Really cool. I remember one local musician here in Lithuania used a theremin like 20 years ago and i was amazed at the interactivity and the alien sound of it. Now sitting in front of my computer doing the same that many years later brings memories back!
That's because - given the flashy page and branding and all - it's irrelevant.
The thing is not about code or solving a problem, and we also shouldn't be pretending that it is, because that is what slop, grifters and businesspeople bank on.
Also, you can be sure that the features that do exist are half-baked at best, given that any person with eyes can see that the priorities lie elsewhere.
I just built my own version to scratch my own itch.
Completely vibe coded. It solves my problem. I didn't even consider that someone else might have already built it.
It's fast, simple, needs barely any resources. It has a daemon, it can detect new mice. It even has a vibe coded logo. Oh, did I already mention that the whole thing is completely vibe coded?
Flipped the repo to public in case someone else might find it useful.
Facebook is still big in my country, Lithuania, and both rage-bait and other type of fringe content is rampant, and even worse after fact-checking was removed. It is wild, and with some outside actors (specific country that shall not be named) it is a big problem with political and social effects being felt IRL.
And is Lithuania doing anything about it? In Romania Facebook and TikTok do whatever they please, and whatever they are paid to do, with complete impunity as the authorities actively do nothing at all.
Our police has a page called "Virtual Police Patrol" which allows reporting of these cases. Some of the worst trolls have been prosecuted and sentenced. But we're not doing much regarding Facebook itself, just cleaning up with the results of it.
Bought my CTO M5 Pro just a month ago, i was a little bit skittish, thinking i should wait for the OLED one, but i think i'll be happier with the 64GB of RAM rather than that overpriced monitor.
My father uses ChatGPT extensively. My friend, whos an electrician, but has 0 things to do with computers, even called it Chat once and I said who? Because for me its ChatGPT. He also uses it extensively. Although I would bet they won't be willing to pay, advertisements will eventually hit them. And with inference prices going down, with distilled models being used, OpenAI will profit, and people will still hapily use it for whatever random queries they have. Exposure is the currency and OpenAI will have infinites of it for the foreseeable future.
Worked on an ESP. We had a couple of server software we used on low-level for sending. None of them would accept the message without a Message-ID. But even if you have a super-custom, SMTP-injecting service built, how can you ignore all of these bounces from a provider thats likeliest to be the major one you are sending to? Unthinkable. I would not like to have business with such a payment provider.
This is the one that gets me - sometimes you're forced to work with systems that do annoying things that you have to accommodate. It's annoying, but it's more important to do the thing that prevents your users from having issues than it is to be theoretically right about whether something's required by a standard.
I've dealt with many worse cases than this, where the systems I was integrating with were doing things that weren't even close to reasonable, but they had the market power so I sucked it up and dealt with it for the sake of my users. Maybe Google's wrong here, but how do you not just implement the solution anyway?
> Maybe Google's wrong here, but how do you not just implement the solution anyway?
But they just did (make it work). The logical assumption is that most ppl did the same, just used another email provider. Why would viva care? (same as google, why would google care?).
Well, apparently it's not even an issue for gmail users:
To unblock myself, I switched to a personal @gmail.com address for the account. Gmail's own receiving infrastructure is apparently more lenient with messages, or perhaps routes them differently. The verification email came through.
So it's only an issue for people paying for Google's hosted email—a much smaller set!
> how can you ignore all of these bounces from a provider thats likeliest to be the major one you are sending to?
This is the major issue that most of the discussion is missing. It doesn't matter how you want to interpret the word SHOULD, if you want to send to google workspace, you MUST include a message-id. It's not like this is some fly-by-night server with 12 clients.
If you absolutely and completely don't want to include the message-id, then you need to have a warning that your service can't be used by Google Workspace customers. This used to be common practice, blocking communication to servers that behaved badly, and I sort of wish we'd bring it back.
> I would not like to have business with such a payment provider.
Chances are that the decision-makers in most companies don't care about the technicalities (i.e. which email you used for registration) - they want to get up and running.
The reason that Viva doesn't care, I assume, is the reason Google workspace doesn't care: they're both too big to care for 5% of their clients won't do the extra work. They know that their, usually much smaller clients, will "figure it out" by i.e. using another setup that works™. So why bother?
Since workspaces are probably tied to custom domains all they see if only cursorly looking are "random" businesses with bounces (as TFA mentions, Gmail addresses seem to work fine), sure if you look closer you'll notice the MX might be a google one but going from the cursory look to a closer one takes a bit of time.
For now, but with EU digital sovereignty efforts in full swing, it's possible this changes over time. More so if the EU uses regulation to dissuade the use of US Big Tech products and services.
This is round 5 or 6 of a " EU digital sovereignty efforts in full swing" maybe this time they will having a success or two but nothing seems to indicate they've changed enough to avoid failing again.
... which is irrelevant to the demonstrated and shocking incompetence of being unable to deliver either to the #1 or #2 inbox for businesses in the EU?
