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ZWoz··on Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC
DMARC isn't part of SMTP.

Now, steelman argument is that DMARC is used together with SMTP, so it should be somewhat compatible to work in practice. But in this case there isn't fundamental conflict breaking SMTP.

ZWoz··on The dead economy theory
Good managers are like firewalls: they shield from negative outside influences and let good or important information and tasks pass.

That includes representing department in stupid meetings, instead of wasting developers/engineers time.

ZWoz··on Why I love FreeBSD
I don't agree about that ZFS issue. Using whole disk isn't inheritantly wrong. When you have data pool separated from boot disks, using whole disks is better. No need to create partition table, when replacing disk. No worring over block alignment.
ZWoz··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
MID-s are used by MUA-s for referring earlier messages, tracking answers and so on. So any software expecting dialog (messages coming back) needs to deal with MID-s correctly. Missing MID-s show that said communication is one direction, because broken dialog has not been problem.
ZWoz··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
My take, as a postmaster for hosting company, who don't have any sympathy to gmail (that should be visible from my comments history): Message-ID is absolutely MUST in production e-mails. You can send your test stuff without it, but real messages always have it. Not having Message-ID's causes lot of fun things. All somewhat competent software is capable to add Message-ID's, so lack of it is good indication of poorly made custom (usually spamming) solution.

Rspamd and spamassassin have missing MID check in their default rules, I am sure that most antispam software is same.

ZWoz··on China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
Seems like supporting argument against governmental regulation. In this specific case, against sanctions.
ZWoz··on Tell HN: Archive.today Partially Inaccessible
Testing with different ISP-s involved ISP provided resolvers and directly using archive.today nameservers. I know that archive.today has previously blocked common public resolvers, like 1.1.1.1. That case they replied with 127.0.0.4 or other loopback IP addresses.
ZWoz··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
There are few similar projects. neocities.org for example.
ZWoz··on Retiring Test-Ipv6.com
You can't fit 128bit number in 32bit field. All suggestions I have seen are missing something or reinventing network address translation, poorly.
ZWoz··on Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
Thats true for several other speeds too. 100GE first generation was 10x10GbE, second generation was 4x25GbE. 200GE first version was 25GbE based and so on.
ZWoz··on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers
> It'll break

If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger

> get AI-DoSed

Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.

> will have an expired cert.

Your back-end still needs certificate

ZWoz··on Ethernet at NANOG 92
That name NDP looks little bit confusing. For example, wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor_Discovery_Protocol shows NDP as Neighbor Discovery Protocol, even when RFC-s themselves don't use that abbreviation.
ZWoz··on Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector
That article had weird statement about PCI-X: "It did not see wide use with PCs, likely because Intel chose not to give the technology its blessing, but was briefly utilized by the Power Macintosh G5 line of computers."

I don't know, what they meant with blessing, but Intel server motherboards had PCI-X slots and this was common bus for servers/workstations. Mostly used by SCSI and RAID controllers, high-end network adapters.

ZWoz··on Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam
Putting on my "postmaster at shared hosting company" hat: Used to be. Gmail is done lot of work to be worse than Outlook. At least MS idiosyncraties are somewhat known and stable. I would say that most customer complaints are related to gmail.
ZWoz··on GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
Sure, Gate is somewhat common way to naming places. Not really related to trouble in article, but nice coincidence, we have Bishops and Gate.
ZWoz··on Ask HN: Why doesn't the EU yet have a dominant cloud provider like the US/China?
What OP means by cloud provider? Cloud is overused term. That said, we have Hezner, OVH and Scaleway. You can ask other way: why US don't have cheap well known bare metal provider.
ZWoz··on GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
I found amusing that IP address in one screenshot has following field in whois:

Address: 1800 Bishops Gate Blvd

Isn't gate common way to suffix scandals in USA?

ZWoz··on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. If you start with their earliest work, like "The Land of Crimson Clouds", you can get vibe, how communist Sci-Fi looked. If you read later stuff, like "Tale of the Troika", then you get story humorously criticizing soviet bureaucracy. Then there is pretty serious stuff, like "The Doomed City" or "Ugly Swans". You probably know "Roadside Picnic" - this interpretations in films and gaming are known as "Stalker".
ZWoz··on USENET rises again?
Most paid services have binary feeds. Those few, who offer text-only groups don't have big enough client base to make service cheap.
ZWoz··on USENET rises again?
In the last few years some Usenet providers are closed their doors. Aioe.org was pretty popular and known, disappeared this year. One of few ISP-s still offering Usenet access for clients, Finnish Elisa, closed their usenet server 2021. Russian neva.ru was sadly closed (probably forced by goverment) 2021 (I group it with free servers, because it had read-only access open for everyone and some point allowed posting). Albasani.net disappeared 2020.

Some free servers are still around, but don't offer public accounts. Few places give account, if you ask. Eternal September is strongest-biggest still running and free service. Mixmin allows anonymous posting, but sometimes restricts it to fight with abuse. Google still relays groups to Usenet, though they have their own thing going and some servers are blocking posts from google.

ZWoz··on Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
I am glad that you posted that question, imo that link to atomicsemi.com homepage isn't useful and don't match well with post title.
ZWoz··on Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
Jim Keller tweet: https://twitter.com/jimkxa/status/1628530382516920321 Sam Zeloof specifically saying that he starts company with jimkxa: https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1628528978884718592
ZWoz··on Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server
Open-Xchange documentation is sometimes little bit fragmented, but Installation guides are available, example for Debian 11: https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Open-Xchan...

Now, those mailbox.org and others use (probably) commercial version. which comes with additional functionality (like document converters for preview) and providers make their own customizations top of that anyway.

ZWoz··on Crypto is the first question on IRS Form 1040 in 2022 [pdf]
That question in form isn't about currencies, word used is "asset". People here are understanding that fundamentally they need pay taxes from any income, but that "Digital Assets" question seems overly broad and seems cover even non-income situations ("gift or otherwise dispose" for example).

Additionally, I think that your definition of "digital currencies" is little bit strict. IRS isn't going to look definitions, that exclude taxable income. User semiquaver already posted snippet from "Bloomberg Tax", showing potential interest for gaming currencies.

ZWoz··on Non-replaceable battery? Not if this proposed EU law passes
Lot of iPhone users seem mention longevity as main feature. I personally know both Android and iPhone users, who like to have phone longer than 2 years. Having user changeable battery doesn't take away your freedom to change phone more often, but now you have phone with aftermarket value.
ZWoz··on Mastodon.technology Shutdown
Usenet is still here. Smaller, than used to be, but still here. Probably average English speaking person even don't understand, how big it is: there are healthy German speaking userbase, lot of people from Italy, even some Finnish groups have life in them.
ZWoz··on SearchHut
You probably are already thought about it, but just in case feature idea: adding moderation support for collaboration. Somewhat trusted persons vetting niche subjects.
ZWoz··on Auto manufacturer family tree: Who owns what?
I found Škoda description lacking. Being one of few historic Czech car manufacturers is mention worthy.
ZWoz··on Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?
That only works out, when price matches customer expectations. Aren't you ever been position, where customer insist to get price offer for something ridiculous? Those clients always act offended, when you finally give them price. Even when you previously are communicating out that this is going to be really unreasonable, no point for calculating exact offer.
ZWoz··on HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
Browsers are being pretty weak to understand difference between local networks vs internet. Lot of times I have seen hassle caused by HTTPS, be it printer or server baseboard management controller.
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