People are allowed to use the Fediverse differently than you do.

No, your preferences are not norms or mores.

Not every post is about you. (Almost none of them are, in fact.)

Not every piece of advice has to be relevant to you to be valuable.

Nobody owes you a hashtag.

People can post pictures of things you find uninteresting or distasteful. (Yes, they should use alt text.)

People are allowed to post their work.

People are allowed to *promote* their work.

People are allowed to ask for help, including monetary help.

There is more than one thing going on in the world right now.

There is more than one way to help.

That joke is not about politics and doesn't benefit from your reply trying to make it about Trump.

That woman wasn't asking a question.

And yes, she gets her own joke without you explaining it to her.

Linux is *sometimes* the answer.

I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.

As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.

I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.

But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.

I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.

mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.

They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.

The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.

Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.

Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.

Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.

The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.

What can we do about this?

At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.

Brandweer bezorgd over onveilig gebruik van steeds populairdere stekkerbatterij

De brandweer is bezorgd over de opmars van thuisbatterijen met een stekker. Gevreesd wordt onder meer dat mensen de apparaten onveilig gebruiken.

https://nos.nl/l/2609352 #nieuws #nos

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116308891820413082

At the @BZKopensource we're about to pilot the government-wide codeplatform, based on #Forgejo, and we've had to promise that we would offer a similar uptime as #GitHub.

So.. do we just turn off the platform on Tuesdays? 🤔

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