Blackholing My Email(www.johnsto.co.uk)

96 pointsby semyonsh6 hours ago3 comments

3forman hour ago
To me, the fact that the author of the article is the author of de_dust2 is the real highlight! For those who don't know, it's the most popular map ever in Counter Strike, and I expect so it remains to this day.
This is funny, as I always imagined these things to be made by some nameless author of good old Internet, and never bothered to check and look it up. Further less I expected to stumble upon it by said author's random blogpost where it's not even the primary topic.
- pete5x515 minutes ago
  Dust2 (and Cobble, another map mentioned) is, IMO, both art and genius; most of us will never make anything that brings joy to so many.
  It inspires me to work on things that I'm passionate about just for fun. You never know what might come out of it!
riverforest2 hours ago
Email is the one thing everyone complains about and almost nobody actually fixes. Curious how long this lasts before something important falls through.
- MattTheRealOne10 minutes ago
  Email definitely has its issues, but given that every other form of digital communication is getting worse and more locked down, I have no confidence that a replacement would be better. While increasingly difficult to get self-hosted email to be accepted by the big providers like Google and Microsoft, it is still great to at least have the option of hosting a universally accepted form of communication yourself.
- 2 hours ago
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- righthandan hour ago
  There’s nothing to fall through, email fits it’s exact purpose. Email is supposed to have 0 sending/receiving friction. So one idea to fix it is to only accept email from addresses you’ve allowed. No one wants to constantly update their address book though, they just want the email (forgetting to remove the marketing email allowance after you receive the account verification link). So then there’s nothing to fix.
  The abuse is by design.
nuker2 hours ago
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