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mwl

@mwl@io.mwl.io

¹ Recent books:

tech - OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems, DNSSEC Mastery 2/e
Fantasy - Prohibition Orcs
Mystery - $ git sync murder
Collection: Apocalypse Moi

Pet rats. Martial arts. Punch Nazis & terfs. If it wasn't on Industrial Records it's not industrial music, it's just sparkling noise. He/him. Bangpath old. Gelato!

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b0rk, to random
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The git zine might have set a record for number of beta readers who helped out with it: we had 66 amazing people read drafts of the zine, ask questions, tell me what’s confusing, and what they learned!

The beta reader process helps us SO much to keep the things that are working and fix the parts that aren’t.

mwl,
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@b0rk

Early readers are everything.

Not just for technical things either! For years, a note on my wall said "Do not write so you can be understood; write so you cannot be misunderstood." Early readers illuminate how many ways I fail... which yeah, kind of sucks, but it's so much better to find those things BEFORE publishing!

mwl, to random
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When I left Twitter, I worried that it would impact my ability to make a living.

That worry was unfounded.

Would I be doing better if I was still on Twitter? Perhaps. But looking at my #ryoms visitors on Kickstarter, it's clear that the fedi is a more than adequate replacement.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

Thanks for sharing, everyone. I appreciate your support.

mwl,
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I should also add:

I am SUPER MEGA TURBO RELIEVED that the fedi can replace Twitter. That was a very scary decision.

bynkii, to random
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20 years ago, sure. Nowadays? Oh god fuck no, you’ll spend all day every day dealing with attacks and security issues.

People who don’t know better will be in a world of pain they cannot imagine and anyone who does know better and still subscribes to this technolibertarian bullshit deserves all the pain they get.

Unless you absolutely have to, (and if you even ask if you need to, the answer is, again, FUCK NO), do. not. run. your. own. email. server.

JFC.
https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/112479237758624176

mwl,
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@bynkii been running mine since 1997. It's very doable.

mwl,
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@bynkii I spend less than an hour a month on mail maintenance, if that. Lock it down at setup and get on with your life. :flan_shrug:

But you do you.

mwl, to random
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oooh, another Kickstarter lesson learned. Pledges have slowed--except they haven't, not exactly.

The stretch goal ebook freebies are also available as add-on items. As stretch goals are met, people are going into their pledges and removing add-on copies.

Solidly predictable, if I was smart.

mwl, to random
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<cackling intensifies>

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

djfiander, to random
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@mwl Will you revoke the certificate for the signed ebook before or after you distribute it?

mwl,
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@djfiander openpgp, no cert. I will not revoke key, just destroy private key so I can't sign any more.

mwl, to sysadmin
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427171

Hacker News on "Run Your Own Mail Server."

Comments would help this survive!

mwl, to random
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New update on the "Run Your Own Mail Server" Kickstarter: "Dignity is a Renewable Resource" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server/posts/4106182

Your support over the last thirteen hours has blown me away. Thank you.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

mwl, to random
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Running your own mail server is not LEET.

It is, however, LOEET. Does that count?

This is insane. I'm losing my crap.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server/

mwl, to sysadmin
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"Run Your Own Mail Server" has blown through the initial stretch goals.

At $10k, all backers receive an ebook of "Ed Mastery." I'm told it teaches experienced sysadmins things about Unix they never imagined.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

mwl, to random
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And we're off!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

mwl, to random
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Lunch with writer friends and a chance comment across the fedi tonight made me realize that my artistic goal is to collect headpats from Satan.

mwl, to sysadmin
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Seize the means of communication. Run your own mail server.

Less than 24 hours until launch.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

mwl, to sysadmin
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36 hours until "Run Your Own Mail Server" launches on Kickstarter.

Control your communications. Never surrender the protocols.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/run-your-own-mail-server

annika, to random
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My GPG key expired at 10:10 UTC today, 12 hours after finding out @mwl had all remaining copies of his PGP & GPG book destroyed. If there is a god of encryption, I invoked and angered it yesterday.

mwl,
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@ramsey @annika

The book is so obsolete that 75% of it is useless and/or wrong. No point in warehousing or remaindering them.

5000 copies were printed, less than 3000 sold. My least successful book.

mwl, to random
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I would like to say, I am very proud of this text effect.

mwl,
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@ParadeGrotesque and MUCH more honesty!

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I do miss when MTV used to play music videos. I even miss VH1, for godsake.

Is this what getting old means?

mwl,
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@lilithsaintcrow

It means you want to jam to pretty pictures without having to make decisions. Decisions are hard.

mwl, to random
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How @djm says "Lucas needs to release a new soon."

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240517092416

mwl, to FreeBSD
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Spent an hour debugging why Thunderbird wouldn't work for submission to my mail server, and finally realized:

the bad password I entered and reentered?

blocklistd(8) works. It works super well.

mwl, to Rats
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The last thing your eyeball sees before it gets licked.

mwl, to random
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New Hellblazer issue just dropped.

mwl, to random
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going offline for tech edits. enjoy your world that still has, you know, "hope" and stuff.

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