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Inspired by a recent post about email server software. The biggest hurdle to self-hosting email is large providers (especially gmail) putting your mail into spam regardless of whether or not you conform to the latest smtp standards (spf, dkim, dmarc, mta-sts), leading many to believe the large providers consider IP reputation as the most important signal for spam. Surprisingly many lobsters reported having no...

I’ve recently been experiencing terminal based games in Termux because I’ve always heard about them. One very neat thing is that I find myself actually using my imagination way more and it’s a feeling that I haven’t felt truly in a long time while playing a game. I’ve been enjoying rogue-likes like brogue or dungeon crawl stone soup, but Ive been expanding my horizons...

Moving house, and trying to set things up more properly this time. I had been running opensmtpd, but have heard questionable things about openbsd code, and it’s annoying to configure. Qmail seems nice in some respects—modular, configurable, secure, large patch ‘ecosystem’, etc.; my dad runs it—but last I looked into it it wanted to be djbbuilt and djbrun in a special djbway, which just...

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I’m aware of basic stuff like: make jobs idempotent/incremental try to keep configuration flags standard across jobs make data input/output artifacts apparent by passing them explicitly and/or logging their full paths eliminate toil (from the Google SRE book) try set up alerting in a way that avoids alarm fatigue But I can’t think of any specific resources that have practical advice on how to...

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I am highly extroverted. Many of my best programming efforts have been highly collaborative situations. Of course, I’ve spent thousands of hours programming by myself, but I’m facing the reality that I am just not an introvert, even if I’m working solo, I’m more motivated when I know there is another programmer on the project who I can share my code with. I’ve brought...

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To give an example: I had pretty amazing results with https://github.com/openai/whisper in transcribing audio. I’m interested in hearing what model you used, whether it required a GPU and if you had to do any tweaking on it. What comes to mind is using some models from Python to programmatically remove objects from videos, stylize photos with stable diffusion, etc. Thanks!

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

Hi everyone! Long ago Lobsters used to run interviews on active users. I thought that was a great idea but noticed it hadn’t happened for some time. I thought about which lobster I’d most like to see interviewed and immediately thought of David Chisnall. Enjoy! Introduce yourself, describe what you do for work and how long you’ve been at it. Professionally, I am currently...

By now you should have heard that various government agencies are issuing clear recommendations against using languages that aren’t memory safe by default. This led many to wonder what the future viability of C++ was. I’m an avid C++ programmer but when faced with the reality of how software is built, I have to applaud the effort here. Sure, maybe I trust myself to...

Feel free to post your current setup/battlestation/screenshots! I really enjoy these every year, and while deskto.ps is now a great place for screenshots, this really encapsulates everyone’s larger battlestations :) Previous threads can be found at: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 - Still Missing… I don’t even know if it happened in 2016… 2015

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Happy New Year. It’s now 2024. With everything you know and seen as of today, what would be your ideal blogging platform? Please give your opinion as either content consumer and/or producer. With the proliferation of walled gardens (specially for consuming web content), lock-in, continuos nagging to sign-in everywhere, spam, push for social validation, adverts, bait and switch offerings, etc. can’t help but think...

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Happy new year, happy new job! Template: **Company**:** XXXXXX **Company site:** XXXXX **Position(s):** XXXXXX **Location:** XXXXXX (please specify whether REMOTE or ONSITE) **Description:** XXXXXX **Tech stack:** XXXXXX **Compensation:** Salary, equity, vacation, major benefits. **Contact:** XXXXXX

I recently made a project that got a little popularity, but it was in swift specifically for Apple Silicon. A lot of people reached out to tell me i should make a cross platform version. So i built the basics in rust, but I’m not positive where we are with GUI these days. I’m kind of dreading complicating the app with front end tech...

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We’re closing out 2023, and I figured it’d be nice to give people a space to say what they’re thankful for, what fun they’ve had, what they plan to do next year, and so-on and so-forth. Happy New Year!

Following up from this post from 2023 I’d love to know what you Lobsters are planning to pick up in 2024!

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