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Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti 💯

Absolutely! That's the only way that I've gotten through to them. If you stick 1 more @ in front of an email address it's the EXACT same thing.

#TheResistanceWillBeFederated #ArtFED

@Jyoti I've used the "well how much care did you use in choosing your email server" with pretty good results in talking to people about choosing a mastodon server, because most of the time they don't even remember how they chose it, as it in theory doesn't matter.
(in practice of course it matters a lot, and that's also a useful conversation to have.)

This is sadly fitting for me as I've been on Gmail since 2005 and now I want to make sure all that history of mine isn't held hostage by Google.

@Jyoti Same, and now I'm the proud owner of a proton email account, specifically because of reading about google handing over gchat logs about people's health care to law enforcement.

Fuck me! :(

@Jyoti It appears to still be possible to minimize how much info we leak...
but one of these days I'm gonna be living in a little shack in the mountains that doesn't even have a phone line, I think.

Haha, tbh, I am quite relaxed about personal stuff since I'm a songwriter and musician: my job is basically revealing my private life to total strangers.

That being said, I don't want insurance companies to scan my DNA or anyone to know about my immediate friends or family.

@Jyoti Having recently had a stalker problem, I'm definitely on the pretty tense side of this issue, but I grant that for inherently public figures the calculus is bound to be different. BTW I just read a bit, and, I sure like your music. Thank you for making the world a better place.

Awhh, thank you! That's very sweet of you to say!

If I'd had the maths, I would have been a physicist or a coder or both.

But music is my thing. I've known that since I was 12.

It's the same thing for me that religion is for the zealot.

@Jyoti It's better for the world than zealotry, though!

Very sorry to hear about your stalker. Been through that too and had the counselling which helped, a little. :/

I shall now check out Proton, thank you!

@Jyoti proton.me -- so far they've been okay. (You might want to read up on them a bit, though: I think it's probably a good idea to have the place that handles your email in another country than you're in, but tbh I'm just some dude, not an actual expert in this.)

Dare I ask the Bing AI about Proton?

😂

@Jyoti This smacks of culture jamming, and I really like it. (What does happen if you ask AI 1 to criticize AI 2? Is this the modern version of Captain Kirk's logic bomb: defuse the AI threat by getting them all mad at each other?)

@Jyoti "The Internet Was A Mistake: The Animated Movie!"

Well, that didn't last long...

#BingAI

@Jyoti Hee hee I love this. This is the correct way to interact with AI.

I'm hoping, post-Singularity, to be the equivalent of a pet cat for some whimsical AI: I shall be an absolute arsehole but also adorable and deserving of head pats and the odd sardine.

I already have the 4am zoomies...

Floaty Birb Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti @smellsofbikes If there is an AI singularity, the best we can hope for is that the AIs decide to treat us like pet cats.

basisbit 🦈🇪🇺🇺🇦 🔜 KnSt Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti Well, good luck trying to reliably send emails to recipients who use some email service from Microsoft. Randomly not getting emails delivered, nor being marked/declined as spam and nothing in logs, thats something to be expected with Microsoft's email services.

@basisbit

Ah, I've never used MS for email so I didn't know it was this bad. Ta!

Kevin Karhan

Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti yes, also we need to force people to learn tech and actual #TechLiteracy because they got groomed by the #GAFAMs into being #TechIlliterate Consoomers!

And that is bad...

@kkarhan

Ich würde „erzwingen“ in „ermutigen“ ändern, aber ich habe Sie sagen sehen, dass Englisch nicht Ihre Muttersprache ist, also verstehe ich Ihre Sichtweise, Genosse!

Kevin Karhan

Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti and yes, I mean "force" because 20+ years of kiving and learning tech on my own has shown me how purposefully ignorant and lazy TechIlliterates are if given time and space to make up excuses.

@kkarhan

Sorry, you've lost me on the 'force,' that's not how I believe education, at any age, should work.

I also do not share the contempt you seem to feel for people who aren't techy. You sound very angry? Calling average people "ignorant" and "lazy" - what the actual fuck??

All humans have varying degrees of capability in different areas, all humans are worthy. I should not have to state that.

Just because someone doesn't know Python doesn't make them a lesser human being.

Jamie Booth Jun 22, 2023

@Jyoti there was a point where that was true as well. I remember Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL all having a messaging service that was internal until SMTP mail came to the masses.