Running a mail server in 2025 so fraught, I'd caution anyone against attempting it. Not sure why you would want that trouble with so many options available, including privacy-focused vendors.
If Proton is not appealing, what about mailbox.org?
Mailbox.org is one of the alternatives that I was looking at.
I’m just surprised that there is a bunch of hosting companies that say “we offer hosting and webmail in one package” but without 2FA. So I was wondering is 2FA so complex that it is not part of entry level hosting services.
It's a fair cop against the II+ but there are other things in the comparison which are mildly hinky. I find their characterization of POKEY a little unfair, even though I think SID is superior, and the CP/M option on the C64 was nearly useless because the 1541 didn't read MFM formats. (Much more useful on the C128, but you needed a 1571 disk drive, and by 1985 CP/M was on its way out.) The keyboard criteria are also somewhat of an Apples-to-Commodores comparison, so to speak. Still, it's hard-hitting ad copy and it was Tramiel's Commodore -- he was determined to win, by golly.
But there was the Apple 80 column card option with full ascii. Add USCD Pascal and suddenly it morphed from plaything to a programming-for-computer-science trainer.
Though perhaps the "ethics" you're referring to, they invest in bootstrapped companies who aren't necessarily on the venture track moonshot rat race. For me, that's a big part of the unethical side of VC: Throwing money at a 1,000 ideas and expecting 999 of them to fail in hopes of one goldmine.
My own company, StatusGator, took a small investment from them even though we swore we'd never take VC money. It was a great choice for us and I feel TinySeed's ethics and values far outshine other investors.
Who exactly is going to be part of DOGE is a particularly thorny issue, because there are technically two DOGEs. One is the permanent organization, the revamped USDS—now the US DOGE Service. The other is a temporary organization, with a termination date of July 4, 2026. Creating this organization means the temporary DOGE can operate under a special set of rules. It can sequester employees from other parts of the government and can accept people who want to work for the government as volunteers. Temporary organizations can also hire what are known as special government employees—experts in a given field who can bypass the rigors of the regular federal hiring processes. They’re also not subject to the same transparency requirements as other government employees.
> They’re also not subject to the same transparency requirements as other government employees.
Before anyone blames the current president without context, remember that the TSA is one of multiple agencies also operating under these provisions by having a permanent pseudo-temporary organization status. This is also why the TSA gets away with turnover and hiring standards that would be forbidden in other branches.
> What happens to all its engineers and developers?
The clever ones will leave. The naïve ones will become legal fodder for the rest of their careers. The lucky ones will make an impression on a billionaire and become rich from the proximity.
On the whole, the country may benefit from having young, talented and naïve engineers engaging in tasks at the boundaries of the legally permissable. It works for VC, after all. (The difference being you don't get personally bankrupted with legal bills in startups if you're wrong.)
> You think any of the H1B engineers at Twitter Elon did a pizza party photo op with are going to become millionaires?
I'm not calling anyone out. Just that a consistently-winning strategy in any economic or political system is finding the biggest pot of money and sitting next to it.
> The engineers and developers just got the green light for every good idea they can come up with.
Where in the world is this idea coming from? What part of their new mandate makes you think engineers and developers suddenly have a blank check to do whatever they want?
If nobody minds a plug: My own product, StatusGator, which was launched here on HackerNews 10 year ago, notifies IT teams about outages before they are acknowledged by official status pages.
- This OpenAI outage[1] we notified 4 minutes before they acknowledged.
- The last AWS outage[2], we notified 28 minutes before they acknowledged
- There is def an Azure outage[3] now yet they have still not updated their status page. We notified 35 minutes ago.
Btw, tried to sign up and got a message that it would send me an email to confirm my login. Instead what I received was an email pointing me to a video demo. Not sure if simply clicking on that link was enough to confirm my email. That’s outside of a normal workflow.
Sounds like you got the onboarding email but not the confirmation email. It should have a subject of "Confirm your Account". Email us hi@statusgator.com if you still have issues.
I install the Bullet gem in every Rails project because it not only detects these N+1 queries but tells you how to fix them, helping to ensure they never even make it to production.
So, sometimes software gets these things called "iterations" and "versions" where the authors of the software add features and updates. So while this link isn't the KidPix of the 90s, it certainly has the same gameplay to the point where Im personally transported back to playing this on my Dad's Mactinosh 30ish years ago.
Perhaps you can try downloading it and seeing for yourself?
They are called scissor stairs and it's very common here in newer buildings in NYC as well. Though I believe it's only permitted in buildings 12 stories are less? It always seemed very space efficient -- separated by concrete fireproof walls and taking up the same vertical space.
For me this works only to stop future messages from that campaign. All the campaigns seem to buy and sell lists so I just get a different message from a different campaign at a different number. Here are the most recent offenders:
Katrina Christiansen
Harry Dunn
Arizona for Abortion Access
Turnout PAC
Yvette Clarke
Josh Stein
Ty Pinkins
Democratic Majority
Tammy Baldwin
Democrats United
If Proton is not appealing, what about mailbox.org?
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