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by jhugo 5y ago
Yup, exactly, for the reasons described in the sibling comment to yours. Doing it this way doesn't even delay mail much most of the time; many legitimate MTAs connect immediately to the priority-20 MX after failing to connect to the pr
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by jhugo 5y ago
The choice of registrar is under my control, though. Also, little-known fact: if you register a UK company (probably more practical if you already have one, but the effort is not actually that big), you can register .uk domains directly wit
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by jhugo 5y ago
Yarn lets you reject multiple versions.
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by jhugo 5y ago
I'll definitely take that (which is largely under my control) over e.g. Google deciding that I've done something wrong one day and cutting off my email.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Spam has become much easier to avoid on inbound mail at some point. I turned off all Bayesian/heuristic based spam filtering around 2015 and now just check SPF and DKIM, and have a fake first MX record. No "Junk" folder, ever
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by jhugo 5y ago
5x 100W light bulbs is 0.5kW of heat output which your heating system doesn't need to supply. Switch to LED and your heating system will need to supply that extra 0.5kW. In a climate where you are almost always running heating, this ma
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by jhugo 5y ago
I've been self-hosting email for about 20 years, from a dedicated server in Europe. The server hardware has been replaced a couple of times but kept its IP. If you set everything up right, and choose the host for your mail server caref
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by jhugo 5y ago
> The drill-out took 5 seconds at most… This is the far more concerning part.
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by jhugo 5y ago
This is largely a problem of GitHub and other code UIs making it awkward to see anything other than the most recent commit in blame view. With `git blame` you can use `-w` to ignore whitespace changes and `-M` to detect moved/copied co
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by jhugo 5y ago
Interesting. I'm basically the opposite. I use `git blame` heavily and find that I can rapidly understand the intent behind some code by doing so, assuming the commit messages are well-crafted. Comments are great, where appropriate, bu
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by jhugo 5y ago
It's basically unimaginable that they would sell the domain. Whatever amount of money they'd get for it wouldn't be worth it given the potential risks to their customers (since it was formerly an URL shortener), and owning gi
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by jhugo 5y ago
Depends what you mean exactly. It's almost certainly a breach of all of the contracts, unless they were quite sloppily drafted, but it's probably not a crime [1]. The repercussions would be as determined by the contracts — likely
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by jhugo 5y ago
Best take care not to eat any especially ripe fruit, then.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. > you could have defined Matrix as a weird & wonderful opinionated dialect of XMPP, defining an HTTP transport; expressing the stanzas as JSON; defining a decentralised MUC, and generally twisting it un
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by jhugo 5y ago
I've tried twice to make it clear that I'm talking about the wider societal issue of the growing importance of these platforms in public discourse combined with their moderation policies (and the arbitrariness of those policies —
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by jhugo 5y ago
The point is that when a social network is large enough to become significant in the way people communicate, the way thought evolves in society, etc, it becomes a societal issue that the owners of that network can (and, as you keep pointing
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by jhugo 5y ago
> Musk has demonstrated that he can hire engineers to solve engineering problems. How well will that translate into sociology problems? I can't wait to see! Either he improves Twitter, which is great because it's in really bad
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by jhugo 5y ago
> Twitter is a private company and do whatever they want to do. It is their platform. They actually aren't a private company, yet, but it sounds like they probably will be soon. Just because they can do something doesn't mean
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by jhugo 5y ago
> Well that's the thing, if they were self-hosting or using smaller providers, they probably wouldn't all have the new features. They are really not difficult to implement. Like, 10% extra effort on top of deploying a mail serv
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by jhugo 5y ago
Regardless of what you think of Trump, it is absurd that a major medium of public communication has banned a former president. I'll concede that a big part of the absurdity is the fact that Trump was president, but the idea that people
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by jhugo 5y ago
> The cult of personality is more important than the actual output There is a quite interesting inverse effect too, though. Musk's actual output is undeniably pretty impressive (I challenge you to watch a rocket land on a drone ship
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by jhugo 5y ago
> It's correct that Matrix is complex to implement server-side, more complex than XMPP, and it's also correct that it does a lot of things very differently from older protocols like XMPP. But here's the thing - that's
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by jhugo 5y ago
> Protocol not changing is a problem. Email is so outdated nowadays that you're way better off using Gmail for its added security, especially within a company so everything stays within Gmail. IIRC email has changed a bit, but the n
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by jhugo 5y ago
x86 chips that can run without a fan have disappointing performance, and the segment has been pretty stagnant. If a manufacturer wants to release a new NUC-like device with better performance than the old NUC-like device, they have little c
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by jhugo 5y ago
The Intel & AMD chips with decent performance just consume too much power when delivering that decent performance to be able to be passively cooled. This is the biggest achievement of the M1 and it's likely Apple will have the lead
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by jhugo 5y ago
Is this extension on the XMPP standards track? From my perspective, the message loss problem has been solved for some time using only standard extensions.
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by jhugo 5y ago
> One big goal of XMPP was federated messaging (compare to email), and I'm not really seeing it. At best I'm seeing companies building on top of it, resulting in something hardly resembling the open version. Companies are benef
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by jhugo 5y ago
A $20 preconfigured hosting node could easily include a domain name. Tying identity to a domain name uses the existing, actually decentralised, widely adopted since ~40 years, infrastructure of the DNS. Instead of throwing existing technolo
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by jhugo 5y ago
I've experienced lost messages multiple times with Matrix, but I suspect this was due to the shitty clients rather than the protocol. Not losing messages is also a feature of XMPP. In the distant past, especially before stream manageme
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by jhugo 5y ago
No matter how many times you say that, it still won't be true. A mere few minutes spent looking at the Matrix protocol and a few minutes spent looking at XMPP (if you can get past the fact that it's XML) will make that clear. Matr

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