
And MS' Azure has a problem with SPAMmers too for the last two or three months. They seem to just play whack-a-mole and not being able to deal with the SPAMmers. So I had to block *.cloudapp.azure.com.
I totally hate this modern web experience.
[...] newer browser versions are using their own DNS servers ignoring the system's DNS servers and throwing constantif you turn that "feature" off [...]
It is a business model favoured by drug dealers everywhere!
I totally hate this modern web experience.
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Just recently I was looking at a wiki style page and wanted to see how they did their div layouts (so I can move from using tables - which work wonderfully without tons of css for laying out data). My intention was duplicating it. I knew it was bad, but I didn't just grasp how bad it actually was until I looked at the referenced assets.
836KB for 1 CSS, 160K for another other CSS, plus 9 other CSS files I didn't bother with, 600K for a javascript library, another 150K for some other ad tracking javascript library (thank god I have scripting turned off!). I was nearly at a 2MB download before I even got to the html, and images.
When your bloat far exceeds the content on your page (including images), you have really gone wrong. Also you've done something wrong when nothing loads with scripts off (93% of sites I have attempted to visit - Yes, at one point I did count).
Anyway this is why I always keep old versions an use old versions over the newest stuff. Remember in the early 2000s when Adobe first moved all their programs to the 'cloud' such as authentication for photoshop? Remember when Adobe had that masssssssssive licensing server outage that resulted in so many people not being able to use Photoshop? Yea, I do. I made a lot of money off that "fiasco" because I still had Photoshop 5 LE, Gimp, & MS paint and I was able to get people results if they didn't require extremely complex things. A lot of times not the exact results they wanted, but results they could compromise on, and could use to deliver. I was insanely busy for 2 weeks, even after the whole "fiasco" was corrected. Why? My software just worked when everyone else was crippled by someone else's computer. Why is it in the mobile world where we are expected to be mobile, are now extremely locked down? Lets not forget programs where you need to "deactivate" it before uninstalling or you lose that ""unrecoverable"" "seat". Oh god I hope my computer doesn't die from a massive hardware failure such as getting dropped, or a battery shorting out and starting a fire. BlueIris... Melodyne... You're not cheap, and I'm looking at you.
How long until Windows home turns to subscription? How long until all your work is done in an extremely bloated browser that eats memory because "its there to use". The browser will become your OS. Also, don't forget newer browser versions are using their own DNS servers ignoring the system's DNS servers and throwing constantif you turn that "feature" off - if you can turn that off. Welcome to your new sandbox. Its 1" deep with coarse sand that doesn't work well with playing in the sand. Here's your crappy sand toys. You will like it and pay for it because its your only option. Welcome to the modern internet.
*sigh*
I totally hate this modern web experience.
[...] newer browser versions are using their own DNS servers ignoring the system's DNS servers and throwing constantif you turn that "feature" off [...]
Ah, I didn't know that. I had been wondering at some of the behaviour I observed in my browser after setting up a local ad blocking DNS...
I am guilty of this myself if I'm honest as well going back about 10 years when I slid jQuery into something. By the time all the plugins had been installed that were required such as jQuery UI and all the ancillary shit it was landing at around 2 megs of JS. At this point I decided enough was enough and wrote a 9k library that did nearly everything required. But no one understood it because it was functional programming based so it was discarded in favour of something people could google rather than understand in about 30 minutes if they read the nice fucking manual I wrote.
LMAO agreed.
I hate to disappoint you further but Microsoft are working on Electron based apps to replace most of the desktop office apps at the moment, starting with Outlook. So basically you're going to end up with 20 separate browsers each with a 50 meg stack of shit on top of it. If that's not bad enough it's written in TypeScript so the stack sort of looks like:
idea -> piles of shitty libraries -> typescript -> web assembly -> v8 engine -> chromium -> OS API -> hardware API.
I am guilty of this myself if I'm honest as well going back about 10 years when I slid jQuery into something. By the time all the plugins had been installed that were required such as jQuery UI and all the ancillary shit it was landing at around 2 megs of JS. At this point I decided enough was enough and wrote a 9k library that did nearly everything required. But no one understood it because it was functional programming based so it was discarded in favour of something people could google rather than understand in about 30 minutes if they read the nice fucking manual I wrote.. About then I decided to say fuck it, I don't want anything to do with the modern web and relegated myself back to the realm of systems programming where I reside today and have no intention of changing.
One reason I'm liking Apple at the moment is they actually value native applications.
On windows, everything is going subscription. Windows Home is just that first line of coke free to get you in. This is followed by Office family and possibly windows 10 pro when you realise you need one of those little features. If you're me you use an MSDN key for Office and scrape old win 10 pro serials off PCs on the way to the tip
You shall not over-deliver!That's the reason why we need high speed internet for watching ads with some scarce crumbs of information sprinkled in between.
I hate to disappoint you further but Microsoft are working on Electron based apps...
That's more or less expected... after Teams success
does not meet the hurdle rate that GitLab expects
New server license sales will end on February 2, 2021 and support will end on February 2, 2024. Choose cloud or Data Center instead.
We can force you either pay a premium or allows to use just something for free becauseQuotedoes not meet the hurdle rate that GitLab expects
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-subscription-model/
Is it new trend about to start?
Also, Atlassian has killed on-premises licenses...QuoteNew server license sales will end on February 2, 2021 and support will end on February 2, 2024. Choose cloud or Data Center instead.
What I've always wondered is what happens when the market saturates. The whole point of making everything cloud is getting a steady revenue stream which ultimately means making more money. Neither companies nor people have endless amounts of money to spend, so there is a point the available funds get spread too thin and no one is making money. Do we enter an endless cycle of companies going bust and ecosystems popping from under people?