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Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by throwaway290 »

brapachin wrote: post #3

This looks like an awesome resource and site. I’d love to become a landchad. But my main concern is setting up (and relying upon) and email server which is flagged as spam or even unreceived by outlook, gmail servers etc. Is this still a valid concern? Are there ways around this to setup a server and get into gmail and Microsoft’s emails good books? I’d love to become non-reliant on gmail. If anyone could provide the…

Gotta be willing to suffer losses. The only way we can stop this from happening is if enough people stop using gmail so google actually can't get away with whitelisting email domains. Doing it naively, game theory is not in our favor, like with climate destabilization, but making it cool (like OP does) might actually help?

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by unnouinceput »

esskay wrote: post #12
unnouinceput wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean having privacy? I thought HN crowd is all about privacy. Also donation, as in opposite of having a gun to your head to part you with your money.

Yeah no I wasn't talking about privacy. I was talking about "Hey please donate, you cant contact me for any other reason, nor will I tell you if this is run by a developer who wants to help people out or if its a springboard to an unrelated commercial product that you will be funding." It's not exactly a bizarre concept to want to know who you're donating money to.

Then don't donate. Again, no gun at your head.

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by mathgeek »

_lvbh wrote: post #27
esskay wrote: post #2

Useful but slightly odd to have a call for donations along with zero ability to see who runs it, how to contact them, etc.

Does it matter who runs it if it’s useful?

For the person you replied to, it apparently does, or they wouldn’t have asked. There is no objectively correct answer to your question. Perhaps you meant “should”?

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by m0rissette »

marmaduke wrote: post #18
m0rissette wrote: post #16

I don’t think the web peasants will ever learn as much as you would growing up with and building servers at home. I wish you could still do stage 1 installs and things still didn’t work so nicely. That’s how I got my chops; you want a multi monitor setup on Linux better RTFM for X and figure out how to manually configure it and deal with the configuration randomly breaking until you chattr it. Learning I feel was eas…

Web peasants will just have/find/create a different set of problems to solve, no?

That requires motivation to find vs forced to figure out.

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by dmix »

bobsmooth wrote: post #37
xg15 wrote: post #9

I like the idea of the site, but yeah, the entire vibe around it throws me off - 4chan vocabulary (peasant/chad), call for donations in an obscure cryptocurrency, fully anonymous. Maybe I'm doing the site injustice, but it smells like being run by some 4chan/ancap/"don't tread on me" bro.

>but it smells like being run by some 4chan/ancap/"don't tread on me" bro If the information provided is accurate and useful, so what?

In 2023 everything must be viewed through an identity lense first, whether it’s quality/correct second. Or at least that’s what we’re being told to do by our moral betters.

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by beardyw »

nstj wrote: post #17
bombcar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can start by having your email server “hide” behind gmail or friends.

I’d be interested to hear a specific expansion on this point (“hide” how? etc). I think the gp raises some valid concerns.

Have your Gmail account pull emails from your in box, have Gmail send as if from your email address.

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by bombcar »

beardyw wrote: post #47
nstj wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d be interested to hear a specific expansion on this point (“hide” how? etc). I think the gp raises some valid concerns.

Have your Gmail account pull emails from your in box, have Gmail send as if from your email address.

Exactly this - in "Exchange" terms they called it something like "smart host" if I remember. But basically you use a major provider to do the final "connect to the internet at large" but everything is on your machine and you could change your outbound routing at anytime.

Re: Landchad: A site dedicated to turn web peasants into Internet LandChads

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Post by axelf4 »

brapachin wrote: post #3

This looks like an awesome resource and site. I’d love to become a landchad. But my main concern is setting up (and relying upon) and email server which is flagged as spam or even unreceived by outlook, gmail servers etc. Is this still a valid concern? Are there ways around this to setup a server and get into gmail and Microsoft’s emails good books? I’d love to become non-reliant on gmail. If anyone could provide the…

One compromise that I can recommend is hosting the Email server yourself for incoming mail, but using an external SMTP relay such as SendGrid or SMTP2GO to send outgoing email. That way you never have to worry about your emails being blocked due to some misconfigured setting. Switching SMTP relay provider is easy so vendor lock-in is no issue.

Also, those services are mostly intended for broadcasting mass spam mails for better or worse, so for personal use their free tiers are almost too good to be true.

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