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everyone is jeering at elon musk, but whom amongst us can say that they’ve never spent too much money on domain name that they don’t know what to do with?
Yes, I am seriously doing this now.
I attend a lot of cybersecurity conferences. And I know lots of security companies have my contact info. I get *lots* cold marketing emails asking me for a meeting to discuss RPI's security needs.
As I am the cybersecurity professor, I can't actually discuss RPI's security needs, because that's not my job. I don't work for RPI's IT services (which we call DotCIO). I work as a professor in the Information Technology & Web Science Program. Huge difference.
However, I now respond to all such cold marketing emails from these security companies letting them know that I have a great opportunity for them--they can provide me with a list of their internships and jobs so I can put them in front of my amazing cybersecurity students. They also now have the opportunity to donate money to my cybersecurity research lab so I can continue to provide the world-class research and educational opportunities that will produce the future workforce and executives that their company desperately needs.
I write these emails in the same cold call style they email me. Yes, I am really doing this. I have the permission and blessing of my Program Director.
I will keep you all updated on if I'm successful.
wink posted Nov 6, 2022
Lukewarm take: Local timelines are not necessarily good. I have an account on one instance where I thought I'd find like-minded people but the most active are also the most annoying and too many to mute. Completely useless, but maybe you'll be more lucky.
When Andrew Lee bought (kinda?) Freenode and blew it up last year, I was surprised by how quickly one rich dude could tank a long-standing social network with an established community, and baffled why someone would spend so much money just to burn something down.
That was cute.
Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
I’ve been here for years and I’m an instance admin and I still don’t really know how the posts go from one website to another. I think it’s the same technology they use to send pokemon to a different game boy
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
Douglas Adams
wink posted May 3, 2022
I'm actually a bit torn about denying mail from servers with bad SPF records. Found one today in the logs again, emailed them to fix it, but it's happened a lot and my (few) users have the problem of mails not arriving. Maybe better to live with more spam? #SelfHosting #email
wink posted Apr 26, 2022
OK, this is my personal test instance running ktistec cb69e9a and it's mostly working fine.