Is the concept of invasion not clear?

You don’t have to ask once you invaded.

Sure this is an unlikely scenario but saying Donald can’t afford to lose a partnership by invading an allied country is not understanding the problem.

The way I see it, innovation is a product like anything else in the context of capitalism.

Sam Altman wanted openAI to be non profit in its innovation but this was incompatible with capitalism that identifies it as a product with value.

So basically capitalism tries to find monetary value in anything so it can be sold because the ultimate goal is money.

Innovation is a byproduct of capitalism searching for new things to sell.

(Disclaimer : I understand Sam Altman probably never genuinely wanted to innovate for free, this is just a posture)

Americans realize how deadly corporate greed hits people in health care -> proceeds to elect Trump.

It’s Leopard season I suppose.

If I’m not mistaken the people behind Videolan also did x264 which is a pretty major library used to encode h.264.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

It’s a lesser known project from videolan but with a rather broad use online.

But discrediting someone’s opinion by just posting this meme is NOT toxic ?

So it’s toxic to assume someone might be a Russian bot but it is not toxic to disregard the opinion of everybody that said that ? You know there are bots online. Maybe not much here but there was definitely many on Reddit. So bots are real but someone that points out a bot must be wrong.

This is weird.

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So yeah, it appears we shouldn’t trust what Putin says publicly.

Obviously, he could say he prefers Biden and then pull every trolling ressources available to make Trump wins.

This statement from Putin doesn’t have any value whatsoever.

He would say openly the opposite it would still be extremely unreliable information.

So basically:

Russian bots do exist but they are “not that bad”. Also if someone from Russia they are not necessarily a bot because they have a different opinion…

That’s all fine to have that position but who are you to tell other people if they encountered a bot or a real human being ?

Do you have any idea how prevalent Russian bots are ? What are their latest strategy?

I cannot answer these questions and you shouldn’t either.

The people you are bashing for pointing at “Russian bots” could be completely right. Their perception of internet is not the same as yours.

If anything it’s good that people are suspicious of any Russian information on the internet. It’s much better in my opinion than your alternative which seems to be built on contempt for people falling for bots and a very prominent ego yourself for thinking nobody ever got you.

This guy birds.

Why not both ?

I’m sure a thin layer of gravel will soften the landing.

That but grabbing both legs.

Jumping very high beforehand is recommended.

Sensationalist titles and thumbnails are the norm.

Almost impossible to survive on YouTube without it.

So I wouldn’t hold it against any channel.

By dropping silently I meant really litteraly. If you answer to SMTP commands, you are not silent. You essentially say a spammer server that you are a valid target and that they can go on.

It’s not even a question if spammer buy domains to spam. It’s well known and the reason why commercial products provides a feature to filter too fresh domains.

There are procedures to “warm-up” an IP if you are a large provider and if you don’t do it and attempt to send a lot of mails to Gmail this will not work. It’s not just about DNS records. You could have donne everything perfectly DNS wise and still be blocked by Gmail servers.

You should take a look at the requirements of Gmail for large providers. As far as I recall Gmail does check FcrDNS since last month. On top of more requirements for authentication.

Still you can’t just buy an IP, a server, set MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC?, FcrDNS and expect large amounts of mail to go through right away.

And again, any communication method will have a spam problem

The major issue here is that anybody can send any email to whoever. Most communication apps won’t let you do that certainly not like emails.

You can’t open WhatsApp and start spamming the whole world. You basically can only do that with phone calls and emails ?

So no, SMTP/IMF has rotten foundations. No matter how many (optional) protocol you add on top, it will always be such an hassle to maintain and there will be always people who can’t afford that much effort.

Small businesses having to set that up just to reach Gmail is a big problem that they usually externalize with Outlook365 and so on.

Again, Gmail calls the shots because they are the leader. But on paper my fully unauthenticated mail from Barack.obama is perfectly RFC compliant and legit. These protocols that are essential are optional at the end of the day. They became virtually mandatory because of the spam issue and Gmail pushing in the (right) direction because they have leverage.

SMTP on its own is trash.

It sounds like your problem is with the way providers handle email and not email itself.

No. Providers handle mail this way because they have no choice to do so.

You are stuck between two major Issues.

On one hand you can have your anti-spam very lenient and receive pretty much everything. But if you do you will get more phishing and malware ridden mails. So the users will be exposed to one of the most dangerous vector of infection.

On the other hand you can have a super aggressive spam filter but some mail will be dropped. Whether an email notifications or the contract of the year for a business. It’s no matter. It might never be delivered.

And since we have to block millions of spam mail everyday we have to block them silently because if you respond to certain malicious SMTP server online they will just spam you.

In reality businesses are used to email so that’s what is commonly used.

But it’s far too unreliable to communicate with clients of that business. You can’t just have an important contract sent as an attachment by mail with some chance that it will be silently dropped at some point.

The simple fact that you can send an information to someone by email and it might be silently dropped without you ever being aware of it should IMO have led to the conclusion that it should never be used for anything remotely critical.

If it’s important it shouldn’t be an email. The reality is millions of dollars worth of business conducted solely through email conversations. And also a very lucrative business of spam.

Even businesses are often spammers or as they may call it “gray mail”.

No email providers will guarantee you a 0% fault spam filtering.

Not Gmail either.

As much as I hate Gmail, at least they are pushing for everyone being required to use SPF and DKIM. That alone will eliminate a huge portion of the spam problem.

It’s a good thing Gmail does that but it helps only their users right now (since February’s changes). If your business communicates with thousands of small domains on small providers it will take another decade for every SMTP server to fix their s***. And even then there will still be spam.

What’s the difference between a spammer going through all the hoops of creating a mail domain and a new business ?

Not much. Both mynewlegitEmailDomain.com and SpammerWho UnderstandsDNS.com are essentially the same for a spam filter.

They both would have “legit DNS records” but would both have trouble sending mail to Gmail at first.

Because Gmail cannot know if you are a spammer that setup a new disposable domain or a serious actor in email that just wants to communicate with you.

Truthfully Email is a terrible protocol that cannot be fixed with yet another layer of duct tape. You will never have any guarantee your mail is delivered. There is plenty of communication systems that’s will tell you it’s delivered or not.

I work on email systems everyday.

Please don’t let this protocol survive.

Forget emails that is functionally a terrible communication tool.

You never know if it will be received by the recipient. There is always false positive false negative classification in spam.

SMTP is an outdated protocol that needs to die.

And that’s a bad thing ?

Basically, price surges on the menu when in high demand. So if you would go take out some Wendy’s during some holiday or a very busy time the prices would be higher than usual.

Obviously, I agree with others that Wendy’s will probably do that sneakily and not with huge price difference but the concept is disgusting especially when it comes to food imo.

Who do we git blame ?

How is it a rape if it’s legal and the person consents to it ?

Oh well whatever. This is pointless.

So if someone is eating a really spicy chili and I say “Prepare your anus”.

Is it a rape joke ?

Not a native speaker either but I feel presenting the original comment as a rape joke is a stretch.

Context matters.

Also breaking news, plenty of Police forces and prison guards are able to kindly ask you to “prepare your anus” and in a very much legal manner. This is how I understood the original comment.