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solrize , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server

Deliverability is hard no matter what software you use. You have to spend a while warming your IP addresses. This is one thing I'd call a hassle to self host. I've been using mxroute.com which is diy friendly and cheap.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in The first Apple-approved emulators for the iPhone have arrived

This is about an iPhone app that emulates a Gameboy, not anything like an Android rom that emulates the iPhone.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that

Are the bar codes really to prevent forgery? Or some other purpose? I'd never heard of counterfeit stamps before. It would be like counterfeiting one dollar bills.

solrize , 3 months ago to Privacy in Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

Email is inherently not private. Even if your own provider zealously protects your privacy, if the person you're emailing uses Gmail, that's all she wrote.

solrize , 3 months ago to Privacy in Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

How can anyone worry about IP addresses when the search engine also knows your real world payment credentials? That and privacy don't really mix.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility

https://www.science.org/content/article/are-advertisers-coming-your-dreams

solrize , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How to organize courses and tutorials ?

How many are you talking about? 100s? 1000s? Is it really different from books or CDs? Anyway the ones you have worked through are what matters. Data hoarding is fun but it's not that much different from random bits on your hdd.

solrize , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Are there any open source alternatives to Partiful?

Is email really worse than SMS for invitations? Sounds like partiful is collecting phone numbers. How many people are you talking about? I did the RSVP's for a tech conference of 100+ people just handling all the emails manually (i.e. interested attendees wrote to a published address and I responded and added them to the appropriate lists). It was a little bit time consuming but worked fine. Any high tech approach would have been more trouble than it was worth.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

https://www.tumblr.com/biggaybunny/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

Then they wouldn't have tiered plans. Anyway try a $12/year plan with a few queries per month. $60/y adds up a lot faster.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles

Yes, fluff piece etc.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

They start at $5/month (https://kagi.com/pricing) and that misses some features. But, I thought they started at $10/month. It may have changed. Anyway, I hate subscriptions and would rather pay by the query. It's something I'd use once in a while, so I don't want to keep paying while it idles.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

I tried Kagi (free 100 query plan) and got about the same results as google/DDG. It's kind of nice but I couldn't see subscribing. I hate subscriptions. If they sold access for a flat fee per query (let's say $5 for 200 queries) I'd buy that, and use a dozen or so queries a month. The rest of the time I'd keep using DDG or occasionally resorting to Google.

solrize , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Recommendations for RaspberryPI 4B case?

pishop.us and adafruit.com both sell flirc cases which are supposed to be very good. I decided to buy a pi 400 instead of a 4 a while back, since it already comes with case and a keyboard at lower cost than buying that stuff separately, plus at the time it was still hard to buy pi 4's. No idea about home assistant os which doesn't sound like something i'd want to run.

solrize , 3 months ago to Technology in YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious

The change the Youtube front end code now and then, breaking yt-dlp temporarily until someone checks in a patch.