"if Apple hadn’t already ransacked my pockets for subscription fees to maintain my ever-expanding photo archive, and to insure and finance “care” for my ever more expensive assortment of its products; if Microsoft hadn’t insisted that I subscribe to its word-processing software; if so many talented, enterprising friends and acquaintances didn’t now depend on Substack and Patreon donations; if I didn’t have to rent my music library from Spotify instead of owning my own records; if I didn’t have to fork over Prime fees to Amazon for my packages and to watch professional tennis; if I hadn’t been obliged to maintain Netflix, Canal+, and AppleTV accounts so that my children would sit quietly on airplanes; if Elon Musk hadn’t promised to render my tweets invisible if I didn’t pay him in monthly $8 installments. By the time those damn Gmail requests became unignorable, I had long since reached the point of peak micropayments. I was drowning in subscriptions."
Really agree with the sentiment but then I also wonder why the author didn't just download an archive/takeout before deleting the inbox.
The moment gmail asked me to "verify" my account and that only using one of the massively grotesque and absurd vanguard/blackrock web engines (including their SDKs) out there (I could log and use gmail with a noscript/basic (x)html browsers as tons of internet services should), I became self-hosted.
But this is not enough. This has to go to regulation/court. They are extinguishing all alternatives (usually, making interop technically a real pain): oligarchy of compuserves. Those are nasty ppl, really nasty, expect rough times.
Would be great to know the economics of self-hosting there. Beyond the effort to actually set it up, how does the $/m compare? And outside of self-hosting, would you recommend any other providers who you'd consider more secure? Proton?
I have a mini-computer sitting next to my ISP modem (I plan to move to RISC-V).
The SMTP protocol was designed to work without DNS (sylware@[a.b.c.d] or sylware@[IPv6:...] if I recall properly). I have a fixed IPv6 and IPv4 from my ISP (no cost). No DNS mafia to pay.
I have a domain though. Something like a bit more than 1 buck each month. And I can renew/pay for it and configure it without a javascript-able browser (as it should be for most if not all services provided over the net). That said, if I recall properly my ISP does provide configure-able, stable, sub-domains for no cost (should check again that one day though).
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadReally agree with the sentiment but then I also wonder why the author didn't just download an archive/takeout before deleting the inbox.
But this is not enough. This has to go to regulation/court. They are extinguishing all alternatives (usually, making interop technically a real pain): oligarchy of compuserves. Those are nasty ppl, really nasty, expect rough times.
The SMTP protocol was designed to work without DNS (sylware@[a.b.c.d] or sylware@[IPv6:...] if I recall properly). I have a fixed IPv6 and IPv4 from my ISP (no cost). No DNS mafia to pay.
I have a domain though. Something like a bit more than 1 buck each month. And I can renew/pay for it and configure it without a javascript-able browser (as it should be for most if not all services provided over the net). That said, if I recall properly my ISP does provide configure-able, stable, sub-domains for no cost (should check again that one day though).