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Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.
  • Encryption in transit is pretty much solved these days with TLS, what OP wants is E2E - encryption from sender to recipient with no intermediate parties having an idea about contents of the message. Problem with E2E is inconvenience: emails are inaccessible without private keys and key management is pain. Users don't want additional headache of managing their keys between bajillion of devices where they might use emails

  • Asking online stores to stop sending receipts via email.
  • get a domain name, host stalwart somewhere and set up email with this new domain there, get receipt emails there and autoforward it to your main email with S/MIME, gpg or whatever enabled.

    usual disclaimer 'do not host your email blablabla' (at least don't get fucking digitalocean 'droplet' for it), but there's no other way around that, ecommerce won't enable shit.

  • Musk Is a White Supremacist. Now What?
  • elmo is just a symptom, there's no deficit in nazi clowns out there. What you need is a society that would be on the streets in 24h after a stunt like this.

  • Musk Is a White Supremacist. Now What?
  • should there be an organized boycott on Teslas

    why you would even buy elmo shitbox, garbage assembly quality and QC in general.

    Is this unstoppable and it actually makes more sense to flee?

    Kinda early, I'd say. Get out of big tech services, protest, spread the awareness, find like-minded individuals, call and write your politicians, volunteer for voting campaigns (voter turnout during US elections was so shit it's not even funny and out of touch dem party didn't help). I've spent most of my life living in the actual dictatorship, and lemme tell ya, getting out and protesting without getting your limbs broken in police station and getting thrown into prison for 6-10 years after is a fucking luxury. So do it while you can do it.

    While I have my doubts about the state of general american public (normie response outside of reddit/fediverse echo chambers was mostly 'that's our boy Elon, he's quirky like that and didn't mean it') and levels of apathy in society I feel like it's still salvageable.

  • SDL3 is officially released!
  • It's been production-ready for a while, Valve is known to use it for long time. Official release is more for API and ABI stability so you don't have to change anything to upgrade.

  • Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?
  • it has nothing to do with being autistic, however he was fucking zooted on ketamine during ceremony. I doubt that he's ever sober as of lately.

    Drug usage can fuck up people good or bring out what's hiding real deep in them, see Kanye's story with nitrous. And that's precisely why he's dangerous, he is powerful and deranged at the same time.

  • How do I better support my trans supervisee?
  • That's a thin ice you're walking here... Some people appreciate the support, some people don't like when work contacts get into their personal feelings territory.

    It's highly dependent on how close your interpersonal relationship is with co-worker, what I'd avoid for sure is suddenly closing the distance just because you know he is trans and you can tell recent events are affecting him.

  • A collection of 150+ self-hosted alternatives to popular software
  • Appreciate the effort, but without categories it's not going to sail too far.
    Right now it's just a long list of everything that it's out there, awesome-selfhosted is much more usable for looking up what you need.

    Also, did you join any kind of affiliate programs/partnerships for these "10% off" green boxes? If so, would be great to disclose it. Nothing bad with getting some cash, but community will just appreciate the honesty.

  • How do I find work outside to leave the United States
  • You'd need to put a bit more thought into that, at least to start thinking in more detailed terms than "US" and "outside".
    Countries, visa types, schools for your kid, work opportunities for your wife, local language, acceptance of your identity (believe me, majority of places in the world are much worse in that regard than Trump could ever be), etc, etc....

    What I can promise you is that money situation will be worse. Uprooting yourself and moving somewhere is a costly endeavor (did that 2 times, it's not fun), and besides that US is the best country to earn money out there, it's much harder to cover necessities and have disposable income pretty much anywhere else.

  • Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)
  • Opinionated piece with no substance or analysis, author already has some answer in mind and is trying to spin everything around to support it.

    Just to illustrate:

    That's why Zuckerberg bought Instagram: he had been turning the screws on Facebook users, and when Instagram came along, millions of those users decided that they hated Zuck more than they loved their friends and so they swallowed the switching costs and defected to Instagram. In an ill-advised middle-of-the-night memo to his CFO, Zuck defended spending $1b on Instagram on the grounds that it would recapture those Facebook escapees:

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21345723/facebook-instagram-documents-emails-mark-zuckerberg-kevin-systrom-hearing

    In this very link, in court-released emails Zuck states they're buying Instagram because they have good growth and Facebook mobile usability is shit. It's just 2 different types of social networks, back in 2012 you couldn't even DM on Instagram, it wasn't a replacement for Facebook by any means and vice versa. Zuck was just not happy that people spend their phone screen time outside of his reach.

