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tedd-the-tigeron Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here

I absolutely hate it when a blog doesn't have a date or has incomplete dates. When was this posted?

Someone else here posted a link to a related post (https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-recovery-kit). A "related article" has the title "Project Retrospective: Raspberry Pi Field Unit from 2015". No idea which year this was posted either.

Too much whitespace and too much scrolling.

tedd-the-tigeron Japan facing credit card number shortage

It's more of a no-pin limit. Payments above AUD100 can still be contactless, the POS terminal asks for the card's pin. I'm not sure if there's a hard limit at all to NFC payments. I've done some >$1000 transactions contactless.

tedd-the-tigeron Autodesk criticised by architects

CERN sponsors Kicad for EDA.

tedd-the-tigeron Headphones are collecting too much personal data (2019)

Exactly. So is my LG G7. IP68, who wants better than that?

tedd-the-tigeron What's New in Lua 5.4

A link to subscriber-only content on a public news site?

tedd-the-tigeron Have we let the LED indicator light go too far?

Fucking smartphones and cars that need a musical jingle when they turn on and off, which you can't disable.

tedd-the-tigeron Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365

Oh no, not WorkMail. That costs ~US$4/user/month, which is not what I want at all. Check my response to your parent post.

tedd-the-tigeron Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365

SES has rule sets for receiving email. I have one rule that matches all the blocked recipients (addresses at my domain that receive spam), which bounces with 'mailbox does not exist' (then stops rule processing), then another rule after that that puts all mail into an S3 bucket.

Then I have a script that uses the AWS CLI to move all the mail from the bucket to a local dovecot server.

The whole thing is really hacky/experimental at the moment, and I haven't given out any addresses, so all that I receive is spam. But the spam I do receive is very little and quickly adds to the blocked recipients list.

Sending using SES uses the built-in SMTP server functionality at AWS and has very generous limits for one who is not marketing.

tedd-the-tigeron Microsoft adding support for custom '+' email addresses in Office 365

I've long held the thought of having a mailbox that receives [everything]@[domain], except certain blacklisted addresses.

As certain addresses get spam and/or I lose interest in the business I gave the address to, I add them to the blacklist. So far, I'm using AWS SES, which seems to be focused on the sending of marketing emails, and are not fussed on receiving, but includes rudimentary blacklisting. So far, it's zero cost.