Buy a domain. Get Proton, or Apple, or any other custom-domain email service.

Setup catch-all incoming mail.

Every merchant receives an email like merchantname@donotwriteto.me

Then you can either sort those out, or if they are malicious and not deleting you from your email lists, you can block the incoming traffic on that email.

This way you still can verify your email, comm stays private and you can have your own peace of mind, but you don't have to keep the spam in your primary inbox.

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We could have used the momentum to build new work opportunities and resources.

Instead we managed to mis-represent the thing so much that people won't even consider having a data center in their vicinity.

It COULD have been a good thing. It became a bad thing.

On the other hand, as mentioned by others: Why bother if you use CarPlay?

Good thing that I'm winning. Everyone who looses his tank goes to do the deploy.

But nevertheless:

> Both firms emphasize that their capability rests on fusing together massive collections of data of different types and scales rather than exploiting any vulnerability in Starlink.

So this is a data collection agency that tracks starlink receivers on statistical data. I could imagine they can estimate starlink terminals and see who is using starlink to connect to the internet, but not to pinpoint the location of a terminal.

Just as anyone else can figure out my ISP if they wish to do that.

I've checked the article. It's written by a credible creator who has not been caught in a lot of BS. At the same time the article is quite wordy and states that the software does not track the terminals. It can't.

I can bet the math on this project is beautiful.

And I won't even mention that I have no idea how to use ED.

The adult category is a very touchy one. When one get's an OK to connect to the credit card network he has to go a very arduous procedure of being approved by a CC provider. Because the worst thing that can happen from a viewpoint of a payment provider is a return. At the exact moment when someone asks for a return on a credit card, the provider is the one who is responsible and has to revert the transaction instantly.

(That's why Banks are sooooo lengthy and pushy about you filing those claims. They don't want you to initiate the return.)

Now, if you sell weed, do gambling, sell crypto, do porn or anything else of that sort, you have to pay extra for your card processing, to offset all potential problems for the payment provider.

Problems? What problems? Well, a LOT of transactions for adult content and toys happen on stolen cards. And those cards are not stolen per say. It's just a kid taking parent's CC card, or your SO is using it without your knowledge. Once found, this results in a lot of scandals and quarreling. Followed by a return request. And those returns are very annoying to that. The service "technically" was delivered. But now you are loosing it. And the payments provider does not want to be hit by that.

In fact, this is not a news in the first place. When Kickstarter sign their agreement with the card provider, they specifically stated categories of services they will be responsible for. And I guess porn was not one of them. So what? Now the provider saw a chargeback because of the adult content and did the most standard thing: Went back to the documents, noted the fact that Kickstarter not suppose to be doing adult content, and went back to Kickstarter to tell them to stop.

I handle 2-3 of such cases per month. It's called routine.

But now, enter the world of entertainment. A quick search shows one that Kotaku is a subsidiary of a larger conglamerate G/O Media (Gizmodo - Onion). A private equity company that bought out a bunch of entertainment websites like Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku. It started in 2019, and went basically bankrupt by 2023. They have been selling their websites to different holdings. In 2025 Kotaku was sold to a Swiss conclamerate that put it into a line of similar useless media resources. And if you check the author - you'll find out that he is a well-established gaming reporter. With little knowledge of the money business.

And then this article makes it to HN.

That's the killer feature of the Neo. This is going to be the killer feature of this one. Working alongside pixel. You have some sort of a platform.

What are they after? Your data, obviously. I doubt they have such a success, I don't see THAT many Pixels around.

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I mean, those are the people who will pay $500k per year for a dev, just to make sure that their problems are out of their way.

Just use it, and win on it.

The internet was awesome.

Okay, it took me some time that the mail client is called "ThunderBIRD", not the BOLT. Not that I've used it much. But why the logo in github still shows TunderBIRD?

It looks like Mozilla is trying to catch the band wagon for no particular reason. They don't need it AT ALL. But they just jumped in along for a ride.

Yes, I've just checked, even in 2009 you still have IE over 64% of browser usage.

I remember the times when IE passed ACID test? Do we remember the ACID? http://acid2.acidtests.org/#top

Ah, what the times were those. Firefox was just gaining traction.

And I agree. Slack is sitting there, consuming over gig of memory on my computer, and Miranda NG was able to do the same functionality with cool skins and just 30 megs of ram.

Skins... Skins... We've lost even those...

Now, when Linux is slowly creeping on one side, and Mac NEO on another they keep releasing this AI-slop.

By the looks of it they make most of their money from the cloud and other software things nowadays. And Windows has become a sidekick in their processes.

Our infrastructure at times goes back 200 years old. We have rules and words in today's networking linguo that go back 70 years old. You can't just go and tell that it would have been better this way. It absolutely would. And I'm happy for Swiss people who can have 25gpbs at a fraction of the cost. But you can't do that with an emerging tech that is trying to replace existing architecture.

Swiss guys built all that after the tech was wide-spread in the world, and they have built it over a very outdated infrastructure. It was a breeze.

US just unable to use this approach. We can't.

Should we come up with a new one? Yes. Should we look at the Swiss solution and try to replicate it. Yes. Is it awesome? Yes. Would it work here? No.

I wish this could be a bit more user-friendly, like p2p networking that does not require any user configuration, just install a client and it will p2p automatically.

There is a point of responsibility in here, and it is up to the management to triage the fallout of this "mistake".