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by 8organicbits 1067 days ago
> What do you mean that the spamfilter software takes 12 gigabytes of ram, 4 CPU cores, and 35 GB of local space in order to work?

What software needs that? Mail in a box seems much lower for the whole stack: https://mailinabox.email/guide.html#machine

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The whole thing is talking about the fediverse. Presumably if you wanted to set up a server of your own on there and run a spam filter it would need to be so large.
The satire may land better if the hyperbole was more exaggerated. The specs are crazy for personal use, but probably reasonable for heavy/enterprise tools. I left wondering if they were considering the latter; misguided people make mistakes like that.