These look great, cheers!

Let’s just say I’ve lived in three of the four corners, and one of those was in the southern hemisphere 😊 I’m glad you haven’t had the same experience as me though, because my experience has involved getting stung a lot.

… Batman?

Patently untrue. Source: I always mind my business and wasps go out of their way to fuck with me. Also they murder bees, and I like bees. Fuck wasps, and fuck the world for making them an integral part of the ecosystem.

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If you’re being honest, perhaps you could share some of your reasons for saying so with the class? The request itself sounds pretty reasonable, and the tone is polite.

You got there faster than I could haha! Good summary and example though, and less verbose than mine 😂

Absolutely I can shed some light on that - I don’t know if you’ve ever worked in a medium-sized company with over 100 employees, but it’s pretty commonplace for communications to break down, and for bits and pieces to be put on the wrong shelf or otherwise misplaced, leading to mistakes like this. This goes double when everyone is rushing around trying to hit deadlines.

In further support of the point, consider the amount of money they would have raised from the auction, vs the revenue and profits of LMG as a whole. I think it’s entirely reasonable to believe Linus does in fact care about a few hundred bucks outlay of company money; I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe he’d knowingly order what you rightly call a crime, knowing it would screw over a small company, just to make a few hundred bucks for charity.

We’d all like to believe that IT-based organisations are too professional to cock up, but they do, all the time. Dell, Google, and Microsoft are examples of large companies known for being organisational dumpster fires. It’s nearly impossible to run a company without stuff slipping through the cracks at some point. As Steve points out in his video, GN is guilty of making mistakes too (just not ones that result in them selling someone else’s prototype hardware… yet). The difference is in how those mistakes are handled.

BIG EDIT: Ooof, I’m watching GN’s response that OP linked now. LMG and Linus in particular fucked up bad with Billet and have been fucking up how they test hardware and present the results of their testing; how they’re tripling down is not helping them at all here. If there’s a doctor in the house, Linus needs a double dose of humility, stat.

They decided to test Billet’s cooler on a card it wasn’t designed for and dragged the (prototype) product and the startup that made it when the results were bad, then auctioned the block off at LTX while Billet were expecting it back.

Then, Linus doubled down against the criticism on the WAN show. He said on the forums yesterday that they’ve squared the cost of that mistake with Billet, and unlike some commenters I’ve seen I do believe the auction was a mistake and not malice. However, the loss of momentum and (unjust, IMO) public humiliation from such a popular outlet no doubt did damage to the motivation of the two guys working on it that money can’t fix. And if they haven’t gotten the prototype itself back, and a potential competitor to Billet acquired it, that serious damage to Billet’s IP. No proof of that last one yet, but we’ll have to wait at least 6-8 more months to see any potential product thanks to manufacturing lead time. Luke, as always, was the voice of reason and suggested that maybe they should have tested it on the thing it was designed for. Linus felt accuracy wasn’t worth an extra few hundred bucks and said so, which didn’t sit well with me.

I’ve so far said nothing about the other issues the GN video raised, like the sharp uptick in asterisked corrections overlaid on their review videos. Some of the points made include:

• a lot of people listen to the video without watching the screen, so they wouldn’t see the correction flash up (I’m one of those people, I glance at the screen while I’m making my breakfast, and have noticed it myself);
• LMG clearly re-use old test data despite claiming they don’t do this, and some of that test data is so wrong it should have been caught and corrected during production, let alone after publishing;
• LMG markets their Labs as allowing greater accuracy in their tests, which so far does not seem to have borne out given the number of corrections and outright wrong data in their videos;
• LMG do not correct such mistakes in a sufficiently public way, and sometimes not at all;
• As evidenced by their own employee interview video, LMG employees seem to pretty universally hold the opinion that they wish they had more time to work on videos, and some are unhappy with the quality of some of the videos they’re publishing.

There are others, like potential conflict of interest when covering products from close corporate partners like Noctua (how close? I dunno, but they have a cross-branded screwdriver 🤷). I felt the above to be most relevant to the question, as the crunch/quality issues underpin the problem with Billet.

If you actually know Linus (or, if anyone from LMG happens to read this), please suggest that he listen to the criticisms in the GN video, and to his own employees that they need more time on videos. Also, Luke is absolutely bang-on right in most of the opinions he espouses on the WAN Show, that I’ve seen anyway. I dunno that I’d say he has a 100% hit rate, but he seems to say exactly what I’m thinking most of the time. I feel like he’s a good bellweather for when Linus has an actually bad take.

All in all, I love their content and it’s made me very sad to see this sort of thing continuing to happen. Maybe a sound bite summary as a capstone? “Linus has always said LMG is a corporation, it’s not your friend. Longtime fans now completely believe him.”

To be honest, I feel a little guilty of this; I started c/starsector because it didn’t exist when I searched for it, but it’s not active and I’ve only posted once. I’m planning on making content, I love that game, but I have a full time job and a side project I’m investing actual money into, not to mention social obligations and travel and family and making sure to take care of my home and my body… where am I supposed to get time to make content too?

I guess it’s not abandoned, just quiet, but I felt compelled to respond. And if you like Starsector or games like it, drop on by, we’d love to have you! I’m a lot better at commenting than I am at posting 😊

No troubles, I’m no stranger to busy stretches myself 😊 I’ll keep an eye out for your message.

Nah dude, I’m seconding GPT4All. It’s free and SUPER easy to set up, so there’s no harm in seeing if it’ll run on your system. It should; I heard someone got it running on a raspberry pi, so your system is almost definitely strong enough.

