One viral videos of 2024 was a cut portion of a commencement speech about seeing people die and hearing what they have to ask for.
Read MoreWhen will the United States be a graveyard?
I woke up one morning with a thought about the quantity of ancestors I would have if I walk back to Jesus times. Assuming I go back 30 generations there should be close to 1 billion ancestors of mine. This has to be some kind of paradox since I’m certain 1 billion human souls weren’t alive in the yonder of 0-39AD. I decided to work the opposite way and ask myself “How many human beings would it take that, if all were buried in the ground at the end of their happy life it would make the United States a complete graveyard?”. I expanded this though to wonder at what year that would occur, too.
Read MoreMost popular song each month 1990-1999
Came across a Facebook video that I felt the need to “document”. Specifically a list of 120 songs between the years of 1990 to 1999, also called “My Teenage Playlist“.
This page is going to heavily depend on external links to Wikipedia and YouTube.
Read Moredovecot – out of the box setup
Trying to learn a new programming language is a daunting task. My process is to take programs that I’ve written before and rewrite them in the target language of choice.
I’ve got a PHP program that interacts with my IMAP server (smart-imap), reads all the messages in the Inbox, takes the localpart of the email address, creates a folder and moves that email into that folder. If the localpart is part of a pre-determined list of email addresses that have been sold off for Spam it’ll move it to the SPAM folder. If there are no localparts that match the domain name of the server then it drops it into an UNSORTED folder.
Today’s language of choice is Python, specifically 3.9.21. To do this entire feat without breaking things I need an IMAP server, and dovecot 2.3.16 is going to be the death of me.
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