Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co), page 2

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#TijuanaTuesday

So I'm listening to "Rise" by Herb Alpert and @squirrel thinks I'm on hold with someone on the speaker phone :blobfacepalm: 🤣 #TijuanaTuesday

@djsundog I'd vote to have this virtual parliamentary meeting so thoroughly owned that it embarrasses the government and demonstrates to the world how Zoom is a pretty shitty choice for such business

@djsundog Hey it's a very special #TijuanaTuesday today!

Happy 85th birthday to Herb!

@vfrmedia @djsundog @gdkar

Not just a mini van...an actual Mini Van.

The original Magic Wagon!

@djsundog Peak Mojo

All the mojo that ever existed, or will ever exist, came into being in the 1970s.

If you are lucky enough to have any mojo at all do not squander it.

@djsundog @gdkar my uncle, whose name actually is Van, owned a van something like this, but it was red.

Uncle Van's van had tinted windows. And shag carpet on the interior walls and ceiling. And nobody at all ever thought it was creepy.

His son's first car was a black C3 Corvette. I do believe he spent more time fixing it and "upgrading" it than driving it (which I think was mostly to take girls on dates).

The 1970s were fantastically ludicrous.

@gdkar

Here ya go

(Literally a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan)

@requiem @ink_slinger self hosting email is not as painful as you'd think--the biggest issues are during initial setup (especially DNS). Once it is running maintenance is pretty manageable...I'd say mastodon is significantly more work to maintain than email to be honest :blobcheeky:

But...it's all relative. If you haven't hosted any sort of server before email is an intimidating first project.

@djsundog @edebill probably not the best recruiter school either. I wonder if there is even accreditation for such a thing?

Like, maybe they flunked their real estate license exam so they settled for recruiter school.

@adasauce it might depend on the province as well. Those kind of job titles are seldom used in Alberta in any official capacity at least, but APEGA is relatively vigorous in its enforcement of regulations.

It's not like I don't see such job titles, but they tend to be listed by American employers and sometimes other provinces like BC and Ontario. Also sometimes the job listing refers to "engineering" but the official job title does not use the word.

@djsundog

@djsundog In Canada "engineer" is something pretty specific...like equivalent to the "chartered engineer" designation in the UK...so you never see actual job titles like "customer service engineer" and whatnot. But it does get used as a keyword and in job titles for foreign listings.

The I've had the opposite issue where I actually AM qualified to do engineering on food processing equipment, but get recruiters sending me leads on jobs like "SharePoint engineer" that are irrelevant to me.

@sean @daughter my situation is not typical since I've never done anything important with my gmail account--mine is a throwaway account I created just because of the hard sell Google gives you when you set up an android phone. If I had lots of data to migrate or lots of contacts who knew only a gmail.com address, or was just learning how email hosting works now, it would seem pretty intimidating.

Re-federating email is very important but will be very difficult.

@daughter @sean both gmail and outlook.com can be problematic, not really in terms of migration but dealing with them as recipients. So much bullshit done in the name of "anti spam". However it isn't an insurmountable problem, as if it gets worse they'll risk regulatory smackdown (at least outside the US).

I've self hosted my email for longer than gmail has existed. So far, if you make sure you've got valid SPF, DKIM and DMARC you're fine. Maybe make sure PTR record matches MX just in case.

@sean I have to show some coworkers this...they're starting to appreciate the nextcloud I set up last year but a couple commented on how it would be nice if they had integration like Microsoft has, and this is a nice step in that direction

@007 thanks for the advice, I shall forego the renewal of my driver's permit and put my name on the wait list for a suite in a decent seniors home instead :blobtonguewink:

@FiXato @Taweret It is very important to preserve natural habitats!

@videomurder @deutrino my dad brought home a DEC Rainbow 100 from a surplus auction that was only a couple years old at the time...the description stressed it was NOT IBM compatible and it came with no software so he got it super cheap.

The model name was ironic--it would display a "rainbow" in several shades of glorious amber. Until we found some of its weirdly formatted 5.25 floppies I used it in VT100 mode to dial into BBSes.

My terminal settings try to mimic the amber-ness of those times.

@sean I like meat and potatoes, but talking a bit about features after, if time permits, would be gravy.