I did think that’s where it was heading when I read “aggressively trying to have sex with me”.

You put wrong URL into the second one.

limited options to choose

Making that choice is free will.

Yep.
There will just be more and larger communities. Many of them will just be tech-focused, and the discussions will move there.

$9.99/month to use a custom domain.

China

Non-EU countries, so even UK.
If Chinese goods are a problem, why not restrict this to imports from China?

Google forms?

Good luck getting components.
I just tried AliExpress for fun.
50 red LEDs at €0.79. Cool. Just with €6.15 import fees.
Scummy resellers must be jumping in the air from excitement.

I believe this will just keep being charged directly by most platforms.

AOL email address

What’s wrong with AOL mail? It’s been fine for me as a free e-mail provider. Clean webmail interface, app passwords for IMAP and SMTP (Though Thunderbird can also do OAuth2, apparently. It doesn’t work for me.), 1TB of storage. You just have to opt-out of marketing e-mails. They WILL send them. A lot of them. I’d consider it better than Gmail.

At best people will learn something; at worst we’ll get a show.

You’ll just end up with r/anime_titties situation.

Search engines used to be the best advertisement for Reddit, so it’s now just further burying itself. Good job.

I haven’t yet used it that much. I did set up catch-all.

So far I like it. It’s centered around users and routing. You can create as many users as you like, and as many addresses as you like. However, instead of adding aliases, you add addresses to routing.
There is a simple from/to interface with “Any address”, “Any address except valid user addresses (catchall)”, “Any address starting with”, and “The exact address”.
There’s also option of using Sieve scripts, but I have no idea how to use that. Any address on your domain can be routed to any address. If you however want multiple Purelymail addresses, you’ll have to create a user for each address.
The users really are separate, with their own login credentials, and optionally restrictions on addresses they can send from.

Everything is prorated when it comes to billing, including the yearly payment which is calculated per day. This is withdrawn from credit.

For webmail they use Roundcube, which is OK in my opinion.

Anyway, I think best you can do to figure out if you’d like them is to look at their documentation:
https://purelymail.com/docs/
https://support.purelymail.com/support/solutions

Oh, and they are also building an API: https://news.purelymail.com/api/index.html (currently in preview)
You can also set-up TLS requirements for sending/receiving as well as ignoring DMARC p=reject. Default is TLS 1.2 for both sending and receiving, and conforming to DMARC policies of sender.

Something to note is last year they said they plan to increase prices as $10/year is not sustainable: https://news.purelymail.com/posts/updates/2025-12-18-roadmap-2026.html

I have, mostly. The problem was I trusted the automated cloud backup, thinking Cisco knows what they’re doing when designing their app.

Aegis is taken care of. It automatically creates one file for each update, and keeps them. That gets picked up by rsync.

KeePassXC unfortunately only keeps the last 1 version. Good enough if something screws up while saving, but otherwise kinda sucks.
Anyway, all syncs are manual, and only happen in one direction as I don’t plan to generate passwords on my phone.
In case of corruption, KDBX doesn’t unlock. Though I guess there could still be some silent screw-up during the saving process, so I might have to do version control anyway.
Currently the only place where all (major) past versions live is a CD, because that’s a WORM medium. That one is also least convenient to use. Take a copy of the databases, generate PAR2 files with 500% redundancy and 512B block size (because they’re tiny anyway), generate checksums, load disc, load old session, create dir with current date, put new files there, burn, verify.

I am not really sure how to handle it. Perhaps I should learn git.

Edit 1: Nevermind, I am idiot. The backup format also has a {TIME:<format>} option. I’ll use that from now on. {DB_FILENAME}.old.kdbx is just the default.

Edit 6: Removed unnecessary text.

Caesar cipher

And now everyone knows what to do.

You could do a sort of physical 2FA by requiring 2 pieces of paper from 2 different locations. Either a long password split into 2, which would allow partial weakening with either one, or random OTP and cipher text.

Bugs happen. Here’s an LG coffee maker uploading 1TB in 10 days: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/it-pro-says-his-parents-keurig-smart-coffee-maker-sent-1tb-of-data-over-their-wi-fi-in-10-days-it-saturated-an-access-point-on-its-own-but-he-says-most-of-the-traffic-never-left-the-home-network

Sorry if I wrote something in a confusing way.

This is concerning My .eu portal, which is a completely separate portal of the registry, that also allows generating tranfer codes without involving the current registrar (as well as showing all private info).

This is the login page: https://my.eurid.eu/en/auth/login/?next=%2Fen%2F
The only needed information is e-mail address associated with the domain and the domain name. While both are needed, and the domain name alone is not enough, the e-mail address is available in the WHOIS information.

When the Registrant is a natural person the Registry publishes the Registrant´s e-mail address and language.

Source [PDF]

This mean anyone, at any time, can generate authorization code, and attempt to use it at the My .eu portal.

Based on EURid’s info, entering the portal is enough to get access to the transfer code.

From the My .eu platform: You can also issue the transfer authorization code yourself on the My.eu account. Please do not confuse the access code you will receive by email (which will enable you to enter the My .eu platform) with the transfer authorization code (which you will issue once you are on the platform).

(31^6)/7200

Small correction:
36⁶. It’s roughly 31b of entropy (log₂(36⁶) ≈ 31.019550008654), which would make it 302,330.88/s to go through all combinations.

Also, while it might raise red flags, there is nothing to do. This is the only security, and the log in can’t be disabled.
Best I can do is a support request.

Perhaps I should try contacting them anyway.

If it broke, I’m not sure what I’d do.

Figure out how to fix it.
When our Samsung TV “broke” it was just the backlight. New one cost me $10 on AliExpress… and a bit more for fuses because I am a dumb idiot.
Though I must wonder how trustworthy those AliExpress fuses are. Louis Rossmann did review some crappy Amazon car fuses that were as good as nails. I don’t have a PSU to test them.

Oh, and do something better to lift the panel. Even if it’s not too large to crack under its own weight, the LCD panel is still sharp. It WILL cut into your fingers. Again, I am a dumb idiot.

Problem is, there may be hidden limitations to how you can use the service.

And so far the worst thing I read was ToS of student-run network provider at the dormitory of University I went to, which stated that in case of suspicion the user is required to allow access to his/her computer. If refused, it would be treated as a confirmation of the suspicion, and the result could be disciplinary action from the University.
And the full rules were so tight you basically immediately broke them by connecting to the network.

When I asked about it, they assured me those rules are never actually imposed, but nah.