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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • Big consultancies such as KPMG and EY are viewed as highly credible

    Ahahahaha no. You hire them to create fancy-looking slides and reports that support decisions you already made. They will include a lot of weasel words and assumptions that aren’t true. Then, when shit hits the fan after management’s dumb idea flopped spectacularly, management can hide behind “but we even had big consultancy corpo confirm this is a good idea” while big consultancy corpo can say “assumptions we made were not upheld due to a changing environment blah blah…” and nobody has to take any responsibility. I always call it “decision-based evidence-making”.



  • Hudson betont, die Hauptgefahr für den Weltfrieden liege zur Zeit nicht etwa bei Russland und China, sondern bei den Vereinigten Staaten und ihren westlichen Verbündeten. Die USA befänden sich wirtschaftlich im Abstieg und kämpften mit allen Mitteln dagegen an. Zudem befinde sich der Kapitalismus in einer tiefen Krise und habe dabei „ein extremes Modell“ hervorgebracht, das „durch extrem rechte Persönlichkeiten“ wie Donald Trump verkörpert werde – ein „politischer Albtraum“, konstatiert Hudson.

    Richtig, denn wie wir alle wissen, verteidigt sich das sozialistische Russland (wirtschaftlich im Aufstieg!) in Ukraine nur gegen die aggressive NATO. Putin ist alles andere als eine rechte Persönlichkeit, sondern ein lupenreiner Demokrat. Ein politisches Paradies, in das manche Amerikaner fliehen.


  • First off, congrats to the author for pulling it off. Very detailed write-up as well.

    That being said, personally I don’t consider the effort worth it. Email is a shit protocol in my opinion (understandable considering when it was designed).

    Then there’s the fact that in order to do this, they used a /24 IPv4 block. That’s not a realistic requirement for anyone. If your self-hosted service requires this, it’s unfeasible.

    Email is so simple that countless additions had to be made to just somehow handle the protocol on the modern Internet. Its upside to be simple has been completely subverted. And yet, all these additions haven’t made email anymore capable for the user.

    Any attempt for a real successor is ultimately futile because of email’s ubiquity, and yet self-hosting it in a way that you can communicate with the outside works reliably is almost impossible.