Thanks for the explanation!
dan
I still call it Twitter because their emails are still branded as Twitter. I don't actually use it any more but I do get so much spam through DMs that I'm considering deleting my account. I'm mostly holding it just so nobody squats on my username.
Websites don't have an actual check for a legit email.
Some do. You can connect to an SMTP server and pretend to send an email (send the EHLO
, MAIL FROM
, and RCPT TO
commands, but don't actually send any content). A lot of servers will immediately reject as soon as you provide an invalid recipient email address.
Of course, that doesn't work for any domains with a catchall address (where every address at a domain goes to one mailbox), and some SMTP servers don't reject the email until later (or even just silently ignore emails to invalid addresses) in order to avoid enumeration attacks.
Do you mean in mixed language documents? Can't you tell it that parts of the document are in a different language? You could do that in Microsoft Word 25 years ago - Word lets you set the default language for a document, but you can change it per paragraph.
I'm using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug. I've been using it for three years and haven't had issues with it cycling though.
Good point. I am using a UPS now so I'll get rid of the smart plug.
I don't know anything about this company, but fiber is almost always better than cable. Lower latency, more reliable, and it's usually symmetric (upload speed is the same as download speed).
must be doing some construction on my street because they made survey marks on my property and painted where the gas line and water lines are. Could this be because they are putting in the fiber cables?
It's possible! Those marks means that some sort of digging/excavation is happening nearby. The company that wants to do the work calls a "dial before you dig" service (811 in the USA) and all the utility companies come out and mark their lines.
A while back, I saw a story in the Home Assistant Facebook group about someone's child saying "Hey Google, turn on everything" and it messing things up. I was telling the story to my wife and forgot to replace "Hey Google" with something Google wouldn't pick up on. Oops. It heard my "turn on everything" and chaos ensued. I have some Zigbee alarms that all started sounding. It enabled several different scenes and ran several scripts. All TVs turned on. My Xbox and Nvidia Shield were fighting for control of the TV (there's some issue with HDMI-CEC that I haven't figured out where if both are on, they get stuck in a loop changing the TV input between HDMI2 and HDMI3 about once per second).
Don't do that. "Turn off everything" is bad too. I ~~have~~ used to have my server rack plugged into a smart plug to measure power usage, and "turn off everything" turns that off. I want to figure out how to disable these two voice commands.
KDE still has some of the most popular effects built-in, including wobbly windows, desktop cube, magic lamp when minimizing/maximizing, blurring semitransparent windows, "exploding" windows when you close them. They're built in with no extra software required - just go to the "Desktop Effects" settings.
I usually use HTTPS, because a lot of web features only work over HTTPS.
You can use Let's Encrypt DNS challenges to get real TLS certificates for internal hosts, instead of having to use your own CA or self-signed certificates.
Tailscale has several NAT bypass / hole punching methods for double NAT (including CGNAT) and symmetric NAT, but they don't work in 100% of cases. https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
IPv6 is definitely a good solution since then you don't have to deal with NAT at all. IPv6 is pretty easily doable in the USA (at long as you're not using Starlink) but can be harder in other countries that don't have as robust IPv6 infrastructure.
My favourite ones are these ones from Sengled: https://a.co/d/9UPGMTZ
I'm in the USA so these are US-style ones. They support 1800W (which is the max for standard US outlets), use Zigbee, and are ETL certified.