@benlockwood I've been going floppy for years!

@dyke_du_jour @robb No one respects generalists anymore and it shows.

@dyke_du_jour
You sound like someone many charitable organizations would love, covering all tech stuff they might need at the cost of a single hire.

Good luck!

@dyke_du_jour this came across my feed https://mastodon.social/@jessie/115128423386304674 https://www.dev.ngo/join/django-developer-2025/ Jess often posts such openings.

@dyke_du_jour just seen this in my feed: https://toot.cafe/@lrlna/115150941403042799

@dyke_du_jour You may not be a specialist (I'm not) or see yourself as one but*sell* yourself as one.

Once your foot is in the door you can then show off your other skills. Worked for me.

Good luck!

@grunfink a great release for sure! Thank you!!!

@grunfink nice, congrats!

@TheBreadmonkey Why do we quickly forget how well exercise helps with mind, body and soul... and then dread it!? It makes no sense. But I am all too familiar with the mental resistance of returning after even just a short break.

@TheBreadmonkey you say that now but just wait till you get your sneakers on

@TheBreadmonkey

If you do the run as well as you're doing the reluctance right now, you are going to be freakin' spectacular!

<in a cheerleader outfit>
Go Ben Go! Go Ben Go!

@TheBreadmonkey

Oh, now I'm so looking forward to the followup post.

@TheBreadmonkey I really am having to force myself to run this week and I’d much rather nap or read. But I know I need to do it. It’s a bit like taking medication. Hoping that if I just keep going through the motions I’ll start to enjoy it again. I bet your club run will be much more rewarding than you anticipate. Pls report back

@TheBreadmonkey hitting the #Zwift #PainCave... 🥵

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View from the saddle of a smart turbo trainer bike, crammed into a messy garage.

@TheBreadmonkey But you will love it when you've done it.

@sundogplanets

It's good to see them all. Brightens my day 🤗👍

@sundogplanets
Such a nice relationship they have.
Good morning!

@sundogplanets I saw goats using horses as a platform to jump across their fence. The owner was not happy collecting goats in the streets.

@sundogplanets I love that so much! 😍

@sundogplanets
The little horse is not the only one getting relaxed, me too by watching the scene. Thanks for sharing it! ;)

@sundogplanets

🤗🐐🐐🐐🐴🐎🐴🐎❤️🤍💜🫂💛💚💙💗🩵🩷🧡🐐🐴🐎🤗*Good Morning!*& Happy Friday!*& I love the picture!*& I adore goats!*I wish you a Wonderful Day!🤗🐐🐴🐎❤️🤍💜💛💚💙🫂💙💗🩵🩷🧡🐐🐴🐎🤗

@rl_dane oh shit it’s Barclay Syndrome

@samwho as someone who once wrote an entire sendmail.cf from scratch - without m4 - I feel utterly ashamed to have scored 11/21.

@samwho Jesus.

@samwho Scored 16/21. That's better than I had expected. 🤷

@samwho abomination@horrible.cursed

and @north will probably like it

@samwho

I scored 18/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
(But I have a slight advantage being a network engineer.)

@samwho now i want ":(){:|:&};:"@irgendwo.de as email adress
#lol #forkbomb #lulz

@samwho I have scored averagely, says the thing

@samwho dafuq did I read

@samwho for some reason, Ironfox really didn't like this site, but I did! 16/21 on Firefox!

@samwho No UUCP bang paths?

@samwho

I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho
16/21 .. that's ok for a cursed test..

@samwho It costs less dev time to just send mail to invalid addresses, anybody who doesn't get their confirmation link simply can't confirm their address... it's win/win

@samwho I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

better than expected!

@samwho I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho @ianthetechie

I scored 10/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho "I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media."

@samwho w00t 10/21

@samwho I find it very interesting how much is allowed in an email address. Why? Maybe they had some idea to expand the uses back in the day (kinda like show a URL became an I striction set for http replies in API), but it never materialized?

@samwho
"I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media."

@samwho
I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho no wonder all those email regex’s are so complex
15/21

@samwho This is brilliant!

@samwho
I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho Having suffered through the audio quality of this genius talk https://youtu.be/xxX81WmXjPg, I felt prepared and knew some of the pitfalls. 16/21

@samwho I scored 10/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

😔

@samwho I scored 11/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho 20/21, forgot about “The spaces get ignored by the spec”. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@samwho I was going to mention the gmail dots thing, but someone else did, but I will mention an entertaining edge case it doesn’t mention is that in quoted local parts *it’s valid to have line breaks*😱

@samwho Damn some of these arte really weird...

