@vascorsd d?

@gahlord @db @loriemerson @kupfers @mario_angst_sci Agreed. I deploy high rep MTA's often, and have run my own for over 20yrs, Postfix+Postscreen/Dovecot/OpenDKIM/Procmail/ClamAV stacks mostly. But to be honest it is non-trivial without sufficient knowledge and diligence, esp today. Many boxes to tick, DMARC, SPF, DKIM, rDNS/PTR ++. But once done, secured, and running, it is indeed very low maintenance, with A+ scores and delivery. A beautiful thing to be free of the big mailboxes.

The choice is obvious

In honour of the season, the code "SPOOKYTIME" at checkout will get new subscribers (Latte's Worth, Crow's Nest, and Nest Egg tiers) 50% off their first month at my Patreon, until 10/31.
https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

@mike me too. 'tis the season 🫡

Huh. Bit ironic that the best tip I received for a fully Canadian email hosting service just came through a non-bridged Bsky account replying to my bridged projection !

Ok, Fedi, tell me about NorthMail for personal or small orgs that need minimal, but own-domain mail services? I actually really need only ONE account per “organization”, with forwarded aliases managed by me or the org. As inexpensively as is sustainable for a non-enshittifying service. Eg, we can pay, but not huge bills.

RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/117150487311568270

Logging in...

@TechConnectify I just put one of those Panasonic carbon-zinc batteries in a clock today.

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Here we go again 🙄 #NHLJets

"This update adds support for Linux and Steam Deck, along with WASD keyboard movement and other features"
So uh, this game already had Linux support and I remember playing with WASD, so... what's up with that? Oh, the game's been sold to someone new who's using "AI" to give it a spruce up? I guess that tracks :/

@lumi I prefer the term "diversity" of the ecosystem, which emphasizes user choice.

"Fragmentation" is the other side of the coin, when portability becomes difficult because people are scattered among N incompatible projects. That is what has happened for at least a good decade with various OSes implementing their own incompatible extensions to POSIX.

Diversity without fragmentation is achievable, but it needs a focus on collaboration. Let's hope the next generation of Unix-like OSes is smarter about this than the previous/current one was.

Key takeaways from the 2026 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board public meetings
https://www.shiftaction.ca/news/2026/10/30/key-takeaways-from-the-2026-cppib-public-meetings

This morning while once again affirming that William Adama had the right idea about not trusting technology, I remembered my favorite part of the Battlestar Galactica remake: Ronald D. Moore's podcast talking about the episodes. Some of them were roundtables with cast and crew, resulting in some really funny stuff.

Direct links to mp3s of these moments, since past Jer thoughtfully cut them out:

1. The time that Edward James Olmos was convinced that sleep deprivation would result in mass suicides, hired a sleep expert expecting them to confirm it.

2. The time the actor who played Gaius Baltar voiced concern about how through the entire pilot miniseries, his character never knew the name of the woman he was in love with.

3. And the time Ron Moore first met Patrick Stewart on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation, was surprised with how forthright he was about the role of a captain on a starship..

@Dougfir Ha! Shoes?!?!

@ai6yr
I once won a pair of shoes by being the first caller to correctly identify Jackson Brown as the singer of some song. Back when radio stations still had live DJs playing records.

PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.

New in V0.5.0

New & Improved

• Shareable Blocklists: Users can create, maintain, and share block lists of users, communities, instances, or domains. Users can be hidden completely or muffled.
• Roles: Permissions have been changed into ‘Roles’, these offer expanded functionality. Admins can create multiple roles choosing what permissions they can be given, if any. As well as setting upload and storage limits, ability to post video, etc. Posts can be restricted to certain roles for matters of voting and commenting.
• Temporary Bans: Now users can be banned from an instance for a limited range of time. This also fixes the nasty bug that leads to temp bans from Lemmy never expiring on PieFed instances.
• Instance Chooser: Discovers new instances from Fediseer, as well as polling other instances. This removes any singular point of authority in seeding new instances and helps disperse discovery. Instances in the chooser also show Fediseer endorsements, and Fediseer tags can be searched for to help find instances based on content.
• New User Experience: New users are better presented topics when joining to help discover content, and a user with no subscriptions is shown a list of popular communities and feeds they may want to join.

Bug-Fixes & Misc

• Inline Comment Editing: Edit your comments without leaving your position on the conversation.
• Visual Changes: Small changes to create a more unified modern look.
• Bento Tiles: Masonry Tiles are revamped into Bento boxes, masonry-wide has been removed. Removed security issue in tiles.
• Instance Vote Settings: Admins can select if up/downvotes are accepted from an instance.
• Instance Overview: When browsing instances additional information about them is displayed.
• New Fonts: Ubuntu and Open Dyslexic have been added. Ubuntu is now the default font for new instances.
• New Post: Starting a new post no longer changes targetted community when switching post type, non-allowed post types are hidden if that community does not accept them.
• Themes: PhpBB and Trans theme are currently removed awaiting some much needed fixing, they will return in the future.

All OK btw! Not involved any more than sudden FRICKIN HUGE LUMPS OF METAL FLYING PAST AND CLOSE, and over too quick to be much more than "what the hell".

Sources: Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-30/baseten-set-for-30-billion-valuation-with-new-funding
http://www.techmeme.com/261030/p29#a261030p29