My job, mostly.

I use Uptime Robot to tell me if anything goes wrong, and I need to be able to VPN into my work network and restart services if they go down. A flip phone can’t do that.

It’s more of a signal that the IP address does send trustworthy email. AFAIK, IP reputation isn’t handled on a per-user basis. Domain reputation probably is.

Email is the hardest thing to self-host, but it’s definitely doable. You’ll need a static IP, and you’ll need to talk to your ISP to make sure outbound connections on port 25 are open.

Set up your servers and your DNS settings (another commenter gave a good guide), then use this tool to check that DKIM and SPF are working and that you’re not seen as spam with SpamAssassin:

https://dkimvalidator.com/

Once that’s done, take your static IP and check it with this tool:

https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

If it’s on any of the lists, you’ll need to go to those lists’ sites and try to get it removed. You might need to make an email address for “postmaster@yourdomain” at this point.

Beyond that, you may need to “warm up” your IP address, by sending email to yourself on various services (Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft) and marking them as not spam.

Then you should be golden.

I had to do this for both my SMTP servers for Port87. If you use more than one server, this process gets a little harder, so probably stick to one at first.

I really like the idea and hope you keep working on it and it becomes successful, but you really should make it clear that it’s alpha or pre-alpha level software. You have a lot of features listed that aren’t working yet, but you don’t make it clear that those are planned features. From what I can tell by looking through your code, you currently have a working markdown editor, and not much else. You should maybe add a todo list and check off things as you finish them, so people can follow along with your progress.

I like the taste.

Ah, ok. I guess that one should just be “copper” then.

I have a copper pen. It tastes good.

I agree, which is why we didn’t include simply “copper”, but “copper ore”, since I don’t think ingots of pure copper occur naturally. (But I could totally be wrong here, I’m just guessing.)

Ps, I love the pedantry. :)

Yeah, we’re talking about ice.

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: a solid homogeneous crystalline chemical element or compound that results from the inorganic processes of nature

broadly  : any of various naturally occurring homogeneous substances (such as stone, coal, salt, sulfur, sand, petroleum, water, or natural gas) obtained usually from the ground

- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mineral

The rule we decided on in the discussion was that we would follow the dictionary definition of “rock”, which led us to conclude that ice is a rock.

If we want to be super pedantic, the dictionary does have a definition of rock as in “rock candy” that’s a sugar crystal, but we decided in the spirit of the discussion that we would not consider “rock” to include “rock candy”. And for the same reason, we do not include chunks of crack cocaine.

Oh! That’s a good answer! I’m also not willing to try it, but I’ll have to look up what people say about it.

We settled on copper ore, since I don’t know if you would consider a copper ingot to be a rock. But I personally find the taste of copper delightful.

Really? I quite like the taste of copper. I have a copper pen and it’s delicious.

Let’s spruce up this genocide. We don’t want people thinking this is their dad’s genocide. This is hip, new genocide.

I swear, this time we really have found the fountain of youth!

Sounds good to me. xD

I love Impossible meats. Their nuggets taste better than chicken to me. Their burgers taste good, not quite as good as beef, but still very good.

I would eat lab grown meat given the opportunity. I hope we can get to the point where we can stop killing animals and still have delicious meat.

California and the other rich blue states funds the rest of the US’ poor ass states, so I’d love for them to stop suckling on our teat.

Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank by Barenaked Ladies is about the real stalking of a Canadian celebrity by a mentally unstable man who thought she was in love with him.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/31/A-love-sick-farmer-who-has-pursued-singer-Anne-Murray/8301378622800/

So you’re saying that the person standing in ruin at the end of the song thinks of their loved one and sets off a nuclear bomb?

I think the red balloons were just red balloons, mistaken for an enemy attack.

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message "something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
The 99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

99 knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
In every one, a red balloon
It's all over, and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just the prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go

From Wikipedia:

The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defense ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: “99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger,” which means “99 years of war left no room for victors.” The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English: “‘Denk’ an dich und lass’ ihn fliegen,” or “Think of you and let it go.”[11]

I use Unifi stuff. It’s really nice, but quite expensive. I run my own controller for it with Docker.

Oh, I forgot about Cormorant! Yes, I absolutely love that font. I did my wedding invitations entirely in Cormorant and Cormorant Sans for the titles. Thanks for reminding me, and letting me know about the others! Font nerds unite!