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na85··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
Please delete my account and all its comments.
na85··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
How many without license plates?
na85··on Who is the author “JC Shakespeare”?
Your loss.
na85··on TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
>A lot of totally valid opinions out there about this, but I personally _love_ how the browser is becoming a very well-featured sandbox for shipping applications.

Unfortunately what's convenient for you as a developer is more often than not hostile and awful UX for me as a user.

Too often, developer convenience trumps good UX.

na85··on Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
As far as I can tell the host (Joe's Data center) has a clean ASN.

I'm open to recommendations for clean IPs/providers.

na85··on Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
A few months ago I wrote a comment on HN about algorithmic trading and someone emailed me about it. I sent him a reply from my self-hosted email domain, and I have no idea if he got it. I'm on a clean IP and clean domain, with a reputable hoster. I have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set up correctly. Just last week I sent my gmail account a test email and sure enough it went to spam. There appears to be no rhyme or reason about it.

I believe the difference between people who say "email self-hosting is dead" and people who say "email self-hosting is trivial" is probably the volume of mail sent from their domain(s).

At my busiest, I was sending dozens of emails per day, but they were all from my work account. My personal account is pretty close to recv-only and probably averages an outgoing message count in the single digits per week. How can I reasonably keep an IP/domain reputation score fresh/warm if I send such a low volume? The answer is I realistically can't.

Self-hosted email remains an extremely difficult and time-consuming endeavor unless you happen to have some good luck, it seems.

na85··on Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter
>This is always how it's worked, and it's nearly impossible to join any instance without following & interacting with people from other instances on a daily basis. It's like the one thing about Mastodon you can't escape knowing about even if you actively try.

I don't use Mastodon, so perhaps that's why. It always seemed like a Twitter clone except with fewer people and, importantly for this particular discussion, where you can't interact with anyone.

Guess I was mistaken, but that's why I never bothered to learn anything further about it.

na85··on Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter
>The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. Mastodon is a platform where a server of your choosing hosts your account, like an e-mail provider hosting your inbox. From that account, you follow any other account on the network, regardless of which server hosts that account. Everyone you follow appears in your home feed, and everyone who follows you receives your posts in their home feed.

I've been aware of Mastodon pretty much since its inception and I had no idea that this was the case. The messaging really needs improved.

na85··on Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'
Why would they be embarrassed? It's a PR piece, not meant to be actually secure against cryptanalysis.
na85··on OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings
And thus the failure of BSD-style licensing is thrown into sharp relief:

Why are these projects that are used by many large and extraordinarily profitable tech enterprises dependent on community donations?

I recommend not donating, because to do so directly supports corporate parasitism.

na85··on Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers
Standard practice is to remove pacemakers. If you don't:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279940/

na85··on FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
It lets you run comparatively higher manifold pressures than an otherwise identical but unleaded fuel.
na85··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
>where for all

Wherewithal?

na85··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
Think of the marketing for Nvidia: "The GPU so powerful we're not allowed to export it. "
na85··on 134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]
Good luck catching me on their intentionally-hard-to-push chair.

Think of the profits from thiw move fast and break things approach! Always be hustling.

na85··on Performance Improvements in .NET 7
Microsoft is so incredibly bad at naming things it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.
na85··on An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)
I used to feel the same way but lisp gets easier to read with practice, and unless you're writing code in notepad.exe or nano or something, your editor will show you the matching paren.
na85··on A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2
Nintendo doesn't sell SNES carts any more. Who is the victim?
na85··on A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2
It might be technically piracy, but who's really losing out on lost sales if I buy this and play SNES on it?
na85··on A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2
I think it's just a plain old web forum with a standard News/Announcement section.

In the before times (when WordPress was new and shiny, or even earlier) this was a run-of-the-mill setup and every community had a locked Announcement section where only moderators/admins could post.

na85··on Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
For me it was flirting with girls on ICQ, and getting owned at StarCraft 1 before voip was a thing.

Nothing teaches typing better, in my experience.

na85··on Mudge's redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure [pdf]
I mean all you really need is DNS. If the root servers come back up I don't see why the rest couldn't.
na85··on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
I think it's equally dangerous to write off extremism as the product of stupid people.

Hitler certainly wasn't a dunce, for example.

na85··on FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop
Is randomly deleting stuff from /usr a big part of your use case?
na85··on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story
>He was also a DARPA PM, which definitely requires management/executive skills.

Meh. I've worked in government and disagree with this assessment.

na85··on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story
Lots of people are rushing to defend Mudge, and maybe it's warranted, but being an alumnus of cDc and l0pht doesn't make one a competent executive.

It is possible for someone to be a great hacker but a mediocre manager.

Twitter's taken a lot of body blows recently and Parag is obviously trying to motivate his people. He's not necessarily lying even if it's a rather unprofessional way to speak I'll of someone who's been fired.

na85··on This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions
edit: I stand corrected
na85··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
The world is objectively a shitty, awful place for billions of people.
na85··on On Being Busy
Probably.

Also probably why the USA doesn't typically rank in the top 10 countries by quality of life metrics.

na85··on Ask HN: Shut down a startup despite strong traction?
It's shitty that the dichotomy being presented here is "direct path to multi-billion dollar company" and "fizzle".

Is there no room for small, stable, profitable companies in startupland?

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