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toddmerrill commented on Cats became our companions way later than you think   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/n1b0m
ginko · 19 days ago
>That relationship we have with cats now only gets started about 3.5 or 4,000 years ago, rather than 10,000 years ago.

I wouldn't have thought cats were domesticated 10,000 years ago, why is it implied that's a general assumption?

toddmerrill · 19 days ago
I agree. I would guess that "most people" would think that cats were domesticated in Egypt because of their cat worship - as the article mentions. Turns out we the people were right. From the article's perspective "most people" apparently means "most scientists".
toddmerrill commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed   troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
8cvor6j844qw_d6 · a month ago
I used per-account email with alias services and password managers.

Also started migrating old accounts in free time.

Now its pretty easy to tell the source of leak by email addresses as well as sources of spam.

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Per-account alias might sound much, but using sieve filtering [1] is amazing, and you can get a comprehensive filtering solution going with 'envelope to' (the actual address receiving the email) + 'header to' (the recipient address you see, sometimes filtering rules don't filter for BCC or sometimes recipients are alias instead of your actual email) that are more comprehensive than normal filtering rules to sort your emails into folders.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5228

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Amusingly, I've managed to recover old accounts from emails that contains my old passwords with demands for crypto payment, it just provided me enough help to recall old variations of my passwords.

toddmerrill · a month ago
I do this also. I started doing it with physical mail before email existed to sort out the junk mail, so first and last name always contained a reference to the company you were dealing with. Paul Allen back in the 80s said in a Seattle Times interview that it was how he handled it.
toddmerrill commented on DropLost. Find all of your dead Dropbox public account links on the web   droplost.com/... · Posted by u/jlengrand
toddmerrill · 9 years ago
Awesome! Exactly what I needed.

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