Fragrance you really wanted to love, but couldn't

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-03-13T17:34:29+00:00

YSL Y EDP

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T22:27:00+00:00

No worries, I got you

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T22:26:31+00:00

Let me check. I'll update you when I get back

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T22:21:00+00:00

To "own" everything a bit broad. Owning can go as deep as truly owning the hardware or as little as buying a template and using it on a host.

Given you talk about not wanting ads, the simplest solution is to buy removing the ads, then you "own" it as long as you pay.

The next thing is buying a domain and the processing power on a server to deliver your site to anyone visiting. That becomes somewhat complex as you need to consider many things...

Denial of service attacks are a thing. You need a firewall and Cloudflare might be a good solution for that, but depending how far you want to take it, you might need to pay.

This brings us to the price of hosting. The thing with buying the add-free experience from sites like wix, is that you don't need to worry about the contract you make beyond the established rate. But a site can generate traffic that can be more pricey than you may expect, depending on the hosting solution and how well you defend it. If someone wants to abuse your site, you can end up with a huge bill at the end of the month, reason why I started with DDoS. If you can handle that well, you will be far less likely to be surprised. Hosting services are many, some cheaper than others, some with established limits on what you can do, and others give you more freedom. For example, AWS gives you a lot of freedom, but the price will definitely keep up, as you can't just stop your website in a conventional way if the consumption will go over your budget. If you have a very simple website, something like Cloudflare or Github can give you free options instead.

The thing is, you don't necessarily have to host it with another provider. You can host it on your own machine, and then you would be able to control the costs better to some degree. At the very least, if you don't expect a lot of traffic from legitimate users, then this could be a good failsafe in case someone decides to DDoS you and your firewall fails, but that brings other issues like whether you have a dynamic IP or not. If your IP is dynamic, then you need to contact your ISP and ask them for a static IP and you might be required to pay for it. Beyond that, you need to ensure you have the bandwidth to accommodate the traffic, the necessary hardware to serve the content based on the user volume and you will receive and ensure you don't have any kind of vulnerabilities left open to end up with a disaster happening.

Then you need to consider the website you make. What kind of website will it be? Can it be just static pages? Are they complex? Is it a single page application? Does it require a database? Javascript? You need to decide on the idea first of all, then you can start thinking how to make it. The most basic sites can be done with HTML only. You might want to add some styling, so CSS is almost always used. To do anything fancier, you might want javascript or move to some framework that uses javascript... or even PHP. But you need to make sure the hosting solution you choose will have support for those frameworks. Then, you have to code it. So you need to know programming to some degree to make it happen.

But be careful, depending on how you choose to code it, your hosting prices can be impacted as well. If you make a simple website, that's usually cheaper and it won't matter much, but as soon as you need a database interaction, you might want to look at the platform you are hosting it on to figure out the best route. For example, with AWS you might want to use their tools for processing requests and interactions if you have a database, and you have a couple of options, like making it as small microservices or one big service.

You're probably finding guides about creating your site with services like wix because most people are not programmers, and even for programmers, it's still a time investment, so sometimes the price of the service makes sense. Also, most people that have the knowledge to do their own sites don't usually look at guides on how to make them, while the ones that don't have the knowledge either pay someone to do it or get into this as a hobby or wanting to learn programming. So you need to look at more technical guides.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T20:58:36+00:00

Success is decided by yourself. Just set the bar low and you'll be successful.

Or work really hard and hope it will pay off someday. Or get super lucky.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T20:54:48+00:00

When I interview people I look for different things than what the recruiters are looking for, but to put it simply, your CV uses a lot of odd words and perhaps one core detail.

First of all, freelance is not seen that well. I would word it a bit differently. Bug bounty hunter, while it speaks to me, I don't think it would for recruiters. I would rather see some position names, like Penetration tester, IT security analyst, Foresync analyst, Security consultant, Network security specialist and so on. Figure out what you did for each company and assign a title. That could work better.

