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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube

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  • MXroute are great. I switched to self-hosting my email server using Mailcow a few years ago, but still use MXroute for outbound email (meaning my SMTP server relays outbound email via MXroute). They've got deliverability figured out and have several fallbacks - I think if all of their outbound servers fail to send the email, they retry via Mailbaby and Mailchannels.

  • Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube

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  • Forwarding is a decent approach too. Just note that it's not 100% reliable (due to limitations around spam filtering) and you will sometimes have emails that get dropped.

  • Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube

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  • On the web, it would not be possible.

    Why not?

  • Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube

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  • Gmail can be easily replaced, by like Proton mail or something

    Except for the fact that you'll need to update your email address in so many places.

    If you do move to a different provider, make sure you use your own domain. It's way more professional, and it lets you move to a different provider in the future without having to change your email address again. I've had one of my email addresses for a bit over 20 years across a bunch of different providers.

    The paid version of Protonmail lets you have up to 3 custom domains. MXRoute and FastMail let you use your own domain too. MXRoute supports unlimited domains and addresses; you're just limited by total disk space.

    If the email address is important to you, it's better to use a paid service since it'll usually give you proper support and an SLA.

  • Full Stack Developer

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  • That really depends on the company. At big tech companies, it's common for the levels and salary bands to be the same for both generalists (or full stack or whatever you want to call them) and specialists.

    It also changes depending on market conditions. For example, frontend engineers used to be in higher demand than backend and full-stack.

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  • would there be any difference if the webpage has a JS button to put something in the clipboard, or it having code running in the background that puts things into the clipboard at page load?

    Clicking a button shows user intent, whereas a page load doesn't. No user expects loading a page to overwrite their clipboard, but every user that clicks a "Copy to Clipboard" button does expect it.

  • HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best

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  • DNS?

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  • Not sure what you mean by "controlled" given it's open-source?

  • HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best

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  • That's pretty good given (as far as I know) the main use case for HaLow is for low bandwidth, very low power use cases, like for IoT devices and other things you'd use Zigbee or Z-wave for today, including devices that run for years off a single button cell battery

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    Software for manga/book reader

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  • Which OS?

    On Android, Moon+ Reader is pretty good.

    My wife uses the Amazon Kindle app on her Android tablet. You can use it for non-Kindle books by sending an email to a special email address for your Kindle account: https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email.

    Calibre is useful for this. It shows an easy to use "send to Kindle" button, and can convert books in ePub, mobi, etc formats to the format that works best in the Kindle app (AZW3).

    If you want a web interface for Calibre (eg to run on a home server and download books when you're away from your computer), Calibre-web works well.

  • DNS?

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  • But why deal with separate software like dnscrypt-proxy when AdGuard Home has it built-in?

  • DNS?

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  • A recursive DNS server and a local DNS cache/forwarder/are two different things with two different purposes. You will always need both.

    Why do you need two separate ones though? Recursive DNS servers also cache responses. Usually the only reason you'd run a local forwarder/cache is if you're not running a local recursive server.

  • Plex; Introducing Plex Photos Beta

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  • Yeah it'll use the local copy if it exists.

  • Plex; Introducing Plex Photos Beta

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  • I have Plexamp on my phone configured to automatically download the "loved" album (songs I've rated 4 or 5 stars). It automatically downloads songs I add to the playlist. My library is too big to download it all to my phone (most songs are in FLAC format) so I'd need to download a curated list anyways.

    This seems to work well. I've used it a few times on flights or when I'm in a hotel room with spotty phone coverage and no wifi.

  • DNS?

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  • Throw Unbound on there too as your upstream recursive resolver

    If you want to run your own recursive DNS server, why would you run two separate DNS servers?

    You don’t even need to worry about an encrypted session to your upstream anymore because your upstream is now your loopback.

    Your outbound queries will still be unencrypted, so your ISP can still log them and create an advertising profile based on them. One of the main points of DoH and DoT is to avoid that, so you'll want them to be encrypted at least until they leave your ISP's network.

  • Plex; Introducing Plex Photos Beta

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  • You can download all your playlists.

  • DNS?

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  • AdGuard Home is a better choice than PiHole since it uses DNS-over-HTTPS by default. There's also an app called AdGuardHome-Sync to sync settings between multiple instances.

    I'd recommend running two DNS servers, and at least one of those separately from the rest of your infrastructure like on a Pi. That way, if you need to pull one of them offline, the internet still works.

  • Docker Raises Prices Up to 80 Percent | ServeTheHome

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  • Surely you mean WS_FTP LE.

  • Plex; Introducing Plex Photos Beta

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  • Put all songs in a playlist and then download that playlist?