My mail lived on an Intel atom based mini itx machine for years. I wanted to play with breakup by replication and bought a cheap shell. Now the cheap shell is my only mail server

Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host

Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address

Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname

Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users

If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.

I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy

It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email spam@your.domain.tld

It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.

Your ISP sees the connection to news.usenetserver.com and if they cared could get a court order to get your data from them. They can compel you to release your username and password.

You also need to protect yourself against future law and enforcement

I know that government prosecutions for fraud against government use IP addresses

The IP address identifies the company or home the fraud was done from, the account the money went to identifies the individual

If breaking the law and able to afford to make it difficult for prosecutors, it’s probably best to make it difficult for the prosecutors, we may have an activist pro copyright holder government in future and logs are forever (or 5 years)

It seems trivial for the US government to tie data into TOR to data out. If you’re hiding things that government is willing to spend effort seeking, it’s not safe.

Is your home machine, your phone, better protected than the VPN servers? I bet you’re not as good at IT security as the IT security staff VPN companies hire

If your threat model includes nation state actors, you’re best off not using networked computers

That says their error was trying American threats “we got you dead to rights, tell us your income and we’ll tell you how much to pay our we’ll sue for punitive damages”

Which isn’t legal in Australia. They would have been ok if they had asked to send a letter saying “stop it or pay us a reasonable amount for one person viewing the film once” but of course actual damages aren’t enough for film companies

They were too greedy.

As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

Loss of licence in a city built exclusively for car based transport isn’t going to be very successful in keeping people from driving

I miss CRT monitors in text mode with the field in “idle CRT screen” black and the text in cyan

Dark mode tries, but always goes for maximum contrast

When taxes are reduced, the reduction rarely exceeds the recent decades’ bracket creep.

But that makes sense for mushrooms. The bulk of the fungus lives in that spot underground, you’re just hoping it survives and fruits again

Sure, in the future state where we have all the energy we need from solar and wind, but then we have all the energy we need

Hydrogen maybe has a place in sea and air transport. Maybe has a place in trucks

Hydrogen right now comes from fossil fuels

That’s really expensive compared to fracking. It’s reasonable to assume that any hydrogen project is going to use fossil hydrogen

As

That looks like an oddly capitalised “as”

That really gives the reason it’s acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home

We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area

Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at

I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.

I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face

It’s cheaper over very few years to narrow the road. Perhaps by adding protected cycleways, a raised median

And it works better. People drive slower when roads are narrower

They might be able to see if the data indicates the network has been though NAT (network address translation) twice, but that would look just like someone who has plugged their own wifi box into the modem