Re: Is this ALL good advise

2019-12-03 Thread Dan Clery
Any security advise without consideration of your threat model is less than ideal. As others have said, if you send me an encrypted email, and I'm not prepared to deal with it, your message won't be recieved (your great aunt Tilly isn't going to be able to read your encrypted emails without a bunc

Re: OT: AI

2019-08-26 Thread Dan Clery
How would I even know? I'm not three laws safe, I know that, but how would I know? I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:27 AM wrote: > Oh, wait, never mind, it turns out we're all just a simulation, so it > really > doesn't matter. > > On Monday, August 26,

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-20 Thread Dan Clery
An eye opener for me was when my site got blacklisted as a spammer because I was sending bounce messages for every email I refused to accept (due to spam). False positives happen more often then you'd think when you're receiving legitimate emails in English, from international non-native speakers,

Re: Configure apt-get to work through corp internet proxy

2019-08-17 Thread Dan Clery
Are you able to download packages from the URL with wget? If not, you're probably gonna want to talk to IT - sounds like the firewall is scanning or blocking the packages - the security should be able to be loosened for a mirror. Other options would be DVDs or setting up a local mirror. On Fri,