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by foxylad 2y ago
As someone who runs mail servers, I wish they'd be MORE strict to stop the drive-by spammers. Every so often our servers get blocked because someone starts sending spam from a machine on the same netblock. It might be good point-of-dif
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by foxylad 2y ago
CNN is on https://lite.cnn.com/ . The home page is a single 30KB HTML file (my browser also insists on downloading their 6KB favicon). A thing of beauty, compared to their normal home page with 90+ files of 12MB.
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by foxylad 2y ago
I moved to the fediverse (a Mastodon instance) over a year ago. I found it less exciting at first, before realising that Twitter was only exciting because I could get outraged at the a*holes it insisted on exposing me to. Now I love the fed
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by foxylad 2y ago
Or anyone with gold teeth.
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by foxylad 2y ago
Find a new niche? I could imagine large companies incorporating these into presentations at conferences to liven things up.
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by foxylad 2y ago
Amazon could reduce this PR disaster by organising to give returned Astros to school programming clubs. Along with a way to hack the firmware, of course.
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by foxylad 2y ago
How long before you have to stop and spend 5 minutes in a store on your route? Google is an advertising business, and can now literally drive traffic to your store.
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by foxylad 2y ago
I'm guessing you're young. One day surprisingly soon you'll hear about someone your age dying from something entirely preventable, and you'll get real interested in those small changes.
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by foxylad 2y ago
Yes, we use email as the identifier, and yes we verify on signup. We certainly aren't exceptional, and I expect that implementation will become easier as passkeys become more popular, and browser/device APIs develop. So hopefully
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by foxylad 2y ago
The issues the article raises are real, but it paints passkey implementation as much harder than it actually is. It's in Corbado's interests to exaggerate the difficulties. We added passkeys to existing password authentication f
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by foxylad 2y ago
We ask the user to name each passkey. One more modal dialog during registration, but seems to work well.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Kagi search shows this HN post, a link to kids encyclopedia page on Carmack, and his Wikipedia page as the first three links. I started using Kagi last month, and am really enjoying it - it's like Google at it's prime.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Or simply make exchanging bitcoin for anything of value illegal. It makes extortion of all kinds too easy, and company data is just the tip of the iceberg. I was in Italy recently, and saw articles about the epidemic of kidnappings there in
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by foxylad 3y ago
Odd - I have a pi-hole on my home network and never hit the issue with YouTube. The only breakage I've found is the top "results" (actually sponsored ads) on Google search don't work, but I always scroll past those anywa
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by foxylad 3y ago
Does anyone have experience of both Pitivi and Openshot?
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by foxylad 3y ago
And now AI-Something.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Had a weird timestamp bug yesterday, and I did (stupidly) consider if it was an artifact of hitting 1.7 billion seconds.
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by foxylad 3y ago
We have a Phillips microwave built in 1987, still going strong. In this domain, older is WAAAAAAY better.
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by foxylad 3y ago
My 3d printing journey seems to have ended with a Prusa Mini. Really solid and well engineered device, and it's delightful that Prusa acknowledge the open-source hardware and software they depended on to build their company. BambooLab.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Sad you didn't see Linux as a better alternative to OSX. I credit it with making me at least 10% more productive over the twenty years I've used it, partly because it is stable and fast, but mostly because it isn't trying to
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by foxylad 3y ago
Doctorow's enshitification is everywhere. I use Debian so haven't experienced Windows for twenty years, but I recently travelled for three months away from the Pihole that blocks ads on my home network. The web was practically unu
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by foxylad 3y ago
Off topic - but how can Cloudflare block access to an internal website when accessed by via VPN? And if CF has some kind of request verification API that the internal server is using, why would you use it for an internal resource?
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by foxylad 3y ago
Mastodon.nz fared very well during recent heavy rain events in New Zealand. Absolutely no tech limitations, and more importantly no arbitrary management-imposed limits.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Comparing a not-for-profit that made one decision you didn't like to a company that has a long history of screwing over the entire personal computing ecosystem for commercial gain is delusional.
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by foxylad 3y ago
Turbo C -> C++ Builder -> LAMP -> Appengine. A career in one line.
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by foxylad 4y ago
OP here: thanks for poking your head over the parapet. But we've submitted that form three times over five months, with no discernible effect. I have wondered if a pattern-matching algorithm is penalising us for having a similar IP add
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by foxylad 4y ago
OP here. For those thinking that Gmail MUST have valid reasons, and that we abusing the system in some way, consider... 1. We are registered with Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo to provide feedback when someone marks our messages as spam (we DO
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by foxylad 4y ago
I take my hat off to you - an impressive amount of research went into this! MessageMyWay is opt-in and has a robust opt-out mechanism - and is sadly moribund. It sends a maximum of a couple of hundred emails a day. And we are registered wit
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by foxylad 4y ago
We are registered with Google's spam feedback loop, and Microsofts SNDS, so we get informed about any messages marked as spam. We get maybe one a week, so this isn't what triggers the rate-limiting.
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by foxylad 4y ago
We have two email servers for redundancy (like when Gmail is rate-limiting), not load. We send about 10,000 messages a day total, or about seven per minute, spread fairly evenly across the day. No mass email. I suppose it would be an intere

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