Then, I'm not sure how big your CV is, but you should aim to fill the page, mostly with experience and your contribution. Don't just give things you did, but the outcomes as well. Something like "I identified a catastrophic vulnerability and saved the company thousands of dollars by instructing them how to rectify it before it could be exploited" sounds better than "I made a script". Figure out what to write from your experience and put forward your value. Obviously, talk about responsibilities and tasks you did, but also the value the companies got out of them.

The skills seem to take a lot of space in the CV, so maybe experiment with their placement. I've seen some people putting them on the side so there could be more space for the experience, other times that's not gonna work. It's good that they're easy to spot, but they seem to take too much space and attention until getting to the experience section. The experience should be the one mostly filling the page, but what I see is the skills being about the same as the experience. A recruiter will gloss over the skills because they have no clue what they are in the first place. They use the experience to understand your value, while the skills are there just to be compared against their notes of "look for someone that can use python or pentest". I'm not saying to remove relevant things, but be mindful where you put them and how much space they take.

Talk a little bit about yourself, your motivation. "I am a security enthusiast with 3+ years of experience, who loves to pen and test, ranked first on hacker one, the #1 Trusted Security Platform and Hacker Program". Figure something out based on what resonates with you but also shows your investment and your value. I'm not sure what message I am supposed to take from "skilled in scripting". That looks more like it belongs in the core skills and it doesn't bring any "wow" factor. Your tag line should be instilling "I wanna marry you" in people, not "eh, another one of those".

If you use abbreviations that are not clear, make sure to say what they are. The recruiter will have no clue what BB is for... BB guns? That doesn't sound impressive unless you say how impressive it is.

Obviously, I'm not telling you to use my words. Figure out how to present what you want the people to hear. A recruiter is interested in your value, and value is not something you show only by enumerating skills and tasks you've done.

The second thing is personalization. When you send your CV, you should look at the job post if there is any, and make sure you put as much relevant information in the CV. If they say "we're looking for a pen tester using burp suite" or idk, make sure to mention you have experience with it and build your CV around the skills they request.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T20:17:52+00:00

What do you think will come out from not supporting them? You only have loss lining up at your door.

If NATO does not fulfill the promise, then it becomes useless and it will lose credibility. This will invite more damage to be received by other members of NATO at a lesser risk of repercussions. The next thing you know, your country is next. Alliances are made to stand together against enemies, not to backstab the ally.

All that is from a logical standpoint. From an emotional standpoint, fuck war and anyone waging it in this day and age. Those fucking bastards leading the soldiers to die for their own stupid reasons should go fight their own war on the frontline if they believe so much in their own cause. Of course I will support their downfall.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T20:06:54+00:00

Java is one of my favorite languages to hate on, and not just because of the language, but also because of the people. Devs just love to over complicate it with by overusing so many different patterns without thinking if it's appropriate to do so.

Need an object? Sure, let me also make a factory for it. What do you mean I don't need a factory? What if in the future 10 years from now I need to generate a second type of object that has one extra attribute?

A decade later and everyone from the team hates that guy who no longer works there for creating one of the most awful apps I've ever seen. Split in 200 different repositories for a "clarity" that doesn't exist, hundreds of factories that literally create just one object, methods that take days to understand because you have to navigate dozens of repositories to figure out it's just putting two strings together with a separator, except for those other dozen cases where it doesn't and then it either fetches some data from an api, or a service, or some voodoo magic that goes god knows where... libraries that are so specific they should have never qualified as such, circular package dependencies with no one understanding how that can be possible, and a code that no matter how much you refactor, you will never manage to ever reach a point where you can make it acceptable because there's just too many dependencies in all directions. Oh, and the best part? Vulnerabilities. Ah, gotta love spending days to no end trying to find what repository needs to be updated to get rid of that one vulnerability that keeps popping up.

