cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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Getting your own domain is the best thing you can do, regardless of provider - it means they can't lock you in anymore.

I'm back with Fastmail too, after having quit to go with Proton a while back. I never ran into a single email where the recipient was encrypted, so I've come to see the whole encrypted email shtick as mostly marketing.

Well, it does make sense in that the time during which we have AGI would be pretty short because AGI would soon go beyond human-level intelligence. With that said, LLMs are certainly not going to get there, assuming AGI is even possible at all.

Easily OpenAI, if only because their API is so widely used.

Absolutely, but they should still elaborate on why it being open source is so important, especially when the industry leader is not.

The article mentions in passing that DeepSeek is open source, but completely fails to mention why that's important and makes regional censorship irrelevant. The model is perfectly able to answer your questions about Tank Man or Xinjiang as long as you run it on a server outside China. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

Of course. Did you think all those oats grow on trees?

I'm not sure what you mean by that analogy.

Instead of supporting DeSantis on one of his signature issues, lawmakers are holding their own special session this week to support President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, which they’re calling the “Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy (TRUMP) Act.”

Totally normal country, definitely not a banana republic.

Everybody involved at that level knows the AI hype is a sham, so they have their finger hovering above the "sell" button. Open AI's valuation and cash burn, for example, assume a much higher revenue in the future -- but if this upstart can release a similar product with a fraction of the overhead, that cash burn now becomes a massive liability.

Edit to add a source from a real news outlet instead of shitty YouTube clickbait: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-27/china-s-ai-deepseek-shows-silicon-valley-s-huge-blindspot

Well, if I were in Syrian leadership I don't think I'd hold up those countries as examples to emulate... I'd maybe have picked Norway instead, or even 70s-era Portugal.

Edit: or Tanzania, which may be a better fit.

https://archive.is/mOdEn

An unfortunate decision, but I suppose they have no choice if they want to attract foreign investment. I just hope this doesn't result in Syrians being serfs to foreign interests as we see in subsaharan Africa.

Except that isn't what they said as quoted in the article; they complain about the environment and that these tourists aren't spending enough money ashore. It sounds to me like Nice only wants rich tourists. If they were legitimately concerned about the environment they'd start with yachts, which are far more inefficient on a per-passenger basis.

Banning large ships specifically is performative nonsense. Cruise ships are an environmental disaster but large ones are significantly more efficient per passenger — there's a reason these ships (and cargo ships) have become so immense, and it isn't because their owners like to spend more money to move a given amount of cargo. If Nice actually cared about the environment they would ban all but the largest ships (of of course ban them all).

Additional reading for anyone interested: https://piernext.portdebarcelona.cat/en/mobility/economies-of-scale-in-the-cruise-industry-bigger-means-better/

The best rebuttal I've seen yet is to tell the person to go to a public place and do exactly the same thing that Elon did, and see how that works out for them.

Roe v Wade "race"? Does that refer to the 49 years during which nobody did anything to enshrine that right? Slowest race I've ever seen.

In my book, it's essential. I'll never use email without a custom domain, because otherwise you're completely beholden to whatever email provider you signed up with. I've migrated providers many times (probably 6 or 7 now) and never had to change my email address. I have:

• Work domain
• Personal domains (one for myself and family, one for my band, a few others)
• Domain for aliases / signups

I'm currently with Fastmail which can generate aliases on the fly with your custom domain of choice, and they allow a ridiculous number of domains (100?) on your account.

Do you use random strings before the @ sign? Or do you use it like lemmy@example.com?

I use random strings when I sign up for an online service, but the emails I actually give to people are firstname@domain

Because I’m considering using this as a catch-all address, doesn’t this mean that anyone who wants (and knows the domain) and send spam on any random string before the @? Are you worried about this, and are there any counters to this?

The only counter I know of is to create specific aliases rather than use a wildcard. However, in practice, I only very rarely get emails at my wildcard domain (one a year, if even)

As far as I’ve understood the main benefit of using my own domain for email, is that it will make it a lot easier to change providers in the future, as I can just change the nameservers so traffic is directed elsewhere - correct?

Exactly, so there's zero downtime and you don't have to change your email everywhere. The only annoyances I've run into are migrating away from Proton because it's encrypted and a huge PITA to get out of, and having to redo my automation filters when switching providers.

You're not alone, I've thought this for decades too. Their marriage strikes me either as one of those medieval dynastic alliances, or Hillary wanting to puppeteer Bill to achieve her own ends.

They're all banned except for one, obviously.

They're using pillaged library books as a heat source.