Weird this article doesn’t mention Hotmail and RocketMail, which both had email client web apps in 1996.

And of course it is the children’s fault. […] I do hate that older generations do this. It is our generations responsibility that most parents failed at.

Did you read the article? Here is an excerpt:

It’s worth pausing here to point out that you can’t really blame younger people for struggling at what were once seen as academic basics. The school system is in shambles, their education was bisected by the COVID pandemic, and they’re been reared in a world that’s increasingly deemphasized reading in favor of videos, voiceovers, and other emerging forms of communication.

thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator’s mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)

(for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work…)

also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)

now do gtkmm

Sadly there are none I can recommend wholeheartedly, all have various problems 😢

There are some controversial picks in there like Proton Mail or Brave. They do have a pretty wide adoption but have severe downsides. I’ll probably remove them again. What do you think?

here is a comment i wrote recently listing some of the reasons not to use proton. i’d also recommend against vivaldi (proprietary), brave (so many reasons), and everything in your messaging category besides matrix (and matrix also has lots of problems but it is the least bad of the ones you’re recommending). sorry that i don’t have time to elaborate right now (it’s a lot), but for the inevitable “what about signal” question see my comment here and more here.

ps. if you do use signal, consider adjusting your Who Can Find Me By Number setting (see that link for a fun implementation of the attack against signal users who leave it as it is by default). note that the same thing could technically be done in matrix too, albeit by matrix ID instead of phone number. 😬

pps: here are my comments about tuta 🙄

Why not just use proton?

A few of the many reasons are the fact that their e2ee is snakeoil (see my comment here about why - but tldr it requires completely trusting them and if you completely trust them you wouldn’t need e2ee, the point of e2ee is to avoid needing to trust the service provider), their server-side code is closed-source, they’re a freemium service which can and does arbitrarily decide to start charging for previously-free features, they’ve suspended a number of users who they should not have, and their CEO is a trump fanboy.

Its Swiss based.

You know who else was Swiss based? 🙄

the suggestion that you should maybe write down an eight digit hex string “in case you need it” is just adding insult to injury. i guess anything less than a 32bit space for error codes would be insufficient

is that jesus?

what could go wrong

The “girls FTW” mail in that bluesky post is indeed fake, but the daily beast article linked by this post does not include that one.

It is noteworthy how the existence of a fake thing which can be debunked can cause people to assume that similar-but-real things are also fake 😭

that screenshot is almost^[1] definitely fake; unlike the ones in the dailybeast article, phrases from it do not find anything in the search.

Yeah, thinking about it more, it’s not really that weird to call adults of any age “kid”, and it’s somewhat common when talking about people substantially younger than oneself. it is maybe more common when referring to men though? 🤔

This one is fake

i don’t think so?

Its not one of the few occurrences of the word there

which word? i checked a couple and they’re there. eg, here is Musk planning a visit in January 2014.

daily beast is posting misinfo

it is irritating that they only provided a source link for one of the many mails they quote and have screenshots of, but i checked a few of the others and they do come up in the search.

“Hire this kid”, says [redacted] about hacktivist-turned-snitch Hector “Sabu” Monsegur. Guys can still be kids even past 30.

Please include EFTA ID #s

seriously. there are fakes floating around, so screenshots of alleged docs without a link are indeed dubious. If you want to verify something though, the documents on the DOJ website are currently searchable: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search (but of course some have also been deleted after being published…)

edit: searching for 4chan.org shows that Epstein later became a user of it himself; he’s emailing links to threads there to Karyna Shuliak and others. It also has 4chan’s response to the FBI’s subpoena for the IP address(es) responsible for four posts which were made immediately prior to his death being reported publicly.

that email is on justice.gov here btw

Well, there was this German guy who immigrated to America evading the draft in Germany for WWI.

Leaving in [checks notes] 1885 to evade the WWI draft would be some impressive foresight.

(It was to avoid conscription, though.)

We Need To Talk About “Authoritarianism”