Ask yourself… If Putin was President of America and wanted to destroy 200 years of progress, who would he put in charge of the various departments… And then this all makes sense.

Is it anything like multi-threaded xz – in that you’re trading encoding speed for size?

His history / record shows otherwise.

Like when he promised Twitter an employees a ‘buy out’ package, then stiffed all of them for upwards of $500M dollars, then won the subsequent court battle, fucking over thousands of people.

It creates a cost for spammers. They have to have an account with a Telco, which isn’t free, which in a lot of countries comes with some sort of National ID to register. That’s the reason.

I pay $6USD/month for a cloud box that’s encrypted and has been running for years, no outages, no downtime.

For a large organization? Sure. For your family and friends? No.

There are lots of tutorials, and choosing a security-first OS is also wise… OpenBSD is my current favourite.

Honestly, building a mail server isn’t that hard if you aren’t afraid of the command line.

I mean, if I were an opponent of the USA, I’d be celebrating. Putin and Xi accomplished the total and complete destruction of the USA by simply amplifying the worst voices. No shots fired, no military deployment. Osama bin Laden would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t buried at sea.

Precisely. Not sure why their example isn’t being replicated in every city and suburban town.

Why not just build tiny homes? Built to code, 200sqft, well insulated, power, running water, and phone/internet, close to public transit. A fixed address with access to a social worker and a nurse on site, and the ability to get back up on their feet.

The idea would be to give people something between ‘tent’ and ‘apartment’ as transitional housing. Nobody freezes to death, nobody gets caught in the rain and loses everything they own. A community centre for socializing / education / laundry / showers, etc. There’s a ton of unused / underutilized lots in most cities - buildings ready for demolition, behind on taxes, and better used to deal with the housing crisis.

This isn’t rocket surgery. Someone please take this idea and run with it!