AIs already pillaged all the code in the world. This is fighting a lost fight. We won’t manage to force big AI firms that literally props a country to stay afloat to make their AI “forget” or “untrained”.
Regulators let the pillaging happen so now AI does know how to code. They dont imitate they truly code.
But IMO the real fight is about things like malus that are the real dangerous and malevolent actor here. They will take your open source code and resell it to big businesses.
DDG is an US based company. They will comply to all the patriot act bullshit and pipeline all your searches to the NSA…
If they really cared about privacy they wouldn’t be based in the US.
I worked for years on a large email infrastructure for a job and for me it’s absolutely not worth it either.
I would prefer to take a subscription on a reputable host.
Why?
Because even if I do everything perfectly at setup (TLS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) that will still be precarious.
The security of SMTP is a patchwork of protocols added on top of it and a bunch of opaque reputation systems. If anything ever goes wrong with my email my domain’s reputation would fall. And that’s the thing, once your domain reputation goes too low, you can’t fix right away and say “my bad” and recover. Your mail will be silently blocked like Spam until a few days of sending perfectly clean emails. You need time to recover.
So mail self hosting is accepting that at any time if you make a slight mistake, your communications to other will be almost impossible for days. And again since a lot of it is reputation based you can’t fix the issue and recover immediately.
The business I was working for had everyday scenarios like that. A client that failed to update its DKIM and didn’t notice right away. When they do their reputation on for example Cisco’s platform is super low and we filter them as spam. And then it took days for them to recover even if they fixed the DKIM just one or two days after their mistake.
On the other hand I could take a protonmail subscription and use a domain that has so much volume and is tracked so carefully in term of reputation that I know my mails will be received and have all the necessary security done right.
These reputation systems are inherently difficult for small volume mail domains. There is no other users ln your domain so one mistake is all it takes to start having delivery issues and most importantly silent failed deliveries that you dont know about.
Is it possible? Yes. Is it necessary? Not really. If you can pay for a privacy respecting host…
Hence for me it’s not worth it because there are privacy respecting providers so it’s not like I absolutely have to self host it.
I think you choose a poor example.
When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.
Most business with a lot of machines uses long names where everything as a logical meaning.
[Site][service][Rack][User selected 8 chars name]
I mean you dont have to use such obtuse names. But if you have a lot of servers you have to have a long name or you will risk exhausting the available names.
I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing. You can use user selected names as a suffix to a more functional initial prefix. So that people who work this area of the infrastructure can have clear names but at the same time some other sys admin that never worked on it can still know where and who is responsible of the server.
My initial point is just that the namespace and length of hostnames mostly depends on what you want to do. For a homelab you dont need wide namespace. But for a large business using short names wouldn’t be practical either.
In a business with tens of thousands of servers, it makes sense to have long complicated names.
For a homelab ? Not really.
I’ll be honest morphe has been a total nightmare for me. It works 70% of the times. 30% of the times it rewinds mid video to a random timestamp. And will do that in a loop.
In my experience that has been the very worse app I used on Android for YT.
To be fair it’s not really their fault if YT is constantly trying to disrupt their app.
Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.
A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.
A stoat is a pretty cool animal.
I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.
By spreading I meant thar if there is an underlying manufacturing defect it would be really difficult to predict where and when it would happen on memory. And if there is already a fault detected more might come later.
But I’m glad you documented how to do these types of workaround. It might be helpful with memory prices skyrocketing…
Very cool to be able to do that even though I’m not sure it’s worth it to run a RAM module that has a known defect.
If the fault spreads there will be corruption again.
Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?
It’d not really the reason I stopped using it but I suspected that some games didn’t like it when PiHole was up…
Anyway this post motivated me to reinstall my RasPi.
It could go tits up indeed with a pod name like that.
Just dont name your pod “Titan” just in case.
Yeah I think it’s just a false alarm.
I would suggest looking into how sudoers works. I might just be that you asked caddy to do something that required root and forgot to sudo the command ?
Still double check the timestamp and verify that it was when you tinkered. Use “history” to look for previous commands and maybe the timestamp ?
The way I see it something (probably caddy) wanted to check a TLS certificate and had to concatenate all the certificate authorities to check if an adequate CA was there. And it failed to access what looks like a local CA that is autosigned ? Still worth checking your CA has adequate / similar permission as the others.
I’m not sure why people are trying convince me to change my mind on something.
I have seen it in my logs with my own eyes. I wish I could be left alone without having to bother looking into it.
Whatever the reason is. Someone is crawling through dictionaries of address. It is slow but steady. It started with abuse@ and other generic addresses and then started trying names. I blocked the sending SMTP server once I realized what was going-on.
What am I suppose to do? Ignore it and just triage in inbox?
This is not at all my experience with custom mail domains.
And I say that after spending a lot of time setting SPF, DKIM and DMARC filtering.
I guess you got lucky.
Does it?
Do you think spammer will just stop at the first address and then call it a day?
In my experience there is no such thing as a “catch all” domain address. The second your domain leaks then many spammer will just go into a frenzy and try hundreds or thousands of mail aliases.
Especially since they can’t really spam Gmail as easily (since early 2024) they will even more aggressively spam any other domain.
I’m a bit skeptical on the Email alias feature but this is a really cool project.
I just don’t know how practical it is to use custom domains to receive those confirmation emails.
Wouldn’t you receive a ton of spam once your email domain leaks (which will eventually happen)?
Email is also useful for password reset.
Ah I get it.
Anyway low consumption kind of mandates that kind of flash build IMO.
Isn’t there any way you could stagger buying those SSD? Like you buy them one by one only on sales or refurbished hardware.
You could also maybe attempt a raid5 only with only 3 disks until you could buy a fourth one?
Anyway good luck!
I’m sorry if this is not relevant but I don’t have the time to read that whole of text:
I think this is at least similar to what you want to achieve.
Lol Malus is not a parody.
You can verify it yourself but they do make money doing exactly what they say.
They play on that “parody/malevolent” idea but they do have customers and confirmed they make money on that.