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This was desperately needed.

But I’m not convinced they aren’t just going to make alts.

Isn’t there already a special low-power part of phone chips designed to listen for wake words?

No, it’s expensive to comply (at a massive scale), but easy to avoid. Just change the user agent. There’s even a dedicated extension for bypassing Anubis.

Even then AI servers have plenty of compute, it realistically doesn’t cost much. Maybe like a thousandth of a cent per solve? They’re spending billions on GPU power, they don’t care.

I’ve been saying this since day 1 of Anubis but nobody wants to hear it.

Given the difference in server CPU/memory/storage/network/scale, I don’t think it’s possible to get any number with confidence. Maybe you could self host, but that wouldn’t be representative of real email servers. Plus different email providers handle emails differently.

And cloud providers probably automatically scale with load, Gmail probably uses more power during work hours than after.

Also SSR is relatively new and email services are ancient, I’d be surprised if any used it. I’m not even sure if it’s a good idea for email.

Plus it would probably vary with how many emails you have in your inbox…

I just don’t think it’s possible to get an actual number.

Networking is remarkably efficient, and so is decoding images, because processors do it so quickly. For more intensive tasks like video, hardware decoders make them efficient. All email is to the client computer is making a request for data, processing that into a list that can be displayed, and displaying it. I’m pretty sure just having the screen on is orders of magnitude more power hungry.

A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.

Wow holy shit. So if you get submerged it’s just straight up a death sentence. Just when you think they can’t get worse…

It’s probably easier to get one of those ceramic window breakers and get out that way. I’m pretty sure the rip cords are actually quite hard to pull.

Who could have possibly predicted this. I’m shocked.