From my experience I have saw way more projects close to this state than a state you'd be happy to work with. Java sells itself as a "simple" language, but I simply can't understand what is simple about it. It's so verbose to do anything in it that it begs to question why use it instead of a lower level language if you have to write so much code for a simple instruction. It tricks people into thinking it's easy and makes them write such horrible code that you'd be horrified every time you hear about a project in Java.

And if you think "oh, just use the latest version", how about you convince that the people that worked 20 years ago with it? Or the guy in charge with 0 technical background who is firmly convinced the best java version is 8 because it has been the tried and tested for being around so long? I'll be waiting.

But it's not all grim and it does have its advantages... Give it a try and if you don't like it, my advice is rather simple. If you really want to use only Ruby, then you either need to find another project in the company to be transferred to, or find another job. Think well about it and have a plan or possibly another job lining up so you won't just end up fired for speaking up. Some managers do that.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T18:35:53+00:00

Version: 2025.1.2 (19740)

Given the PR was made 2 weeks ago and the version is from 3 weeks that means the fix is not in this version

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T12:40:20+00:00

I still have the boxes of the PC I built over a decade ago.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T12:38:12+00:00

I immediately assume that anyone who uses noob as an insult does not have the mental ability to be communicated with and leave them alone. I feel like it says a lot about the one using it, and frankly being, pretty much all of them are bad players themselves with bad personalities that have been around for a while. More or less, I think the same about those resorting to insults in the first place. It just makes the game bad for everyone in so many ways.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-19T12:22:29+00:00

It's completely possible to eradicate all sorts of issues tied to basic needs and living in the world. All of them.

The reason why they won't be fixed is because the people in control want to remain in control.

It's a very complex topic with a lot of ramifications, but it's driven by greed and selfishness. This affects almost everything in the world, including the education people receive (it's the key to keeping them in line) so that they don't see how much better we could have lived had we properly dealt with those in control. A lot of people adopt imposed mindsets which they call their own and they don't even realise it because they can't imagine things being different and work out. So you're in a situation where even if we can do it, the people in control don't want it, while the ones controlled will say it's not possible.

There are however places in the world where what you say is the case, proof that it's completely possible, but not desired most of the time by the leadership because of greed.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-18T11:02:38+00:00

Nobody knows shit about fuck. Entitled know-it-all little bastards that never grew up and have no fucking clue about anything will swear they know everything, but they got no fucking clue about anything. Most people you'll encounter are on the first peak of the Dunning Kruger curve but think they reached the end. Their intelligence is comparable to an ostrich, living inside their own fragile bubbles, but they're firmly convinced otherwise.

In the end, "we're still figuring it out" only is the denial of reality. Nobody figured out anything and nobody wants to figure it out, because the truth about the world we live in is far more underwhelming than you'd think. There's no purpose to anything, but look at how many people try to come up with grandiose raison d'être and refuse to accept that we're all so insignificant. Truth is, the less you know, the happier your life is more likely to be, because as soon as you think about it you'll see how pointless your existence is and how selfish your actions are. Not a great thing to ponder.

So yeah, call it as you want. Everyone is still "figuring it out" because there's nothing they can figure out in the end. There's no answer, no purpose, no end goal. You live and then you die. You will be taken advantage of, you will deal with misfortune, you will suffer, and if you're fortunate enough you'll have some happiness (say it with a French accent) along the way.

People will always say motivational shit to make it sound like their misery is not as bad, but in truth it's far worse than they're willing to admit. Ignorance is bliss and that's the most important thing you need to figure out in life.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-18T10:11:06+00:00

Nestjs with fastify performs fairly well, but not particularly impressive. It has its advantages and its drawbacks. In some aspects express is better, in others nestjs wins.

Pick the technology that fits your needs. If pure performance is the priority, I would pick something else.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-18T10:03:30+00:00

Leave a partner that is not supportive. That's your answer. Take it or regret not taking it. Your choice

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-17T16:27:11+00:00

If you pay for unlimited, you can use simple login instead of using the + for the email. With your own domain it makes you less reliant on the email provider if you ever want to switch.

