/tech/ - Technology

Email is obsolete.

>>14802
Sorry I can't read your text post. Can you rephrase that in the form of yourself dancing in a tiktok video?

>>14798 (OP) 
He closed registration and reads mail.
Why doesnt the rabbit ask kaguya for money instead?

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cock.li's has been working on clearnet for a few days now along with other services to it, current updates are:
>More DNS servers are being added and the old server will be removed.
>Everything was down for about 24 hou-MULTIPLE DAYS AND COUNTING due to upstream datacenter outage affecting DNS, and the disk *disappearing* when the host came back. Uh oh.
>Red -> Orange Alert soon hopefully.
And today's canary (11/21):
gpg: Signature made Thu Nov 21 17:08:37 2024 UTC
gpg:                using RSA key 5CB49CDCEAC797FBF8BDC074FD71AD2771A5CC1B
gpg:                issuer "[email protected]"
gpg: using pgp trust model
gpg: Good signature from "Vincent Canfield <[email protected]>" [unknown]

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>>14870
Based Vincent.

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The main page is now returning an error/maintenance page, and its onion seems to be offline too.
Though mail.cock.li and its respective hidden service are working, login in fails with a "failed to connect to storage servers" message.
Cockbox's also affected.

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>>14880
Service's back, and there's a new message above the donation addresses:
>DNS IS STILL NOT REDUNDANT AND REGISTRATION ISN'T HERE YET. IF THAT WAS STILL THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE THE DONATION ADDRESSES WOULD STILL BE HIDDEN. WE'RE WORKING HARD ON THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES.
And the canary today, November 23, is valid:
gpg: Signature made Sat Nov 23 05:24:16 2024 UTC
gpg:                using RSA key 5CB49CDCEAC797FBF8BDC074FD71AD2771A5CC1B
gpg:                issuer "[email protected]"
gpg: using pgp trust model
gpg: Good signature from "Vincent Canfield <[email protected]>" [unknown]

>>14885
Why does Ran look like a guy from a shoujo manga?

>>14870
>Red -> Orange Alert soon hopefully.
See this is why you autopurge shit.
Also let me back in already. Please.

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https://cock.li/log.txt
>If these critical threats force us to change the world to ensure e-mail remains recognized as a human right, we won't hesitate to do it.
E-mail as a "human right"... that sounds rather ominous... like everyone being assigned one e-mail address at birth (or at a certain age) by the government, associated with their identity...

>>14969
>Fresh water as a "human right"... that sounds rather ominous... like everyone being assigned one water bottle at birth (or at a certain age) by the government, associated with their identity...

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>>14972
Why are food/drink analogies always so off the mark and nonsensical?

>>14973
Makes sense to me.

>>14972
All water sources are nationalized and the government controls the distribution of all water in the country.

>>14972
>Fresh water as a "human right"... that sounds rather ominous... 
You don't have a "right" to other people's labor. As long as it requires labor to collect and sanitize and distribute water then you don't have a "right" to it.

>>14969
>E-mail as a "human right"... that sounds rather ominous... 
There is no way for government to interfere with the market like this without fucking it up.

<pass a law that says all email providers need to give free email service
That would force all the small email providers to close and only big ones like gmail will survive because they already sell your data to cover the cost of the "free" email service they provide.

<raise taxes and use the money to pay private companies to give all citizens "free" email
In that case the biggest corpos with the best lobbyists will get the funding and the small independent providers will die out. Remember the government does not create wealth so when they spend money they are spending 'your' money. So this would literally just be a new tax everyone is forced to pay directly to google.

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The index page has changed a couple days ago:
>Thank you very much for your gracious support to cock.li over the last few weeks. The cock.li team wants you to know that your donations have allowed us to place fighting for cock.li as our top priority
>This new era for cock.li means you can rest assured that we will make efforts to keep our userbase updated on the current happenings to the maximum extent possible. Cock.li started as a hobby project, and was slowly neglected over the years as upkeep mounted while interest in the project waned. Now that engaged people are working on the site every day again, you should expect that you will have some descriptions of the work that's going on, i.e. where your money is going.
>If it seems like work is currently slow, that's because most of the required work is in the background, and it would be unwise to detail it at this point. Some day, our work will be less serious, and the quality of updates should improve further.
>Until then, I hope you will appreciate this list of our current priorities:
>    High priority
>    RED ⟶ ORANGE alert (top priority)
>    Regular maintenance
>    Restore password changes
>    Finish DNS migration and expansion
>    Hardware maintenance & security
>    New website with all features
>...

Latest canary (4th Dec) is valid:
gpg: Signature made Wed Dec  4 05:14:33 2024 WET
gpg:                using RSA key 5CB49CDCEAC797FBF8BDC074FD71AD2771A5CC1B
gpg: using pgp trust model
gpg: Good signature from "Vincent Canfield <[email protected]>" [unknown]

This "canary" thing is meaningless. The feds can just put a gun in the guy's mouth and force him to update the canaries like a good boy.

Update today:

~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!~

2024-12-16

Good news: cock.li's RED ALERT has been reduced to an ORANGE ALERT, thanks to
tangible progress on many internal issues.

~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!~

>>14976
Some of it just falls from the sky.

