This really feels like an “I’m done with the Internet for the evening” kinda story.

Truly, email is (thankfully) mostly unspoiled as a protocol since it’s beginning. Other than minor improvements and additions like HTML and spam filters and the like, anyone can host an email service and interface with anyone else on the Internet with the same protocol.

Even among my red-state god-fearing right-wing family members, I have never heard a single man say anything approaching this. They all know exactly what he is and don’t care. He has a very public and lengthy history of the opposite, and the NYT knows it.

Huge swaths of companies have ditched VMWare entirely due to their enshitification. Anyone still licesning already has a plan to transion away. I’ve only heard of extreme corner cases staying because whatever it was supporting was end of life anyway. Fuck em.

It also wants to force all editors to reveal their real names.

Not even veiling the threat…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

a sunk cost is a sum paid in the past that is no longer relevant to decisions about the future.

That book? It’s an advertisement…

I’ve got.some bad news for you…

I’m right there with you. And finding addresses is useless… I have used magicearth for over a year and it’s solid. Not open source but respectful privacy policy