I’ve just straight cross posted from a Lemmy.ca post, resources included, as it seems like important world news.

Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.

Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.

Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.

There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:

In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.

Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.

So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.

Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.

Ah, interesting. Thinking about it, do they have vanity plates? If so then all my arguments are invalid.

Currently there is a system. One number, three letters, three numbers. So no chance of mixing up certain characters. If you introduce a different system you will need to make sure you know what system is being used. With your plan you could get a plate that looks exactly like the old system except it’s using 0 instead of O.

I suspect there is also a lot of benefit in knowing where numbers and letters will be for having more accurate plate recognition cameras.

The issue is probably that those I, O, Z, and Ss are already on plates since the system is different?

I just really want to see where the numbers come from.

You know people self hosting email, I know people self hosting email. But that is certainly not the case for the vast, vast majority of individuals. For businesses, I have seen Exchange take over what used to be smaller hosts, and Google has broken into the small/medium business world as well. I have searched and searched and found nothing, but I don’t see why it should be so hard to do. Obtain a list of email addresses from some data breach (I dunno how but I’m sure security researchers do it all the time) then check their DNS to see what proportion point at big tech. My gut feel is that it’s a large proportion, but maybe that’s just the corner I work in.

email can be run using hundreds of servers on dozens of platforms even from your own house and interact with the email network.

It’s nice that it can, but the point of this list is is that what actually happens for the majority of people?

And from my experience, the answer is no, the vast majority of people use Microsoft or Google.

This claim is “Top Provider User Share: Google ≈ 17% → Score: 27/30”

Where does this number come from? Gmail alone claims 1.5 billion active users. Outlook.com has 500 million. But then you have to start adding up all the email users worldwide that are using services hosted by Microsoft (all the Exchange business customers), and the google customers as well (that may or may not be included in the Gmail figures). Then there are all the ISP email addresses that use these services as the provider.

I find it hard to believe that email is as decentralised as claimed here, and I’m really keen to see more data on how it was calculated.

The reason I find it so hard to believe is that when Microsoft fucks up (and given time they always do), a significant portion of the business customers I deal with get affected.

What surprises me is that they count using an email service as self-hosting. With that logic wouldn’t bluesky get a high score because people can bring their own domain easily?

Whaaaaaaaat? Pivot tables are a 2 second job to summarise large amounts of transaction data or similar by month or year. Lookups or countifs would take so much longer!

Not to mention that you can drill into the data using them.

You sound like you know your LibreOffice.

My experience is they are quite different but I’ve been able to do the same things for the most part.

But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?

I’m not sure what others see as the context of the meme, but in my experience it’s normally when you are fiddling with it, but you never expect it to be the problem because it seems so simple.

There are many reasons you might need to fiddle with is. The most obvious is when you move your server to a new computer, it might get a new IP address. But your browser might cache the old address. Your computer might cache it. Your DNS server might cache it (like the rest of the internet, there is not one big DNS server but many smaller ones - most non-technical people would be using one provided by their internet provider). It might not be working and you presume it’s a problem with the new server but actually it’s the DNS.

But also DNS as a system is also used for things that are not directly related to looking up a domain name. For example, when sending an email, there are many checks on the receiving side to ensure that the email is actually coming from somewhere that is allowed to send an email from that domain name. I can send an email to you from bill@microsoft.com, but it would go straight to spam because it would fail those checks. DNS records are used to authorise servers that can send email on behalf of that domain. And just generally DNS is used for proving domain ownership (for example, it’s one method to get a certificate from Let’s Encrypt to allow secure connections to your website).

When you access something on the internet, you are accessing something on someone else’s computer.

Computers have (effectively) postal addresses. When you want to access content on another computer, you type in its address.

But computer addresses don’t look like “fedia.io” they look like “123.122.1.111”.

When you type “fedia.io” your computer needs to go and ask what the computer’s address is.

That’s DNS. The Domain Name System. The system for finding the computer address from a domain name.

The above is very simplified and doesn’t cover all scenarios, but I hope it’s enough to get the idea.

Or just browse All

Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?

Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.

Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?

It doesn’t make it not paid product placement, but I don’t think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.

It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.