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   hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 22:40:43 JST hypolite

   An online conversation I witnessed yesterday reminded me of the existence of two distinct but related grating Internet personas:

   • The type of guy (it's always a man) boasting that their email address has never been featured in haveibeenpwned.com and indirectly shaming people for signing up with popular providers like Adobe or Patreon.
   • The type of guy (it's always a man) challenging you to guess their personal email address as a reason not to allow usernames in the login field of an authentication form.

   Kids, don't be like these two.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 22:40:41 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite wait - what
     Bragging about never using services? Bragging about only using services obscure enough they don't get reported when the user data is stolen?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 22:50:38 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite Now I'm wondering how many of my email addresses are in Have I Been Pwned
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 22:50:40 JST hypolite

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     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard I’ve got nothing. It’s one of the weirdest self-awarded badge of honor that I’ve ever seen.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 23:30:15 JST hypolite

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     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard Too many, apparently!
     silverwizard likes this.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 23:40:27 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite Only two emails have been compromised since I started hosting my own email
     
     The email address my dad manages for me is in 9 lists, but it's also been around since highschool so got used on a lot of things
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 05:30:19 JST silverwizard

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     • mcv
     @mcv @hypolite Yeah - I just give them `companyname`@`whateverdomainIuse` so it looks like a real email to the regex
     
     But I have been told I can't have their company name in my email before
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     mcv (mcv@nerdica.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 05:30:20 JST mcv

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     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard @hypolite I used to sign up with a custom email address per service, so I'd know who leaked my email address to spammers. Stuff like mcv=adobe@mydomain.nl. But a lot of email forms don't allow that sort of email address, which is stupid.