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I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.
But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.
The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.
But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.
I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.
Long live the open Internet.
but back in the day it was innovative mix of smtp and/or pop3 on same mail queue (I thing demon did the same).
Story idea: a poltergeist tries screwing around with an ADHD'er who lives alone. Moving objects around, opening the cabinets, the usual.
After months of this, the poltergeist realizes the ADHD'er has been blaming themselves for all the occurrences
It's only when the poltergeist starts helping the ADHD'er that the real fright begins
(but then that settles down and they become weird friends)
Hold up, lemme do a fit check~
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#FursuitFriday #fursuit #FurnalEquinox
#Discord is again spying on you and telling everyone by default, so here is today's obnoxious new checkbox to toggle off.
(Server admins can also turn off the cards under "Overview", "Activity feed settings".)
Merp !
I found a green beer from the old place at Berlin !
Or is it a Christmas beer ? 🤔
Anyway, I will put it at the artshow of #EF28 !
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#FursuitFriday #furryfandom #plushies
This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.
The authors propose
pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read
This is a draft.
“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus” 
Rare and raw footage of two coyotes encountering each other in the wilds of a hotel lobby.
w/Levi @burnsybeanx3@x.com
#fursuitfriday #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiters #fursuitvideo #furry #furryfandom #denfur #denfur2024
Come here and get your hugs for #FursuitFriday! 😊
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📍 #EAST12
We are Whitewing Creations, a professional fulltime Fursuitmaker from Germany. We do all kinds of fursuits, from toony to realistic and kemono.Whitewing Creations - Fursuits Made in Germany
*advertiser spends billions a year and spies on me through 30 different apps*
"d-do you want to buy... *looks at my receipt for a GPU purchased yesterday* do you want to buy a GPU?"
I'm away from my computer today which means #FursuitFriday content is coming from what I happen to have on my phone. In this case a blast from the past - a POV of what it's like to give Dorey a noseboop (and get photobombed by @azakir ) at ScotiaCon 2018 I think? Or 2019.
🪡 @selkiesuits
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I've got a new and fun 90s computing inspired datawave single out today on Bandcamp (and everywhere else)!
It's also Bandcamp Friday so the artists (like me!) get all the proceeds from each sale!
https://diym.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-world-of-computing
#datawave #synthwave #retrowave #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #music #mastomusic
#Blahaj goes „AAaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaa“ for #FursuitFriday!
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🧭 #furry weekend at Freizeitland Geiselwind organized by @2pfoten
Snuggle puddle commences for #fursuitfriday
Adorable floofs clockwise from Top Left - Royce, Cormack, Yours Truly and Dougie
🧡🩶🤎🤍🖤
Love you all 🤗🤗
Outing Karlovy Vary (27.04.2024)
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Photo gallery link on my Telegram channel!
#furry #fursuit #outing #KarlovyVary #Coconut_Fox
I feel like I'm using so much time surviving that I barely have time living:
Organizing, budgeting, buying groceries, cleaning, making food, eating, sleeping, working, showering, general body hygiene, working out...
And then you still try to fit time in for the things you actually want to do:
Learning Finnish, reading up on photography, enjoying nature, practicing drawing, maintaining social connections, meet with friends...
Like how are you supposed to fit all that into a day or even into a week?!
Sometimes when I feel really annoyed at surveillance capitalism, I go into Google and Bing maps and submit home photo deletion requests on behalf of a few home owners in my area.
When you delete enough homes on a street, it skips the entire street on Street View. It's great.
Also, they don't validate emails or that you actually own the home you are asking to delete, and there are no laws against doing this.
You are welcome.
We ( @juke and I) made it down to Orlando for our first Megaplex and had a good time even with my late arrival. I’m looking forward to calling this my new homecon and calling Orlando my new hometown in a week now~ 🌴🦊🌴
New England: my last appearance/event will be at the RI furbowl on Saturday night, so if you would like to say goodbye or send me off that’ll be the time to do so before I have to pack up for the trip southward. Hope to see you there if you’re in the area!
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
Okay, that's … what the fuck? That's amazing!
We tend, I think, to imagine that the days of simple scientific 'miracles' – Newton and his prism, Fleming and penicillin – are at an end. Anything really useful will take years of work and a mountain of kit to make happen.
Nope. Take tartrazine, the food colouring used in Doritos, and paint it onto your skin. Shine a red light on it. Your skin is transparent!
How many medical applications does that have?!
Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumoursIan Sample (The Guardian)
It astonishes me that people expected LLMs to be good at creating summaries. LLMs are good at transforms that have the same shape as ones that appear in their training data. They're fairly good, for example, at generating comments from code because code follows common structures and naming conventions that are mirrored in the comments (with totally different shapes of text).
In contrast, summarisation is tightly coupled to meaning. Summarisation is not just about making text shorter, it's about discarding things that don't contribute to the overall point and combining related things. This is a problem that requires understanding the material, because it's all about making value judgements.
So, it's totally unsurprising that the Australian study showed that it's useless. It's no surprise that both Microsoft and Apple's email summarisation tools discard the obvious phishing markers and summarise phishing scams as '{important thing happened}, click on this link' because they don't actually understand anything in the text that they're discarding, they just mark it as low entropy and discard it.
A test of artificial intelligence (AI) for Australia's corporate regulator ASIC found it was worse at summarising info than humans were.Cam Wilson (Crikey)
Jul Reindeer at MFF23
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"The modern era of AI calls for a risk-based approach to regulation"
No it doesn't. It calls for a consequences approach to regulation.
If your system harms someone, you decided to build and deploy it and so you are liable for damages and redress proportionate to the harm. Same as if it was a tractor. Or a cow.
Mass shootings in the US:
2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
2023: 656
So far in 2024: 385
We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.
