DEI (Diverse Energy Infrastructure) is truly evil and anti-american!

I see the problem. "You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place." Well, the "anyone with the slightest understanding" part is a problem too.

When you've decided that Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt are your logic, you become the perfect servant of grifters.

Errr... what?

There are still unencrypted services (less now than in the past, but you can always bet on vendor laziness and/or incompetence). And in the past "telnet" was my frontline debugging tool.

You are talking about different things. The telnet client is useful (though there are better replacements these days). The telnet server "telnetd" should be taken out back and shot. Then the person who enabled it, if they are still alive, should also be taken out back and shot. Sure, sure, "legacy devices on secured subnets", but TFA talks about servers accessible from the internet.

And I say this as someone who set up many telnetd servers, and continued using them with kerberos auth for a while. But I also pissed off my co-workers by requiring sshd everywhere ~3 decades ago, and turning off telnetd as soon as it was reasonable.

Can't wait for the opportunistic lawsuits "the soulless self-driving car closed the door on my arm! Gimme a $billion!" Sometimes the easy fixes are less easy than you think!

I see an article mentioning 450k rides per week for Waymo. Something which happens once a day is quite rare but also common. Large numbers are weird that way, and it's good evidence that beyond a thousand or so, people are bad at truly understanding large numbers.

At the time, there were people who styled their hair to match Iceman (Val Kilmer with bleached short spiky hair), so presumably there was such a person behind in the line.

Top Gun was a fun movie for teenagers, of the "if you take this at all seriously it will collapse under its own weight" type.

Oh, I know that, and you know that. But as always it comes down to identity politics. And someone who has made "gun owner" not just a description but a critical part of their identity is very threatened by the concept that the second amendment was one of the many compromises given to slave owners.

So in this case I approached them with their own words "I'm protecting you against govt tyranny" and pointing out that cheering on Masked Government Jackbooted Thugs is an odd way to do that. Will it make them think? Probably not; better men than I have tried to get those neurons firing. But we do what we can.

I agree 100%, and I do not and never will own firearms. But the idea behind the Second Amendment was that if our government ever became evil, sending jackbooted thugs to punish and kill people who the govt didn't like, then the Second Amendment would save us.

Sadly, with masked govt agents breaking into houses without judicial warrants, handcuffing kindergartners in class, and killing peaceful protestors, the 2A folks have shown that they are all Team Government Jackbooted Thug. Just about everyone who said "I need guns to defend against a tyrannical govt" have been shown to be a weak mewling whiner who has the backbone of their TACO god.

Kinda like how we have the flawed but still useful VPPA not because certain folks believe in privacy. We have it because certain weak mewling whiners cared about THEIR privacy, but couldn't pass a bill that protected only weak mewling whiners.

If your desire to strip the executive branch of powers changes based on who is in power, you are probably a conservative. They have no deeply held convictions which cannot be quickly changed when someone else is in charge. Does the deficit matter? Easy, just ask them who is in the White House. Obama? The sky is falling! Trump? I have never heard of this "deficit" nor of "inflation"!

If you believe the govt needs congress to represent the voters, and executive agencies to calm the changing tides of populism so that the govt can improve the lives of everyone not just an excitable but dim group of voters energized by some recent (mis)information, you are probably a liberal. They want the govt to help people even if their guy is not in charge at the moment.

Since IMAP is a functional superset of POP3, you can use IMAP just like you use POP3 (to fetch and then maybe delete) if you desire. You may need to do a bit of coding, but that's hardly Google's fault.

Though since TFA is about gmail fetching via POP3... if your lightweight embedded app is using gmail, I guarantee that POP3 fetch is not your first (or eighth) problem.

Eh, maybe? More likely Google doesn't want to support a needless-for-99.9% feature. And they're probably tired of people complaining that "Google is hacking me on Port 993!!!!! My firewall says so!"

(Yeah, I was once told my company was hacking another company, because someone there was using our published tier2 NTP server.)

I mean, you can use IMAP as a POP3 replacement if you want. IMAP is a strict functional superset of POP3. Gmail won't use it that way, but we've already established that you don't use Gmail as a POP3-to-POP3 passthru so you shouldn't care about TFA.

Though, since TFA is about Gmail fetching from a non-gmail account via POP3, not fetching from Gmail via POP3, nothing will change for your use case. Unless you are using Gmail as a POP3-to-POP3 passthru, in which case gods help you, because they're the only ones who have a chance.