Residents of West Berlin showing their children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961 - Library of Congress

#Berlin #1961 #BerlinWall #people #coldwar #photography #blackandWhite

Rainy, lazy #caturday

@Edent Not me, but I'm pretty sure one of them is @pikesley

“The Montclair Township Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pull all of the town’s money — about $91.1 million — out of Citizens Bank, protesting the bank’s financing of the private companies that run federal immigration detention centers.” https://www.nj.com/essex/2026/07/nj-town-pulls-91m-from-citizens-bank-over-ice-detention-financing.html

@cinebox To receive email? I... don't really. But I must, because modern life requires an email address, one that can receive mail.

I was doing some system updates this morning, and a scheduling issue briefly reposted some older updates. The issue has been fixed. I’m sorry for the extra posts, and I appreciate your patience.

@APBBlue Cute! Sad that it’s not in my size

@Em0nM4stodon The fully offline forever requirement may be the real filter. A lot of phone-sized readers can work offline after setup but still assume accounts or app updates. I’d separate offline after setup from never needs network; otherwise the device may quietly fail the stability goal.

Alle houten staven zijn even lang. Welke vorm zit er in het midden verborgen?

Moxie has been basically living in this pot in the heatwave.

#Caturday

Me hacéis muy feliz siendo tan anarquistas, gracias Mastodon.

@idzie That’s a really striking warbler.
Good job catching it on photo!

Today is #Caturday!
Do not forget to pay the Fediverse Cat Tax!

As often, @cwebber is right.

> The worst part of all this is you can't opt out. A colleague or an open source contributor sends you a "generous contribution" that is absolutely slop and certainly not understood by the person who submitted it. You're left sitting there, parsing whether or not you're going to be rude even to ask if this is LLM generated, or to unwittingly become a user of vibecoding workflows yourself by indirectly interacting with the agent through trying to respond to the issue/PR.
>
> You can't escape.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

@AnarchoNinaWrites At a party recently, I pointed out what I think is obvious: that if the US doesn't ban the Republican Party, it will just keep pushing fascism. The reaction ranged from "that's not necessary" to "how dare you suggest that?"

Like, do we agree they're fascists or not?

Mkay. Slight problem. My ISP blocks outgoing port 25 it looks like, so sending mail from Luggage is a bit... problematic.

The originating IP would be wrong, too.

Lets see what I can do...

1. I can run postfix on Eru, but I don't want to. I want to run as much in the homelab as possible.
2. I can tunnel outgoing port 25 through WireGuard, so it will appear coming from Eru, which is somewhat fine.
3. I can configure a relayhost for outgoing mail, which I will want to use anyway, because some of the recipients I write mail to only accept mail from an allow-lsited set of servers.

@packet @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it @_elena can you (privately) send me a screenshot? Thank you!

This #emfcamp is adequate. It is, impressive, even. #cosplay

I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path.

But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure he wasn't being firewalled, but he didn't show up in my abuse listing. But then on poking around, it became clear he couldn't talk to ANY port 25 ANYWHERE. And I thought, "Oh, right, they've got that blocked. Le'ts find an article talking about how to unblock it." Not too uncommon. So I looked for their docs on unblocking 25.

Turns out, there's no automated way - not even a support ticket type for the purpose. You have to open a general request.

But man, they REALLY don't want you opening a general request! This is a masterpiece of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

Without meaning to, they've eloquently captured the essence of everything we're seeing with the destructive corporatization and centralization of online services. They say:

"In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities."

This, not to put too fine a point on it, is BAD FOR US.

We need *more* selfhosting. I was a customer of theirs for a few years, but I stopped after they had some catastrophe that prevented me from accessing my server console for more than a week. Their support was underwater and I didn't get any movement until I decided to publically name and shame them with details of the incident.

This kind of attitude should make anyone hesitant to sign up for services with DigitalOcean.

#selfhosting #digitalocean