'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

[lilmayo420]

For everyone who has signed up to KF using Protonmail, and doesn't use that address for anything else, Proton has sent all users a notification that long-inactive free accounts will be closed.

To prevent this from happening you must log into your account at least once in the next year. Also, if you use the VPN associated with that address you ought to be OK, as they referred to "making use of the account".

NB: This does not apply to paid users.

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This is the worst shit ever. I do not know why they would do this. This is yahooesque.

 

[Poonocchio]

This could do with being featured probably, thanks for letting us know.

 

[Slav Power]

That's what they're saying, just in a really gay way. "Help us reduce our carbon footprint" == "Help us avoid having to buy and run new storage drives". There is no other conceivable "carbon footprint" of an email account.

That's not what they're saying, they're saying it's to save muh environment to look like they give a shit about it to get extra funding.

It's ESG posturing, they could've said why they're actually doing it, which is to save storage space and money, but they couldn't pass up the occasion to talk about the carbon footprint. I wouldn't have an issue if they were bluntly honest about it.

 

[Solid Hyrax]

"help us reduce our carbon footprint"

Gay ESG posturing, just admit you're doing this for the same reason every other minor e-mail service deletes inactive free account user data. You want to save storage space.

Isn't storage space cheap as fuck nowadays? Just get more hard drives nigga.

 

[Slav Power]

Isn't storage space cheap as fuck nowadays? Just get more hard drives nigga.

More drives means you need to draw more power, and at some point you need to get a new storage rack, and that's cost and space. You pay for the hardware, you pay for the extra power draw of it, and you need storage space to keep it running. The costs scale more than you might think, and companies will always want to cut them as much as possible. Not to mention that you'll be using enterprise SSD's for hosting e-mail servers at a large scale, and those are very expensive. Mass storage hosting is expensive in and of itself, but when you want mass storage for an active service like an e-mail server, that's a massive price hike for higher grade hardware.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Looks like I've been logging onto my alts without any reason up until now.

I was already under the impression that they would delete accounts after 12 months of no logging in. Maybe I mixed that up with Gmail.

If you want to pay, the way to go is to wait for one of their $1 sales, get that, cancel it after a month, and your account should be safe from deletion "forever" (barring further ESG pursuits). NO

 

[Run Escape]

That's what they're saying, just in a really gay way. "Help us reduce our carbon footprint" == "Help us avoid having to buy and run new storage drives". There is no other conceivable "carbon footprint" of an email account.

Electricity...?

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

More drives means you need to draw more power, and at some point you need to get a new storage rack, and that's cost and space. You pay for the hardware, you pay for the extra power draw of it, and you need storage space to keep it running. The costs scale more than you might think, and companies will always want to cut them as much as possible. Not to mention that you'll be using enterprise SSD's for hosting e-mail servers at a large scale, and those are very expensive. Mass storage hosting is expensive in and of itself, but when you want mass storage for an active service like an e-mail server, that's a massive price hike for higher grade hardware.

I know of an old disk shelf I helped decommission, we checked the total system draw before and after and were shocked to see it had dropped an entire kWh. That shelf wasn't even DOING anything at that point, just sitting idle with 48 Ultra320 SCSI drives. The move to NVMe has surely helped reduce power usage in storage shelves but when you are looking at needing petabytes of storage, spinning drives are still far cheaper and denser so a lot of the internet still runs on spinning drives.

I imagine the global cryptocurrency power usage is higher than global storage power usage though, even after ETH went proof-of-stake.

 

[crunk connoisseur]

If you want to pay, the way to go is to wait for one of their $1 sales, get that, cancel it after a month, and your account should be safe from deletion "forever" (barring further ESG pursuits).

Yeah, about that promise...

Spoiler

 

[seri0us]

Isn't storage space cheap as fuck nowadays? Just get more hard drives nigga.

Just host your own free open-registration email service, "nigga".

 

[Nottafed]

Thank you for posting this to the community page... might even need to be featured. Awesome catch.
Semper Vigilat, Semper Fidelis.

 

[Dick Mason]

Am I the only one that has to sign into Kiwifarms after 30 days and get a code from my mail address? Because if everyone has to do this shit I would think this is a non-issue. Then again might be overlooking something.

If that's policy here, I've not experienced it. I think you might be the only one. Maybe your cookies are being eaten by something - a browser setting or plugin maybe.

 

[有无相生难易相成长短相形高下相倾音声相和前後相随]

My phone updated to Android 11 while I was sleeping and now the salute emoji is gone. Why can I no longer respect our brave troops on mobile. Anyone else having this? I looked it up and couldn't find anyone complaining so I'm confused.

And I don't mean just gone from my keyboard. If you send me a salute emoji I won't see it at all, just a question mark.

RIP

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

If that's policy here, I've not experienced it. I think you might be the only one. Maybe your cookies are being eaten by something - a browser setting or plugin maybe.

I've never been asked to do that(get a monthly code) and this is the first I've heard of such a "policy".

I don't think that we're getting the whole story here.

 

[N Space]

Just host your own free open-registration email service, "nigga".

How do you go about doing that?

 

[seri0us]

How do you go about doing that?

I don't really know, but the guide at Landchad.net looks solid.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

How do you go about doing that?

Learn Linux, install mail server and web server and "cloud" software to allow users to create their own account, purchase domain, configure DNS records, send test email, get rejected by every server, research DMARC and "IP Reputation", realize you miscounted and gave everyone a 100gb storage limit, run out of space as hackers began abusing your server the second it responded to an SMTP scan, realize you're in over your head, wipe server/delete VM, finally do something better with your time

It ain't worth it anymore.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

any suggestions for remoteing from a modern chromebook into a win7 machine?

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

any suggestions for remoteing from a modern chromebook into a win7 machine?

teamwiever or RealVNC?

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

any suggestions for remoteing from a modern chromebook into a win7 machine?

The "official" way is to use Chrome Remote Desktop. There's also a subscription service called Xtralogic ($20 a year) but like anything involving Google, don't get too excited:

Spoiler: Google Chrome App Deprecation by 2025

"The current edition of the app relies on Google Chrome App technology. However, Google has announced that Chrome apps will no longer be available starting from 2025. In response, we are actively developing a replacement web app built on Isolated Web App (IWA) technology, currently being developed by Google. While we aim for the new web app to be available for general use before Chrome apps are deprecated, Google has not yet announced the general availability of IWA."