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quags commented on Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam tuta.com/blog/posts/outlo... · Posted by u/grammers

apeters · 2 years ago

Hey, mailcow founder here!

That’s one of the reasons I stopped working on hosted mail. It has not turned to anything better with big companies putting their hands over it. It’s more controlled now but the same crap as before, just as dangerous and a bit more expensive.

Currently working on a system with as much control as possible but piggybacking existing providers' transports.

quags · 2 years ago

Love mailcow I moved off exchange to mailcow. I’ve used email for I guess 30 years now and every year it’s less reliable. My kids do not use email at all , they are on the internet with out actually using email. Sure they have a google account for YouTube but their services tend to allow a sign up with out an email. I can see a future where it continues to be less of a thing and turn into something held on by older people.

quags commented on Dietary fiber intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality clinicalnutritionjournal.... · Posted by u/dtawfik1

mrob · 2 years ago

Oatmeal is cheap and widely available. It contains a specific soluble fiber[0] that has strong evidence for lowering blood cholesterol, and weaker evidence for various other health benefits. It's also very quick and easy to cook in a microwave oven. I eat it every day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat_beta-glucan

quags · 2 years ago

I’m never liked oatmeal generally prepared in the US. Then I flew to Australia and on quantas they served Muesli which is essentially rolled oats and milk with fruit which was delicious. So it turns out I liked oatmeal just not cooked down into mush. In the states I found bobs red mill which is my standard choice and I get the gluten free one not because I am avoiding gluten it just tastes better than their regular one.

quags commented on Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare? · Posted by u/cpncrunch

quags · 2 years ago

2-3 years ago in a support role I would get requests about domains masked cloudflare pointing to someone’s site. So the other domain would show the content of the other site and be masked by cloudflare. Dumping all the $server variables would pinpoint better where it was coming from and it could be blocked.

quags commented on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted nytimes.com/live/2023/11/... · Posted by u/donohoe

red-iron-pine · 2 years ago

big infusion of cash from the IPO might have been able to cover up the deficits, and the inevitable "cleaning things up to do the IPO" work could have bought them time to un-fuck a lot of the riskiest accounts.

then the IPO hits, you cash out, take your exit, and drink your mint julip or mojoto in Bermuda while the whole thing burns down 2 years later. whole lotta "not my problem" at that point, and every one would think you're a genius.

quags · 2 years ago

IPO and restating earnings might have covered the tracks.

quags commented on Meta to Charge Monthly Fees for Using Ad-Free Facebook and Instagram finance.yahoo.com/news/me... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo

great_psy · 2 years ago

Wow … does this mean Meta is running into cash problems ? Or just another way to make money ?

Either way, by implementing this pricing scheme meta is showing it’s cards on how much ad $ they are able to get out of each active user. In other words around the same $ they are charging to go ad free.

quags · 2 years ago

This is unrelated to cash and to comply with certain strict privacy laws in certain EU countries. At the start it won’t be offered everywhere.

quags commented on Walgreens, CVS pharmacy staff at breaking point: here's what their days are like cnbc.com/2023/10/27/walgr... · Posted by u/rntn

0xDEAFBEAD · 2 years ago

Walgreens, at least, doesn't seem to be doing so hot right now:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/walgreens-wba-earnings-q4-20...

quags · 2 years ago

Rite aid is filing for bankruptcy and closing stores. Target sold off their in store pharmacies to cvs. Most of the mom and pop pharmacy’s near me are closed or a Walgreens or cvs now and Amazon is starting to get into the game.

quags commented on Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell · Posted by u/aiProgMach

dreamcompiler · 2 years ago

Wrong assumptions programmers make about fraud prevention:

-- A mobile phone number uniquely identifies a single person.

-- Every person has a mobile phone number and they only have one mobile phone number.

-- If a person's mobile phone number is associated with VoIP or Google Voice, that indicates fraud.

-- Every person always has their mobile phone handy and it is always able to receive calls and SMS messages under all circumstances.

-- Mobile phones are never lost or stolen and their batteries never run down.

-- Mobile phone numbers last forever.

-- An email address uniquely identifies a person.

-- Every person has an email address and they only have one email address.

-- Every person is always able to receive email under all circumstances.

-- Email addresses last forever.

-- People never travel to foreign countries.

-- A person's IP address always determines where they are located.

-- Geolocated IP addresses are always accurate.

-- Geolocated IP addresses always indicate the preferred and correct human language of the person on the other end.

-- The IP address for a customer will never change during a given session (i.e. LEO satellite internet does not exist).

-- If the IP address for a customer changes "too quickly", that indicates fraud (i.e. LEO satellite internet does not exist).

-- Your customer will never connect to you through a VPN.

-- If your customer connects to you through a VPN, they are doing something fraudulent, rather than trying to get around your geolocation brain damage.

quags · 2 years ago

All these can be the wrong assumptions for sure. Working in a space with some fraud though I can tell you the majority of users verify fine and there ate only the few percentage that don’t for any number of reasons some what you have given above. For smaller vendors though things to consider are

- a charge back can come up to 6 months later. A loss of that is not only a loss of funds but a charge back fee

- too many charge backs could affect the merchant account with the potential of a loss of being able to run your business and this can extend to PayPal or anything merchants run charges through.

- Fees may go up like interchange fees on running credit cards if an account is deemed higher risk.

- blacklisting from visa or Mastercard or merchant accounts in general is not unheard of. Loosing access to running credit cards would be the end of many businesses.

So mom and pop shops need to be aware of fraud and ensure it is low or taken care of. You can’t just accept every order and hope for the best. Fraud does exists and when only a few percentage of users meet your list of incorrect fraud assumptions it’s easy to see why they are used at least for extra verification.

One good thing for merchants for those who accept crypto like Bitcoin is all the risk moves to the sender not the merchant. There are no charge backs - so merchants who take crypto should be able to be a bit more lenient on payments and verification.

quags commented on Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source daemonology.net/blog/2023... · Posted by u/cperciva

quags · 2 years ago

Thanks for all the contributions @cperciva. FreeBSD update doesn’t get talked about much but going from having to rebuild FreeBSD for updates from source to binary updates has been incredibly useful.

quags commented on Snikket – On the Jabber.ru MitM Attack – Public Jabber/XMPP Service snikket.org/blog/on-the-j... · Posted by u/neustradamus

supriyo-biswas · 2 years ago

Said adversaries could just use take images of the VMs (which they probably do anyway for backups) and extract the cert from them.

Unfortunately, it seems this topic has attracted the attention of many who keep insisting that it must be Let's Encrypt at fault here.

quags · 2 years ago

Yes this would be easy and I would expect on most providers it could be done using a snapshot with out affecting the live system for a basic system install unless the file system was encrypted.

quags commented on Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it deform.co/microsoft-defen... · Posted by u/chatmasta

jj999 · 2 years ago

Can there be legal liability with anti malware? By example, could flagging some software as malware expose you to being sued for libel?

quags · 2 years ago

This would be similar to spam and blocklists. I know people have tried to sue blocklists (maps and spamhaus) but from memory they were not successful in the end. That included blocking email , sometimes with larger blocks with ip ranges not directly involved but in a similar range. Malware being flagged on an anti virus would be similar but in those case the user has an option to exclude the block. Google and Firefox block domains for phishing regularly as well.