I remember when I switched from academia/research to industry. Within a couple months of being there, we ended up not needing some purchase, so my boss was asking if anyone had good ideas for spending 200k. I hadn't seen our budget yet and was unaware that this was nothing, and was surprised that we had that much, and that it was so casually discussed. I don't deal with the financial side of things, but I was able to infer that we spent >10M/mo at the facility where I worked
Recently I posted two very similar replies. One was down voted, the other got tons of votes. My guess is the person I was disagreeing with down voted me in one, but the other one got seen and therefore voted for.
I'm not familiar with shady sites, but probably >75% of my previous 50 trips were booked through Kayak or similar sites. They make it painless to group everything you need for where you are going, and if there is any problem, like a flight delay, etc., since it was booked all together, they just adjust the future bookings/book other flights as necessary to make sure your trip is smooth riding. Any time I need more than just one resource (car, hotel, flight), I use a consolidator because if they aren't bundled, no one lifts a finger to help you when anything out of your control happens, but they bend over backwards to help if you used a booking site.
The last consolidator I used (I forget the name, but it was nearly "obviously a shell Amazon company"-level strange) saved me nearly $1000 on three flights and two hotels, but it routed me through seven completely different domains to do it, sometimes with the bulk of the page in an embedded iframe for yet another site. Once it was two layers of iframes deep. I checked because by this point I was flabbergasted by the whole process.
Many pages took tens of seconds to load and had a single field to fill out, broken links to information, etc. I had to fill in my personal info three times, on different pages, with wildly different layouts and misspelled fields. It had to be done over four separate days, because two pages had 503 errors and a couple others told me to wait up to 5 business days for "procesing" or "processin" or other misspellings, though it only turned out to need a couple minutes or hours.
I watched my card for unexpected charges like a maniac as emails from different domains every time came in to inform me that I was still good to go. But the tickets came through fine, about 3 weeks later, less a week before my flight.
From reddit, I'm under the impression that this is a somewhat average experience.
I'm sceptical too. Perhaps he verified, but from his blogpost, he doesn't imply that he cross checked anything and instead trusted all agentic output. For example, after getting the patch of ladar with the site, did he manually check NASA's resources to make sure there was no hallucination there? Maybe his agents are really good, but submitting this to INAH after only chatting with the agents is really bold.
Again, maybe he did cross verify things and just left that out of the storytelling, and congrats because this is really cool.
So glad this happened. When I first heard, I assumed that all the folks wronged would simply be disregarded even though Verisign was blatantly breaking consumer protection laws (I assume. If it wasn't, those laws are incomplete). The fact that Verisign even tried still makes me upset though. It's really annoying what several companies will do as long as their hand isn't forced due to legal or social repercussions
As someone who self hosts many services, I would encourage you to switch to self hosted email last. Even though self hosting has been made much easier thanks to really incredible FOSS tools, you are going to have random learning pains, some delayed by a few months, and it would really suck to lose email for even the shortest durations. The others are easy to live without while you debug during the learning process.
Btw immich is incredible. I recommend Nextcloud AIO instead of raw Nextcloud. Absolutely great tools
I’m looking to set up immich on my server. How do you back up your media? If you get hit by a bus how do you leave instructions and mechanisms to your family to restore the backup? My wife won’t move off of iCloud until I have a great answer for those.
I use Mega. They have the cheapest per TB S3 compatible service I can find, and they've actually been very reliable. I use Kopia to perform (and encrypt) the backups, so they never get anything other than the raw data and it's all done on a schedule.
I think I paid $300/year for 20TB, so it's not free, but it's offsite, well encrypted, and I'm pretty sure it will still be there if I need it next week.
One idea is to attach a USB hard drive and set a nightly job to rsync the Immich folders there. Worst case, if no one's willing to rebuild Immich, they just detach the hard drive, attach to any computer, and copy/paste the whole folder onto iCloud or GDrive. Probably best to format the USB hard drive as FAT32 so that any computer can read it.
I think the low cost reasonable option right now is to self-host a receiving address and then pick the email provider that looks the least trash and forward your stuff to them to actually handle sending/browsing. It gives you the option to go full self-hosted in the future if your mind changes with minimal headaches but costs practically no effort for the short term.
This is what I do. OpenSMTPD to receive mail, Dovecot to handle IMAP and spamassassin for full spam rules control.
I still configure my clients (Thunderbird, K-9, etc.) to send to my mail server, but that just forwards on to the actual email sender (if authenticated). This way I can change email senders without needing to change all my clients. There are still risks though because if you choose the cheaper plan (as I do), then you get grouped onto a sending pool that spammers might use and then you might get periodically affected if that set of IPs take a reputation hit.
My config for sending: With OpenSMTPD, process it with DKIM:
action "process_dkim" relay host smtp://127.0.0.1:10027
match from auth for any action "process_dkim"
A local DKIM process then processes and sends back to OpenSMTPD:
Then back to OpenSMTPD to forward to the final email sender:
listen on lo port 10028 tag DKIM
action "process_outbound" relay host smtp+tls://label@... auth <secrets>
match tag DKIM for any action "process_outbound"
I'm not sure if I even need to sign with DKIM as my email sender does the final DKIM signing, but it seems that in the email world, it's always best to do things as "properly" as possible whenever you can.
I've been doing this for years, and spam and deliverability issues have been minimal and I've dealt with some big names.
Exactly. Therefore "Have postal employees still be federal employees [...] because their unions would strike [...]" can be translated to "If we allow them to strike (by them not being federal employees), then they will strike".
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