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Cake day: February 19th, 2024

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  • Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.

    A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.

    I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.

    Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.


  • ARM was European. Until its shareholders agreed for it to be acquired by SoftBank.

    That’s a large part of the problem, I think: shareholders and “number must go up!” mentality can change a company’s nation of ownership/influence overnight. And a private European company can choose to go public on a foreign stock exchange (eg. Spotify).

    If a viable competitor to Intel or AMD was to come into being in Europe, there’s currently nothing* stopping its shareholders selling the company to non-European venture capital whenever they want (eg. ARM).


    *There is usually a competition or monopoly regulator, but they typically have no teeth, have been captured by industry interests, or have to bow to political pressure.