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New comment by zahrc in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

zahrc — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:43:41 +0000

Many email providers and third party security tools default settings automatically bounce or block SPF failures, no matter what DKIM says... so no, not using SPF completely is a bad idea.

Using it minimally is correct, thou. Route outbound mail through as few controlled relays as possible so your SPF record only needs to list infrastructure you actually *own*, rather than growing it every time a new tool needs to send mail.

I have seen way too many clients almost hit the char limit in a TXT record

New comment by zahrc in "Modder Runs GTA III Inside GTA: San Andreas on an In-Game TV"

zahrc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:15:17 +0000

Writing custom scripts in PAWN and then later mods, hacks and cheats for CLEO was my personal gateway into coding. Most RP servers were so nepotistic, so that was my way of getting back and fighting the "system". Fun times, do not miss it tho.

New comment by zahrc in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

zahrc — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:57:53 +0000

I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes. It’s a shame that it’s now a brand of low quality AI-generated content.

New comment by zahrc in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

zahrc — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:28:28 +0000

I’ve been around the internet for a long and a lot of time and have never seen s2 being used to convey a heart… took me second to figure it out actually.

New comment by zahrc in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

zahrc — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:25:48 +0000

shrugs and walks off

New comment by zahrc in "WiFi signals can measure heart rate"

zahrc — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:47:13 +0000

And look where that got Germany; my hometown and neighbouring towns are mostly on ADSL or rarely VDSL if you’re lucky, because the big players don’t want anything to do with the cost and legal side.

Local municipalities establish de-facto monopolies and drive prices up, because they offer slightly faster and stable lines.

There is a joint effort by local utility companies in Mecklenburg and they’re trying to make things better, but anecdotally are also challenging to deal with.

My now residence here in the UK is not really rural and for years Giganet/CityFibre/toob promised gigabit soonTM for years and the date got delayed and delayed and delayed.

New comment by zahrc in "All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair"

zahrc — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:59:41 +0000

There is unfortunately no formula for it, apart from, play the game that senior management wants to be played.

I’d say, stick to your guns and find a job that supports your morales, not the other way around.

New comment by zahrc in "Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models"

zahrc — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:10:10 +0000

No, it's nothing more than that, and that is the most frustrating. I agree with you on the other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777760#44778294) and a confidence metric or a simple "I do not know" could fix a lot of the hallucination.

In the end, is driven towards engagement and delivering an answer and that drives it towards generating false answers when it doesn't know or understand.

If it was more personality controlled, delivering more humble and less confident answers or even making it say that it doesn't know would be a lot easier.

New comment by zahrc in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

zahrc — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:36:22 +0000

Check Jallmann’s response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578490#44578917

TLDR; DoH was working

New comment by zahrc in "Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits"

zahrc — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:23:31 +0000

Any image in this position would be distracting.

However, I have never understood notions like this: “it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon”

Is like my great grandpa scolding us at the dinner table for laughing and talking.

New comment by zahrc in "Windows Control Panel set for deprecation"

zahrc — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:39:31 +0000

Control panel is bad. The alternatives are worse. Prepare to have your settings gated behind several menus you have to navigate through!

New comment by zahrc in "Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?"

zahrc — Mon, 13 May 2024 10:27:53 +0000

And even then it happens to ignore context or queries from start or halfway through. I'd rather spend the time coding then trying to bruteforce it to give me the answer I need.

New comment by zahrc in "Don't kill my app"

zahrc — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:42:54 +0000

> It's not always easy doing that for Apple, but there's not ten different ways you have to do things for ten different manufacturers.

It's why, I, as a user, chose to stick with iOS. At least it's the devil I know, with the behaviour and boundaries that I can accept - without having to figure out every kink everytime there is an update.

I understand that some people prefer to tinker with their phones, I do not.

New comment by zahrc in "Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android"

zahrc — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 06:37:58 +0000

Comment from another poster (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pokey96) down below

> From other sites, it seems it uses a Mac Mini in a server room as a proxy for iMessage to accomplish this, with the massive drawback of having to provide Nothing your Apple ID credentials.

No thanks, I’m good.

New comment by zahrc in "Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some"

zahrc — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:09:01 +0000

It would be only a relief for a symptom and not actually curing the cause.

New comment by zahrc in "End of Support for Cortana in Windows"

zahrc — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:55:27 +0000

https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165...

New comment by zahrc in "Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won"

zahrc — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:34:28 +0000

The best advice I can give people who struggle to claim something from an airline and get exhausted of getting rejected, use flightright.com. (No - not affiliated with them)

I had a claim rejected and initially it was rejected when flightright attempted to claim it. It went to court and even after commission I ended up with more money than I paid for the tickets.

All I had to do was sign a few documents and have patience.

New comment by zahrc in "Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours"

zahrc — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:04:50 +0000

Twitter alternative by Meta

New comment by zahrc in "Anime Confronts a New Apocalypse"

zahrc — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:05:34 +0000

Sturgeons law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

New comment by zahrc in "This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi-like computer"

zahrc — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:51:23 +0000

Yep. It’s mentioned in the about section