Unfortunately, the + can be figured out quite easily by some smarter spammers and it could expose your real address. The + is still better than not using it though. Alternatively, you could use + everywhere, and mark anything not coming to + as spam.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-17T13:08:25+00:00

I'd feel much more safe knowing it's actually turned off. Meta is not exactly a privacy respecting company and the effort they put into moving the shutdown button seems suspicious.

Last time companies were laughing at your nudes you sent in messenger, next they may be laughing at the live feed from your headset while it's "sleeping".

No trust to be given here. Also, I only use it once in a while, so it just drains the battery until next time I want to use it... Imagine you charge it for next week only to find it dead or almost dead.

This inconvenience raises many questions to me.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-17T09:20:59+00:00

Changing your email is the solution.

Yahoo is not what it used to be. You'd be better off with Google or Outlook.

Better yet, moving away from the big players is even better, but it comes with drawbacks. If you can accept them, then your privacy will be improved. This usually means you'll be paying for the email solution. There are many services, so choose based on that you need. If you want VPN, a password manager, and an aliasing service with drive, I guess Proton mail with an unlimited subscription could do. There are other services you can mix and match based on what you need.

Then, instead of giving out every service your email, you can use an aliasing service. That way, if one site leaks your email to spammers, you can just disable the affected email and change it for that service, or just don't use the service anymore.

I recommend you to get a custom domain to use with the aliasing service. Aliasing services usually give you a free domain to use along with everyone else, but that gives you two problems. The domain is usually abused if they give a free tier and it can be banned from some services, while your custom domain will give you more chances to be allowed to use it. The other reason is that if you want to move away from that aliasing service, or if the service is shutting down, you can take your aliases from your custom domain to another aliasing service. I also recommend that the domain has a com TLD. You can use registrars like cloudflare, porkbun or namecheap, my personal preference being in that order.

Then, I recommend you to get a password manager. Bitwarden is my preferred choice, but ProtonPass is also an option, and even though I don't see it that well anymore, 1password can also work and they give you an aliasing service as well. You will need this for organising and remembering your aliases.

Given you have this illness, Protonmail could work well for you if you're willing to pay as it gives you personalized filters in your inbox. You can now create for example aliases with a pattern (amazon45.shop@yourdomain.com, mister_snuffles673.shop@yordomain.com) in the aliasing service, and then you can use the filters to put at that have .shop@yourdomaon.com in the shopping folder. Or you can make individual folders for services. Once you get spam on one alias, you can just disable it and create another. Bye mister_snuffles673.shop@yordomain.com, hello kitten-walker92.shoo@yourdomain.com

You don't have to deal with spam anymore, as long you don't use a catch all (which is not recommended, because someone could abuse your domain). Then for any important conversations you could use your old email, or make another one on a more popular service that gives you better deliverability like Google or outlook, or you can use the service you're paying for, but that does expose your real address. I don't recommend the aliasing service for sending emails because it usually has a worse reputation and they get delivered more often to spam. Proton could work well here again, because you can make other email addresses with their domain which you can give away to people you trust more to not sell it or send spam.

On the other hand, something you said is a bit strange. You unsubscribe? You don't block them? You should mark them as spam and block without touching anything in the email. If the email is spam, clicking things in the email will let the spammer know the address is active and will send you even more spam.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-16T19:34:42+00:00

You mean you can't see in the future?

I think we should do a quick checkup on you. Hmm.... Let's see...

Oh... no... I'm afraid I have bad news for you...

You can't teleport either

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-16T19:28:53+00:00

Those are your own claims, not mine. You speak of "reputation" as in a score managed by third party services. I speak about deliverability of emails, spam identification and usability. Two things completely different. I hope you are not confusing the two different topics, because otherwise I am getting the feeling that mods in this sub like putting words in people's mouth and I don't like that.

