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by johnklos 4y ago
> That is a very bold (and false) generalization. Spam is not primarily a technical problem If you read what I wrote, you'll see I was talking about this problem: "that Google has no way of differentiating between a server not
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by johnklos 4y ago
Yes, providers do have a duty, unless they inform their customers that they intend to do otherwise. Google thinks they're too big to either be a responsible Internet presence or to inform their users that they're going to do whate
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by johnklos 4y ago
I'm always fascinated about how, no matter the community, we can see downvoting without any responses that show where someone's posting is supposed to be incorrect. I'd be curious to know if someone disagrees, and particularl
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by johnklos 4y ago
Perhaps it was a bad choice of words in this specific place where you lumped in Mastodon with the Fediverse, but this, as it reads, suggests that with the failure of Mastodon we'll also see the loss of the ideals of the Fediverse: >
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by johnklos 4y ago
Many of the responses here saying that it's spam, not Gmail, that's killing independent email are implicitly saying that Google has no way of differentiating between a server not being well known and messages having spam content.
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All of those “features” come with with a heavy price—responsibility. Running your own instance is increadibly time consuming and difficult to understand how to secure and scale. It also can be quite expensive if it grows to any meani
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It's interesting that nobody here seems to refute any of the assertions and would rather hand-wave.
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Not much, except the fact that they'd have to run their own DoH servers, which they can certainly do. Right now the common public ones are known and can be blocked. We can block DoH endpoints now, but we 1) can't easily block arbi
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by johnklos 4y ago
I appreciate videos like these because they take subjects that those of us who understand things technically often have a hard time explaining to non-technical people. "But why is tracking bad?" "What can they do besides see
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That's a leap. You think that spammers are not knowing which spam is silently dropped is the one thing that's keeping them from leveling up? I strongly disagree. Even if that were the case, in my experience, silent failure negativ
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by johnklos 4y ago
That's not how it works, else that's what we'd already be seeing.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Add to that algorithms used to ascertain whether email will be treated as spam. I'm tired of explaining to people that Google and Outlook email are NOT deterministic, and that they could be missing email that might never even make it i
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by johnklos 4y ago
Maybe people don't want to support a vendor locked environment that requires overpriced hardware that loses support quickly.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Icon for raq.serialport.orgraq.serialport.org Checking if the site connection is secure raq.serialport.org needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. Why am I seeing this page? Cloudflare's bullshi
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by johnklos 4y ago
Referring to rented servers as colocated servers is flatly wrong, no matter how often people are incorrect about it. Sure, some providers put colocation under the same category as VMs and leased hardware, but that doesn't make them ove
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by johnklos 4y ago
What the heck are you talking about? Do you even know how colocation works? For starters, even small companies can have their own physical datacenters, although that's not necessarily what we're talking about. Second, renting hard
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by johnklos 4y ago
"renting bare metal or colocation space from a provider" Those are two totally, completely different things. Their own datacenter means their own equipment in a datacenter and could even mean building out their own datacenter. It
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by johnklos 4y ago
If you don't pay attention to American news, you could've missed this, but in a nutshell Fox had to disclose messages in the course of a lawsuit that show they've been intentionally lying to their viewers. This article is opi
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's unfortunate that people don't include nuance in their discussions. These "do" or "don't" type articles make broad generalizations, sometimes as arguments in favor of their position. For instance, usin
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See the current disclosures about what Fox "journalists" were doing.
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News that cares this much about sensationalizing isn't news. While I'm entirely for unfettered protection of free speech, free speech doesn't include the right to lie, at least not in a professional capacity. Perhaps we need
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by johnklos 4y ago
That's a nice idea, but Blue Iris in particular, while being affordable and while not requiring a subscription, only runs on Windows. Keeping a Windows system running 24/7 is a whole chore in itself. Got any suggestions for OSes t
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by johnklos 4y ago
These kinds of things make me wonder what might be the ways to distinguish between the ignorant and the trolls / the people who take advantage of the ignorant to make money. Even though that level of (sometimes willful) ignorance is sc
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by johnklos 4y ago
You know, you can't hand wave away all the additional costs of having anything in the cloud. You need lawyers to tell you your liability for using third parties. You need all that time and money engineering cloud solutions that work, t
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by johnklos 4y ago
Every piece of hardware was brand new at some time. Sometimes people forget that an old machine was once someone's awesome, fancy, new device. I've known too many people who couldn't articulate why they spent thousands of dol
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by johnklos 4y ago
I ran a Power Mac 9600 as a server (NetBSD) for a good fifteen years. It started with the original 300 MHz PowerPC 604ev, then got a 700 MHz G4, then the fastest 1 GHz G4 which I got when it went on sale for $99. It had the full 1.5 gigs of
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by johnklos 4y ago
Ages ago Acard, who're makers of popular SCSI-IDE adapters and controller chips, made a 5.25" half height device that could take up to four DDR2 DIMMs, connected to the host computer using SATA, and had options for a CF card and a
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is wonderful! AmigaOS 3.2 in general is a very welcome update. Now if Hyperion would just fix their forum so that we (customers) can report bugs, that would be great.
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Neat, and fun! But why does it consume 100% CPU when sitting at the results screen?
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Probably. As a general rule, though, we use actual hardware where possible. There have been differences between real hardware and emulated machines, such as floating point issues with m68k in qemu, for instance. At some point, though, some

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