I have done the same for years but I don’t think I actually had much benefit in the end. I don’t ever remember getting spam sent to dodgy-company@mydomain and then needing to block it, in all the 20 ish years I’ve done this.
the reason gmail gets so much spam relative to our individual domains is apparent if the mailer the spammer uses forgets to BCC everyone and you get a list of usernames in the CC: field.
They just iterate over every dictionary word and bolt on numbers and extra letters, or you'll see stuff like genewitci@gmail.com henewitch@gmail.com, etc. I haven't paid attention to gmail in a couple of years since i now use my own domain and fastmail (for $5 a year, even), so i have no idea if the mailing lists are more refined now or not.
Nearly everyone on earth knows about the dot separators and the +whatever that gmail allows, and will just trim that before they sell your email address, nullifying the usefulness. having someuniqueID@example.com is much nicer. you cut down on spam a lot, however it does open you up to a lot of spam to admin@ and webmaster@.
The standard procedure for me is uninstalling pulseaudio and installing "apulse", which is ALSA-glue for applications that depend on pulseaudio, e.g. browsers. And my experience with Bluetooth is that it works fine directly with ALSA.
Lol … I like the part about the Caucuses being in the USSR, so being Caucasian meant being Soviet.
I once told a friend from west India to put “Aryan” down for race, but then stopped him and apologized after I realized that was mean-funny, not funny-funny.
Kinda unrelated but Les is one of my favorite people to use as an example of how "websites" used to be. His writing is fun and honest, and some of his ideas were imo groundbreaking (and many are floating about waiting to be rediscovered).
This is pretty good, thanks. TLDR: institutional adventures from a national security employee challenging the requirement to declare their race.
This reminds me of "Seeing like a State" by James C Scott: attempts to simplify the world to allow generalizations about it always lose valuable detail.
But how do you even distinguish appearance of thought from actual thought, objectively? Of course you can always argue that actual thought is something that is subjectively experienced, but that leads to solipsism, doesn't it?
Solipsism is what you get from accepting the Cogito "I know I exist for sure, and only my own existence can be verified by the cogito"
To answer your question, I claim that you can't. Radical skepticism ("we live in the universe of the evil demon"), which is what I advocate for, means that you can't even claim that you exist. See the works of Max Stirner for further elaboration of the implications of this for Philosophy.
That's what he thought, and afterwards said he thought, and it's a great quote. What he actually said at the time according to his brother Frank Oppenheimer was "It worked!"[0]
I use it for ssh, ftp, and dovecot. Even with ssh passwords disabled, fail2ban reduces traffic a lot on some servers (since culprits get null-routed) which is always good.
As I understand it, redirection is our best hope. Destruction via nukes would only work for comparatively small rocks. There is a fairly comprehensive write-up of the various options on Wikipedia:
Natural language is sometimes ambiguous. I read "Git protocol security" as the protocol security of network protocols related to Git in general. They are deprecating the internal git protocol (tcp on port 9418) entirely, and changing the requirements for using the ssh protocol (tcp on port 22).
What I'm wondering is: why would you ever want a CDN configuration to override no-cache instructions from the backend? I assume there's a use case for this, but I can't figure out what it is. Can anyone explain?
