God forbid someone would learn from these events and make necessary changes.
There’s a middle ground, the US approach of putting your head into the ground unless a donor can benefit financially isn’t necessarily true for the entire world.
That is why I wrote „excessive“.
There is a difference between instructing security personnel to be aware of gun violence and e.g. trying to justify weakening E2E encryption and omnipresent autonomous face recognition in public spaces.
Small anecdote:
Back in 2017 when Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out, I was able to easily solve the labyrinths. I had all the turns I took in mind and was easily able to backtrack. Back then it was a walk in the park.
When I tried to do the same labyrinths a few weeks ago, I was heavily struggling. I wasn’t able to keep all the paths in mind and lost easily the orientation which surprised me quite a lot.
Of course can also be attributed to a varying mental state but nevertheless it scared me a bit about the apparent loss of certain cognitive abilities.
I personally cannot confirm this for web.de
For years I had been using their email service without receiving a single spam mail. Now, I do get occasionally spam but only few a month but only for the account I use a lot. For the newly created ones again no spam.
I do have a commonname@web.de and a *@mydomain catchall email addressed. Years ago I had my own email server on mydomain, but I got up to 30k spam per month which pushed me into abandoning my own email server and instead let Google be my MX, and forwarding the web.de mails to it.
Google is very successful in rejecting spam before acknowledging its reception via SMTP (probably mostly via IP blacklist) so I don't see it, the amount of spam shrank drastically.
For a very long time a lot of spam came via icq@mydomain (yes, it has been a while), but nowadays almost all spam that I see comes via the @web.de address where Google cannot apply its IP blacklist because its received via web.de's servers. I know because the mydomain email server also used to forward received mails to Google, resulting in said 30k entries in the spam folder. The transition to put Google itself in the DNS record made all the difference.
I am kind-of surprised I don't see more spam coming via the catchall address. Sometimes spammers use mydomain with random local part as sender address, so I get bounces.
