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   Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 17:52:41 JST Wolf480pl

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   • ☃️karolherbst☃️

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   @cadey
   Except email is the last universally-accepted communication medium that's a federated open protocol.
   I think it's worth saving, and the client UI could be improved, considering that the information like Return-Path, DKIM signature, and SPF check results are already present in the headers

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     ☃️karolherbst☃️ (karolherbst@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 17:52:43 JST ☃️karolherbst☃️

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     @cadey "We should stop using email" one might think why that helps.

     Simple: If you communicate on other platforms with people, you have a strong _UI_ indicator it's the same account you've spoken to previously. Be it on Matrix, Discord, Signal, etc...

     An account with a faked name messaging you will pop up as a new chat, so it's already kinda obvious _something_ is going on.

     Email just sucks, or rather Clients do.

     Some clients like gmail do sometimes indicate if a sender looks fishy tho.

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     ☃️karolherbst☃️ (karolherbst@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 17:52:44 JST ☃️karolherbst☃️

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     @cadey "NPM has always been kinda weird compared to other open source package repositories, so them requiring something strange like that reads as reasonable." Ah that makes sense 🙃

     Maybe we should establish more processes like banks do "we'll never ask this of you ever".

     But then again, people also click on phishing links in emails saying "this is a phishing attack training, do not click on the following link:"

     We should just stop using email honestly.

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     Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 17:52:46 JST Xe :verified:

     We all dodged a bullet

     https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon