commit 4b19f3293d41e393447dd463142e7eb52b41fe02
parent fabe4e83d68132eb39c4cd364ef9bd6cf23e4aa0
Author: Paco Esteban <paco@onna.be>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:11:58 +0200
new phlog entry
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diff --git a/src/phlog/20190818-1736.txt b/src/phlog/20190818-1736.txt
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 2019-08-18 17:37:25 UTC
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+On my summer vacation I went camping with my wife. We discovered a
+beautiful valley we did not know on the Pyrenees mountains, and we
+agreed to come back in the winter, to see it transformed. Spending 12
+days there, in a tent in the middle of the woods is been refreshing and
+it charged me up.
+
+Those last few days, back at home, I've been geeking around. Working on
+a couple of OpenBSD port updates that I hope to see commited and playing
+a bit with the DMARC[1] setup for my main domain 'onna.be'.
+
+That last made me realize what a mess the whole email ecosystem is right
+now ... And I say this with deep sadness. I love email. I always have.
+There's something beautiful in it's simple design and it's inherent
+freedom (decentralization is called these days). But the current
+state of it, with the lost battle against spam, and all the partially
+adopted protocols on top of it makes it fragile and far from attractive
+to self-host. I do not self-host my email since some years ago, as
+it's too much of a hassle having to watch your ip reputation, deal
+with stupid black lists where is super difficult to get removed from
+and other headaches. It seems curious to me that the easiest part is
+building and configuring the services themselves ...
+
+I prefer to pay for that service (it's cheap anyway) and be a bit
+happier.
+
+And then, there's the mailing lists. Don't get me started with that.
+Some do the right thing, some at least try and some are terrible.
+
+By the way, recently ben@~team changed the behaviour of the tildeverse
+lists and now the forwarded messages pass dkim if you have it
+configured, so kudos to him ;-)
+
+Wow, now that I re-read this ... I'm just wandering ! hehehe. But
+anyway, this is nothing formal, just a phlog, so it's ok.
+
+Anyway, as I was saying ... those last few days I've been geeking here
+and there. From time to time I took a walk or watched a tv show or a
+movie to rest a bit (specially my back and my aging eyes).
+
+I have to admit I've watched 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen. One
+of them, the last Avengers shit (sorry, you cannot call that a movie).
+I have watched almost all super-hero movies over the years because,
+hey! I like science fiction and fantasy. But the quality (cannot find
+a better word) of them has been decreasing to the level of insult to the
+viewer. And after that, there's the new Godzilla film ... What a piece
+of smelly poo. I hear you "how the hell do you watch that !!", it has
+an explanation. First, think that the whole point was taking a break
+from active geekery. Second, from time to time I just watch movies from
+actors and actresses I like. That gives you nice surprises sometimes,
+but with this last one it made me reconsider that strategy. In fact it
+made me think in taking my eyes off and block my ears ...
+
+I'm already trying to forget I watched it and I won't put it in the list
+of movies of 11. To me it does not exist, it will be the best.
+
+And well, I think that's it for today. Tomorrow work starts again and
+geek stuff will drop a bit (but just a bit hehehe).
+
+:wq
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7489
diff --git a/src/phlog/gophermap b/src/phlog/gophermap
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+0(2019-08-18) On vacations, emails and bad movies /phlog/20190818-1736.txt onna.be 70
020190706 /phlog/20190706-1212_entry.txt onna.be 70
020190507 /phlog/20190507-1931_entry.txt onna.be 70
020190424 /phlog/20190424-1955_entry.txt onna.be 70
@@ -25,5 +26,5 @@ or look in the 'Contact' section
0Contact /contact.txt onna.be 70
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-Last updated: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:06:27 +0000
+Last updated: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:10:51 +0000
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