Also from WarGames:

Human: Is this a game or is it real?

AI: What is the difference?

A good reminder that port knocking can be a great added defense to protecting your ssh servers.

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Those are really good highlights. Also I don't know the details of antitrust law, but I'm not sure it's an antitrust issue if they're applying the same rules to everyone including themselves? And it's not like Apple is competing in the space, so you can't argue that they're hindering competitors.

I live in the Netherlands and have a Russian/Ukrainian cleaner. She only listens to Russian news and basically fully supports Putin's' actions. Really just brainwashed. Now there are other recent topics where she was not very well informed (Covid related) so her filters and logic are a bit off... but still.

I could only point her to the BBC...

Typical merchant processing fees are under 3% so this sounds about right, unless Iâ(TM)m missing something?

There is a big distinction between an anonymous inbox and a throwaway inbox. We used to block Mailinator etc, but if it was just an anonymous forwarder, we would not.

I'm pretty sure they will make an exception for Google.

That is right. I've blocked them too (used to work at a place that sent emails out). And the reason is the following: The person that enters such an email address does not want a long term stream of emails. Or anything. It basically makes the whole point of email "moot" (having an inbox).

Now, do I believe that businesses ask for email addresses illegally? Yes. You should not require to enter an address for e.g. a download. So we accepted Mailinator-type addresses but did not deliver (as it was too hard for us to detect new addresses). The usage of mailinator type addresses was a red flag on our customers as there was probably something wrong with the opt-in of that customer.

Second: Mailinator and other services are sometimes used as spamtraps. Now don't get me wrong, they have their uses. It was also in my interest to filter out the bad guys (so you needed some signals now and then even if you cannot trace it back). But not all of those services bounce inactive accounts. We have seen some weird ip blocks (where we could prove we, and our customer, did nothing wrong). Anti spam people are sometimes hugely incorrect in their assumptions / methods. The people surrounding such services were the weirdest I encountered.

Third: We would send out personal information. E.g. your name or other transaction related information. That information would end up "on someone else's harddisk". The PII and other elevated rights (e.g. "change email address to spam someone else") do not belong to an unknown third party.

But back to mozmail: We would not block. There are other services that are actually linked to a human recipient and has a gazillion forwarder addresses. We did not block those as the recipients would only be anonymous (which was fine from our perspective, you have that right and it is smart to know where you entered an email address).

On Unix they also have a gazillion command-line tools which do small things. That is good.

Let a class do one thing only and unit-test the hell out of it.

I have yet to meet sysadmins that actually upped their skill set. It seems their mindset is stuck in the 1980's. They keep crying that one week is too fast to update all their servers after specific CVE's. Yet we can update all our software including the containers, and release it, in a day.

I am not specifically a fan of "all those containers", but it beats the usual sysadmin.

These folks give a very detailed comparison between nuclear and even best-case scenarios for renewables. I think the best thing anyone can do entering this debate is to follow the math and stop talking in general terms.

https://www.ziotech.ca/ewExter...â"%20Nuclear%20Energy%20vs%20Wind%20and%20Solar.pdf

Yes, of course there is.

Phishing is criminal that is trying to cause 100% mayhem on your computer, accounts, reputation, your employer and whatever they can get their hands on. This is "block forever" stuff.

Commercial spam is more benign, it only wants your money. Often in limited ways. Maybe they improve themselves, now and then. You may not want to block a commercial sender "forever" (there really are commercial senders that have technical difficulties, ending up on blacklists).

Very big difference.

We appreciate it more if you stay fully on topic