• s@piefed.worldEnglish
    278·
    5 days ago

    Your slop-pooping machine is bad at text parallax and it still looks gross

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    801·
    5 days ago

    that third one killed it for me. I hate what the Internet has become. We need to setup a second Internet that somehow can’t be monetized.

      • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
        312·
        5 days ago

        Correct. Come to I2P and experience 90s internet again. It’s slow but has character, if by character you understand I mean anonymous Geocities.

        • hansolo@lemmy.today
          18·
          5 days ago

          Honest question: is there also a boatload of sketchy stiff to avoid if you just wanted to have a nice SFW time? Early 2000s internet before Google indexed everything had some pockets of unsavory.

          Also, is it just a bunch of middle aged dudes in mostly text forums? That’s like 85% of my experience with 90s internet.

            • hansolo@lemmy.today
              1·
              4 days ago

              Yes, to avoid. Boolean search operators looking by filetype led me to 2 instances of finding someones CP foolder circa 2000. No real easy way to report it back then.

              I understand that 90s internet was much more streamlined and meager, withy own fair share of geocities pages. But I2P also exists in a more complicated time.

          • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            I haven’t stumbled upon much sketchy stuff, you’d need to know where it is and discovery is still fairly manual though indexing services exist. Of course you need to find those services in the first place…

            Anonymity is more of a focus than 90s internet, so it’s hard to tell who anyone really is but you’re probably right. There are active Russian and Iranian dissident text forums though.

            However, for me, it’s the people just hosting personal websites e.g., a darkwave radio site, or a cryptography blog. Obviously the barrier to entry means it leans fairly techy.

  • Zanathos@lemmy.world
    51·
    5 days ago

    Mailcow internal on Debian VM.

    SMTP2Go free external relay.

    Have had the occasional issue after an upgrade or reboot can’t find my LetsEncrypt cert and will bork the system until I manually fix it. Perhaps my latest script update finally resolved that.

    Otherwise, not that bad. Been running my own email for about 5 years or so. I don’t sign up for many outside services with it. It’s mainly for internal alerting or testing purposes but still works very well.

    • Godort@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 days ago

      How do you handle backups?

      The other side of email is that it has become the default identity provider for the Internet. If that VM becomes unrecoverable somehow, how would you get access to your past emails?

      • Zanathos@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        I was using Veeam when my stack was on VMware, but after moving to Proxmox I’ve been unable to get the Veeam agent working properly for VM recovery.

        I tried Proxmox Backup at one point, and while it did work for base VM backup, the interface and capabilities of it just don’t stack up to Veeam in my opinion, and I’m more concerned about file backup than VM recovery as I can easily recreate anything in my stack through my documentation.

        I’m actually glad you mentioned that because I do need to revisit it. The few times I did have to recover the VM from backup I was able to do so when my backup process was working, but I’ve thankfully not had any recovery situations in the past 2 or so years since moving to Proxmox. And recovery doesn’t help in situations where your cert is expired which is usually my issue historically.

        As for past email recovery, Mailcow does have documentation on recovering from a failed server\database, but I consider my personal deployment volatile since I’m only using it for alerting and mostly internal only services.

        I would fully switch over to it if I had more personal time, and if I knew I could make my family comfortable with accessing it. But right now I feel the risk is too great to move anything personally or financially important over. In the event something bad were to happen to me, I’m the only one with knowledge on how to recover the environment and I don’t need my family to take on that burden if I were to become incapacitated or forbid, pass away suddenly.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    52·
    5 days ago

    I stopped hosting my own email servers many years ago, even when I was being paid for it. Any time anyone mentions DKIM or yahoo throttling or anything of that nature I get a thousand yard stare and and start to hyperventilate. I’m sure it easier when you aren’t sending 5 million messages a month, but who needs the headache.

      • vrek@programming.devEnglish
        15·
        5 days ago

        Long ago I think it was 2006, I worked in a computer store/corporate it support that used to also be a 56k dial up isp. When i first got hired it was supposed to be like a paid internship. 2 weeks in the guy “mentoring” me was fired. Only other employees was the owner was had a PhD in information technology from 1984 and never kept up and his wife who did the accounting.

        Over the next year he hired and fired probably 15 people and then decided he liked me enough to make me full time. He had no idea what he was doing and neither did I. Basically I was responsible for 8 business networks(including a 150 employee credit union), any computers a customer brought in, and our own internal network.

        One day it was slow so I was browsing various web comics. The owner comes on at 1030(we opened at 900) furious with me. He claimed I was “reading a page with black text on a white background” which meant I was reading how to operate a spam business. That was his proof, a page with black text and a white background which he could not find my history.

        He had received a letter from his isp that we were sending 2.5 million emails a day, we had 72 hours to resolve the issue or we were to be cut off. I argued that I didn’t run a spam operation, he had no proof and there were simpler explanations. It got so heated I quit, keep in mind I was only employee.

        Next day the credit union was having a server issue and he had no one to fix it. He called me asking for me to return, I negotiated a $1 hour raise, an official written letter of apology, pay for time the previous day and that day and told him I would be back the following day.

        I went in, solved the server issue(eventually found out cleaning crew was unplugging the power strip to plug in their vaccum over night and the server was configured not to restart when power returned). Went back to the office and talked with the owner. He showed me the letter and it identified 2 ip addresses as being the source. Neither was my computer and I didn’t recognize them. There was a command you could send over the terminal to open the CD tray based on ip address. I ran the command and basically walked around looking for a computer with open CD trays.

