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Your machine is not powerful enough to make anything other than very basic setups, but you can always learn some things by installing a Linux distribution, try to learn how to use the command line, maybe install SSH and learn how to connect to your machine remotely.

If you have never touched a linux command line and played with a Linux server, self-hosting your email server will be too complex and you should start there (by getting a cheap VPS for example).

But if you have a server, a domain name, and some knowledge about self-hosting, there are some easy and FOSS “all in one” solutions like mailcow (https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-docs/) that bundles all the required software in docker and gives you an admin panel to create mailboxes. It also tells you what DNS records to create and checks if you’ve done it right.

It’s not as hard to manage an email server as many say, just make regular backups to restore if you do break the setup, and don’t worry too much about downtime, generally other servers will keep retrying to send you your emails for quite some time (hours to days) before giving up.

This is puny code, and allows for non ascii characters to be used as a domain name. Your lemmy client probably does not convert it to unicode and displays it as a random looking text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

Convenience, lack of perceived cost or complexity at the beginning of a new mainstream platform. Then just because their friends are there.

Samsung and some other phone manufacturers have deals with Google to access code before public release

Thanks, that was an interesting read

Your article may be referring to this: Fatal Insomnia

What SimpleX, Signal, or any app like this need first and foremost is traction, as new users generate more new users. One of Signal’s goals is usability (usually achieved by being simple, as in no complexity for the end user). In my opinion SimpleX lacks that. This is the same reason Signal needs a phone number: populating your contact list with users already on the platform

Well, the Xbox has been a disguised Windows PC since the Xbox One

Even among humans this varies, I remember that in some countries shaking your head horizontally means yes and vertically means no. This means it is a cultural behaviour in humans, but an innate behavior in dogs. I don’t think it makes sense comparing those two behaviors.

I work at a software development school, and ChatGPT does a lot of damage here too. We try to teach that using it as a tool to help learning is different from using it as a “full project code generator”, but the speed advantages it provides makes it irresistible from many students’ perspective. I’ve lost many students last year because they couldn’t pass a simple code exam (think FizzBuzz difficulty level) because they had no access to internet, and had to code in Emacs. We also can’t block access to it because it starts an endless game where they always find a way to access it.

Not so much on board space

The platforms should be held liable when those groups can easily be accessed by anyone, and moderation would be “simple” as the conversations aren’t even encrypted. We aren’t asking for more of Telegram than Youtube or Facebook

They wouldn’t even have to break encryption to moderate, message groups cannot be (end-to-end) encrypted on Telegram, as secret chats only support one-to-one conversations

He is not arrested for having developed the Telegram protocol and apps, but for failing to moderate his platform, where he could totally do so as the messages are not encrypted (except for secret chats which doesn’t even support groups) on his servers, which he has control over.

No they mean their screwmates

If it really works like this, the time lock would vary depending on the device. Encrypt for a long time on a potato, decrypt in seconds on a good computer.

IIRC that’s a very old name of the Signal communication protocol