[–] 4 points 10 hours ago

I self-host a metric fuck tonne of services and (with my extensive email background) I choose to outsource my email services.

You CAN do it today. But should you? Given DMARC, SPF, etc... No.

Since I left Gmail's free GAFYD feature, I moved to Fastmail (Australian) years ago. Does it cost money? Yes. Does it do everything I want? Yes. Does it have features Google would never provide? Yes.

Do I have any reservations or regrets? No.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    There sure is a lot of "CEO said a thing" bollocks being dutifully reported by the media about this clown right now. His verbal effluent is probably overtaking the verbal effluent of the clown in the White House right now, which surely breaks a world record.

    Anyone could be forgiven for thinking he's got a huge PR campaign running in the lead up to something and people are falling for it. Again.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago
    • What most people think of as being worthy of conversion into anime and added seasons: Plot, story, engaging, relatable and Interesting characters, action, drama, novelty, and usually some romantic aspect to widen the appeal.

    • What makes money for manga publishers and anime producers: Cute girls doing cute things, well trodden tropes, romance that imperceptibly progresses, and no risk of it ever ending. Maximum appeal to the broadest range of fans for as long as possible.

    I started reading this when it was first available on the Viz app and still read it, but it soon became obvious it's written by an author who knows the endless chapter game very well. It's a skill, and profitable.

    I prefer my manga series to end after no more than 10 volumes, but this title could easily become like One Piece, Detective Conan or Bleach in its eventual chapter count if it balances the fan reward vs frustration tension properly.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    This is a wild read. I'd recommend reading the article, but the tl;dr is...

    He charged customers up to 20 times the ransom amount ($150K vs $8K in the example), paid the ransom to get their data back, and pocketed the difference as easy profit.

    He refused to reveal his "trade secret" method, but it was all A-OK when they thought it was "magic", and now everybody's mad at being deceived. πŸ˜„

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    An iPadBook, huh? Its a bold move, Cotton...

    I had a work laptop with a touchscreen and used that functionality exactly 0 times (after trying it out). If it had the ability to fold back into a Lenovo Yoga-style tablet form factor, it would have been a completely different story, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    InstaTube. Bold move trying to convince butterfly brain video viewers to watch something longer than 30 seconds.

    Still, Shorts on YT seems to work. Maybe Meta are trying to balance it out? It will mean spending on storage, so anyone's guess how it will go.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 weeks ago

    This was an interesting series of shorts. The bouncing screen edge overlay and the use of PDF made me chuckle. Very nostalgic.

    Thirty-odd years after it was first ejaculated into the world, PDF still remains the demon threat vector for payloads that just won't die.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    13% (presumably 12.5%) means 1 in 8.

    CxOs with their Thought Leadershipℒ️ and outside the box (follow the herd) thinking have done everything they can to reduce the cost and chaos of humans in their company, and prioritising the reverse centaur approach to LLMs for short term gain instead of making them centaurs: a useful tool to enhance their productivity for long term results.

    And now they're waving their hands in despair, wondering who's to blame. It can't be them, by definition.

    Let them burn. Let those companies die. Piss on their ashes. Blacklist the people involved. It's more than they deserve.

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