It's sad there's no push to make a protocol like email except that everyone hosts it locally and has exclusive access to the server. There should be a device you can buy, like a thin client, that runs alongside your modem that does everything an email host does. Almost everyone that uses email has it hosted by someone else making it one of the biggest privacy and security gaps in existence. Most people don't want to or know how to set up a remote server with an OS, set up SSH, install an email server client, set up a spam filter, set up a secure certificate, configure a DNS, create accounts, set up an interface to use it, and so on. Even if they did, a lot of services only accept normalfag email domains. This is in addition to living in a global pandemic of technological illiteracy, only getting worse by the day, where companies continuously email personal information for no good reason instead of having dedicated message sections on their websites. It seems like only hospitals and banks are smart enough to do that and not always. It's a nightmare and one of the biggest things discouraging me from using computers and technology in general. I feel such a relief of stress just from not touching the computer and not having to give a fuck about whether anyone is tracking me. The problem with that is that I erase myself from the world and can't participate in discourse. People talk about how technology is advancing and yet we're still stuck with email.

>>15569
It is not just technologies that is undergoing this treatment. There are many crafts and practices that have fallen under the history because of economics of scale. The quality of a lot of hand made goods, food and other things are a lot better then the commercial mass-production. Worse still, the products are often made worse, worth less and break easier, to promote consumption. Email was designed at a time where people all have their domain names and host servers. When ISPs and governing bodies tightened the leashes, port 25 was blocked for all household. The era of thr wild west of the internet is over. Everything now is dull.

>>15569
Most people aren't talking about anything important anyway. You're not missing out, especially as places get spammed to the ground with AI shillbots.
It's time to unplug and go outside if you're able.

I like email, it's very useful and simple, unlike the modern web. But it should have remained as text only! It's stupid ot have HTML email, with links for people to click on and get scammed. It's stupid for there to be embedded images for tracking. All this needs to be tossed and go back to plain text. You can send an HTML link or other URL in a text message too. And they should also stop making those stupidly long URLs that take up 3+ lines on an 80-column terminal. Just keep it bare minimum (i.e. get rid  of all that tracking bullshit and other nonsense).

>>15571
There's a big difference between apples I pick from my yard and the ones from the store. It's like lossless vs compressed audio. It feels like my brain is stimulated when I eat those apples, like I reach parts of it that weren't accessible before. We recently bought unpasteurized milk from a farmer. If I could financially justify it I would get more independent food.
>>15588
Turning off the electronic jew, focusing on family, being outside, and reading old books feels good. Even so, I miss Anon's antics.
>>15589
Chat programs open "previews" to websites exposing your IP with no permission and often with no option to disable it. Many websites have "embeds" that get opened automatically unless you block cross site requests. It's cancer.

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Big update at cock.li, looks like they've sorted everything out and are on green status.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vJgrf

The new message:
>Hello, cock.li is back again.
>Cock.li's administration team has identified connections between the registration and addition to cock.li of the domain hitler.rocks and two intelligence agencies who directly benefited from its association to the service. The administration team is declining to name the agencies or individuals.
>Cock.li has provided free e-mail service to Internet users since 2013. Its assortment of shock domains has provided immeasurable comedic value to e-mail users worldwide, much to the shagrin of people with no funny bones. The domain itself has never ever mattered, what's always mattered is whether it could make us laugh when we imagine a friend receiving an e-mail and reading the domain aloud.
>Case in point: The domain horsefucker.org was added before anyone remotely associated with cock.li realized its origins are from a community that watches My Little Pony porn. We've carried that clop for all these years because even after realizing its true origins, the story of this domain only got funnier.
>The story of hitler.rocks did not get funnier when we uncovered its origins. After a thorough investigation which has taken place over the last several years, we've concluded it is extremely likely that hitler.rocks was originally offered to cock.li as a poison fruit intended to destabilize the service. And we are certain that the same agencies who were in a position to execute such an operation took every advantage of its association to cock.li, including threatening to associate the domain with unrelated parties in order to convince them to antagonize our service in various acts of cowardice.
>In addition to threats, these same agencies are connected to actual attacks against the service. One individual associated with hitler.rocks and later connected to the identified agencies admitted to signing cock.li's abuse mailbox up for thousands of mailing lists, resulting in millions of spam e-mails and a measurable and permanent decrease in our efficiency in processing abuse reports.
>We've long known that domains like hitler.rocks can lead to confusion of our values and have the potential for misuse. Clarifying those values would be like explaining the joke, so if you are still confused why we found the domain funny enough to host e-mail on, maybe you could understand that cock.li was never supposed to get so big that you would see it in the first place. We also don't give a shit what you find funny or not.
>As a result of our investigation, we've decided that tainted domains like hitler.rocks which we conclude were offered to the service maliciously will never be available for registration again, and may be subject to a future sunset period and service closure. Most of the other domains which disappeared from registration at the same time are either not funny enough to re-add, or are still subject to their own investigation.
>Any complaints about not naming the intelligence agencies responsible are valid. The investigation and disclosure could have been quicker, too. Sorry.
>One of the best domains on cock.li, nigge.rs, was wrongly subjected to this same treatment and has been closed for registration for several years. Cock.li stands no longer for the baseless discrimination of this strong and independent domain. So, it is our pleasure to announce that nigge.rs is available for immediate public registration once again.
>It's our hope by making this announcement you will be better informed of one of the mechanisms that shape the course of speech online. Anyone intending to disrupt cock.li in the future should be warned we will patiently dig at the roots of your operation until we uncover its most basic attacks on human rights. But as of now we at cock.li should hopefully have the closure we need to heal from this mess and move forward with our work on the service.
>—Cock.li Administration Team 

Latest canary from April 5th is valid:
gpg: Signature made Sat Apr  5 05:41:28 2025 UTC
gpg:                using RSA key 5CB49CDCEAC797FBF8BDC074FD71AD2771A5CC1B
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gpg: Good signature from "Vincent Canfield <[email protected]>" [unknown]

Glad to see Vincent and his crew coming out of this apparently alright.