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thanks for the insight throwaway

All those tokens will be lost in time, like tears in rain

:D love the reference

Yes apache has a config file too amazingly enough, .htaccess is optional

The point I was making is that having alternative sources of configuration (coming from the contents being served no less) is a misfeature.

Really not sure how one could possibly read my comment as me saying htaccess is the only way of configuring Apache?


Why would they target you

MS live/hotmail/outlook would silently drop - although not for this DMARC, that gets a straight bounce.

Mine isn't from those email hosts, but it from google cloud or Azure typically (not AWS for whatever reason). Related, the gmail spam filter is terrible.

Most of my spam is from gmail addresses. Why Google hasn't figured out how to stop the fake Norton renewal notices is just mind-boggling.

Lately I've also been getting a lot from compromised MS365 accounts.


>Related, the gmail spam filter is terrible.

It seems insane that gmail doesnt provide a way to automatically send a mail (eg based on domain, keywords, etc) to spam. I know theres block sender but for example aliexpress uses a different name for every email so that's useless.


not much of it probably goes in

Did anyone else have to maintain this code?

Of course.

at least we have claude now I guess

Meaning?

guess what, this kind of sentinel value mistake could even be made in rust

no rust programmer would ever return a sentinel string like this.

Are you sure about that? When backwards compatibility comes into the picture people tend to bend over backwards.

Backwards compatibility with what? Rust has always has had enum also for this exact case, to avoid encoding sentinels as strings or pointers.

im quite positive the only rust programmer who would do this is a C programmer who doesn't understand rust

why, because they all use agents to do the coding and don't check it?

because rust has features that makes doing it pointless.

in theory could someone do it? yeah, just like in theory someone could program a calculator to randomly rm -rf ~ when pressing +.

but in practice would anyone do it? no.


Cars without seatbelts and airbags chopping off driver's heads in relatively slow collisions? Well guess what, that could happen in a modern car as well if the driver sticks their head out the window while going through a very tight tunnel!

you followed up an incorrect comparison with another one, are you sure you're a rust programmer?

Why should the site owners be interested in allowing them to do that?

Because it's legal to scrape websites? And, oh, I don't know, maybe people like me might want to archive those websites for historical reasons?

that's why you might want to do it, not why they would want to let you do it

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