> That dedicated server you have to manage (ensure security, install the software you need, keep it updated and secure etc). It’s not for everyone.

apt install unattended-upgrades. And Hetzner's firewall.

And cloudflare tunnel which allows you to block even ports 80 and 443. The only attack vector is then through ssh but with passwords disabled I wouldn't worry too much about that.

By the way, unattended-upgrades is enabled by default nowadays.

You could also go to Settings, Keyboards, and uncheck Smart Punctuation.

True. Personally I generally like the smart punctuation though, and will rather work around the few cases where it does something I don’t want.

> That said, plenty of Google's some 144,000 employees appear to be just fine with the on-site luxuries their employer provides.

Well, of course they are. Those who weren’t “just fine” already left. But it’s not about how fine they feel, it’s about how healthy it is.

To me, that paragraph looks weirdly like backpedaling.

I don’t understand the issue you or the guy are having with this. You aren’t forced to work there. If someone likes it let them have it.

Nah, that’s FUD. I had a pretty easy time setting it up myself. You only have to setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Which is pretty easy by itself. You even have online services to check that you have set it up everything correctly.

That’s just where you’re getting started. The biggest hurdle is you have no reputation (or worse, you’re on a shared provider giving you negative reputation to start), and you have no good way to build that up as an individual person, and no good way to debug/appeal each case as your emails get rejected as possible spam.

I’m on hetzner. My IP address was in some dnsrbl lists. I appealed and got my ip clean. Now I can send emails to gmail and outlook and they arrive successfully. I don’t see where all this fuss comes. You set up your server according to google and you are good to go. That’s all.

I use WPS for that.

I’ve successfully used imapsync (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/)

They already exist, and work. IPFS, for example.

IPFS is famously slow/unreliable, not widely used, and you still need to pay for hosting of anything you don’t want to lose because storage, bandwidth, and operator time aren’t free and someone needs to get paid to deal with abuse.

That probably would not happen in a first world country.

Depends on who you are — Gitmo comes to mind – but at least in the United States you can substitute being beaten by agents of the government with being imprisoned where the other prisoners and possibly agents of the government will beat you until you give up the password.

What I did was to ignore the initial letter, and nothing happened. Over the years I’ve found that not engaging is usually the best defense.

Same as Spain. So using Usenet is completely legal.