[–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Easy.

If you want to annoy them, tell them you have the most powerful wifi router in existence, exceeding legal emission limits.

If you want to "play nice", tell them you set your wifi to minimum (or even disabled it if you want).

The upside is that you don't have to actually do anything for either to work.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    At this point we can probably take an efficient full-blown PC in a mini format, and get something sensibly similar for less. It might even be possible to throw some GPIO USB in there if that's what you need.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    There are four ways of doing that:

    • people on site
    • an internal network that can only be checked locally
    • proper supervision network that can push its state outside, but not be altered from the outside
    • whatever the fuck they did

    Guess what option was picked.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    He said it himself: it's important to win on appearances before technical stuff, or something like that. He's definitely going to push that again; or keep doing it even now, but in a more discreet manner.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Yes, me and $job are on OVH, moved the servers twice, so basically had moved over 6 IPs. Colleagues running on different providers though; Scaleway/Online mostly. I experimented a bit with hosting everything at home, which worked fine at the time for mail reception and delivery, but had to give up on it because it wasn't very stable (I had hilarious smokeping at the time).

    And, I'm just tired of the whole "you can't host your mails" thing. It's not all perfect, but on the rare occasion someone (usually a third party service selling both a blocking list AND an unblocking service…) flagged us, it was resolved in a day, with a single contact email. It happened twice in the last few years.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Both work servers, my private server, and a handful of colleagues running the same setups, on various hosts…

    Yes, I agree it is anecdotal evidences. But seriously, people going around saying "it's impossible, you have to pay them for delivery to work" is not only disingenuous, it's factually wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    Microsoft (Outlook, Hotmail) won’t accept your email without paying them, or forwarding through someone who does

    That's absolutely not true. They sometimes bork some messages and signatures internally, but aside from that, delivery to MS stuff (and that includes a lot of business behind their "outlook protection" service) has been fine for years.

    And, contrary to old beliefs, it has been mostly fine all around. Just properly setup DKIM, your DMARC and SPF records, and don't actually send spam. The worst that could happen is if you're trying to send through some residential IP, as large blocks can occasionally get blocked. But a cheap hosting anywhere (even in a spamfarm-ridden provider) is very likely to work fine.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    What's happening in the US is not the removal of DEI laws and programs. Well, that, too. But it's the explicit removal of people that were covered by these program, regardless of skills.

    And, it only highlights why the legal gender distinction is a problem. If there were no state-level "what gender are you" line attached to people, you could not mandate the removal of women, legally or not.

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