        Turns out there was 2 servers, outside of our firewall directly facing the internet and yes for the memes they were originally dns servers from the 56k isp days. They were running original nt4, completely unpatched, with no security software installed and permanent outside facing ip addresses. I ran a virus scanner on it, I stopped when it detected over 100k infected files. Disconnected the servers, waited 10 minutes, called isp and effectively all email had stopped (the boss and myself both sent 1 email to confirm it was still working).

    • Naz@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      4 days ago

      I knew someone online who did.

      Their autism level was in a category that I’ve yet to find words for. The train people fear them.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        18·
        5 days ago

        I’m still there. I’ve always wanted to be able to offer an email service to family or friends. But, even though I’ve been doing it for a couple of decades, it’s never been stable enough to offer to them. For part of that time it’s because I didn’t really know enough of what I was doing, but the more I learned and the better I got at it, the more I started to lose the war against both spammers and against the major service providers who kept making it harder and harder to prove you’re not a spammer.

        The latest one was literally issue 3. My provider splits an IPV6 /64 among multiple VPSes, when most of the world, including blocklist publishers, think a /64 is for a single “entity”. The only way to resolve it was to not use IPV6.

    • chunes@lemmy.world
      31·
      4 days ago

      Give it up, dude. The models that just recently came out are so good you are kidding yourself if you think you can tell them apart from photographs.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      11·
      5 days ago

      Wait, why? I thought I was generally gold at spotting these things, but here I’m struggling. The only thing that looks a little out of place to ne is the ring on his pointing hand, but that might genuinely be a dark band + shadow. What else have I missed?

        • MBech@feddit.dk
          8·
          5 days ago

          Mostly to me it’s about the quality. Everything in focus is incredibly smooth, more so than you’d get with a normal camera or phone, while the background is blurred. This looks like a convension setting of some sort, they would’ve taken the photo with their scratched phone camera and posted it immidiately without trying to edit anything.

          Also, the text is different on every board. The top 2 texts are oriented straight at the camera, while the bottom texts are angled a bit, but not angled equally. Indicating it wasn’t just copy pasted, but an attempt to get a new angle every time. This could just mean badly edited, but I’m going with AI on that part too, because someone badly editing a joke like this, would simply copy paste the first textbox after getting the angle sort of right.

      • Uri@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Well i somehow got trained at detecting slop. I didnt had to notice details just looking at it confirmed

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    Given the amount of spam selfhosting your email sounds like the 7th circle of hell. Media servers should be enough, thankyouverymuch

    • kalpol@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 days ago

      Firewall with pfblocker and good feeds solves most of the problem. Spamassassin and URLBLs still work. It really isn’t hard, once you set it up the config never changes. The static IP is by far the worst part.

  • cals11@programming.dev
    3·
    4 days ago

    I sorta self host my email. Technically aws hosts my email but I’ve a local postfix and dovecot to serve devices.

    That simplifies ip address reputation, dkim, spf, etc. It also provides a backstop if my homelab goes down as messages buffer to s3. I pay a few cents per 1k messages, which effectively means zero.

  • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    This is an amusing thread for me as my day job used to be unfucking postfix and exim servers daily for a fleet of vps and dedi boxes.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      14·
      4 days ago

      unfucking postfix

      This is not a task for the feint of heart, nor was it ever, even back when the technology was first invented. I salute you.

      • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
        10·
        4 days ago

        Tbf most of the time you just had to clear ssd space and rebuild indices after restarting services as mostly the mail was there but stuck in queue

        • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 days ago

          I have no experience with any type of backend mail management or anything like it.

          But I do have a corporate email through Microsoft exchange. I hate multiple apps on my phone, so I have it as an extra account in my Gmail app.

          And it sucks. I don’t get a lot of emails, only the last 3 or 4 emails actually show up in the app.

          But my biggest, angriest problem… Is mail getting stuck in the queue.

          If I’m sending a short email? Fine, I can use the app. Fire it off and it’ll send immediately.

          But if I write a long email? It will say it’s sending, it’ll sit in the outbox, but it will never… ever… send. Ever.

          No amount of Wi-Fi cycling or data cycling, cache clearing or phone restarting will ever ever get that email to send. It will just sit there silently failed. Not even acknowledging it’s failed when you poke at it, let alone with a notification or something.

          The first time I realized it happened, it was an unfortunately important email.

          Would you like to guess what the problem is? I pulled my hair out for like a day before figuring it out. I’ll put it in a spoiler tag so you can guess.

          Again: short emails send immediately, long emails never send, and sit silently failed for eternity.

          spoiler

          When you write a long email, at some point it saves a draft. For some reason, that draft is what holds everything up. If I remember correctly, even deleting the draft doesn’t make it send… If ever I forget, and it happens again, I have to copy my whole email to the clipboard, open exchange in the web browser, find the draft (which is never complete, always only half or less of what I wrote) paste my full message into the draft, and then manually send it.

          I guess technically it’s my own fault, I could just use the exchange app and it would probably solve this. But I don’t want to, and I shouldn’t have to, email is not new. But it is terrible. Like printers. Bah.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    9·
    4 days ago

    Self hosting for years and have none of these issues, but I’m going to migrate soon and will probably be able to use this as a checklist 😐