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2000UltraDeluxe··on How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain
DMARC is for authenticating the sender, not filtering spam.

Spammers are quite proficient at using authentication, whereas legitimate users are stuck in the 2000s wondering why their forwards don't work anymore.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
> But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense.

We're at the point where the two countries, with most wars between them in history, stood side by side, ready to defend Greenland against a U.S. invasion.

The monkey has a hand grenade. You lot gave it to him. Twice. You might find that it's a bit late for "relax, he's only kidding".

2000UltraDeluxe··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
I suspect the people of Greenland won't ever trust Americans again.

This isn't just going to go away. You can't just undo what Orange Mussolini is doing, and it'll take far longer than a decade before anything like a trusting relationship can be reestablished.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Correlation != causation
2000UltraDeluxe··on Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
Don't point it out, please. I, for one, look forward to accessing content without all the bloat.
2000UltraDeluxe··on The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
The Xbox remake from 2004 plays well on current-gen Xboxes.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
That, and the endless stream of automated requests from various crawlers identifying themselves as browsers.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
From the article:

> even sales in the tens of thousands might not recover the development and tooling costs

If you're looking for an argument against capitalism, this wasn't it.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Self-host your mail server
"The expensive ones"
2000UltraDeluxe··on Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning
May I ask how you came to that conclusion?
2000UltraDeluxe··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
> I think that nobody would care if I use wget or curl for few pages

If only you were the only one doing it...

2000UltraDeluxe··on Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC
No.

MX tells a sender where the mail goes.

DMARC allows the recipient to verify the adress in the From header.

Neither has anything to do with the fact whether a server sends emails or not.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Why are we so obsessed with lawns?
Indeed. Small lawn for sports and activites + large forest garden is a nice combo if it's an option.
2000UltraDeluxe··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
As many other things, it depends on diet and lifestyle. I also live in the cold north, and generally, if you're fair-skinned, spend enough time in the sun and consume at least some products with natural or added vitamin D, you're usually good.

Having a balanced diet and enough time to spend in the sun isn't a given, though, and many struggle getting enough vitamin D without suppments.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year
Claude has neither golf buddies nor a business network.
2000UltraDeluxe··on The Future of Email
Disclaimer: I do some work for one of Gmail's competitors.

Of all the stuff Gmail imposes on the rest of the world, requiring proper sender authentication was a good thing and we've helped thousands of senders set up proper authentication because of it.

Forcing the issue finally got rid of the ridiculous practice of ignoring SPF/DKIM failures and just setting the DMARC record to p=none.

None of this changes the fact that Gmail is a problem for so many other reasons, but this specific imposed change was a net benefit for the entire email ecosystem.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Making Graphics Like it's 1993
Plenty of 3D tools available for consumer hardware in the 90's; the CGI for the first seasons of Babylon 5 was rendered on Amigas.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs
I block the consent banner. Easiest way to avoid such immoral practices.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Retaliation is not self-defence.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
There's no denying a broken nose and some lost teeth will make many bullies twice about trying again.

Problem is it's often illegal or against the rules to do it since deliberately beating the crap out of a bully isn't self defence in the traditional sense. And in the cases where it doesn't work, the situation may escalate or the victim might end up being punished harder than the bully.

2000UltraDeluxe··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Not just the Internet either. People are actively talking about data centres using available electricity, and the constant push from employers of using AI for things it clearly isn't suited for. Not to mention the constant "Let me talk to a real person" requests -- people see AI's everywhere and often have no desire to interact with them.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
It's not like there aren't others who sell domains with an API. This doesn't change that much.
2000UltraDeluxe··on In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue
Indeed, and large parts of the reason has nothing to do with geography. The same applies to Denmark and the rest of the Nordics.

Obviously solar will be decreasingly useful as you get further to the pole, but the Nordics aren't worse off than Alaska or Canada in that regard, and both do solar to some extent AFAIK.

2000UltraDeluxe··on In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue
We have solar in Finland as well, like everyone else. Yes, it's useless in winter. Yes, the expansion has slowed down, because there is no storage and limited export options.

The Nordic power market is a mess, and it's not because solar doesn't work in winter but because the grid needs massive investments on all levels and nobody wants to be left holding the bill for it.

Electrification? Sure, I'll buy an EV when the _local_ grid operator makes sure my lights don't flicker when the neighbor uses an angle grinder. The last update was that they plan to replace the old transformer station from the 60's "when it breaks".

Local generation? Can't get rid of the excess generation if I wanted to.

Is Denmark's power grid expansion still geared at selling Swedish electricity to the Germans?

Sweden? No internal transfer capacity so their consumers have constant high prices while power is exported cheaply.

Norway? Geo-blocked by Sweden.

2000UltraDeluxe··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
> Sending you an email after you signed up is "unethical"?

In some countries it's not just "unethical", but outright illegal. Laws and rules vary, but all is equal to the spam button and the whims of those wielding it.

2000UltraDeluxe··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
"Helping for free" doesn't cut it when dealing with governments. Even if everyone had gone the Linux route 20 years ago we'd still have an entire ecosystem of commercial businesses selling and operating it; imagine what Red Hat would look like with Microsoft actually out of the picture.

We'd have just as many consultancy firms and layers of beuraucracy without Microsoft, and France wouldn't be operating their entire government IT stack, all the way down to individual workstations, that much cheaper than it is now.

2000UltraDeluxe··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
30 people managing the hardware? Sure, if you get good deals on the hardware itself, the employees stay healthy, and you have everything so centralised you don't need multiple people on call.

Centralising things to that level and supporting the users of the entire government structure of a country the size of France -- one of the countries the sun _never_ sets on -- while it's transitioning from decades of Microsoft dependency to an open source ecosystem? Heh, no.

2000UltraDeluxe··on In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants
That's how you ensure the birth rate stays low.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
Finland's fertility rate drove off a cliff in the 60's like in so many other countries. If sauna has an overall effect we wouldn't know as we've nothing to compare with -- going to sauna is rather universal and the tradition is ancient.
2000UltraDeluxe··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
> Power users aren't just annoying edge cases, they're signal.

Not all power users. Some re-invent the wheel and/or do things inefficiently, and in most cases there's no business incentive to adapt the service to fit the usage patterns of those users, or of other users that deviate from the norm in regards to resource usage.

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