dorkian_gray

@dorkian_gray@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You have no right to tell someone they can’t rape or murder as they see fit. You have no right to tell someone they can’t abuse their child. You have no right to tell a corporation they can’t dump their toxic waste with abandon. You have no right to tell businesses they can’t discriminate against minorities. You have no right to tell the police they can’t abuse their power. You have no right to tell members of Congress they can’t use their knowledge and position to their advantage in the markets they help regulate.

  Bullshit, entirely bullshit. You simply choose not to exercise that right, and you abdicate your responsibility as a citizen. Do you not want to leave this place better, for future generations? How do you not do everything in your power, including to vote, to try and improve things for everyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So much for hyperindividualism, then. You’ve lived in society, and you continue to, so you benefit from the systems of governance we have in place. Participating in that governance is not an immoral act, it is part of living in this society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not “might”. Will. And voting is absolutely not tantamount to telling other people how to live their lives, it is rather a statement on the way you think things should be run. You have a right to that, because we live in a society together. If you think you can go be a hyperindividualist all by yourself, you will most likely die early, but more importantly you will never enrich anyone else’s life, or have your own enriched by others. We’re all individuals, but we are part of a greater whole.

  And just to play this angle: if you won’t vote because you “won’t tell others how to live”, then you would equally stand by and let the evil harm the helpless, for the same reason. Get off your fence and stand for something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  By not voting, you’re abdicating your chance to vote against the destruction of the country. If a Republican wins and does what they’re promising, tens of millions of people will suffer in all sorts of ways, a full spectrum of ouch. A painbow, so to speak. COVID alone killed over a million people here when Trump was president, nevermind his disastrous impact on the country as a whole or his foreign policy (mostly because numbers are hard to come by for the Kurds and Afghanis we abandoned, but go ahead and get opinions on how the Taliban has been running the place).

  If you don’t vote, the suffering and death is partially on you, because you could have tried to stop it. That’s the immoral act, regardless of how you feel about the system itself. Hold your nose if you have to, and do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use regular dish soap to wash my apples and other hard produce, yes. Works a treat, but a dedicated fruit/vegetable wash (“Fit” is an example brand in the US) works too. It may leave fewer deposits/less residue, no idea, I haven’t looked up any papers on it. The main reason I started was even rinsing my apples with water alone, I’d notice a chemical taste on the skins which is very similar to how the produce stands at the supermarket smell. Washing with soap gets rid of it, as long as I make sure to get the crevices at the “poles” of the apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already more content than any of us can see in a single run, why do you want more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When the bugs develop soap and water, we’ll have to find another way to deter them. Until then, wash your fruits and veggies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wait between major video game sequels is getting longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your jank tolerance like? If “moderate to high”, Mount & Blade or Outward might scratch the itch for you. If you’re up for post apocalyptic ronin shenanigans with more of a strategy feel, Kenshi might be enjoyable. Technically, Noita is an open-world fantasy game. It’s really hard (I’m really bad), but I love it nonetheless.

  Going more mainstream there’s shedloads of mods for classics like Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim to update graphics, mechanics, or just new content. Witcher 3 is still really good, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wait between major video game sequels is getting longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy, based on your list there you might be me. Have you played Kenshi or Star Sector by any chance? If not, I would like to recommend both.

  … Right, the topic… Yeah, I agree, less crunch = good, more time to play all these fantastic games = good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So... Can you pet a turtle throught its shell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … Batman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No troubles, I’m no stranger to busy stretches myself 😊 I’ll keep an eye out for your message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Play with your kids, then you can all get mad at your wife if she doesn’t join in hahaha! 😈

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend DMARC, sure - every little bit helps! But only because your SPF and DKIM are already aligned.

  If you want me to check your work, shoot me a DM with your domain and I can take a look after you’ve done it with something like mxtoolbox.com (bookmark that one too, it’s good for checking your records after an edit to make sure the edit went live - just give it up to 72 hours). Or, a screenshot of the settings you’ve entered for the record, and I can validate for you (or mark it up to show changed if they’re needed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, soda is more hydrating than diuretic, but you’ve gotta look at the practical example rather than the ear data. The amount of caffeine in soda would become a problem if you tried to stay properly hydrated by drinking soda. You’re only supposed to have ~400mg of caffeine in a day, and a can of soda has ~30-50mg on average in 355ml of liquid. 10 cans of soda might be almost enough to get the water you’re supposed to drink, but you’d be pretty much at your daily caffeine limit; any more and you’d be in danger of heart issues, doubly so because of the dehydration, not to mention all the sugar and other crap in 10+ cans of soda…

  Obviously these numbers vary by person, but not so much that the caffeine content isn’t a concern for people who drink soda exclusively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is more acidic than regular water, as the dissolved carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid. It’s not immediately bad for you, but if you drink a lot of it in a short time it could cause stomach issues due to the extra acidity.

