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Cake day: September 8th, 2023

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  • It’s called “taking control over your life” and it has the cumbersome effect of giving the illusion that one has control over one’s own life. A common phrase would be “If you just worked harder you wouldn’t be so poor.” There is solace in the power over one’s own life, so much so that people ignore that this power is getting eroded day by day. Because admitting this is very scary, even moreso if one has people depending on them.










  • Okay, fair, but that too can be setup with my idea. Just use “fax to email” functionality.

    What I was trying to say is that when people are saying “I miss fax” they don’t necessarily mean the protocol (except people missing the audio modulated exchanges, which can be simulated, or otherwise adapted), they mean the steps they themselves had to do (maybe also the feedback from the machine). Maybe the certainty that the sent stuff will be seen by the first person walking by is something they want. As long as there is a choice I don’t see why that should not be possible.


  • I don’t get people defending fax machines for the input method.

    All of that can still be built with modern technology. There is something like “Fax-to-email”, I’m sure the other way around is possible as well. Put PGP and TLS on there and boom! almost modern. No Dialup or Analog-almost-digital datastream required.

    The input method can still be the same. Have a device that simply scans a page, no compression, and then sends it away. It doesn’t have to be sound modulated over a wire. It can be an email or messenger. You can even make an identification per phone number.