I do it. Postfix+dovecot+spamassassin managed with ISPConfig running on a VPS. Works just fine, but my domains already have a long-ish good reputation so that may play a part on my experience. Biggest headache is to keep things running, which occasionally means jumping trough hoops microsoft(mostly) and others throw at you by flagging your server as spam for no apparent reason.

It’s quite likely that any given IP, unless you get one from shady VPS provider or something, is “clean”. And if it’s not it’s usually not that big of a deal to get it cleared from major blacklists (spamhaus, google and microsoft covers quite a lot). You just need to dig up proper forms to tell them that you’re a new owner of said IP and promise to play nice.

Same goes with domain names, but if you get a new one that’s a non-issue. Just set up SPF-records properly (and preferably DKIM/DMARC, but those aren’t strictly necessary and need a bit more than a single TXT-record) and you’re good to go.

And then you of course need to stay away from those lists. If you configure your SMTP to act as a open proxy you’ll be on every shitlist on the planet pretty quickly. So, reasonable measures against compromised account (passwords, firewalls, rate limits…) and against other threats (misconfigured/unsafe web service used for spam and stuff like that). Any of those alone are not too difficult to accomplish, but there’s quite a few things you need to get right.

I meant that I don’t know if these trash incinerators are managed properly. I’m well aware that in general there’s a crapload of unmanaged pollution and a ton of other problems around, but like every other country China is slowly improving their stuff so it’s not impossible that new plants would be up to modern standards.

It is possible to burn waste and manage the pollution in at least somewhat safe manner. Finland and Sweden do it reasonably well with high temperature furnaces and filtering the exhaust gases either with mechanical filter or trough water. That also (at least as far as I know) requires that you sort out the waste and don’t burn stuff like electronics, metals and some other crap which can be effectively recycled and manage whatever remains properly.

So, it’s possible, but I have absolutely no idea if China does that properly.

doesn’t just make it’s way back there?

Well, it kind of does, just like it did before. It’s just way too slow for us hairless monkeys to see it happening, we’re all gone well before that happens. Eventually some other lizard will crawl up to the land from the sea and maybe it’s a bit wiser than us.

Maybe easier to get anything runnin quickly. But it obfuscates a lot of things and creates additional layer of stuff which you need to then manage. Like few days ago there was discussion about how docker, by default, creates rules which bypass the “normal” INPUT rules on many (most?) implementations. And backup scenario is different, it’s not as straightforward to change configuration than with traditional daemon and it’s even more likely to accidentally delete your data as a whole.

As I already said, docker has its uses, but when you’re messing around and learning a new system you first need to learn how to manage the ropes with docker and only after that you can mess around with the actual thing you’re interested of. And also what I personally don’t really like is the mindset that you can just throw something on a docker and leave it running without any concern which is often promoted with ‘quickstart’-type documentation.

You absolutely can run services without containers and when learning and trying things out I’d say it’s even preferable. Docker is a whole another beast to manage and has a learning curve of it’s own.

Containers can of course be useful but setting everything up, configuring networking, managing possible integrations with other components (for example authentication via LDAP) it’s often simpler just to run the thing “in traditional way”. With radicale you can just ‘apt install radicale’ (or whatever you’re using) and have a go with it without extra layer of stuff you need to learn before getting something out of the thing. And even on production setups it might be preferred approach to go with ‘bare metal’, but that depends on quite a few variables.

On residential connections it’s a bit pain in the rear, but if you get VPS (or something similar) it’s perfectly manageable. You just need to maintain stuff properly, like having proper DNS records, and occasionally clear false positives from spam lists. The bigger issue is to have proper backups and precautions, I’ve hosted my own emails for over 10 years and should I lose all the data and ability to receive new messages it would be a massive personal problem.

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase

It’s not in a sense that’s globally understood. Your Joe Average can’t just bribe their way out of anything. Political and other social cirles and generic cronyism is another matter, but even there currency is pretty often something else than money.

Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges

You really can’t pay off judges here. But if you can show that taking your license away would make things considerable difficult for you (like losing income) they’ll let you keep it on certain cases.