  • What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches?
  • Programming knowledge is largely irrelevant, as in to gain sensible benefits from it you have to be generalist software engineer with decade+ of experience of seeing it all. Then yeah, you can read any code, any stack traces and figure out the intent of developers of the system and what is undocumented/incorrectly documented.

    Focusing on one particular language is the right and wrong answer at the same time. Wrong in a sense that you'll have to pick up other languages along your journey anyway and right because you need to achieve mastery in one of them to get to more advanced programming topics. Pick a language that you have fun using and don't care about anything else.

    As for what to learn for self-hosting... Linux (pick a distro, let's say ubuntu LTS w/o gui, ssh there and get comfortable with it. It includes installation, filesystems, RAID setups), networking, HTTP/S (that's the main thing you'll be interacting with as self-hoster and knowing various nuances of reverse proxying is a must), firewalling, basics of security and hardening, docker, monitoring, backups.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
  • on reddit majority of heavy lifting is done by community mods. hosting, however, is a pain, lemmy is centralized as fuck.

  • German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems
  • 35 to 40k (if your spouse is choosing tax class with a higher rate) after taxes or around so, depends on many factors - German tax code is complicated.

    Is it enough to live on

    Generally - barely above "paycheck to paycheck" level, but highly depends on location. In Munich you'll be fucked with this type of salary.

    or buy a home

    lmao no. Houses are mainly for older and retired people or rich, vast majority of active workforce are apartment renters, more fortunate ones were able to save/get help from relatives for mortgage. Total home ownership rate in Germany is 46.7%, lowest of all OECD countries - and that's including older people who got their homes during better economic times. Neat trick about Germany is that you have to have both stable job at big company and a lot of cash on your hands to cop a mortgage, since 20% downpayment + taxes/fees and other bullshit that run at around 10% of the total price make good barrier.

    buy a home and support a family

    Not really, adults in the household have to work, 60k is not 'breadwinner' type of salary at all. In general, tech workers aren't special in Germany, if not for US companies branches they'd be earning the same as everyone else and in many industries (like transportation), where pressure from international market is not present that much, they still do.

    It was good while it lasted, but Germany is heading into some pretty interesting times in general, younger population is absolutely fucked.

  • German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems
  • lmao, 60k eur tops. wages in Germany suck ass, earning at least something is possible if you are running independent consulting or climbing corporate ladder, having some unique expertise or going extra mile as an employee is pretty much pointless.

  • Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks
  • bruh, feels like gitlab has security update every other day, it's some bullshit even for a project this size. And who knows how many 0-days are around.

  • RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?
  • Launch msrp for a HD7850, which was the same category as the 6700XT today (upper middle tier) was 250 usd.

    There's much more effort involved to produce modern GPU now. Either way, if NVidia would be truly greedy, they'd close gaming gpu business right away and would produce only AI accelerators. You can take same 4070, add $200 worth of GDDR chips to the layout and sell this for $15k minimum, shit would be on backorder.

  • Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting the largest Russian XMPP (Jabber) messaging service
  • fun fact - lately russian govt started testing out protocol blocking (through dpi), several days ago there were reports of xmpp blocked for everything but jabber.ru.

    warrant was likely received to bust some cybercrime org, jabber is pretty popular in ex-ussr in these circles, the usual question is what happened with this mitm channel after.

  • Spotify re-invented the radio
  • it's like this to eliminate competition, any alternative has to fund marketing costs + unsustainable pricing, while Spotify will be running their ponzi scheme, effectively leveraging their market position.

  • VPN for seedbox recommendations

    Hello, fellow linux ISO enjoyers,

    as you may know, Mullvad VPN is disabling port forwarding 1st of July, which is a pity if you are serious about building that ratio.

    Are there any other fast torrent-friendly vpn's with the ability to port forward and ideally ipv6? I have quite a number of torrents in my seedbox and was pretty happy with Mullvad since I was consistently able to squeeze around 800Mbps symmetrical from it, however it's time to move on.

    Short rationale: • You already have a seedbox, why bother with VPN? Dealing with DMCA is pain and any hosting, which is sending complaints to /dev/null, has insane hardware prices for more demanding users. My seedbox is serving as a media archive since I seed everything I have indefinitely.

    • You won't get complaints if you're using private trackers Entry-level trackers are not bulletproof, I'm still using TL a lot and really, really don't want to move 10's of TB's of shit if asked.

    Long story short: VPN works. The question is - which one?

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