So, if you want privacy from human reviewers, pay up $7/month (with an annual plan) and signup for Business Starter which comes with basic usage limits for Gemini. Then, for more gemini usage pay up more for AI Ultra plans.

Strangely, they let you opt out of using your data for AI training, but not opt out of human reviewers.

Depends on the season. Until a few years ago Bengaluru had a different problem – when it thundered or rained, they would cut power to protect transformers from shorting out due to falling trees on power lines.

They have PG&E in India too? Dang.

The problem is still there in Bangalore. Power goes out at least once or twice each day even now and so most medium to large commercial institutions have backup generators.

Very similar on Chennai too apparently.

There was some priority order to determine which circuits should be load-shed when there is a power shortage. For example while scouting datacenter sites across Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, I learnt that 220KV lines were not part of load-shedding schedule whereas 66KV lines were. If you took power directly from the power generation company and had contracted power then also you were protected.

Bots are perfectly capable of simulating long user sessions. Many large-volume scrapping traffic for example simulate lots of long persistent user sessions.

Why does this feel like arms race where the only real winner is the arms seller?

Long time ago I used to run qmail for my school (about 2000 users). It was a lot of fun to do as a student sysadmin. Today, I'm tempted to build a minimal mail system for 1-10 users using agentic coding and use it for less critical use-cases like email for shopping/restaurants etc account registration. I wonder if I can get a safe and secure minimal build done completely agnatically without having to directly look at a single line of code.

If you want to do it as a learning experience, do it, but if you just want a domain with catch-all addresses, don't.

You can get a solution like SimpleLogin (don't get actual SimpleLogin, they don't do SRS) in minutes without the headache of having to configure, administer, secure and patch all that.

They should buy a Yubikey (a physical key) and keep their passkeys resident on that. Then they can truly keep that physical key locked up in their safe. And it is truly safer than their physical notebook because they are safe from being tricked into entering their password in the wrong place.

How do they tell their significant other how to logon to a shared account when they aren’t together? How do they use the Yubikey with their phone, laptop and tablet conveniently?

Their partner can use the same key. or they also register their own yubikey and keep it safe elsewhere.