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[977.82 --> 983.08] Now that the new normal is for our tech overseers to be the judge and the jury, that makes me a
[983.08 --> 984.84] complete target because I'm not in the system.
[985.00 --> 986.86] A system that says maybe I'm guilty by default.
[986.94 --> 992.02] It's a no-win game unless a large number of people get away from those services.
[992.66 --> 996.76] So in other words, you almost put a target on your back by not participating in these
[996.76 --> 998.64] systems is what Prozac is saying.
[999.46 --> 999.94] Do you though?
[1000.30 --> 1004.26] I mean, there's already, there's so much noise.
[1004.44 --> 1006.26] I guess he has a point actually.
[1006.26 --> 1011.00] There's so much signal to noise that they've got to process with, with these things, but
[1011.00 --> 1013.92] that's where machine learning comes in is to help, help do that.
[1014.24 --> 1018.06] And a machine can't do much learning if you're not part of the system, I suppose.
[1019.08 --> 1019.54] Yeah, that's true.
[1019.62 --> 1024.00] You're, you're protected in the, in the like automatically flagging you because the machine
[1024.00 --> 1028.78] learning thingy just misunderstood what you took a picture of or what you had a voicemail
[1028.78 --> 1029.46] about or something.
[1029.52 --> 1031.30] You're like avoiding all of that trap.
[1031.30 --> 1036.00] There is a dystopian future playing out here though already, isn't there?
[1036.60 --> 1042.30] Where if you're not, if you're not part of the, uh, the Amazon or the Google ecosystem,
[1042.30 --> 1044.68] you know, you're not allowed to buy prime.
[1045.04 --> 1046.82] You're not allowed to buy stuff off Amazon.
[1046.96 --> 1052.00] You're not allowed to, I don't know, whatever the, whatever the problem would be.
[1052.32 --> 1055.54] And Josh in the chat says, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
[1055.76 --> 1060.72] And to that, I would just counter that there's only three or four baskets to really choose from.
[1061.30 --> 1066.20] With, with big tech in air quotes, you know, there's really not as much choice as you might
[1066.20 --> 1068.32] imagine when it comes to the, the internet.
[1068.82 --> 1072.00] Has anyone out there successfully cut off Amazon completely?
[1072.66 --> 1074.26] I mean, how do you do that?
[1074.32 --> 1079.80] Especially in the day and age where a lot of people can't get stuff, but Amazon can still get it.
[1079.98 --> 1084.98] Can you imagine if somehow your social credit score prohibited you from accessing AWS based
[1084.98 --> 1085.58] services?
[1085.88 --> 1086.56] That already does.
[1086.62 --> 1087.28] They won't let me on.
[1087.28 --> 1089.90] No, I don't mean as a customer.
[1090.90 --> 1096.58] I mean, as an end user, you, you are not allowed to load any traffic that traverses Amazon's
[1096.58 --> 1097.36] network somewhere.
[1097.72 --> 1098.60] That'd be pretty awful.
[1099.00 --> 1100.56] That'd be most of the internet, wouldn't it?
[1101.38 --> 1105.02] What about this concept of just don't put all your eggs in one basket?
[1105.02 --> 1111.82] Like, so maybe Mozilla's handling your syncing and maybe Fastmail's handling your email.
[1112.10 --> 1114.82] TrevDev boosted in saying he switched to Fastmail.
[1115.00 --> 1115.22] I know.
[1115.28 --> 1117.40] I think you mentioned you're looking at Fastmail.
[1117.82 --> 1118.00] Yeah.
[1118.26 --> 1118.48] Yeah.
[1118.48 --> 1119.78] I've been with Fastmail for a while now.
[1119.92 --> 1122.22] I use Protonmail for some things.
[1123.20 --> 1127.96] You're still using somebody else's service, but you're kind of spreading the risk out.
[1128.04 --> 1128.60] Is that better?
