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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One is that I can keep family email (everyone on the server) in the same ecosystem, so private information send between family members isn’t as likely to leak.

  Another is also privacy – my mail isn’t being used to build a profile about me.

  I also like the control and the ability to look at logs. If I don’t get an email, I can look at the server and figure out why it didn’t show up. It just provides more information for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using my own cloud-hosted SMTP relay and Zimbra server for over a decade now, and I love it.

  There can be a bit of a learning curve, and in some cases sites won’t accept mail from cloud-hosted domains. I add those domains to a rule in sendmail that sends those domains through Amazon SES, and then they get accepted.

  If you do go this route, just make sure that your recovery emails or 2FA for things like your registrar go somewhere else. If your cloud provider pulls the plug on you or something you don’t want to be stuck waiting for an email that can’t arrive.

  I love the level of control that I have over my email and wouldn’t have it any other way.

  tl;dr: steep learning curve, but worth it in the long run. Keep gmail as a recovery/2FA account or something, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, I feel like this is a problem perpetuated by management. I see it on the system administration side as well – they don’t care if people understand why a tool works; they just want someone who can run it. If there’s no free thought the people are interchangeable and easily replaced.

  I often see it farmed out to vendors when actual thought is required, and it’s maddening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the USA turned into an oligarchy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, we will never be an oligarchy. A plutocracy, yes, but I think money is the deciding factor here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m way more concerned with Vance. Like you say, Trump does what’s best for Trump. If Vance becomes VP for whatever reason then suddenly takes center stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.