@samwho Why are you doing this to me

@samwho I don't think domain example.com delivers mail ;P

And I thought I know email. Cc @heiglandreas

I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho

@samwho Incredible.

@samwho I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Really great quiz! And, learnt a lot about it too.

@samwho okay i'll admit i got 12 in my first try (i would have gotten 14 if i trusted my gut more) and then did a second attempt with 20/21 and a third attempt with everything right and then this one ... I mainly wanted to know the response I'd get off if i had everything wrong.

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Screenshot with text: Results are in! Zero out of twenty one. This is impressively bad. You had to overcome serious odds to score this low. Well done.

@samwho

I scored 17/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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Screenshot of a Mobile Browser Window showing e-mail.wtf Score 17 / 21 "You really shouldn't be scoring this high."

@samwho This is amazing! I was 100% sure spaces were (technically) allowed in the localpart, until I learned about the quoted form 🙈

@samwho Who said, fediverse was easy, because it was just like e-mail? Well…

@samwho 13/21 this was very instructive!

@samwho I had really good time doing the test. I scored 8/21. Some of the rules seems so dumb

@samwho thanks. 17/21 (with a few lucky guesses though).

@samwho That's just wrong. If an RFC gets amended and a client implements the latest, this can't be valid. Also, servers may reject the address on their level of implementation.

This email address is invalid.

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quiz

@samwho I was waiting for a question about angle brackets and snarky remarks about what can go outside of them.

@samwho EZ GG, First try

I scored 21/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Even though I know a lot about it, I don't want to run my own mail server anymore.

@samwho I agree that Nobody should score that high… I

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A Screenshot of the result from the email.wtf Test. The Score is 20/21 with an undertext saying that ‚you really shouldn’t be scoring this high’.

@samwho And of course: Just because an address is invalid doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. And is in active use. And just works ... most of the time.

@samwho

I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho

I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho Well that was humbling. I scored 12/21, barely average xD

@samwho twelve, I am better than random chance (barely)

@samwho this is great!

@samwho

As someone who currently uses "*" as a local part I was disappointed to only get 17. I forgot about the 998 octet rule and and remain pretty dubious about emoji as domain literal. Most of them were pretty obvious to me. Some of those "invalid" ones seem to work in practice.

Go ahead and email me at <i...wonder@qaz.wtf>

It should work if your client isn't a pedantic piece of shit.

(edit s/client is/client isn't/
And for the record "Roundcube" is in my mind)

@samwho
Have read the RFCs so expected utter weirdness, still got me

@samwho I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Lol

@samwho @pieq

10 / 21

Yay! You're average! Time to start making plans for what you'll do when an LLM takes your job.

@samwho I scored 10/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. 😂😂😂

@samwho
I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho "above average" yay but I was expecting to get one point for knowing what a bang path is and didn't see a single bang path.

@samwho what the fuck

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"I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media."

@samwho GET BEHIND ME SATAN

@samwho
16/21. Most of my errors were related to dots in the username, email is a lot more strict than I expected.

@samwho 15 :3

@samwho 12/21, so I am not really an e-mail expert, only sending and receiving them, but thanks @thunderbird for making that easy.

@samwho I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@samwho
I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. 🤓

@samwho 13 of 21, WTF indeed. Thanks for the entertaining education! Sadly, way too many services even reject plus addresses.

@samwho i didnt

@samwho

I scored 10/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Might I say, this is amazing and email addresses are ridiculous.

@samwho I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I do work with a software that has to deal with emails and I didn't really pay attention so I probably would have gotten 2 more points if I did I guess. Most of the complexity is handled outside of our code though, of course I should say. Writing your own code to validate emails would be a bad mistake. Yes, everybody does it, it's still wrong.

@samwho I got 15/21. Although I disagree with some of the ones it said I answered wrong.
I apparently need to work on my SMTP nerd skills. 🤓🫡

@samwho
"I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media."
Sure I guess, makes as much sense as the rules do!

@OrionKidder

I dont think versions make sense at all

#OpenSUSE #Slowroll is currently the only rolling distro with delayed feature updates, so you get more stable features but backported security fixes

The issue is that configurations change and so much has version numbers, like PHP, Python etc.

We recently had an Apache config looking for the wrong PHP version, so you could absolutely upgrade but the config was broken after that. This could be handled by the OS though.

@OrionKidder People solved this long ago, Bluefin, etc ...