Zachariah

quite hypnotic

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. You can’t expect to wield supreme power just ‘cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went ’round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

I also use mxroute. I paid for ten years at once. I only needed it because I wanted a catch-all and my previous hosting provider stopped allowing that.

My email solution for decades has been to have a mailbox separate from my email domain. Currently it’s FastMail. I then give out a different entity@example.com to each entity that needs my email address. I can then shut off (route to null) any address that starts getting spam.

I did order Run Your Own Mail Server because one day I’d like to try.

From the Kickstarter:

Running a mail server is an advanced systems administration skill, though. Mind tricks are not enough. You need to be able to operate a Unix-like operating system, understand logging and TLS, make DNS changes and adjust packet filters. RYOMS takes you through the protocol, configuring Postfix and Dovecot, and the DKIM and SPF and DMARC authentication protocols. (They’re not proper authentication protocols, but that’s what the Empire calls them.) It covers anti-spam measures, mail filters, and virtual domains, all at the command line and with pretty web interfaces. While the reference platforms are Debian and FreeBSD, the Postfix and Dovecot servers and assorted infrastructure work on any open source Unix.

This book does not contain absolutely everything you might ever need to understand running a mail server. Every environment has its oddities. But it does contain the core knowledge that every mail administrator must have. A sysadmin with this orientation can sort out their edges easily enough. Coping with edges is what we do.

maybe that’s its second galaxy and it ate the first one

thanks for steering this in the right direction

I’m not really awake yet, so I didn’t look at the community name

btw alternativeto.net has filtering options for open source and Linux options if op wants even more options

WinMerge

yeah, you’re gonna want to wash your hand right away

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I mean no disrespect when I say this:
idiots

lift instead?

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also funk as puck

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I can’t

and then the orb pondering

The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.

A 1995 Usenet post from Gordon Letwin, Microsoft’s lead architect on the OS/2 project, has been rediscovered. To modern eyes, it looks like an email, but it wasn’t. Usenet was the original social network and this was a public post. In case you don’t recognize Letwin’s name, he was one of the founding staff members of Microsoft – he’s in the famous 1978 Albuquerque photo. He literally wrote the book on OS/2, that book being Inside OS/2.

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When OS/2 finally went 32-bit, as a platform it had already lost the battle. The lack of native apps was not the reason it lost; the lack of native apps was proof that Windows 3 had already won.

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large tracts of land