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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lutoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSimple mail server
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    3 months ago

    If you do self host I suggest reading carefully the Gmail guidelines for mails. They are the leaders in the field and they dictate the level of security required.

    DNS forward and reverse, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, ARC, DANE, bounce signature etc. Email is indeed a very complicated thing to host. I work on emails system all day and and I wouldn’t host my own mail.

    Even worse I’m hoping email disappear and another technology takes it place. Emails are unreliable and outdated, they need to go.









  • 20 $ to host kilobytes worth of save game is worth it ?

    Really, I feel like people are way too indulgent with Nintendo.

    That and the fact that all games are P2P hosted. Nintendo only takes money to allow you to host a game on your console. No other consoles do that as far as I know.

    Steam will not ask for money to keep your save files on their cloud and they have been doing that since the inception of the service.

    But anyway if people are ok with the value of this service, I guess to each their own. I’m just surprised people manage to find it a valuable service rather than a poor excuse to take a bit more money for services that Nintendo doesn’t really pay for in term of hosting.





  • Oh I’m sure the incredibly powerful lobby you are speaking about will be totally fine with a law dictating the way they style and display their packaging.

    Also the pure nightmare of implementing in law what you say for a wide range of products. Let’s say I want to sell an individual vegan “steak” but I can’t put a large packaging just for the label ?

    Also, the purposefully misleading labels in the food industry is already pretty common so I think I’m not exaggerating when I say than any gap in the law will be abused.

    And it’s again extremely difficult to protect one single word without it’s context.

    For instance, in steaks we usually try to have the amount of fat in it because it gives you an indication of the amount of actual meat in your steak. Because I could wildly vary the amount and sell you 0.1% meat steaks that is actually vegetables which is much cheaper. It is not the first time that the food industry has tried to sell litteral fake meat. It’s an expensive product and if you can make it for cheap and keep at the same price it’s obviously worth it.

    What I genuinely don’t understand is why vegan products are trying so hard to look like non vegan products?

    Is it important for a bunch of vegetables composition to be called a steak ? If anything I would think a vegan product would want to stand out from standard meat ?

    You won’t convert to veganism people by selling them fake steaks. It doesn’t work.

    You achieve so much more teaching kids that eatings meals without meat is fine and we are starting to do it in schools.

    But thinking someone that ate meat all his life will become vegan because he found this wonderful vegan steak is imo quite delusional and missing the point.

    Food industry wants to sell you a product not matter how. Less restrictions for them is not a good news.


  • I definitely think people can and WILL get confused by purposefully confusing packaging.

    If the law says you can use vegetarian steak the producer will put an ultra large font STEAK and a minuscule “vegetarian” in front.

    So laws that ban explicit sentences are absolutely useless and will be avoided in a matter of minutes.

    I’m all for french people eating less meat but it will never work by “tricking” the consumers by using meat terms for vegetarian food.

    And I’m not gatekeeping the meat words for it. I just think we can easily find new words for vegan products and that’s fine and avoid getting misleading products.


  • Seriously, what is the real-world impact here? Imagine for a second that some miracle vegetarian steak could be confused for a beef one. Why does it matter? Someone might accidentally eat a vegetable?

    I’m sorry but you have no issues with a product label being misleading as long it’s pushing people to eat vegetables?

    Would you have the same opinion if it was an animal steak being sold to you as “Vegan steak” ?

    Point is, we don’t want misleading names for products. Imo people are actively trying to make this topic a political one when it’s a consumer protection issue.

    If it’s not a steak, call it something else. It will be clearer for the consumer.


  • I’m usually pretty relaxed when it comes to disclosure of vulnerabilities but this is the kind of issues where I think it would have been better to privately report the issue to the Lemmy dev and wait ( a long time probably) for it to be fixed before disclosing.

    Especially since currently there is multiple people abusing the image hosting feature.

    Not a big deal, but sometimes it is actually a better practice to give an opportunity to the dev to fix something before forcing them to do so in a hurry.