I got a lot of group spam, where someone seems to have created a google group and added my mail to it. And then people answer the spam, and the answer is also send to everyone in the group
>Investing in AI infrastructure seems very risky to me. With how short of a lifecycle computing hardware generally has, does it make sense to blow billions on hardware that will need to be replaced in a few years?
That also depends on the budget. I work in the public sector, so there's usually no money, but now they've just discovered that they have a 25 million budget, which needs to be spend this year on hardware (for AI). If we do not spend the money within this year, the budget expires and then we cannot spend it at all
25 million is not billions, but that could still be a higher budget than any other public institution agency in the entire state here has
I've received over 100 emails this year from these dubious mailing lists. And each mail I checked has a "X-Google-Group-Id" header. I hardly get the spam, but mostly notifications from strange email servers. "Thank you for your message," or "I'm currently out of the office," or "This email address is no longer valid.". and the servers respond to each other "Thank you for your message titled 'I am out of office'"...
a) Are they really sent by Google Groups?
b) Why does Google allow any person to create an google groups mailing list and add my email address to it without my consent?
c) Are there really still people who have configured their autoresponders to automatically respond to autoresponders through email lists in 2025?
Daemon+Freedom by Daniel Suarez
though it is kind of mid