20190818-1736.txt (3359B)
1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2019-08-18 17:37:25 UTC 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 5 On my summer vacation I went camping with my wife. We discovered a 6 beautiful valley we did not know on the Pyrenees mountains, and we 7 agreed to come back in the winter, to see it transformed. Spending 12 8 days there, in a tent in the middle of the woods is been refreshing and 9 it charged me up. 10 11 Those last few days, back at home, I've been geeking around. Working on 12 a couple of OpenBSD port updates that I hope to see commited and playing 13 a bit with the DMARC[1] setup for my main domain 'e1e0.net'. 14 15 That last made me realize what a mess the whole email ecosystem is right 16 now ... And I say this with deep sadness. I love email. I always have. 17 There's something beautiful in it's simple design and it's inherent 18 freedom (decentralization is called these days). But the current 19 state of it, with the lost battle against spam, and all the partially 20 adopted protocols on top of it makes it fragile and far from attractive 21 to self-host. I do not self-host my email since some years ago, as 22 it's too much of a hassle having to watch your ip reputation, deal 23 with stupid black lists where is super difficult to get removed from 24 and other headaches. It seems curious to me that the easiest part is 25 building and configuring the services themselves ... 26 27 I prefer to pay for that service (it's cheap anyway) and be a bit 28 happier. 29 30 And then, there's the mailing lists. Don't get me started with that. 31 Some do the right thing, some at least try and some are terrible. 32 33 By the way, recently ben@~team changed the behaviour of the tildeverse 34 lists and now the forwarded messages pass dkim if you have it 35 configured, so kudos to him ;-) 36 37 Wow, now that I re-read this ... I'm just wandering ! hehehe. But 38 anyway, this is nothing formal, just a phlog, so it's ok. 39 40 Anyway, as I was saying ... those last few days I've been geeking here 41 and there. From time to time I took a walk or watched a tv show or a 42 movie to rest a bit (specially my back and my aging eyes). 43 44 I have to admit I've watched 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen. One 45 of them, the last Avengers shit (sorry, you cannot call that a movie). 46 I have watched almost all super-hero movies over the years because, 47 hey! I like science fiction and fantasy. But the quality (cannot find 48 a better word) of them has been decreasing to the level of insult to the 49 viewer. And after that, there's the new Godzilla film ... What a piece 50 of smelly poo. I hear you "how the hell do you watch that !!", it has 51 an explanation. First, think that the whole point was taking a break 52 from active geekery. Second, from time to time I just watch movies from 53 actors and actresses I like. That gives you nice surprises sometimes, 54 but with this last one it made me reconsider that strategy. In fact it 55 made me think in taking my eyes off and block my ears ... 56 57 I'm already trying to forget I watched it and I won't put it in the list 58 of movies of 11. To me it does not exist, it will be the best. 59 60 And well, I think that's it for today. Tomorrow work starts again and 61 geek stuff will drop a bit (but just a bit hehehe). 62 63 :wq 64 65 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66 67 [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7489