Having to physically wire tap the phone line is a lot more difficult and requires local bad actors. Email’s exposure to the internet makes it easier to hack. Yes, email can be encrypted, but if your server is compromised, that doesn’t matter. End to end encryption for email is much harder, and isn’t really used by any institutions (and usually can’t be because of data retention regulations), so the server has complete access to the unencrypted email in almost all cases. Compromising a fax machine that isn’t connected to the internet is a lot harder.

Not all faxes go through VoIP. Your everyday home fax machine probably uses VoIP, because having a landline installed in your home is stupid expensive and unnecessary, but faxes in institutions probably use the PSTN. These institutions most likely need landlines anyway, so having a dedicated fax line makes a lot more sense.

And if a fax goes through VoIP, it’ll be encrypted the same way email is. So in that case, it’s the same level of security as email, which is to say, easier to compromise. At least you can’t trick someone into clicking a link in a fax though.

Fax machines. Phone lines are pretty private, and sending a fax is usually more secure than emailing something, especially if someone else manages your email.

If someone is 1900 miles west of you, they will be in (almost) your exact same physical location after a short time (about two hours). If someone is 1900 miles south of you, they won’t. So it depends on the cardinal directionality.

That being said, 1900 miles isn’t that far relative to the circumference of the earth (~25,000 miles), so someone 1900 miles south of you would see mostly the same sky. You’d each see some stars the other couldn’t see, but only near the horizon. About 85% of the sky would be the same (if you could see perfectly to every part of the horizon).

I am a Californian. My flag is the flag of the California Republic.

Unfortunately, my state sees fit to subsidize a bunch of conservative states that otherwise would have failed already.

As he always does.

I ♣️ my dog.

I take the train to games. For some reason, drunk driving isn’t really that big a deal in the US, even though it kills so many people. A lot of people have multiple DUIs, because the state just won’t take people’s licenses away. I’m of the mindset that if you get caught driving drunk, you should lose your license for at least five years. And if you do it again, you should lose it permanently.

It is an absurd idea. Obama just assumed that less than 25% of the country is actually mentally ill enough to not think that.

Society probably wouldn’t work very well. I don’t know anything but how to write code and eat hot chip. Lots of plane crashes.

Definitely ghosts. Shower ghosts. Clean shower ghosts. Clumsy clean shower ghosts.

Imagine just telling your boss you won’t be coming to meetings anymore. If there’s any better proof that republicans aren’t held accountable in America, I haven’t seen it.

His tariffs will hurt them.

They don’t care.

Elon doesn’t spend time with his children. They are meat shields to him.

Cool, I don’t want it. Like, at all. Not one bit.

Looks like cyan to me.

So it’s green in the same sense that yellow is green, and it’s blue in the same sense that magenta is blue.

I’d vote for him, given that we’re still allowed to vote.

I’ve shot both and guns are much easier to both shoot and aim. A single action revolver is a lot easier to shoot than most people think. It takes barely any pressure on the trigger, so aiming is a lot more accurate. The bigger the gun, the easier it is to aim (and the more accurate it will be, especially if the barrel is rifled). Also rapid fire is much easier than a bow. There’s a reason there are no mass murderers using bows.

That being said, bows are way easier to make. You can make a decent enough bow and arrows with a dead chicken, a sharp rock, and a few nice sticks. Making a gun requires some pretty complex knowledge of both metalwork and chemistry. You also need a source of immense heat, so building at least a small forge is required.

I don’t know. I just read the XML. It’s pretty easy to read. I’m sure there’s a tool out there though.

Yep. Definitely worth the ten bucks a year. Also it lets you get your own DMARC reports, which can be useful sometimes.

Good point. I’ll add that.

I’m working on custom domain support right now. And pricing is pretty straightforward, since I only have extra storage and sending options. You get 500MB for free, and the ability to receive email. Sending is $1/month. I put that behind a paywall to prevent spammers from using Port87. As a small email service, if you send spam, the big players can blocklist you and kill your service. So, keeping my SMTP servers’ IP address reputation high is really important.

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