Ok, JMAP sounds like it might be a better option

Yes that sounds like what I’m trying to set up

Yes I was looking into options like this because of the server trust issues, I haven’t looked into SMTP proxies and that could be an option, or maybe it is the same thing. Basically just an intermediate host that has established trust, which I can sync from as needed, while also being robust to downtime on my end

JMAP sounds useful

I meant IMAP, yes having a host handle it sounds easier

Yes I want to sync to an archive, sounds useful

How does it work with network security, do you need to have a SMTP port open to the net?

Good point, I assumed email was asynchronous on the client side but needed to be online on the server side. If it is robust to server down time that makes it easier

Is exchange like a microsoft system?

I meant IMAP really, just got the terms mixed up, thanks

Thanks, that sounds useful.

Do you know of a self hosted webmail interface that has good features? So I guess that would run on the self hosted mail archive after imapsync.

Nevertheless, companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft – as well as Nvidia and AMD – are a very long way from simply going under.

Not really, once you look at the startups like OpenAI they have enormous expenses that depend on constant debt and investment funding, and the cost and risk of sustaining that debt can easily reach a point where they struggle to get new investors to foot the bill.

The whole market is based on a belief in a huge pot of gold some time in the future, and it is driven by unfathomable amounts of debt to keep the machinery running towards that goal. Once the belief in the goal getting reached gets broken, the change in momentum breaks the whole system.

That includes the big players, huge amounts of their balance sheets, including claims of revenue, are circular trades between themselves. Even google claims revenue from asset price growth in their AI subsidiaries.

Once it shifts from investment to repaying bad debts the numbers will look completely different for all the big companies involved. We’re talking potentially bail outs basically across the board

Then you’re getting into the infinite monkey theorem, and one important part is that for the random monkeys to create works of art like Shakespeare you also need a reviewer to determine when the output is interesting, in that case you are really shifting the burden of creativity onto the reviewer

I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.

Well you can reach the end of the feed in lemmy, that’s a plus isn’t it?

Definitely agree that the inventors are often given too much focus rather than a gradual evolution of ideas and discoveries over time that a much wider number of people made significant contributions to.

There are big leaps in understanding at times that do deserve to be recognised, Newton, Euler and Einstein definitely fit with this.

There is a really good series about the evolution of science and technology from the 1980s called Connections, from the BBC. Brilliant show and well worth a watch, it shows how technology evolves through chance and circumstances in so many cases rather than someone seeing a problem to be solved and thinking of a clever solution

It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things

I don’t think that’s the case at all. Recombining existing things is interpolation, creating new stuff that is both novel and also interesting or valuable, is a completely different task

Do you mean long term bonds or do you think short term will be affected as well? If it is a rising rate environment then t-bills or MMFs probably have more to gain from the rising rates than risks from a drop in value of held bonds

Meh, it’s not hard for Chinese companies to create a website