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Emoticon4032 commented on Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server   xmox.nl/... · Posted by u/rzk
QuadrupleA · 6 months ago
Wow... having just gone through a 20+ hour byzantine nightmare of setting up postfix & dovecot (that's on top of an already deep understanding of SMTP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, SASL, etc.) and now struggling through an even more kafkaesque nightmare of rspamd (with its 3 different programming languages needed to understand its 92+ configuration files, which you can't modify by the way, you have to add your own "override" and "merge" config files on top of that mess) for the simple purpose of getting it to DKIM-sign my stupid outgoing messages the way all the big mail systems want... I wish I had seen mox earlier!

Not sure its quality, but battling with postfix & dovecot's 20+ years of legacy cruft, I felt compelled many times to just throw them aside and build something like this on first principles - simple single binary mail server with modern protocol support, sans all the archaic UNIX-account timesharing-era sendmail bullshit that still lives on in the mainstays.

Going to have a look at this one, despite now having moderately deep postfix & dovecot knowledge.

Emoticon4032 · 6 months ago
I gave up and started self-hosting Mailcow. It’s worth paying the support fee to free yourself to do other more productive things. Let them manage the complexities.
Emoticon4032 commented on Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
HPsquared · a year ago
I use a similar nasal spray for allergies (Becodefence). Basically a physical barrier coating the nasal passages. For me and my allergies, it's super effective.

Never thought about using it to block viral infections, but it makes sense: coating the nasal passages with artificial "mucus-like substance" so particles don't reach the membranes. Makes total sense that approach also work for viruses.

Emoticon4032 · a year ago
A couple of decades ago, I was on a commercial aircraft and sat next to a man who occasionally puffed something into his nostrils. It turned out that he was a researcher at Ft. Detrick, and he explained that keeping your nasal passages moist with saline spray helped to keep out germs. I’ve been using saline sprays ever since!
Emoticon4032 commented on Apple's New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry   bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Razengan · a year ago
Speaking of, I was just wondering the other day:

Why did cars never get some sort of networking protocol, that would have let them "feel" the speed and bearing of other nearby vehicles and avoid collisions, jams etc?

Something like that could have been implemented with radio tech available half a century ago or even sooner.

Emoticon4032 · a year ago
Seems ripe for spoofed data. After all, how would you verify that what you receive from other cars is valid/real?
Emoticon4032 commented on Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty   wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/himaraya
i4u · 2 years ago
Can you elaborate more? I do not know anything about Yi and how she is a cofounder.
Emoticon4032 commented on As wildfires burn across the world, what is the role of Australia's eucalyptus?   abc.net.au/news/2023-09-0... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
ggm · 2 years ago
> For more than 200 years, seeds of the eucalyptus tree have been planted beyond the bounds of Australia's coastline.

> It has been cultivated around the world, making a new home in southern Europe, South America, parts of Africa, the west coast of the United States, and even parts of South-East Asia.

> But there is now a debate over whether this tree has been worth the industry and habitat it provides.

I moved to Australia in 1988. Nobody, not one Australian I know has ever said eucalyptus was a sensible export as live wood, or was suitable for planting like this in these countries. I can't work out who did think this was a good idea.

So the "now there is a debate" thing is like WTF? The first time I heard about wildfire in Californian eucalyptus there was a pretty strong man-in-the-pub debate about what happened. And that was over a decade ago.

Emoticon4032 · 2 years ago
I grew up in Tasmania, immersed in bush fire smoke during summers. As I travelled through the US and other places, I thought I was going nuts because I kept seeing trees that shouldn’t be there at all. Now I know why…

When you get stands of gum (eucalyptus) trees, you also get fast spreading tree-top fires since the living leaves of gum burn ferociously. Gum trees in urban areas or non-native areas are bad, bad news.

Emoticon4032 commented on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit    · Posted by u/cryoz
awill · 2 years ago
But the magic of reddit is that I can browse all my communities in one place. Playstation, Audi, Cooking, Tennis. It's super convenient to have a single account for all of this.

Before I used reddit, I had an account at an Audi forum, a different account at a tennis forum etc.. Reddit is so much better. I'd rather some 'bluesky'-like competitor vs every community going their own way.

Emoticon4032 · 2 years ago
Maybe the model going forward is to go back to the use of RSS feeds from each of the discrete sites that you frequent? Not sure if RSS is a thing these days though.

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