@Steve_The_Cynic And I took that photo myself
Posts made by Vault_Dweller
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RE: Database misstep
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Database misstep:
the best custom plate I ever saw
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RE: "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?"
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RE: The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
@izzion said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@izzion said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
touch grass
I've seen this phrase before more common recently. What the hell does it mean?
Go outside. Turn off the Internet for a little in favor of some mystical land called “real life”.
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RE: Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?
@Gurth said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Bim-Zively There are plenty more but it seems a lot of countries do their best to avoid the (equivalent of the) word “tax” in the relevant service’s name.
Ours has a very apt acronym
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RE: Florida Man goes to...
@Carnage said in Florida Man goes to...:
@HardwareGeek said in Florida Man goes to...:
@Carnage said in Florida Man goes to...:
a legal assistant should pretty damn well know better than to extort someone so blatantly.
Yeah, that's the lawyers' job.
And also in a lot more refined ways.
There are a lot of words you can use to describe Florida people, but I don't think "refined" is one of them.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@loopback0 From the comments:
Doesn't give a hoot
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ posted in Funny stuff
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RE: Fun with maps
@remi said in Fun with maps:
use the proper name of food stuff instead!
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RE: Email flagged as spam
@loopback0 Thanks, that seems to be it. I logged on directly from the ISP's browser client, and it worked from there.
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RE: Email flagged as spam
@PleegWat Well, in case it might help, here are the headers of a rejected mail:
Received: from User1PC (unknown [102.252.66.60])
by rrba-ip-smtp-6-4.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41CD5EC
for ***redacted***@gmail.com; Mon, 30 May 2022 08:36:41 +0200 (SAST)
From: My Father ***redacted***@afrihost.co.za
To: "redacted@gmail.com" ***redacted***@gmail.com
Subject: QUMADE: Invoice June 2022
Thread-Topic: QUMADE: Invoice June 2022
Thread-Index: Adhz6eLO9gq5s6nhSia7YLVwkGogSA==
X-MS-Exchange-MessageSentRepresentingType: 1
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 06:36:36 +0000
Message-ID: 001901d873ef$9ceb1660$d6c14320$@afrihost.co.za
Reply-To: "redacted_alias@afrihost.co.za" ***redacted_alias***@afrihost.co.za
Content-Language: en-ZA
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-RecordReviewCfmType: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0Only thing I'm noticing is that the Reply-To: header uses the alias of my father's email address, while the From: uses the actual address.
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RE: Email flagged as spam
@PleegWat Unfortunately there are geographical issues in finding that out. Is the suspicion that it might be affecting the headers? If so, would I see anything in the headers?
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RE: Email flagged as spam
@BernieTheBernie said in Email flagged as spam:
@Vault_Dweller said in Email flagged as spam:
provided by the ISP. I use the same ISP, so I also have an e-mail account with them
Do you use the same
domain name
? That seems to be the (? / a?) point.Yes, exactly the same domain.
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Email flagged as spam
I'm playing IT Support for a family member.
Since last week Google has started rejecting mails sent by my father. The message is:
The mail system
for more 550
***redacted***@gmail.com: host
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[142.250.102.27]
said: 550-5.7.26 This message does not have authentication information
or
fails to 550-5.7.26 pass authentication checks. To best protect our
users
from spam, the 550-5.7.26 message has been blocked. Please visit
550-5.7.26
5.7.26 information.
cw7-20020a170906478700b006f3ca3b9d5asi10806923ejc.830 -
gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)Now, I don't know much about emails. So I follow the link:
550, "5.7.26", " Unauthenticated email from domain-name is not accepted due to domain's DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of domain-name domain. If this was a legitimate mail please visit Control unauthenticated mail from your domain to learn about the DMARC initiative. If the messages are valid and aren't spam, contact the administrator of the receiving mail server to determine why your outgoing messages don't pass authentication checks.
