Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

My girlfriend knows me so well! (Birthday present.)

I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.

But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.

The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.

But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.

I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.

Long live the open Internet.

#ryoms

Or those gun owners can be total pussies about it.
#Asshats

From personal experience, I know this is based on a true story! #CatsOfMastodon

Should go to bed because I’m very tired but being exhausted is my whole identity at this point

Penny for your thoughts?

“Shit’s gonna be punk as fuck!” I whisper to myself as I drive to the garden center.

Damn, John!

I think these cigarettes are giving me the bird.

That thing where I see that some Thing isn't proceeding properly - but if I step in to improve it - or even identify the problem - it will inevitably become My Thing as reward.

I already have too many other Things, so I'm not eager to charge into the breach.

Sleep well, my pretties.

1994: I think of myself as a hacker, but worry about what mainstream culture thinks that term means.

2024: A song in a fast-food burger commercial on TV just described their advertised deal as "a hunger hack."

Equating surveillance with safety considers only a fraction of what “safety” for everyone looks like. You cannot protect people from harm if part of what you offer them is a different kind of harm, writes EFF's Matthew Guariglia for Slate. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/police-surveillance-wont-make-us-safer-broken-windows-on-steroids.html

I wonder what percentage of the web is usable and navigable without Javascript or CSS?

Your SSH honeypot fakes a Linux system and logs the threat actor's commands.

My SSH honeypot hijacks the threat actor's terminal to play the music video of Rick Astley's 1987 pop hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" while ignoring Ctrl-C.

We are not the same.

Brilliant!