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codegladiatoron Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go

I agree lists are definitely effective but its a cat and mouse game sort of with a lot of overhead. We can still use ip lists for accepting/rejecting mail but that should be the lowest priority check with very less weight.

Lists are like the DRM kind of tech, where the genuine user has the real headaches (pay a service to filter my mail, cant self host etc) while the spams are still flowing through.

codegladiatoron Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server in Go

I feel there is a lot of fear mongering around deliverability of emails all over the Internet which is helping the big companies to centralise a thing like email.

I have had my own email server sending emails which were not marked as spam. also I have had cases where email from Gmail addresses/ips would be actually spam.

I urge everyone to start using their own mail servers so the ecosystem around self hosting emails becomes super smooth.

why do receivers still rely on ip addresses when we have dkim and spf?

codegladiatoron Show HN: Reduce that feeling of lonely coding (while in quarantine)

Nice.

Can you store the latest setting in localstorage so on refresh it can pick up from there ?

codegladiatoron Ask HN: Does anything beat the uptime of emails and Excel?

Paper trail beats uptime of emails/excel. More secure than anything on the internet.

codegladiatoron Notion Timeline View

> 100MB of RAM but that's like $5

No one is getting a 100 MB of ram extra for anything.

But yeah I don't blame electron here. Have build electron apps and apart from the initial load time everything is mostly under devs control.

codegladiatoron Why not use GraphQL?

Try to build an aggregate API over graphql. Where all sql functions are allowed on appropriate columns.

codegladiatoron Why not use GraphQL?

GraphQL is not like REST at all because if something is not defined in GraphQL, it cannot be done. For instance Graphql servers cannot have dynamic fields in models (example aggregate queries)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45842544/graphql-objectt...

In REST, I can send the columns and know what I am going to get back. All the queries need not be defined to start with.

codegladiatoron Ask HN: If you were to build a new search engine. What would be your plan?

I would start with certain category of the web, by topic and start with a topic niche search engine, and start to cover more categories one by one if the search model is successful.

codegladiatoron How journalists use youtube-dl

FWIW I was contacted by a "prestigious" publisher (the ken) and it was a story against google. The journalist was not even ready to listen to the "pros", she was just interested in whats the harm.

codegladiatoron Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

And suddenly twitter is a leftist corporation.

Frankly I don't know whats the better way for twitter, its one of those doomed if you do, doomed if not.

codegladiatoron Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?

The most productive new language.

- great community

- ample libraries

- ecosystem support

- no breaking changes (yet)

- no magic, limited and simple

- inbuilt testing/profiling/dependency manager

codegladiatoron Open-source photo gallery with cloud backup and end-to-end encryption

How do you talk to webdav ? what client ?

codegladiatoron AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses

https://www.calculator.net/ip-subnet-calculator.html

Checkout the table on the page (scroll down)

codegladiatoron Film-strip A custom element for the web that shows the frames of a video file

Scroll works for me on Firefox 81.0.1 (64-bit) (desktop/osx)

codegladiatoron Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

Tongue in cheek

codegladiatoron Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

> user haven’t consented to

User consented to "personalization of experience", and that's all it is. Personalised ads.

codegladiatoron Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings

Google already knows anyways, using the map to set home is just for user convenience.

codegladiatoron We deleted the production database by accident

> too much automation

Literally just the automation of the test suite. That's 1 automation.

> These is pretty common

? Waiting for FB to delete their db

codegladiatoron We deleted the production database by accident

I am not sure what the bug was here ? Everything worked as intended to be.

codegladiatoron We deleted the production database by accident

> Computers are just too complex and there are days when the complexity gremlins win.

> However, we will figure out what went wrong and ensure that that particular error doesn’t happen again.

How can you say statement 2 just after statement 1 ? Isn't statement 1 just plain acceptance of defeat ?

And looking at all the replies here, is this a feel good thread for the mistakes you made ?

codegladiatoron We deleted the production database by accident

We already know humans make mistakes. But for this particular scenario lets blame computers.

codegladiatoron Ask HN: Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?

Also this from google forms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23004180

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Lately getting these spam emails via google forms

https://imgur.com/a/ueO4001

Reporting as spam doesn't work. the bitly link takes to a .tk domain.

Anyone else facing this ?

codegladiatoron Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps

How do you think I can help push adoption ? Is there a possibility of moving to a different format (non xml based) say html for docs and json for xls and so on ?

codegladiatoron Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps

Slightly off-topic but serious question: Why we have only Microsoft formats for the office documents. Why the open document formats have really bad tooling, why are we not moving to OD ? What will it take to move ?

codegladiatoron Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries

Please no, don't create such barriers.

codegladiatoron Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db

Doesn't have my last name. Neither of my friends.

Probably a good list, but far from exhaustive.

codegladiatoron Why I stopped reading HN (2010)

I don't know, rest of the post goes on to describe comments like the one you make here.

codegladiatoron Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears

Why I enjoyed this more than I should have ?

codegladiatoron DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

Innocent until proven guilty. By your logic no new company can ever build anything which preserves privacy.

You cannot prove a service preserves your privacy. You can only prove that it does not preserve it.