Sounds like a problem with the domain itself, which is provided by the ISP. I use the same ISP, so I also have an e-mail account with them. I ask my father to send an email to my Gmail account, whilst I do the same. My email goes through, his is rejected. He also contacted the ISP directly, and they say that they can't see any issues on their sides; all their testing is successful. So it looks like Google is blocking his address specifically. This is strange, as there are no automated mails or other types of mail sent from that address which I can think of that would flag it as a spam address.
I also followed the last link out of interest, but from what I can gather all the solutions have to do with the domain itself, so I don't think it will help much, though I don't know what half the stuff means (DMARC, SPF, DKIM).
Any ideas, short of contacting Google directly?
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
It is very relaxing to be able to sit [...]
No more standing on one leg to wash feet either. Easier on my back if decide to shave my legs.They have this newfangled thing called a "bath"
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RE: UI Bites
I am, however, wondering, whether there is any country that uses different order depending on the language of the person writing the address…
South Africa. If my address was "123 Church Street" in English, in Afrikaans it would be "Kerkstraat 123"
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RE: The Official 2022 Death Pool
@dkf said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
@kazitor said in The Official 2022 Death Pool:
Now there’s this Rule™ that you should Never Mix With Black Paint
That "rule" sure wasn't in effect when I was learning about painting and color mixing. Colors+white = "tint" Colors+black = "shade"
I get encouraged to not
mix with blackpaint on the grounds that I otherwise inevitably make a terrible mess.FTFM
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My wife had the opposite problem. She posted her positive COVID test on Facebook, and more than 1 person congratulated her.
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RE: The Word of the Day Thread
Wordle 2
2930 5/6🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩My second word:
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RE: Random thought of the day
@Gąska Are there any dynamic country flags other than the US flag? This of course excludes once-off changes because someone felt like it.
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RE: Random Thought of the Day
@Gąska There is a North West Province if that's what you're asking
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dkf I just wonder what the Premium edition costs, so that you don't have to listen to a 15 second ad before you get your tea.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
Are you confusing latency with bandwidth?
I'm using a measurement called "elapsed time". See @HardwareGeek's post for an example.
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RE: Random thought of the day
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
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RE: UI Bites
@Zecc If you didn't select it after 2 letters, then it's clearly not what you want, so it gets removed from the results.
See also: auto-complete suggestions on mobile keyboard
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RE: UI Bites
And now they're stuck with it forever for backward compatibility.
Everything in Microsoft ever. They should make it their motto or something.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Zerosquare said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Karla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@DogsB said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Want!
The lamp, the cat, or both?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
always
It was designed by the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1618 or 1619.
It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987.
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RE: WTF Bites
https://twitter.com/kvz/status/1458716279670554635
Evil haxx0rzto00lz, block all the things!!!!1
Obviously nobody uses Firefox anymore
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RE: WTF Bites
@hungrier It's a non-Afrikaans song (probably Dutch) about a cat that's gone missing. But it translates in Afrikaans to what @dkf said.
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RE: WTF Bites
@PleegWat This is one of the funniest videos for an Afrikaans-speaking person
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RE: WTF Bites
There are some (rather rare) cases where the non-diacritic'ed version actually has a different meaning, though context (almost?) always solves the ambiguity. One of my favourites is how many conference halls are called: "palais des congrès." When written without diacritic (usually because it's in all-caps), this turns into "palais des congres" which literally means "conger fish' hall!"
There as some fun examples in Afrikaans as well. "Hoërskool" is "high school", while "hoerskool" literally means "whore school". "Poësie" is "poetry", while the translation of the non-diacritic version is left as an exercise to the reader.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Just received this mail:
Subject:
Test - IgnoreBody:
This is a test mail. Please do not respond.The subject did say Ignore though, and yet you are reading this...
So the 'Please do not respond' will also be ignored...
Fine, respond if you want to, but no one will read the responseAlso, if you did not receive this mail, report the issue here
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RE: Nope
@Atazhaia not sure he’s into that. But then, is there anything he’s not into?
Depends on what part of him you're talking about. If it involves certain parts of his anatomy, then yes, there's a lot he's not "into".