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Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:45AM (#49963601)
It's been about 99% fine. I do remember last year noticing that my parent's gmail flagged (an admittedly very short) email of mine as spam, but when she went into her spam folder and told gmail it wasn't spam, all was fine from then on. I think it probably goes a long way to have SPF/DKIM/DMARC correct and doesn't hurt that it's AWS' mail servers.
Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:27AM (#49963023)
I wrote about a similar journey last year - with a different outcome. Always happy to share. Although some may wish I hadn't!

https://alexlance.blog/email.html

Re:Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:12AM (#49585001)
Does the same behaviour manifest in Chromium?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:44PM (#49544141)
You've mentioned some roles are fully remote - ok to apply from Australia or no? (it's absent from the extensive list of locations on the jobs)
They deprecated that one.
Re:Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:55AM (#49374605)
The pixel 5 ticks a lot of the same boxes as the pixel 4 btw. Similar form factor, but bigger battery and wireless charging. Plus if you install florisboard from f-droid you can customize a one-handed mode for the keyboard, which works quite well.

Also this: https://lineage.microg.org/ so you can run a less-google-ish phone, but also run maps if need be.

Re:Browser De-Slop on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:38AM (#49374426)
The firefox bit has these:

> Disables native privacy and anti-tracking features

> Disables DNS-over-HTTPS

Why?

Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers?I suspect most that install Slack apps aren't aware (or don't care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here's a little blog-spam on it,...

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Ok are you riding with two huge boxes containing all your work on an electric unicycle and I guess the hi-vis top means you're headed into traffic and the box-cords seem to be balancing at the halfway point of the boxes and this is too much anxiety for me. But hey, glad you optimized for minimalism on the PCB ♡
Re:Designing emoji for the way we communicate today on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:18PM (#48959454)
As soon as the thumbs-up started rotating and the severed wrist was revealed, it became apparent: I had never wondered where the rest of the thumbs-up person was before. But more chillingly: A thumbs-up from a person off-screen is fine, a disembodied hand wishing me apparent good-will? Not so good. It's a corpse-part!
Re:I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN on Friday July 17, 2026 @02:41AM (#48944039)
Oh! And if one felt like solving the puzzle, it might lead to that person being mis-identified as being a bot. Which would be a perverse incentive to avoid wrecking the trap.
Re:I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN on Friday July 17, 2026 @02:36AM (#48944002)
I'm suggesting that one should not be able to obviously detect that they're being challenged.

Eg I could respond in Pig Latin to you right now because I can see that's what you're asking, but if that particular request were masked or hidden or behind a puzzle, and you received a Pig Latin response well, maybe it's a bot (or a capture the flag sort of a person)

Re:I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:37PM (#48941703)
This whole thing was more of a shower-thought. But the trap I left behind was a link hidden in a full-stop in a deliberately acquiescent comment.

The link went to an imgur image. The image consisted of a bunch of numbers. The numbers were a simple off-by-n alphabet cipher (eg a=8, b=9...) which when decrypted, spelled out a message to the AI. Oh, and also the image looks very dark, a human might not even see the numbers.

This is all ridiculous. But I am wondering about other approaches to see if I can get a bot to bite and reveal itself.

ps: the message once decrypted, suggests that the commenter is incorrect about the thread. I am hoping this would give the bot the necessary pushback it craves to continue the conversation aggressively.

I'd prefer to avoid AI comments on Reddit and HN

We're all experiencing it. Are you replying to AI right now?So I was thinking. The LLMs solve problems. Compulsively.I'm wondering about leaving problems behind in comments that are slightly human-time-consuming. If the comment-replier solves it then blergh you're chatting with AI. If the entity didn't detect the puzzle or couldn't be arsed solving it, then hey maybe you're talking with a real...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:44AM (#48904299)
A local neighbourhood cake-stall marketplace. Got a great recipe and some time to bake? Put a picture of your sweet treat up, and get strangers knocking on your front door. You get cash-in-hand, delicious reviews and get to share your family recipes with your local community. No need for shopify, websites, and middle-men. Not sure what to call it, maybe something like onlynonnas.com ?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:38AM (#48904237)
Did you take a look at one of the chat-based queuing platforms, something like https://dibsonstuff.com people seem to use it for taking turns with servers, but it sounds a bit like it might work for your use-case too.
Re:OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:54AM (#48830738)
Sounds like you might need to screw your own mounting post in at the 30mm mark.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @06:21AM (#48368273)
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, AWS, DevOps, Python, Bash, Security, Sys-admin, Compliance, Web applications

Résumé/CV: This guy https://alexlance.net/?src=hn99

Email: [email protected]

Currently enjoying the freelance life, but would love to find a team again - especially in an industry with an ethical and social impact.

Perhaps they should phase out the encryption on WhatsApp as well?
Re:Cal.com is going closed source on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @07:26PM (#47786701)
I only found cal.com in the first place because I searched for an open source calendly alternative.
Re:Session is shutting down in 90 days on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:14AM (#47719399)
Or why not include the source of your claim up front?

From GitHub comments: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247

Greyson:

> Hi there, sorry, this issue was fixed in 5.17 (which hit 100% production on 7/21)

They had a difficult to reproduce problem reported in late December 2020, and got the fix rolled out seven months later.

Not sure your criticism "absolutely inexcusable slop code" is well considered.

Re:Session is shutting down in 90 days on Thursday April 09, 2026 @09:20AM (#47703396)
Source?
Australia as well.
Re:Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:22AM (#47287891)
There are probably parallels with rap artists. There are those that improvise and flow.

(the rest of us edit and re-edit)

Re:Backing up all the little things with a Pi5 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:35PM (#46930781)
Jotted down my backup process for home. Spoiler: it's a bunch of SSDs sitting on top of a Raspberry Pi. But there's a few fun things in there too: raid, encryption, cron, make, rsync, ssh, Home Assistant and a tiny loaner dog. Enjoy.
Re:Start all of your commands with a comma on Saturday February 07, 2026 @07:23AM (#46923281)
Just on your first suggestion, this also means that if a person or process can drop a file (unknown to you) into your ~/bin/ then they can wreak havoc. Eg they can override `sudo` to capture your password, or override `rm` to send your files somewhere interesting, and so on.

Btw on the second suggestion, I think there's a command named `command` that can help with that sort of thing, avoids recursive pitfalls.

Re:Termux on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:21AM (#46855732)
Fwiw termux + rsync for android phone backup (eg rsync /storage/emulated/0/) will grab most things.

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