Email is very robust and does not fail silently -- unless you ignore the "undelivered returned to sender" emails you get. Mail servers are very fault tolerant, with essentially all implementations supporting an exponential backoff on failure. What's more, even if SourceHut is down, everyone in the Cc will still receive your emails, because they're routed around lists.sr.ht anyway. In the event of a lists.sr.ht outage, you might not even notice that we're down.
You may be right generally, but for your specific example that's not email being rubbish it's Google being rubbish. Why not switch to a professional provider?
Yes. Google's implementation of email. One of the most highly used email implementations on the planet.
That was just one example, I've seen corporate Exchange systems do the same. Are they not professional?
If one of the biggest email providers on the planet can silently swallow and not deliver emails, then blanket statements saying emails never fail are just wrong. It's important to understand practical failure modes of the systems we use, and not pretend they're more perfect than they are in reality.
It's funny that always when email fails, the next word is gmail, maybe go away from that wannabe email service? And no dont tell me a private server is impossible, i manage more then 150 (from different customers) of them and have zero problems with delivery to gmail ms etc, but yes you need to veryfi your domain @ google and microsoft.
I remember a rule in audio speakers which sounds similar to Lindy effect: bad distortion (>=10%) are bad sounding speakers, but the opposite of that isn't true (e.g 0.001% distortion can still be a bad speaker)
I was just looking at laser printers in Idealo yesterday, didn't bother even looking at Google because I share the same experience as Adam. There many cases like this just from my search history. Point is: Google is not the best indexer to shop.
Price comparison websites is also present on other countries but it's more scammy websites than legitimate ones. In Southeast Asia for example, maybe 99% of content is in Amazon, Lazada and Shopee.
I've never owned crypto but I can see the appeal for privacy's sake. Even going to the market can mean sacrificing privacy – retailers are constant abusers of personal data.
Did you park at the market? Oops, they read all license plates to build a marketing profile.[0][1]
See an ad online, and then later went into the store? Oops, Google picked up on that and told the retailer.[2]
Did you leave your face uncovered when you went into the market? Oops, they use facial recognition.[3]
Most actually do not require this. I buy visa gift cards with cash all the time from gas stations etc and spend them anywhere that does not take cash with no activation.
You are thinking of reloadable ones. Non-reloadable visa gift cards can be purchased with cash at any corner store at values up to $500 each and require no identification.
I really, truly, do not believe this is correct. I looked into it quite hard recently and I simply couldn't figure out a way to pull it off (and I even actively attempted to look for ones that did not support being reloaded). FWIW, I do believe this product existed a decade ago, but I simply can't find it anymore. Would you mind providing some kind of link to recent discussion of some specific such a product (not even as much to "prove you are right" but "to help me out" ;P)?
