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A summary piece on spam fighting and spamd(8) in particular and 300,000 imaginary friends

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In a recent piece titled The Things Spammers Believe – A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends, undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen summarizes more than 15 years (yes, it has been that long) of improving the noise levels in mail feeds.

The main tools are what comes in the base system of our favorite operating system, with particular focus on spamd(8) and the greytrapping feature.

The article leads in with

It finally happened. Today, I added the three hundred thousandth (yes, 300,000th) spamtrap address to my greytrapping setup, for the most part fished out of incoming traffic here, for spammers to consume.

and is liberally sprinkled with references to other relevant material.

The article is also available in a trackerless (aside from the server’s ordinarily rotated log) version.

LFCS – Turning a System Into a Router

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There are times you may want to set up a system to act as a go between for a network and the Internet.

This ‘go between’ is a system that acts as a router and is designated as a gateway for the systems on a network.

Let’s look at this in more detail.

System Layout

We start with a regular layout of a network with one or more systems. We really don’t want to open the whole network up to the Internet, so we have a system that will act as a router between the two networks, the public…

https://www.linux.org/threads/lfcs-–-turning-a-system-into-a-router.41375/

Welcoming PyTorch to the Linux Foundation

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Welcoming PyTorch to the Linux Foundation

Welcoming PyTorch to the Linux FoundationToday we are more than thrilled to welcome PyTorch to the Linux Foundation. Honestly, it’s hard to capture how big a deal this is for us in a single post but I’ll try.  TL;DR — PyTorch is one of the most important and successful machine learning software projects in the world today. We are excited
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Announcing Carlos Torres, Mozilla’s new Chief Legal Officer

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Announcing Carlos Torres, Mozilla’s new Chief Legal Officer

I am pleased to announce that starting today, September 12, Carlos Torres has joined Mozilla as our Chief Legal Officer. In this role Carlos will be responsible for leading our global legal and public policy teams, developing legal, regulatory and policy strategies that support Mozilla’s mission. He will also manage all regulatory issues and serve […]

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Luca Saiu: GNU Hackers’ Meeting 2022: Call for presentations, even remote

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The GNU Hackers’ Meetings or or “GHMs” are a friendly and informal venue to discuss technical topics related to GNU (https://www.gnu.org) and free software (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html); anybody is welcome to register and attend. The GNU Hackers’ Meeting 2022 will take place on October 1st and October 2st in İzmir, Turkey; see the event home page at . We decided to help students who wish to attend by contributing 50€ out of their 60€ attendance fee (required by the hotel for use of the conference room, coffee and snacks) so that students will need to only pay 10€, upon presenting proof of … [Read more]

Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4

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Slovenia being a tiny country with a population of just 2 million, IBM OS/2 Warp 4 was one of the few non-Microsoft operating systems to be localized to Slovenian in the mid-90s and a big deal for the local IT community back then. But nearly 3 decades later, when OS/2 disappeared from the last ATMs in the country, the even rarer Slovenian version was as good as completely gone. Or was it? This is an amazing example of digital archeology, and I hope the other rare OS/2 translations are found as well. It’s difficult for small – but stunningly beautiful! – countries to maintain their digital independence, and properly localised software plays a huge role in that.