Hacker News: AmblingAvocado

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

AmblingAvocado — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:58:57 +0000

DKIM signature could be used to verify that Canvas' server sent the email with the given content

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language"

AmblingAvocado — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:18 +0000

yea dawg maybe if you graduated in the last 4 years lmao

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?

AmblingAvocado — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:17:56 +0000

I received communications about updated privacy policies and terms of service from Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal today (in that order, chronologically.) Was there a triggering event that caused them all to update at the same time?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37185461

Points: 197

# Comments: 183

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

AmblingAvocado — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 01:15:50 +0000

Legoland in my city still requires adults to be accompanied by children to enter. Kind of bizarre.

Stable Diffusion based image compression

AmblingAvocado — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 03:58:48 +0000

Article URL: https://matthias-buehlmann.medium.com/stable-diffusion-based-image-compresssion-6f1f0a399202

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907494

Points: 498

# Comments: 199

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "IPv4 pricing"

AmblingAvocado — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:56:11 +0000

Regardless, “every one I have ever read” is no longer true. “Almost every one I have read”, perhaps?

I looked for market share info on Google Fiber but was unable to find it. Mind sharing your source?

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "IPv4 pricing"

AmblingAvocado — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:03:19 +0000

Google Fiber AUP[0] allows for hosting of anything for non-commercial purposes. Email is allowed as long as the email sent is not "unsolicited bulk commercial email". Time to update that worldview :) Every time we repeat something like "no one allows self hosting", the more people that will hear it and repeat it and make it a self fulfilling prophecy.

[0] https://fiber.google.com/legal/accepteduse/residential/

New comment by AmblingAvocado in "IPv4 pricing"

AmblingAvocado — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:20:59 +0000

When mail has gone undelivered due to non-spam reasons, I typically receive a bounce.

On my server, when I block a message due to trust, I reject the connection. When I block due to spam, the message is received but goes in the spam folder.

I get reports from Google/Microsoft/etc when other people try to send using my domains but their messages fail due to DKIM/SPF failures.

I just want to push back against the “it’s impossible to self host email” meme that seems comes around occasionally. Every time I’ve run into an issue there has been a solution.