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@thor i like dovecots configuration. recently invested some time into builing a config from scratch, and it was rather easy to only have imap and sasl for postfix as features.. postfix is the real madness ;)

regarding opensmtpd, the reason i don't like openbsd stuff is the "better than you" attitude. i don't want to fix my configs on updates, except major versions. if php mail works with every other mail daemon, maybe php is right? that would be blasphemy though ;)

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@Nivamarina@mamot.fr yes, knowing that at some point something bad will happen isn't nice.
it's of no use to let it bother you much tough, you can't change it anyway. i'm not good at it myself, but i try to just accept happy times as i accept sad times.

@dielan may well be the best course of action. it shouldn't be bothering me that much :hamsterdance:

@dielan

what bothers me most is that i run out of "safe spaces" where i'm not bothered by people who don't care for the culture they are gentrifying.

it may be nostalgia, but i'm using the net for >20 years, the bullshit has really gotten worse (parallel to real life i might argue). sure, there was the occasional asshole and drama, but it was easy to deal with it: don't feed the troll, if it got out of hand kickban. which solved 99% of the problems. you had your corner of the net where you ruled as you like and everybody was ok with that. with the recent arrivals to the net, the modus operandi is to burn and salt everything with which you disagree.

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com .. but my dad is from the southern part, when visiting there i'm spot on the "normal" height. at least from my observations ;)

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com northern germany. with ~170 i'm one of the shorter ones here ;)

@arh@toots.alirezahayati.com i'd say it depends on where you look.. here most people are between 170-180 cm, 500km further south it's more like 160-170 cm.. it's really rather subjective

@thor i do, and i like it because it's something which has a taste, but isn't sweet like soft drinks. that said there are many shitty alcohol free beers.

the best compromise imo is the light beer at ~2.5%. 2L and only a mild buzz :ablobblewobble:

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the holy german health insurance system is a protection racket.

Fuck Proprietary Skills

People don't learn how to program, but learn how to S3 or EC2, people don't learn how to illustrate but how to Photoshop, or how to C4D. "Oh, I couldn't possibly make music without Ableton.." This is sad.

hot take: there is no purism in cooking. i made okonomiyaki yesterday, only had half of the ingredients (no mirin, wrong kale, etc.) and had to improvise. still turned out fine. if you know how the things are supposed to taste and substitute accordingly it works 90% of the time. may taste a bit different, but not worse.

The people who say cryptocurrency is harmful and useless will reincarnate in places with unstable currency and corrupt government.

@cjd @Hyolobrika @AgathaSorceress @maemachinebroke .. but just pointing at things that are _even worse_ also doesn't help imo :)

besides, at least the primary product oil currently has a use. crypto currency doesn't really have one, save speculation. i can't buy my food with it. the way i see it, it is worse than burning off gas.

cryptomoney isn't the solution, another economical model not based on "get rich quick" would be a solution.

How many linguists does it take to change a broken
light-bulb?

Two: one to decide what to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulb emits broken light.

@Hyolobrika @AgathaSorceress @maemachinebroke @cjd if it is addressed at me: i haven't read enough about chia to say anything about it :)

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> Politically it’s centralised though. Everything depends on ICANN.

yes, but if the majority of TLDs would decide they want other root servers ICANN could do shit against that. which is essentially what opennic does.

> What’s the alternative to names being owned? Private addressbooks like I2P has? Private names like in a petnamesystem? (Which I admittedly do not fully understand)

- you want to address something, which only works if everybody agrees on some rules.
- you want names you can memorize, otherwise you could as well just use the ip address (like .onion domains etc.).

i have the strong feeling this is a "pick one" problem.

> But that is not an inherent feature of blockchains.

yes, git is a blockchain and is pretty fast.
the problem is the consensus magic. which is at it's core the same thing as everybody agreeing on the same 13 root servers for DNS.

@Hyolobrika @AgathaSorceress @maemachinebroke

DNS-the-protocol is a globally distributed database, it doesn't get more decentralized if you want names to be "owned" (which you want). that the root servers are all in the US is unfortunate, but not a technical problem. that you have to buy names with money is also unfortunate, although a compensation for running infrastructure is fair imho. the free-handout mentality is what brought us the current state of the internet. most TLD prices are bullshit though.

if you implement the same thing with a blockchain you'll most likely also have a centralized system, because of the consensus algorithms. see fediverse. additionally it would be amazingly wasteful to run, compared to dns.

DNS is a _really_ good design which solves many hard problems. trying to fix it usually ends up as something like DoH, which is 10 steps backwards (DoT on the other hand is fine, it essentially just adds encryption).

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