For example not every Trump supporter walks around with a MAGA hat. It's one thing to anonymously vote for Trump, it's another to make it public and deal with all the social backlash.
I'm all for capitalism, but still don't understand how people can work in that cost-cutting department.
If I was working there, Id quit the moment I realized what my job was about. Id honestly rather be homeless that get a paycheck from that kind of work.
I have a small child on the spectrum. Hes very hard working and its good he is, because pretty much everything is 3x more difficult for him to learn. Language, coordination, emotional regulation. Before diving into this world I also thought it had some benefits, now that I see the daily struggle I dont think it does.
I love it. I too started programming with QBasic in the 90s. I spent many hours modifying (and breaking) the code for bananas.bas and nibbles.bas to give myself all kinds of superpowers.
I haven't touched QB in decades but I'm glad someone did and had fun working on it.
They spend that amount on a bike, because they first bought a $300 bike, then upgraded to a $1500 one, etc. It's the same with guitars, you can start cheap and figure out if it's really for you.
I switched to a unihertz jelly phone. I configured the screen to display in grayscale.
It can do everything I need, but it's uncomfortable to use. The screen is tiny, it's a pain to type, etc. But if I really need to reply to an email it's entirely possible.
Aside from SPF, DMARC and DKIM, there's the concept of "pre-warming" an IP.
Where you gradually send more and more email throughout a few weeks until you have enough good reputation to send your entire volume. This is the part that's outside of normal configuration and takes more time.
In my particular case I was trying to move a system that sends about 5million legitimate emails per month (notifications for a lot of customers) - off of AWS onto a self hosted solution.
We spend about 2k per month just on sending emails and I thought if I spent a few days on it we could save that money.
Unless your IPs have built a reputation it's not going to work. I could gradually migrate volume, monitor the bounce rate, adjust, etc. But that was more work than I could afford to put into that project. I also couldn't risk getting emails sent to spam while I experimented.
hmm, I've made several attempts at this with postfix with DKIM,DMARC and SPF all correctly configured and validated and big providers will still sometimes flag me as spam.
It sounds nice in theory, in practice I've found it's pretty much impossible to send your own email reliabily.
The cheapest working fix for me is to relay everything through a
AWS SES, and magically everything is now accepted. A little frustrating, but that's what the Internet has come to.
I was expecting a question about simple%[email protected].
which I remember was a useful trick when I worked as a sendmail admin in the early 2000s.