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14 days agoIt literally told me to look up some basic security principles and do it myself.
I think that seems like excellent advice!
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Yes, that’s kinda how computers work?
No, it’s only the most common way. There are also lots of systems where it’s perfectly possible, even normal, to upgrade running processes in-place without restarting.
I bought a couple of expensive domains too. Problem solved.
Okay, but then we also have to stop pretending that the USA is a democracy.
Yes, that is long overdue.
2·2 months agoI’m using nullmailer, it’s as simple as it gets and has worked flawlessly for me for many years now:
Circumstances outside of my control forced me to switch domain names. (I could not afford to pay for my own domain name 30 years ago.)
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
The Socialist Republic of Slovenia was one of the six federal republics forming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, if you want to be technical about it.
Fun fact: This could possibly be true at the same time.
I read the article […]
Why did you do that?
What a bizarre idea. Why would anyone want to do that?
The technicalities of usernames and underscores makes this seem more complicated than it really is:
“Without any evidence whatsoever we convicted a man named Joe Smith, because we had been told that there was some man somewhere named Joe Smith, who was suspected of being a criminal.”
But they have absolutely no way to prevent any big AI harvester from harvesting this content, so whatever they claim has no impact whatsoever on what data gets harvested.
Am I missing anything?
I have heard the term DNS a million times but don’t really understand it.
Learn about DNS, it’s the glue that holds the internet together, any time you spend on learning more about DNS will quickly pay off. You probably already know that it’s what maps domain names to IP addresses and vice versa, but it can be used for loads of other useful things too.
(My own two favourite not well known but totally standardized really convenient things to use DNS for is to provide SSH host key fingerprints through DNSSEC and requesting letsencrypt certificates for host names without any webserver.)
It can.
In Australia, it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.
Well, duh, obviously it’s illegal to use a phone while driving.
It was always a (PowerPoint) presentation.
What did you call them before PowerPoint?
The one non-obvious thing that I use RSS for is to monitor releases on GitHub, so that when I’m waiting for some project to release some bugfix it gets conveniently listed in my RSS reader.