Carla Denyer, #GreenParty Co-Leader professed herself baffled at the system by which MPs have to secure spots in a Commons chamber much too small to seat all of them by arriving early to place down a prayer card, likening it to “a medieval version of putting your towel on a deckchair”.
#This is a parliament where not every MP has a seat, there’s nowhere to plug in any of your devices to work from, or somewhere to put your water. This is just the basic stuff.”
Reform of Parliament is overdue.
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Just wish I had an income, then I could pay a DNS company to allow me DKIM and SPF records. Ever since Google invented those, I've been unable to send emails to just about any mailing list. The local LUG, that UU church, they just silently reject it, nothing the mail admins can do to add an exception. Fred Meyer recently started refusing to send to my mother's email here, and her Chase bank also stopped sending her bills. They would say nothing was wrong on their side, but their messages they claimed had been sent never touched my server.
I can still get emails from meetup.com, and probably your server, but all these requirements that make me give up my legal name, credit card, and actual money to increasingly more rent extractors. Remember when a self-signed SSL certificate worked fine? Just use letsencrypt you say, as if they were a given, and not a point of failure, and my response is "You've reached the maximum amount of domain names you can submit," - what letsencrypt says now, when I try to have more than 1 single DNS name.
CC: @mwl@io.mwl.io
i have letsencrypt with about 20 names... i think its max 100 names in a single request, but you can do wildcard also.
letsencrypt is the kind of point of failure i like - i get many weeks of notice that something didnt work and plenty of chance to sort it :)
my experience was that i found it very straight forward and an amazing service...
happy to try to help if i can.
I dunno what went wrong with my attempts. Let's see... ohh right I remember now.
Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for \"us.to\". Retry after 2024-09-07T16:00:00Z: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/"letsencrypt doesn't realize I only have two domains, because it assumes I get all of the domains from us.to, which I absolutely do not. It's like letsencrypt saying too many certificates were issued by "to".
...which is frankly moronic, since letsencrypt requires that you make an account, so it knows how many certificates it's issued to you. But my name at "info.tm" got stolen by DNS squatters, so something at "us.to" is all I got. Guess I could try another domain someone's donating to afraid.org, but there's no telling how long it'll last before DNS squatters are using it to extort people too.
CC: @que@mastodon.au
@cy I'm...a little puzzled by a few elements here. 😐
1. Legitimately free DNS providers still exist, who support DKIM/SPF records (which are just TXT records, anyway). I use Hurricane Electric's dns.he.net these days, after decades of running my own DNS network. Although I think reverse DNS is also a blocker to many destinations, which definitely raises the bar on the sending side.
@cy 3. The Let's Encrypt thing is very strange; I've got probably a dozen or so certificates, but I don't recall how many I have on a single domain (2-3 for a couple of them, having refreshed my memory on my Nagios dashboard). What TLD is it? (Please don't say .tk, please don't say .tk, please don't say .tk... 😅)
(3/3)
Eh, it's a bit more complicated than what TLD. The problem is that DNS is an extortion racket, so the person with the name has to keep paying protection money to the registrar, or they transfer it to DNS squatters, who ransom it back for hundreds of dollars a month, while replacing every website that person had with ads and stolen content from other websites so they can screw up search engines.
This is compounded by afraid.org, where someone donates a domain, and afraid.org gives hundreds of people DNS names ending in that name, for free. The donator then has to keep paying some registar indefinitely, or hundreds of small scale websites all get replaced by squatter autogenerated SEO instantly forever.
"us.to" has lasted a while, but "info.tm" got stolen after being fine for years, so I'm still looking at other subdomains, to see if they last before trusting them.
@cy OK — so a community-based, third-level domain, based on a donated second-level domain? Yeah, I see how that would hit (probably secret) limits on Let's Encrypt, since as far as they're concerned, the donated domain is all one administrative unit. 😑
I can't really argue with the racket point. Lots of things online are that way; some always have been (I'm old enough to remember when you had one vendor for domain names, and they were IIRC 35USD/year), some have slowly become so (self-hosting).
@cy The namespace collisions on that are too damn high. I know multiple people with the same name (to say nothing of the five distinct Moore families to which I am adjacent 😅).
Strictly speaking, there used to be a somewhat similar parallel to what you say; a non-profit of which I was acquainted used to have a domain under (IIRC) gen.mn.us (gen = general I think?), but that delegation fell by the wayside before the organization dissolved.
It's sad; the internet could have been different. 😕
@cy Oh, as an aside, have you looked into eu.org? I forget the exact process for requesting delegation of subdomains, but I am the delegate for two state codes under us.eu.org, and could probably be convinced to try and request/manage another if that would benefit you. 🤔
(Thanks for making me realize I don't have a web page up to make clear that I can subdelegate domains under those two state subdomains...something to work on when I have some downtime, I suppose! 😀)
Yeah I uhh totally made you realize that, yep all part of my master plan heh heh
I've been looking at eu.org, and dns.he.net. If I don't miss my guess, he.net is a free DNS server, but you still need to pay the registrar to get the root servers to use it?
eu.org looks pretty fantastic, and I've never heard of it before (go figure). Might just sign up for that, if they don't throw a gotcha in at the last minute.
Hey thanks, you can send email to the domain of my instance here, at whatever username. I'll enable fromjima for a bit, if you want to get past the junk filters. I can receive email though, just not from those particular businesses. Kind of sad getting all these emails from local mailing lists I can't participate in anymore.
My mom could get emails from anywhere except her bank (Chase), Fred Meyers, and Microsoft which my sister uses for email. My server stopped getting emails only from those companies (that I know of) while getting email from everywhere else. I ended up having to get my mother a Microsoft email, giving them her phone number, so that's why Microsoft stopped sending me mail, if that's not obvious. Dunno about the others.