SomeoneSomewhere
@SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
- Comment on For security reasons 5 days ago:
It’s pretty common to own a domain but not actually host the email server; doing on-premises email is a security PITA and most providers simply blacklist large swathes of residential and leasable (e.g. VPS) IPs.
Unfortunately, if you get someone else to host your email, they often charge by the account, not by the domain. Setting up a new mailbox is therefore irritatingly expensive.
A catch-all email works well, though, and is free from most of the hosting providers. Downside is you get spam…
Jane@JaneDoe certainly seems more common than mail@JaneDoe.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Only 15mL and into a syringe, right?
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
Indeed, the US has a major lack of fixed-line competition and lack of regulation. Starlink doesn’t really help with that, at least in urban areas.
I’m not familiar with the wireless situation. You’re saying that there are significant coverage discrepancies to the point where many if not most consumers are choosing a carrier based on coverage, not pricing/plans? There’s always areas with unequal coverage but I didn’t think they were that common.
Here in NZ, the state funding for very rural 4G broadband (Rural Broadband Initiative 2 / RBI-2) went to the Rural Connectivity Group, setting up sites used and owned equally by all three providers, to reduce costs where capacity isn’t the constraint.
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
Starlink plugs the rural coverage gaps, but in urban areas it’s still more expensive than either conventional fixed-line connections or wireless (4G/5G) broadband. Even in rural areas, while it’s the best option, it’s rarely the cheapest, at least in the NZ market I’m familiar with.
It also doesn’t have the bandwidth per square kilometre/mile to serve urban areas well, and it’s probably never going to work in apartment buildings.
This is a funding/subsidisation issue, not so much a technical one. I imagine Starlink connections are eligible for the current subsidy, but in most cases it’s probably going to conventional DSL/cable/fibre/4G connections.
- Comment on How to open a textbook 1 month ago:
Apparently still alive at 85: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Has it occurred to you that sometimes there’s actual evidence backing up the things you ridicule?
You can go measure the acidity of rain in your back yard if you want.
The sunlight in NZ is far, far harsher than if you go a few thousand kilometres towards the equator, where it should be hotter. We have some of the world’s highest rates of skin cancer. Are you implying that crisis actors are faking having skin cancer?
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 2 months ago:
Aggregate bandwidth now rivals or slightly exceeds gigabit wired connections.
Where that aggregate bandwidth is shared amongst large numbers of users, bandwidth per user can suffer dramatically.
Low density areas may be fine, but cube farms are an issue especially when staff are doing data intensive or latency sensitive tasks.
If you’re giving employees docking stations for their laptops, running ethernet to those docking stations is a no-brainer.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 3 months ago:
It can also include situations where the worker isn’t paid what was agreed.
For example, if you were going to have a 10% commission but the employer lowers this to 2% or nothing, or where a $30/hour rate magically becomes $15/hour after hiring.
They might legally be able to cut your pay by giving notice - this will depend on the jurisdiction. In other regimes, they essentially have to go through the full legal process to fire you.
- Comment on Let's play Spot the Cold Solder. 4 months ago:
It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 4 months ago:
Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 4 months ago:
They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.
Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
Yeah, NZ & Aus both have a ‘standard drinks’ system.
My guess is that larger quantities of alcohol (particularly bottles of spirits but also wine) simply aren’t intended to be drunk by one person in one sitting. Total volume of alcohol isn’t that useful; it’s more useful to be able to work out how much is in one shot or one glass.
This is especially important when you look at the same product being sold by the shot/bottle/cask/barrel, or being able to buy a gallon of it in your own container historically.
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
In beverages, it’s g/100ml.
- Comment on Is the saying, "The internet's written in ink, not pencil" accurate? 5 months ago:
Yup. Expect that everything lasts exactly as long as you don’t want it to.
- Comment on Can anyone tell me what PC will draw more power? 6 months ago:
It depends on the application/duty, but maximum/rated power is not usually relevant for power consumption on home servers like this - they’re rarely running at mother than a few percent load.
Idle power consumption is the main concern. Server boards often have a lot of NICs and chipsets that don’t idle well. Consumer gear is generally much better for that.
Neither Westmere nor the AM3 platform are known for low power consumption. A modern LGA1150 or later desktop platform would probably be preferable.
- Comment on Are there any US banks that provide automated access to account data? 8 months ago:
Unfortunately, my understanding is that they mostly use screen-scraping.
Giving your account username/password to anyone but your bank is usually a breach of ToS, and they can use it to deny you compensation if something goes wrong and someone cleans out your bank account using internet banking.
They also get to datamine everything.