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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This outcome is welcome progress, but I get the sense that it’s only a drop in the bucket.

    Bullying and intimidating people in other countries who openly contradict the CCP’s narrative seems widespread these days. From the news reports of unofficial Chinese “police stations” in North America, to youtube footage of US students speaking in support of an independent Hong Kong while Chinese students aggressively maneuver within inches of their faces while shouting threats, to the story in this post.

    I hope this is a sign that we are finally taking action to stop it.


  • Or by people formerly paying for their internet service with money that should have been going toward food or heat.

    Losing the $30 monthly discount could force families to choose between broadband and other necessities,

    Exactly.

    It’s also important to note that some ISPs created a low-cost service plan specifically for ACP. (It’s reasonable to assume this was possible in part because ACP handled income verification and eliminated the costs of individual billing and credit card payments.) That plan will likely disappear if ACP goes away, leaving poor people stuck paying a bill much higher than the program ever paid.








  • Your current approach of talking raw SMTP is likely to be more hassle than is worthwhile, and since the days of permissive SMTP servers are long gone, might not work at all.

    Since you appear to be using an Debian-based Linux distro, I suggest this approach:

    • If you don’t specifically need exim, consider replacing it with the lightweight dma package (DragonFly Mail Agent): apt install dma
    • Configure dma (or exim) to use your ISP’s SMTP server as a smart host. (Or the Gmail SMTP server if your ISP doesn’t provide one.)
    • Use the /usr/sbin/sendmail command (which comes with dma or exim) to send messages from your scripting language of choice.

    If you prefer to receive messages as SMS, note that most major mobile carriers maintain an email-to-sms gateway for this purpose. Some web searches will probably lead you to the one for your carrier. They usually accept email at an address like 123456789@sms-gateway.example.com