I think that you have to do quite a bit more setup on email than most other services. There’s SPF and DKIM and DMARC and so on. Plus spam filtering, setting up accounts and authentication, …

Plus email is arguably more important than anything else, since it’s kind of the lowest common denominator of the Internet; your dentist will probably send you an email to remind you of appointments, job offers will arrive via email, password resets arrive via email, and so on.

So it is a bit scary.

Having said that, as long as you’re not hosting from a residential IP addresses it is definitely achievable. You can start with one domain and use it for low-value purposes (or for accounts that allow multiple email addresses, like GitHub).

I’m pretty sure that Grok will write most speeches as Nazi speeches…

Yeah Hamas won the election in 2006. The majority of people living in Gaza are under 20.

That sounds like terrible reliability. If my home lab had an outage like that I would shut it down as I clearly don’t know how to run a dependable system. 😅

I don’t know of any resolvers that simply fail after not getting responses from a single name server. Please name and shame!

I use restic to:

1. A Raspberry Pi with an external 4 TB SSD at a friend’s house a few hours drive away
2. Jottacloud

Also, any non-trivial system has failure modes that are not binary. Like, if your convertible car has the roof stuck down you can drive it, but you will be sad if it rains. So, is the car “up” or not? Similarly, if your site has writes offline for a database upgrade, but reads work fine, is it “up”?

The concept is just advertising and something that makes sense to senior management, but provides no actual useful metrics.

There are only two states with ranked choice voting, I think: Maine and Alaska. A number of smaller municipalities also have it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

I don’t understand. Do you not consider the literal coup attempt on the US government to be important?

We were so close to a phone usable by non-enthusiasts with the Nokia N1. The Nokia Linux phones were killed when Nokia hired a former VP at Microsoft to be their CEO. I’m still bitter.