Power exists to be used. Some wish for cyber safety, which they will not get. Others wish for cyber order, which they will not get. Some have the eye to discern cyber policies that are "the least worst thing;" may they fill the vacuum of wishful thinking.
> It's like wanting Google to be the legal shield for everyone committing copyright infringement on their sites. It's not remotely economically feasible.
Watching a little bit of youtube in say e.g. Germany might change your mind. Right now the opposite is the case, Google is acting as an illegal minion who censors arbitrary videos by order of anyone who has some cash.
No need to remain safe. Just set an example right now and get over this forever. What their decision means is that I can't host code on GitHub because I might have down times (at least) if some clown thinks my software can be used to commit crimes.
Of course my software can be used to commit crimes. Probably any software can.
It's not like am speculating. I implemented these things. The hardest part is agreeing on TZ symbols (e.g. Indian Standard Time vs Ihoa Standard Time). E.g. its not very hard to get right.
Why would you ever need to convert a timestamp? You typically parse a timestamp like "1999-03-29 20:02:04 CEST" and return a number of seconds since a given point in time (e.g. UNIX epoch if it must be). The returned time is obviously +0000 == UTC. If it's not your language/os/software sucks and its no wonder your hair is on fire.
> POP, no. My time machine didn't go back that far. ;)
Imho this remark comes across as quite unprofessional. Ignoring the fact that POP and IMAP weren't born that far apart in time (wikipedia says 84 and 86 respectively), POP is one of the two standard email client retrieval protocols. Most mail clients support it for good reason.
Its no problem that inbox.io doesn't support POP3, its a feature you may or may not have it.
What bugs me, as someone who likes to implement ancient protocols and backward scompatible clients (because its the right thing to do), is your stupid remark about it. Nobody cares that you think POP3 is old fashioned and that you were too smug about it to implement it. Furthermore POP3 and IMAP are like completely different protocols for completely different use cases. I don't fucking use IMAP because its fucking centralized model doesn't make any fucking sense in my decentralized world. POP3, even being two long years older, works just fine. So don't be a dick and just say you didnt't implement it. There may be reasons, but you didn't mention one. You just bashed a perfectly fine protocol for no reason and pissed me off.
Power exists to be used. Some wish for cyber safety, which they will not get. Others wish for cyber order, which they will not get. Some have the eye to discern cyber policies that are "the least worst thing;" may they fill the vacuum of wishful thinking.