so it was a lot of individual typos, not a single big one, but they are appearantly pretty common.
up until now the domain management was outsourced to some commercial company from netherland, which tried to alert US DOD to the problem.
but in near future it is expected the control of the domain to be transferred under the control of local military junta, which can lead to these mails being stored and sold to higher bidder, or some similar fun stuff.
no kidding, that's the kind of thing that after the first few times it happens, someone from product should flag this and build in a system with redundant checks if you want to send mail to .ml, like:
The user has to have permission to send to .ml in the first place
Any individual .ml address they want to send to has to be whitelisted in a separate UI from email compose (possibly excluding replies)
Any time they send to .ml (or any external domain), the recipient box turns a different color, and there's a notice, CURRENTLY SENDING TO AN EXTERNAL DOMAIN
with a list of all external domains included eg you could also be sending to a contractor
and a count of the domains
Any .ml sent mail is auto delayed by a couple minutes and requires you to confirm you wanted to send it (again possibly excluding replies)
I would hope there's also some flags emails can have for whatever sensitive info levels, these should also come with automatic client-side and server-side validation that you're not sending them to someone who you shouldn't.
More specifically, how does the .ml provider know the content of these messages? Do they just spoof MX for all unregistered domains, or did they specifically register the domain names mimicking the US military hostnames? Both scenarios seem sketchy.
It’s described in the article. The Dutchman who runs the registrar for Mali first started to started to store the emails sent to these invalid addresses before being overwhelmed (and probably realising the literal minefield having US government secrets is) and stopping doing that. So yes his firm was initially intercepting messages sent to the aether by spoofing invalid addresses.
If they leave it for 10 years it will be 0.4% of their yearly gross profit. They will surely care :^) tbh these fines need to be exponential instead of linear.
Just fine them 1 dollar with a daily interest rate of 1%.
I agree. I use it mostly for music, but there are many other ways to find music. I’ve been listening to a lot of internet radio lately. I’ve occasionally watched howto videos, but for most things I prefer to read instructions for something, with a photo if necessary.
I listen to Better Offline and I’m as jaded and cynical as the rest of us, but even I find some of his episodes too much to take.
Like he has no impartiality at all, particularly his takes on LLMs. Our small company of software developers and engineers have saved so much time with Visual Studio CoPilot. The fact is there are uses where they’re extremely useful; just maybe not as the MSM portrays it.
He does get a bit ranty. I still appreciate his take though. Some of the LLMs are super helpful for me for some tasks, but the hype cycle for AI is really a lot to take and it does warrant some actual pushback against it. I can tell I’m becoming more of an old man, but it’s nice to have someone else confirm how bad the Internet is becoming. It’s almost like a hazy dream for me of back in the early days when it was just people sharing weird stuff with each other and not the active battle to fend off ads and scummy sites to find things.
This is an assumption but he’s just preaching to the choir at this point. I don’t see him having a mainstream audience and the only people that listen are people that already know how fucked everything is.
Also, so many ads. Like sure he’s got to make a living but he’s doing it in the very system he opposes.
Then the rest follow. If Apple music hike their price again, time to dust off my eye patch. Ive already cancelled all my streaming and went with plex, radarr, sonarr.
Life hack: get Plexamp and Lidarr with Lidarr extended scripts. Then sign up for a free month of tidal with a throwaway account. Add said account to Lidarr extended. Add all the artists you want to Lidarr and let Lidarr Extended download all the stuff from Tidal for you. Once it has run out, register with another throwaway adress.
Basically doing this already but my only issue is discovery. That’s why I pay for Spotify. I used to have a script set up before the API closed that would run automatically monthly to snag all my liked songs.
There are cool projects for that on lidarr, or you use things like last.fm. Lidarr extended does have a feature to grab similar artists to the ones you have, leads to much bloat in a very short amount of time, of course.
No, it works on Tidal and Deezer. Yet, since the throwaway account is free... :P Lidarr can import spotify playlists and fetch the tracks themselves from somewhere else though
Music streaming the only one i cant be bothered with since i have family plan with my gf plus discovering new music and new album from fav artist is too much to pass on.
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