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I don't know how I feel about email

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Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by Kwpolska »

generalpf wrote: post #7
rssoconnor wrote: post #6

It's been a while, but as I recall your ISP will provide you with an email address. So if you have internet, you have an email address. Sure, if you change your ISP then you have to update your email address everywhere. But the same is true for phone numbers if you change phone companies. As for email clients, just use whatever Netscape comes with.

Not sure where you live but in Canada and the USA the phone companies legally have to allow you to port your existing number over from one company to another.

Was that true in the 90s, when Netscape and ISP email addresses were in use?

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by veave »

CharlesW wrote: post #11

Hey early responders: Christine's post is not actually about email, and she presumably believes email is just fine. It's written to be a satire of critiques about federated social media services like Mastodon and Lemmy.

I suppose I understand what the author's position is, but they wrote a long post explaining that, since we have a flawed system, we are allowed to create new systems that are as flawed as that one... and that doesn't sound too good

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by wkat4242 »

teolandon wrote: post #9
pavel_lishin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's fetishy or sexual about this pretty bland anime picture?

People are always just trying to find an excuse to hate on furries.

Yeah what's with that? If you walk around in vrchat with an avatar that's non human you get this already. And it's actually very hard to find decent human avatars on there.

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by xena »

hsjqllzlfkf wrote: post #24

> Image generated by Counterfeit -- a girl with yellow eyes, pink hair, fox ears, a white hoodie, and a short skirt walking through a park;

This is the model I used: https://civitai.com/models/4468?modelVersionId=57618. I also used a few extra LoRA filters (remove bad features, foxgirl ears, etc) to make the image a bit better. The model is literally named Counterfeit.

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by hsjqllzlfkf »

wkat4242 wrote: post #23
teolandon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are always just trying to find an excuse to hate on furries.

Yeah what's with that? If you walk around in vrchat with an avatar that's non human you get this already. And it's actually very hard to find decent human avatars on there.

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Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by msla »

hsjqllzlfkf wrote: post #26
wkat4242 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah what's with that? If you walk around in vrchat with an avatar that's non human you get this already. And it's actually very hard to find decent human avatars on there.

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> I hate on anyone who's different for the sake of being different.

Being unable to accept differences is a mark of immaturity.

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by upofadown »

CJefferson wrote: post #10

I imagine if you tried “releasing” IMAP and SMTP email (with whatever cleanups and encryption you wanted to choose) now as a new open standard, in a world where email never existed, there is no chance it would take off.

My theory is that email took off because of how well it used already existing concepts from paper mail. People picked up the concepts behind paper mail as children. New concepts are hard and I think we tend to overlook that fact.

Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by hsjqllzlfkf »

xena wrote: post #25
hsjqllzlfkf wrote: post #24

> Image generated by Counterfeit -- a girl with yellow eyes, pink hair, fox ears, a white hoodie, and a short skirt walking through a park;

This is the model I used: https://civitai.com/models/4468?modelVersionId=57618 . I also used a few extra LoRA filters (remove bad features, foxgirl ears, etc) to make the image a bit better. The model is literally named Counterfeit.

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Re: I don't know how I feel about email

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Post by ipcress_file »

generalpf wrote: post #7
rssoconnor wrote: post #6

It's been a while, but as I recall your ISP will provide you with an email address. So if you have internet, you have an email address. Sure, if you change your ISP then you have to update your email address everywhere. But the same is true for phone numbers if you change phone companies. As for email clients, just use whatever Netscape comes with.

Not sure where you live but in Canada and the USA the phone companies legally have to allow you to port your existing number over from one company to another.

You can port your number between providers here in Canada too. I even ported my old landline over to VOIP.
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