bjoern_tantau

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 5 days ago

Depends. Usually not. It hops from your computer to your email provider which then looks up the server of the recipient and sends it there. The recipient's server might send it on internally and in big installations probably does so.

It is theoretically possible that one of the involved parties has a third party authorised to accept mails on their behalf in case of outages. I don't believe that is very common nowadays. It's much more likely that your provider will keep the mail for a few hours to days when it can't reach the recipient.

But ideally only your provider and the recipient's provider can read the mail with all connections in between being encrypted. There's just no guarantee that all paths are encrypted. But I think nowadays that is much more likely than it used to be, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

Now, if you don't want any of the servers to be able to read the mail you have to encrypt it with something like GPG. But for that to work you need the recipient's key. But hardly anyone uses that. And it only encrypts the content of the mail. Not the metadata.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 6 days ago

After the school bell was broken for a very long time it was considered to shut it off permanently. We were supposed to argue for or against it in an essay. At least one guy who wanted to keep the bell still argued for getting rid of it because he had more arguments for that.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 26 points 6 days ago

Sir, this is a Lemmy's.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about sitting on a seat warmed by a friend?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So is my uncle.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 week ago

Depending on your interpretation it literally happened to me. Long Covid has me tied to my bed 24/7. I have even less to contribute to my family than a door knob. But my wife still loves me.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 1 week ago

Finally something not making Valve's hardware more expensive.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Two dishwashers no cupboards is the answer.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because OP doesn't use Summit which gives you the option of editing images before upload.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

My wife is five years older than me. We met when I was 22. I really thought in the beginning "should I really date a 27 year old? That is so old!"

Now we love about that.

Edit: I decided to keep my typo.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 3 weeks ago

Steam Decks have two touchpads. They are incredibly useful with Steam's virtual keyboard where you essentially controll two cursors with them for each side of the keyboard.

Having this functionality with every virtual keyboard would be great.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

I had to get rid of it when it caused massive slowdowns for me. That's probably fixed by now...

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