Your rights end where other people’s begins.

Damn right. There’s a ton of things on our everyday lives which limit our ability to use the things we own. And flying a drone is not that different than driving on a street, at least on a very fundamental level. There’s a set of agreed rules we (mostly) can trust in order to keep things running and keep everyone safe. You’re not allowed to drive anywhere you physically could, you need to keep your vehicle in a decent condition, drive on the correct lane within a speed limit and so on.

I’ve had my drone for 3 or 4 years now and I’ve taken a crapload of pictures with it all around and there’s been three cases where the zone limitations were an issue of any kind. One was when I tried to film my daughters sports game where the field was next door to an active airport, other was a bigger local event where police had denied all drones as a safety measure (one might argue if that was necessary on this case, but rules are rules) and third one was nearby Russian border.

And I can perfectly understand each and every one of those. Me getting a few neat photos from something is far less important than safety of other people. Plus I could still take all the photos I want from each of those locations with my cellphone or mount a telescope on my DSLR and use that.

I assumed that our (Finland) rules are EU wide, but apparently there’s some differences. In here, if you’re flying a drone with a camera, you’ll need a registration and license (~30€/year, online course) which grants you “free flight” below 120 meters. But there’s exclusions around airports, military and some government locations, nearby country borders and things like that which make sense. Also if you’re having a bigger event you can request a no-fly zone above it for various reasons (safety mostly but it’s possible to get that to stop non-event managed drone footage as well). And with camera you also need to pay attention for privacy, but that’s no different than carrying an DSLR, like it’s illegal to take photos trough your neighbors bedroom window no matter what kind of camera you use. Other rules dictate that you can’t fly over crowds and other reasonable safety measures.

At least my DJI won’t even attempt to fly on these zones unless I spesifically get a permit from local authorities and send a copy to them to revoke the zone on my profile.

pre-installed interface

Doesn’t pretty much every car already have CAN bus?

Obviously we’re talking about hobbyist level stuff and with that there’s always something what can go wrong and it’s not always obvious what it is. So if the ‘remote end’ doesn’t have someone who can do at least very basic troubleshooting it can be nearly impossible to fix the setup over the phone unless you just replace the whole thing and ship whole units back and forth.

But in this particular case the remote end has someone who knows their stuff so it’s taken care of, with or without a KVM. I’ve been thinking a similar setup with my relatives and on my case the distance isn’t an issue but it’s still something I’d need to bother family members with and, for me, it was simpler to get a storage box from hetzner and run backups to that instead of getting more hardware.

Maintenance is anyways something you need to consider and viable options for that vary on a case-by-case basis, so there’s no ‘one size fits all’ solution.

It won’t help if your power supply breaks and KVM itself can malfunction too. It’s of course nice to have, but it has limitations.

I would consider also the case where something goes wrong. Maybe the whole thing crashes, maybe you misconfigure something, maybe there’s a power outage or something else happens and you lose the connectivity. Is there someone on site who can do anything to your hardware as you can’t easily just go and figure it out by yourself?

If the answer is ‘no’ then I would strongy reconsider the whole approach. On a worst case scenario the system goes down before you’re even back home from the trip and then your hardware is just gathering dust.

I’m pretty sure there’s already a gambling website around where you can bet how long these announcements last. Could’t find one on o quick google search, but I’m quite sure there is one.

“But don’t forget the situation we are in. Now is the time of military censorship, unprecedented for our country. After all, the war is going on in the information space too,” Peskov is quoted as saying by the magazine.

So it is a war after all? And that front goes both ways, you can see even here on Lemmy comments which could be paid actors on behalf of Russia. Most likely not all of them get paid, but I’m pretty sure at least some do (obviously not focusing just on Lemmy).

As long as there’s no military need for them against an invasion there will be zero mines in the ground. No one will hurt themselves with them, unless some storage worker happens to drop a box on their toes.

As of why now, you can’t pull out of agreement and start to build up manufacturing and logistics if there’s active invasion going on. I hope not a single one of them is ever dug on our Finnish soil, but I’m glad that our military is prepared to use any viable option if they need to.