  That said it’s still water, and drinking enough to have you worried about the quantity of carbonic acid in your stomach would be far outweighed by the benefits of being properly hydrated, so CHUG CHUG CHUG!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Note From Gunfire Games: We launched Remnant II on July 25th, and we are humbled and grateful for the overwhelming positive response from the community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone here played it yet? L Thinking about getting it for co-op, but maybe we can play through the first game (which we already have) to scratch the itch? Thoughts/opinions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My pleasure! I am somewhat versed so I’m happy to spread the knowledge where I can 😊 Microsoft does typically set up SPF and DKIM automatically for new accounts, but a small handful of my customers with legacy GoDaddy accounts that got switched to Office 365 found that it wasn’t enabled for them, for some reason. Probably a migration issue at GoDaddy.

  Looks like it’s working just fine for your tenant though, and the rest of the test looks good. Pyzor would’ve triggered 'cause it was a short or empty test message - like the tester noted, test with real content to avoid that, but for now we can just ignore the ding, so you effectively have a 10/10. Nice 👌

  It’s an unfortunate truth that there is no power on earth that can guarantee you stay out of the spam box. But, your domain and email are in good enough shape that you will pretty much always get delivered, even if sometimes that delivery is to Spam. You (or the person you were emailing) with might be able to harangue the receiving email provider into refactoring their sorting though; I’m sure your recipient doesn’t want their important emails going to spam, either!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To expand on what others have said, once you send the email, one of two things might happen:

  1.) The receiving email server might report the email as delivered to the recipient, or

  2.) Your email might get “bounced”, where the recipient is not notified of the email and the email is returned to you with a notice stating why the email was not delivered.

  The second one is what happens if the email server is “sure” your email is spam. But even if the email is marked as delivered, that doesn’t mean it goes in the inbox. Secondary checks determine which box it goes in, and that box might be “Spam”. This secondary process is entirely internal to the mall provider, where the initial checks before delivery usually rely on a SpamAssassin instance.

  Both are influenced by a number of factors, but the biggest are DNS (Domain Name Service) records on your domain which show you’re a legitimate sender. These are:

  • SPF: Sender Policy Framework
  • DKIM: Domain Keys-Identified Mail
  • DMARC: Domain-based Messaging, Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance

  A comprehensive explanation and guide can be found here: dmarcly.com/…/how-to-implement-dmarc-dkim-spf-to-…

  But the short of it is that if your SPF or DKIM are wrong or missing, your emails are much more likely to be rejected or to land in spam. You won’t lose points (yet) for not having DMARC, but if you have SPF and DKIM set up correctly it gives about 10% better chance of being delivered (but it may not affect whether you get to the inbox, depending on those secondary checks).

  You can use mail-tester.com to check for these and other issues that would stop your emails getting to the inbox. Don’t worry about “reverse DNS” not matching, or if it says you don’t have an “unsubscribe header”. RDNS can’t be expected to match anymore and I don’t think it’s a good spam indicator. Unsubscribe headers are only for mailing list emails, so if you’re not testing a marketing email from somewhere like MailChimp then you won’t have an unsubscribe header. Finally, being on SORBS is not the end of the world, and blacklists generally can be ignored unless your email provider is small, or if you run your own server.

  Finally, don’t ever think “it’s been working fine so it shouldn’t stop working now”. SPF and DKIM weren’t necessary five-ish years ago, now they’re mandatory; DMARC itself hasn’t been taken very seriously to date but Microsoft just recently announced they’re actually going to start paying attention to it. On top of standards changing, unless you own and run the email server in your dwelling, you don’t have the control necessary to say “nothing has changed”. Microsoft can and does change their system constantly behind the scenes: applying patches, updates, retiring old servers and configuring new ones into the cluster, and so on. What was is not relevant; you can only look at what is, and fix that.