Are you in the UK and within some short distance of civilisation? If so, you very likely have a newsagent near by you and there's a surprisingly good chance they still do a paper delivery round.
Obviously if you're in a hut up a mountain or live in Norfolk then this may be less useful advice for you.
Ah yes. Filling newspapers with petty leaflets of spam the night before and then having to get up at 6am in the cold rain to get lost cycling around an estate block smelling smells of god knows what only to be paid less than minimum wage. what fun times.
At least I could then afford to buy a packet of cigs, and then upsell them to the chavs for a higher price...
It's fine, it's worked for millennia - you simply gather your many belligerent sons, hand them large clubs and send them to batter the power company's director till he gives in.
The key to building an idea is inducing blind faith in others.
...imho.
Edit to expound: if you have blind faith in your idea, then when it is about to fail, you will go down with it. If you don't, and it's about to fail, you will recognise this and extract yourself in time to survive.
At that point it's up to your personal moral compass whether you help the others whose blind faith you've built to reach the escape pods.
The Orwell comparisons may seem trite to you, but the fact is that if there's no available word for a thing, it becomes difficult for people at large to discuss it.
Some organisations conclude that if the masses can't name a thing, then it's impossible for anyone to think of it, and that this makes it go away. Personally I think this underestimates individual people's capacity to think up new names for things, and is therefore doomed to failure.
"Personally I think this underestimates individual people's capacity to think up new names for things, and is therefore doomed to failure"
Agreed, so I'm not sure why you're disagreeing?
I only mentioned it, to show I understand the wider context, so when I ask "why?" I don't get a load of "because censorship" answers. So not intended to come across as trite.
My word, but this would break _so much_. I would like to think that I've managed to keep my wits about me enough over the years that I haven't got any code needing to find both 'A.txt' and 'a.txt' in the same place... but I really wouldn't put it past past-me to've screwed that up... that guy's just the worst.
edit to add: I don't think I ever noticed Android being case-insensitive. Always something new to learn!
MacOS is a case-insensitive unix, and it seems to work fine.
A few years ago I made the mistake of formatting my Mac to use a case-sensitive filesystem, and it turned out to be a huge mistake. My thought process was "I want full compatibility with Unix-land", but this wasn't in line with the rest of the Mac conventions and just ended up causing pain.
Email has been slowly balkanising itself for years now. By way of example, I know personally several people who run mail relays and not only refuse to relay messages from and to Google email servers but even refuse to _receive_ emails addressed to their users from GMail addresses. All of this on what is essentially a political objection.
In the fullness of time, email will fail as a communication medium because of these situations. I don't think that Google will mind terribly when it does.
It's not just political. I haven't taken that step but really sympathize with those that do.
Forwarding mail to Gmail accounts is perilous. My outbound queue is constantly full of mail to an established Gmail account that Google is throttling for some reason or another. I finally parted ways with a user over this specifically, since they had a number of mail accounts that were all forwarded to their Gmail account. For a company with so many smart employees, their handling on this is really dumb.
Receiving mail from Gmail accounts isn't much better. Spammers have discovered that they can cheaply spin up new Gmail accounts and spam the world for a good while before Google detects it. Since so many people use Gmail, on the receiving side I can't use any of the network reputation tricks to catch the spam. So, these days, an appreciable percentage of the spam landing in my users' mail accounts is coming from Google.
If it were just me, I'm pretty sure I'd just block anything to or from Gmail altogether and have one less recurring headache.
...which is really a shame, because I remember the excitement and wonder when Gmail debuted and how amazing it was at the time.
> I know personally several people who run mail relays and not only refuse to relay messages from and to Google email servers but even refuse to _receive_ emails addressed to their users from GMail addresses.
I don't refuse to relay messages to/from gmail addresses, but I do avoid interacting with gmail addresses as much as possible. The less I'm touching Google servers, the better.
Fortunately, most of the people I exchange email with don't use gmail.
It's not just Western society, it's humans in general. The rest of the world might not get so wound up about narcotics as the West does, but there are plenty of other things that the mob makes unhelpful binary judgments about.
There is never anything wrong with writing "n/a" in any kind of form. There was a long overlap during which any form that took contact details already had fields for email address and mobile phone number, but before either of those were as ubiquitous as they are today; nobody processing those forms ever ignored one with "n/a" for email address.
Granted, it might be less prudent to skip some fields than others, of course.
Obviously if you're in a hut up a mountain or live in Norfolk then this may be less useful advice for you.