Really needed!

Just FYI: Hmm, send user a private message https://fedibb.ml/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&u=356301 return a 404.

> Costs more but no one can kick you out unless you stop paying your mortgage.

that. depends. You can host it cheaply if shared with family members, may be cheaper than paying for email provider.

Well this leads to my next question. Community led infrastructure. Why is it not a thing? I think that's social housing in the real world. Why does it not exist for digital services? I know we open source things but nothing is run by a community. A potential outcome is to run email as a community.

How would that contractually work in practice? Can you give an example of what you mean?

I mean it's like any real world thing, potentially non profit. A group of people elected to run public services for everyone else which people pay a fair amount to use. Something that's constantly reviewed, where new members can join and others can move on.

Yes, on a small scale, but they do exist! Just look up at Riseup, Disroot weho.st, or Autistici/Inventati.

Thanks for pointing those out. I think it could be done on a larger scale but only with buy in from the community and starting with one or two specific services e.g email or app infrastructure.

yeah we shuould get one that that is like the old nokia with more memory for messages. This is too expensive, and 4G and other internet stuff also doesn't help. Rather have a phone where I can call and message.

the new nokia 3310 has what you want

itt has 3g. I would say the old phone by NOT having internet is a feature.

> IMHO the easiest way to "make websites faster" is to stop enabling "web developers" to do the things that make them slow.

yeah as one those developers who jumped on the processing everything on the client/browser side, and supported all the browser having fancy JS features when ajax first popularised by gmail, I have come to regretted my decision. Especially with all the standards proposed by an advertising companies, the user/consumers don't really benefit from the usage of the web.

I see it as a rare case of "hate the players not the game"

I've come to rely a lot on gitlab and github's web interfaces through the years for diff and quickly navigate a specific commit, or a project I don't want to checkout. All the improvements coming from more JS and Ajax have been a boon to me. Sure I could do everything locally, but it's just so much more convenient.

Same for gmail as you mention it: I wouldn't go back to the previous web mail interfaces short of getting paid a living salary just for that. Same for banking web sites, which came such a long way.

The technology and trend is a net plus, advertising company coming to ruin whatever they can ruin is par for the course. I mean, looking at newspaper, TVs, Google Search, YouTube, Instagram, AppStore search etc....making anything it touches worse is in the ad business' DNA.

For sure, I agree that the ajax UI/UX offered by gmail is a game changer. And all those features that makes it convenient for users, can be accomplished without compromising security/privacy. What I don't like are companies proposing standard disguising as a some convenient feature, where in reality is just a racket to mine data from the users.

that really give one a sad state on the reality of business.

the fact that google is against AGPL, makes it even more important to use it! Whatever is good for google, it is not good for humanity, and whatever google doesn't like is beneficial for humanity. Support AGPL!

I would be down for an open source AWS services. Shouldn't be to hard to make web front end to the fire cracker instance, but make everything in the backend open source, so any one can run the community edition.

Any thoughts on that?

Yeah, and then you run your "open source AWS" on AWS xD. I believe what you mean it's called Open shift, kind of.

> who refuse to use their cameras during Zoom interviews and who often can't answer specific questions about their backgrounds.

Glad someone said this. Also most programmers and developers knows how tech works, they just don't want to be profiled by some AI algorithm. And why use Zoom, or any of close source, when you have jitsi to use for a video/voice chat?

Should be ok if they are not harassing other passengers.

The great majority won't. But a part will, which is likely to be a problem.

Have not used Scratch, but on first loook it seems very similar to scheme-bricks: https://github.com/nebogeo/scheme-bricks

instead of the AWS ones?

Yes or even a more turn-key software package. It sounds like they had very custom software, I would expect that established load-balancing software doesn't fail to reconnect.