Nope, denser objects fall faster than less dense ones (through the air). Remember: A kilogram of feathers is just as heavy as a kilogram of lead.

Wut?

The reason I gave up self hosting email was because all my emails kept going to spam for everyone I emailed.

You need to set up DKIM, SPF and DANE, then most big email providers will accept your mail. Worst case, you may need to contact them to unblock your mail server’s IP if that has been used by a spammer prior to you.

Plus incoming email needs spam protection.

Both SpamAssassin and Rspamd do a decent job of that.

Note: I’m using rspamd, and for some time at the beginning, it looked like it wasn’t really doing anything. Turns out it needs a couple hundred training emails before it will start using the Bayes function. Just feed your Spam folder into the learn_spam command and any of your normal, not-spam folders into the learn_ham command.

Domain registration information can usually be found out somehow, although these days you have to jump through some additional hoops to get it, and those hoops are designed to discourage automated lookups. The privacy gains you get from hosting your own email server, though, are massive and IMHO more than worth it. If you are not hosting your own mail server, then the most you can expect from having your own domain is nicer looking email addresses. Depending on what your hosting provider supports you might also get unlimited aliases, maybe even regex aliases, which can be very helpful when handing out mail addresses to various companies and internet services.

If your main concern is that your email address should not be associated with your real identity, your best bet is to just use a VPN to connect to any large email hoster, like ProtonMail. (Obviously don’t use Proton Mail if Proton is also your VPN.)

War wohl nicht gut rüber gekommen, mein Kommentar sollte sein, dass Trumps Reaktion hier doch sehr an den Drachen erinnert.

Das glaub ich dir gerne so Leude Forza ist jetzt fertig runtergeladen woll‘n wa ma ne Runde starten

I don’t know, they’re demanding quite a lot of expensive stuff there. Of course, it depends on what the contract the says, or of there even if a contract at that point. If the contract allows for that stuff, or if they’re willing to pay hefty additional fees for all that, than that’s okay. If not, they are acting unreasonably entitled here.

* Edit: Just saw the second pic. It’s still wild but they are offering to pay as much as it takes, so as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the clear.

There’s talk on reddit about another more close-up video that shows him getting hit in the carotid artery.

That’s pretty bad. I don’t like Charlie Kirk at all, but him getting shot is going to rile up the right into a fierce frenzy. This will get dangerous, and will make the situation even worse.

Posts in public forums are very often made for the sake of just about anybody reading the thread, not just the person they are directly responding to.

How much of this stuff is made up? I know Venmo is real, but a lot of the rest sounds like parody names.

RIP David Graeber.

I suppose I’m gonna have to be “that guy” again:

40 years ago, Microsoft did not “invent Excel”. They developed yet another spreadsheet application and called it “Excel”, presumably in a moment of coke-fueled hubris. (I mean, seriously, “Excel” as a product name? We don’t think about that much these days, because we have gotten used to that name, but if you didn’t already know about MS Excel, how high on your own supply do you need to be to call a software product that?)

The actual invention of the spreadsheet was done by other people. The earliest example was probably Visicalc for the Apple II, and a more prominent example predating Excel was Lotus 1-2-3.

Sorry to be so nitpicky, but urban legends like “Microsoft invented the spreadsheet”, “Microsoft invented word processors”, “MIcrosoft invented operating systems”, “Apple invented GUIs”, “Apple invented the computer mouse”, “Apple invented portable MP3 players”, “Apple invented smartphones” and the like form the base for some very distorted narratives about how our world works, and I don’t like it.

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

How curiously pertinent in more than one way…

Allowing domestic producers to raise their prices by removing international competition is precisely the point of tariffs.

Money quote from the article:

For its part, Russia had largely shrugged off Mr. Trump’s previous 50-day deadline, noting that past deadlines set by Mr. Trump or his team had come and gone with little consequence.

The only context in which I’ve ever heard of that place is that big military cemetery.

We’re getting close to the point where “running a stock ROM” is on the same level of inadvisable as “using a web browser without ad blocking”. The latter of which was, btw, also not that big if a deal like ten or fifteen years ago.

This woman could probably afford to just buy a new house if her current one is in need of a new coat of paint, let alone if it’s suffering from mold growth. Yet she chooses to live like this.

Also, I cannot get over that look on her face. That sheer barely hidden contempt oozing from it. The superiority complex behind it. The signature look of a narcissist.