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I’d recommend DMARC, sure - every little bit helps! But only because your SPF and DKIM are already aligned.

If you want me to check your work, shoot me a DM with your domain and I can take a look after you’ve done it with something like https://mxtoolbox.com (bookmark that one too, it’s good for checking your records after an edit to make sure the edit went live - just give it up to 72 hours). Or, a screenshot of the settings you’ve entered for the record, and I can validate for you (or mark it up to show changes if they’re needed).

Yes, soda is more hydrating than diuretic, but you’ve gotta look at the practical example rather than the raw data. The amount of caffeine in soda would become a problem if you tried to stay properly hydrated by drinking soda. You’re only supposed to have ~400mg of caffeine in a day, and a can of soda has ~30-50mg on average in 355ml of liquid. 10 cans of soda might be almost enough to get the water you’re supposed to drink, but you’d be pretty much at your daily caffeine limit; any more and you’d be in danger of heart issues, doubly so because of the dehydration, not to mention all the sugar and other crap in 10+ cans of soda…

Obviously these numbers vary by person, but not so much that the caffeine content isn’t a concern for people who drink soda exclusively.

It is more acidic than regular water, as the dissolved carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid. It’s not immediately bad for you, but if you drink a lot of it in a short time it could cause stomach issues due to the extra acidity.

That said it’s still water, and drinking enough to have you worried about the quantity of carbonic acid in your stomach would be far outweighed by the benefits of being properly hydrated, so CHUG CHUG CHUG!

My pleasure! I am somewhat versed so I’m happy to spread the knowledge where I can 😊 Microsoft does typically set up SPF and DKIM automatically for new accounts, but a small handful of my customers with legacy GoDaddy accounts that got switched to Office 365 found that it wasn’t enabled for them, for some reason. Probably a migration issue at GoDaddy.

Looks like it’s working just fine for your tenant though, and the rest of the test looks good. Pyzor would’ve triggered 'cause it was a short or empty test message - like the tester noted, test with real content to avoid that, but for now we can just ignore the ding, so you effectively have a 10/10. Nice 👌

It’s an unfortunate truth that there is no power on earth that can guarantee you stay out of the spam box. But, your domain and email are in good enough shape that you will pretty much always get delivered, even if sometimes that delivery is to Spam. You (or the person you were emailing) with might be able to harangue the receiving email provider into refactoring their sorting though; I’m sure your recipient doesn’t want their important emails going to spam, either!

To expand on what others have said, once you send the email, one of two things might happen:

1.) The receiving email server might report the email as delivered to the recipient, or

2.) Your email might get “bounced”, where the recipient is not notified of the email and the email is returned to you with a notice stating why the email was not delivered.

The second one is what happens if the email server is “sure” your email is spam. But even if the email is marked as delivered, that doesn’t mean it goes in the inbox. Secondary checks determine which box it goes in, and that box might be “Spam”. This secondary process is entirely internal to the mall provider, where the initial checks before delivery usually rely on a SpamAssassin instance.

Both are influenced by a number of factors, but the biggest are DNS (Domain Name Service) records on your domain which show you’re a legitimate sender. These are:

• SPF: Sender Policy Framework
• DKIM: Domain Keys-Identified Mail
• DMARC: Domain-based Messaging, Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance

A comprehensive explanation and guide can be found here: https://www.dmarcly.com/blog/how-to-implement-dmarc-dkim-spf-to-stop-email-spoofing-phishing-the-definitive-guide

But the short of it is that if your SPF or DKIM are wrong or missing, your emails are much more likely to be rejected or to land in spam. You won’t lose points (yet) for not having DMARC, but if you have SPF and DKIM set up correctly it gives about 10% better chance of being delivered (but it may not affect whether you get to the inbox, depending on those secondary checks).

You can use https://mail-tester.com to check for these and other issues that would stop your emails getting to the inbox. Don’t worry about “reverse DNS” not matching, or if it says you don’t have an “unsubscribe header”. RDNS can’t be expected to match anymore and I don’t think it’s a good spam indicator. Unsubscribe headers are only for mailing list emails, so if you’re not testing a marketing email from somewhere like MailChimp then you won’t have an unsubscribe header. Finally, being on SORBS is not the end of the world, and blacklists generally can be ignored unless your email provider is small, or if you run your own server.

Finally, don’t ever think “it’s been working fine so it shouldn’t stop working now”. SPF and DKIM weren’t necessary five-ish years ago, now they’re mandatory; DMARC itself hasn’t been taken very seriously to date but Microsoft just recently announced they’re actually going to start paying attention to it. On top of standards changing, unless you own and run the email server in your dwelling, you don’t have the control necessary to say “nothing has changed”. Microsoft can and does change their system constantly behind the scenes: applying patches, updates, retiring old servers and configuring new ones into the cluster, and so on. What was is not relevant; you can only look at what is, and fix that.

If you have a device you can install GrapheneOS on, there’s a button to record the call built right in to the phone app. It’s also a remarkably functional daily driver; I’ve been using it for months now and the only app I “lost” was Google Wallet. I can, somehow, still use all my banking and other finance apps that normally don’t work on custom ROMs.

Asking for proof isn’t necessarily trolling

This is correct; sealioning is characterised by asking questions in bad faith. If you ask a question, get an answer, and reply with the same question as though you did not get an answer, that is sealioning.

Personally, I always assume questions are asked in good faith and answer accordingly; it’s only when I get the same question in reply, or one that addresses precisely nothing I said, or one that egregiously twists my argument and/or words, that I view it as a troll and disengage.