So, place your bets! What's going to be that one announcement that suddenly makes your neighbours go all quiet?

• Repeal of the 19th amendment
• Mandatory military service
• Military sent to Ukraine
• Military sent to Gaza
• Additional protections to police
• The pardon of all January 6th rioters
• The relaxation of maximum presidential terms
• Repeal of Affordable Care Act
• Repeal of Social Security
• Increase in taxes of lowest and middle incomes
• Reduction in the minimum wage
• Shutdown of major news outlets of "reporting lies"
• Ban of reporting "bad news"
• New ability to farmers to hire for no wage
• New protections to reject hiring/customers/schooling based on colour
• Collapse of NOAA
• Atheists targeted as terrorists
• Democrats imprisoned for Socialist ties
• Mysterious disappearances of democrats
• Random deportation of American citizens for being first/second generation
• Removal of all laws related to carbon output

Yes, some of these are fearmongering but he's made all sorts of promises and debts are due! The sky is the limit!

It's requests like that which end in torn perineums

I wish NASA thought about NASA the way this guy thinks about NASA

The rest of Lemmy has had a meeting and decided that you no longer need to save the world. It was wrong of us to put that burden on you. Stop, rest save yourself first. We would love for you to volunteer to help when you are better.

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While I've seen these before, I find this hard to believe this isn't a screenshot from The Witness (2016).

Then they came from the students, and I watched my parents still beg for more fascism because they thought they were going to be billionaires any day now

I just don't get how these providers (Specifically Reddit with the API lockdown and now the stranglehold on mods, Twitter's new login requirement, and YouTube now cracking down on adblockers) are missing the point that their sites live and die by user generated content.

I understand these sites are hugely expensive to run, but if you keep alienating those who are bringing users to your site in the first place, people will stop submitting and people will stop visiting.

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A lot of news articles are covering both parts of this (they are mostly unrelated stories), but only Rolling Stone was brave enough to put both parts in the one headline

Nostalgia for being oppressed is in full force.

"Ștefan Șerban, 69, sitting on a bench with his friend Nicolae Carja, 74, said life had been better under the former Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. “We were a rich country then,” he said. “Industry, petrol, gas, goldmines. And no debt.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/between-a-mathematician-and-a-trump-loving-hooligan-romania-stark-presidential-choice

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.

This may age like milk but, I look forward to the conversation in two weeks when these same voices age saying

"we need to move on from the tragedy of the Charlie Kirk shooting"

And

"Charlie Kirk did not represent true conservative values"

Hi, actual Windows System Engineer here. Both the "Microsoft Copilot" and the "Microsoft Copilot 365"(previously Office Hub) apps have been removable by group policy or Intune configuration policy since mid last year. Previous to that they were also still able to be remove by running the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage as a start up script, or remediation script. Fun fact, a lot of those "Debloater" acripts are running this command because the massive amount of engineering work done since Windows 7 to make Windows Components modular.

This is a non article.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/policy-based-removal-of-pre-installed-microsoft-store-apps-e1d41a92-b658-4511-95a6-0fbcc02b4e9c

"I get that a lot"

That's a lot of words for "my kids won't come to Christmas anymore and I don't know why, don't they know I raised them?"

Sees a fun\interesting country boarder

Looks up reason

Finds new genocides\war crimes\colonialism was not previously aware of

Lay awake wondering how Jay Foreman is going to make jokes about this one