Well if sleeping with the Vice President 48 hours after becoming a widow doesn’t earn you a chance to speak at a high school I don’t know what will 😕

You gotta remember, ALL of the chips are on this guy, the base hates most of the policy and could barely name any of the cabinet, they’re just there for the figurehead.

It’s Time Magazine, they’ve always had conservative slant and a habit of self owning

Since when in this administration did a discussion being in the early stages stop an announcement?

Homeplug is a defunct standard that had some real limitations, Ethernet over Power is a generic term relates to any standard of network over power lines.

The G.hn powerline standard is a massive improvement (despite being almost as old and is closer to MoCA as it will actually work over coax and other copper wiring, not just power lines) for both performance and stability, but the Homeplug standards have probably ruined the public perception.

G.hn is also a bit weird because the Wikipedia page presents it as how carriers could use, not as a home network option, even though a few home pieces of equipment are available, such as the TP-Link Deco PX50 which uses G.hn for the wifi backhaul.

That looks a lot like PowerShell

It doesn’t sound like anything except trying to sell something to tin foil hat people.

SMTP is still an open protocol, the ONLY reason you’re able to email other servers is because it’s an open protocol.

Here’s the RFC for it.

Here’s the one for SPF and here’s everyone’s favourite “I don’t understand it, so I won’t implement it, dammit why is Gmail blocking me? This is all big techs fault!”

“oh but what about the weird protocols Microsoft uses for Outlook! They’re not proper protocols!” You mean MAPI(RPC\HTTP) and ActiveSync? Well, RPC was built because the idea of a client constantly hitting an IMAP or POP, CalDEV and CardDAV in 1990 seemed like a poor use of resources. ActiveSync is about pushing email to devices with very low resources which don’t have the power to constantly be polling a sever. Neither of these protocols affect SMTP, they are client protocols which were not thought about during the 70s and 80s when servers were logged into directly with terminals.

Both solve legitimate problems. You actually have Microsoft’s blessing to go build with either protocol because both are documented. Microsoft would probably love for you to improve on them because they are worked on by the engineers who care about protocols and performance. They do exist. But apparently being offered that opportunity is not good enough for the open source community because, while you will find a handful of projects with open source implementations of these, according to them IMAP is perfect.

In Dylan Beattie’s excellent talk on the subject of large email providers, he makes the point that a perfectly open system will be exploited by assholes. There’s a reason toad.com is blacklisted. It’s not a perfect system, but compatibility comes with massive compromises. S/MIME is a kludge and if anybody really could think of a way to improve SMTP it would not be big tech that’s stopping it.

ON A SIMILAR AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC: Big tech isn’t blocking Matrix adoption or XMPP. Maybe when they’re a bit older, but they’re not currently scalable or robust enough to take on proprietary solutions.

The good news is, the cancer has stopped growing…

It’s an extreme version of the sunk cost fallacy. His believers are the type of people who think that changing your mind is a sign of weakness. For America to pass this period, a lot of these people will expect a Pact of Forgetting type situation so they don’t have to answer for what they were encouraging.

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

Germany has the opportunity to do something really funny

A lot of paranoia on this community :(

There’s a few sign in checks (The variety makes me think Disqus or something similar.), a couple of keep alives, your phone registering for Wi-Fi calling, Fallback DNS requests, a couple of CDN requests which I would get is likely update checks and finally YouTube content for NewPipe. I think I’m seeing five tracking cookies based on the rest of your apps here, probably being sent “Do Not Track” requests.