mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)
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mask-militant anti-LLM-absolutist mixed-mexican-pueblo-sephardic non-white mostly-coyote genderterrorist that eventually disassembles everything xe touches // used to work at the bird site once upon a time // casually self-hosts our own email from our house // plural, not an entire SRE org // kween of the ambiguous parse // they them // xe xer
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@navi yes, we know how ESMTP works, we've been self-hosting our own email for over 20 years :)
@navi you're describing a technical solution (Just™ implement the feature) to a social problem (we already cannot reliably send mail to google, who is actively attempting to kill email)
@navi they are the 800lb gorilla in the SMTP room, and so if you're not considering what response they will have to other people doing stuff that they don't approve of to the protocol, that seems, to us, unrealistic. until they're removed from their primacy in the ecosystem, the protocol cannot evolve.
@grumpybozo @navi furthermore, the ends of the conversation are the MUAs, so even if all SMTP transactions were done in TLS, that's the easy part. youve still got the metadata problems and the key management problems and so forth
this guy on the freebsd forums is trying to configure his entire stack with DHCP because he has built his entire stack around an NFS export of / that he uses as the diskless root and refuses to understand that this is an incredibly, vividly bad idea
like, no, man, you have to configure something statically and you absolutely should not be exporting your diskless server's rOOT FILE SYSTEM as the thing your clients BOOT TO. this is going to fuck you hard in ways you don't expect!
"but this is a key part of my configuration" it is a bad configuration, stop that
my cat is enshittifying the litterbox