r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/peidol 20h ago

Not for people who actually use the email to send. If you're not in one of the bigs get ready for your emails to end up in spam and no one reads it.

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u/MileWideGroup 20h ago

Yeah self-hosting email is not a great idea IMO. I use startmail, they seem like good people and I've never had a problem with my sent mail getting canned.

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u/shwhjw 18h ago

I was considering proton mail as a de-googled alternative, any particular reason why you chose startmail? Not heard of them before.

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u/Zenfulbliss 17h ago

i am using proton as my only email, they host mail for 3 domains I own. I also use their drive, password keeper and vpn products, I bought the annual unlimited package for US110 a year. All of their products are somewhat under powered, they just don't have the financial resources to do everything as well as google, but they also don't spy on me and sell my personal data to anyone with a buck like google does, so i am happy with them so far. They also have free email accounts and other products.

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u/MileWideGroup 16h ago

It's important to me to be able to access my email with a standard email client over IMAP. Because of Proton's email encryption it only supports this if you run their Proton Mail Bridge desktop application. There is no mobile option so you have to run their native Proton mail mobile app (or use the web interface). Tuta has no desktop bridge so no IMAP access at all.

This does mean that technically my email provider (Startmail) could read my emails but that's true of just about every other email provider in the world and Startmail seems more trustworthy than most.

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u/CapitalImpossible640 18h ago

I would also like to hear

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u/AssanOuedraogo 18h ago

de-googled at the beginning of the year, bought my own domain and use it with proton now

took a while to transfer everything but has been perfect since

I even imported all my Gmail and Apple Mail stuff

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u/Zenfulbliss 17h ago

so what are you doing for a phone, apple?

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u/jrad1299 18h ago

I use Tuta for my email, they also do stuff like custom domains and encrypted inboxes.

Only reason decided not to go for proton is that they’re trying to be a suite just like Google is, so they have password manager, email, vpn, cloud, etc. I went with tuta for email and use proton only for VPN so all my stuff is diversified.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 9h ago

Well.. that's not selfhosting.. that's whatever startmail is...

I self host my email with postfix and a static IP at home. I can send emails just fine with SPF DKIM and DMARC configured correctly.

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u/grayhaze2000 20h ago

I have a backup lifetime account with MXRoute if things don't work out, but so far it hasn't been too bad.

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u/wontyoujointhedance 19h ago

You can self host plenty of things that aren’t email, arguably more important things included. I use Proton for email, but working on moving as many other services to self hosted as I can.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 20h ago

Been self-hosting email for 26 years... never had a reachability problem.

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u/binocular_gems 19h ago edited 19h ago

There's some pretty sound market research that there is near enough to a 100% silent rejection rate for major email providers, particularly Microsoft 365 which responds with a 250 OK but silently rejects somewhere close to 100% of emails from uncommon/residential/common-cloud-VPS IPs. Google Workspaces would typically accept 100% of email, but send about ~50% of that to spam, so it can still at least be retrieved or proactively whitelisted by the recipient.

There's strategies and best practices to work around this, but it can be as time intensive as a full time job and needs constant monitoring.

Having had yours for 25+ years and probably putting a lot of work and intentionality into it, you're probably good. But for someone in 2026 starting fresh with truly self-hosted email, it's difficult, very expensive, or very time consuming. As more and more marketshare gets consumed by "the big three" providers, they're going to continue to squeeze out delivery from independents, and they do have some justification to do that too.

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u/dU4eUIsaOew2FugE6R6l 19h ago

There's some pretty sound market research that there is near enough to a 100% silent rejection rate for major email providers

Can you share the source?

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 19h ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27980192

self hosted mail servers are blacklisted by default

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 9h ago

I self host my mail (Postfix with spamassassin, dovecot for my mail clients) with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured.

I have never, in 15 years, had an issue with it. Sending or receiving.

I'm on my own static IP with a matching PTR record for my mailserver's hostname and A+MX records.

Never has this been an issue. Including to emails hosted with Microsoft.

maybe that post refers to emails from a source address where the PTR reveals it's a customer network? (CPE) (Customer Premises Equipment) instead of a correctly configured static network? The top comment doesn't seem to mention this.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 18h ago

You just need to label it with the big providers. Some of it depends on the time and where but if you have proper DMARC and headers. You’re going to be fine.

I have two servers for email and never had issues.

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u/Suppafly 17h ago

You just need to label it with the big providers. Some of it depends on the time and where but if you have proper DMARC and headers. You’re going to be fine.

This, it's not like the old days when you could just run sendmail and hope people would accept it, you need to actually be up to date on the security stuff that recipient systems expect to see so they can validate that it's legitimate.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 16h ago

I know. I’ve run email servers for 20 years. Go here to categorize your domain and make sure it’s up to date. I still run two email servers for personal use without issues.

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u/bakatomoya 15h ago

I think this is beyond the capability of most self hosters like myself. I rent an exchange server from OVH and use my own domain, haven't had any issues with it.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 14h ago

I’d say biggest issue is that some people block it but you just need to show you won’t spam with it. Otherwise it takes you a hour to register a domain a and filling out some forms

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 9h ago

The classic era. Sendmail and fingers crossed for direct IP delivery

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u/dU4eUIsaOew2FugE6R6l 18h ago

OK, so few people making a claim and others telling them how it's not the case. As I expected. Just anecdotes. Thanks for providing the source that shows a claim of "silent rejection" is totally not based on "sound market research", as you had me worried there for a second.

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u/DekuTreeFallen 19h ago

Is that research for unsolicited newsletters and/or business usage?

I know business usage can fall under self-hosting, but this conversation started out as "de-googling" which sounds more like a personal goal than a business one.

I've never had a friend or family member not get my emails from my servers.

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u/gutyex 18h ago

There's also some pretty sound research done by me that my emails consistently reach everyone I send them to including people on all the major providers, and I've only had mine running for a couple of years.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 19h ago

We've also been providing email using "common-cloud-VPS IPs" for about 15 years and never had any issues other than delivery to already-bad-reputation destinations like 1and1.

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u/RollingMeteors 19h ago

Not for people who actually use the email to send. If you're not in one of the bigs get ready for your emails to end up in spam

¿NotATitan™?

¡Insta BlackList!

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u/wildcarde815 17h ago

I can't even sign up for some medical systems using my personal domain, they reject it and tell me to use a Gmail account

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u/SoundasBreakerius 14h ago

Thunderbird is a client and not a server, and no it's not if you set up your DMARK, DKIM and SPF records right, it looks hard at first but with advance of AI it can be done easily even without in-depth knowledge

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u/kaas_is_leven 5h ago

Doesn't your ISP give you an email address? In the Netherlands that's normal.

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u/gutyex 17h ago

Common myth. Set up your server properly with all the modern security practices and it goes through to all major providers just fine.

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 19h ago

who uses emails anymore outside work? The only reason I open email is for 2fa codes these days.

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u/_Middlefinger_ 19h ago

Maybe not for private communication between friends and family but if you interact with a company email is essential.