[1129.04 --> 1130.22] Well, I mean, I found it interesting.
[1130.22 --> 1133.58] You think talking about email specifically, there's a link in the show notes.
[1133.70 --> 1139.06] There was a blog post doing the rounds this week about a guy who's been self-hosting email
[1139.06 --> 1144.34] for 23 years and has finally thrown in the towel and basically gave all the reasons that
[1144.34 --> 1146.68] you might imagine as to why he stopped.
[1147.06 --> 1149.10] Email is not distributed anymore.
[1149.92 --> 1153.32] He says you cannot create another first class node in this network.
[1153.48 --> 1155.18] Email is now an oligarchy.
[1155.18 --> 1160.90] A service that is gatekept by a few big companies, which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.
[1161.32 --> 1163.94] First, they cut off the residential IPs.
[1164.06 --> 1165.86] Then they cut off the VPSs.
[1166.08 --> 1168.42] Now they've basically cut off all self-hosters.
[1168.62 --> 1172.04] He says my emails are just simply not getting delivered anymore.
[1172.04 --> 1177.26] After running a mail server since 1999, the day he got a broadband service.
[1178.48 --> 1182.26] And ever since then, he's been running a mail server and he says now it's just completely
[1182.26 --> 1183.48] he's throwing in the towel.
[1183.48 --> 1189.62] He says hell banning everybody except other big email providers is a lazy way to fight
[1189.62 --> 1191.10] spam and it's dishonest.
[1191.88 --> 1196.04] He uses spam as a scapegoat to nerf deliverability and stifle competition.
[1196.72 --> 1196.96] Absolutely.
[1197.28 --> 1199.50] It's all about stifling competition, in my opinion.
[1199.90 --> 1205.40] And the issue isn't necessarily that your IP gets blacklisted and you get sent straight
[1205.40 --> 1205.98] to spam.
[1205.98 --> 1213.96] The issue is that you get part of a block of IPs and your mail just simply gets rejected
[1213.96 --> 1215.38] before it even gets that far.
[1216.10 --> 1217.14] And what do you do then?
[1217.38 --> 1218.48] You're completely SOL.
[1219.10 --> 1223.46] Your really only best option, if you find you can't self-host your mail, is you need to
[1223.46 --> 1224.22] at least own your domain.
[1224.50 --> 1225.86] You know, don't have an at gmail domain.
[1226.44 --> 1227.46] Don't have an iCloud.
[1227.46 --> 1232.98] Though Apple would love to tell you that they have the most private system of all of them.
[1232.98 --> 1233.00] Yeah.
[1233.46 --> 1238.56] Actually, I probably believe them that they do, actually, of all of them, of the big three
[1238.56 --> 1242.34] or four, I suppose, with that, what's it called, iCloud Plus or something?
[1242.68 --> 1243.06] For now.
[1243.18 --> 1243.60] For now.
[1243.72 --> 1244.06] For now.
[1244.28 --> 1247.68] Though as they begin to monetize services and things like that, they're going to have
[1247.68 --> 1249.28] to drive revenue from advertising.
[1249.28 --> 1254.38] And they're launching more and more resources and staff around their advertising department.
[1254.50 --> 1255.94] So we shall see.
[1256.40 --> 1260.22] Carlos, the guy that had this email, you know, shutting down his email server.
[1260.64 --> 1265.18] He says it's a huge invisible problem that really isn't getting fixed.
[1265.30 --> 1267.70] Email is basically going to the big tech companies.
[1268.28 --> 1268.98] I think he's right.
[1269.10 --> 1271.10] I think the future for that kind of stuff is matrix.
[1271.90 --> 1276.18] I mean, not that it's going to replace email, but for something that you can self-host and
[1276.18 --> 1279.10] federate and is truly decentralized and open.
[1279.56 --> 1282.40] I just wonder where email will be in 10 years time.
[1283.54 --> 1284.60] Answers on the postcard.