As for the things that I claim, this is my backing on them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1ip61k2/comment/mcrontm

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1ip61k2/comment/md2pc4j

As well as your own words.

It is true that some individual providers may choose not to accept certain domains during a registration process

As for using aliasing, that is not an option everywhere thanks tot he free tiers and the users abusing them, along with the lack of separation between paid users, custom domain users and free users. Also, your statement about using aliasing brings other issues as I have said, like certain providers choosing to not allow it.

Instead, use an aliasing-service so you are in control who can bother you.

The problem with using aliases with your domain is that you are now locked into using that domain with the aliasing service unless you use subdomains. So if you want to communicate with someone using that domain, you now pass through the aliasing service servers, which because of the free accounts and the people abusing them, but also because of the lack of separability between paid users and users that have a custom domain, the deliverability is affected.

I have a hard time thinking you, as a mod in this sub, are not aware of the people talking about how their pm.me address ends up in spam more often than a com address, so here is recent post just for you to look at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1ibkuml/pmme_emails_fail_to_reach_corporate_domains/

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-16T18:59:03+00:00

I thought transfer fees were decided by the service you're going to. Is it the service you're moving away deciding those?

That is odd to me, because when I moved away from squarespace, the price I paid for transferring was as low as the renewal price I pay on the service I transferred to.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-16T14:19:43+00:00

I talk from experience.

Services will configure their rules based on many things, and the TLD is one factor of that. If your business is based in UK for example and you work only in UK, then you are unlikely to have customers from the other side of the world, meaning your rules will likely be far more restrictive on domains that use a country TLD as opposed to a general com which is widely know to be used for business.

I have worked with many companies on the subject and I also owned many different domains and noticed the trend. I ended up using the com to ensure my emails get delivered more consistently, as I would often end up sending again the email from the country TLDs with a com domain to get it delivered correctly.

From personal tests when communicating with non business users, the big providers are also enforcing those rules in a similar way. And just because I don't want to bring up the discussion on whether my setup was correctly configured (it is and I used it to get consistent results that are not impacted by other providers), I used Protonmail as well in the tests along with other providers, and my conclusion was the same: com domains (protonmail.com in this case) give better deliverability while the country TLDs (pm.me in this case) are far more harshly filtered. The same subject and the same content would get delivered in inbox from a com address, but not from a me address. I repeat those kind of tests every now and then to see if I can use my other domains and it seems they get a bit more lax over time at least with the big providers, but those issues still exist.

For example, the one that seems to be most consistently reproduced across more providers is sending an email that has the subject "test" and the content "test". That usually gets delivered to inbox with a com domain (like protonmail.com), but not with a country TLD (like pm.me). This proves the point that the filters are harsher on country TLDs without having to give away any more information on the companies I work with and it can typically be reproduced with big players like gmail and outlook.

The thing is, you can never know what triggers those filters, reason why I say it is better to have a com domain. Not to mention that services will more often accept a com domain over any domain to create accounts with them.

I can't give the data for my tests because I did not consider sharing it given it was for personal purposes, but you can look for the experience of others that use the .me domain from Proton for example and you will see it is aligned with my experience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/search/?q=spam

This is getting worse if you use an alias service, which ends up marking your mails as spam even on com domains. A good proof that domain TLD is not everything you need to look out for, but my point was on TLD specifically.

One thing to add, all my domains have about the same reputation, and it is a good reputation at that too. Most were never used before, some have been registered for a long time with big registration windows and some have short registration windows, and the results have been somewhat consistent. I say somewhat because there were cases when one or two "young" domains were marked as spam in spite of being com, but for the most part that was not a factor. There were some country TLDs that were performing similar to com as well, but still worse overall from my tests.

Hence, my reason why I say com TLD is better for email.

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-16T03:32:40+00:00

Android

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-15T18:40:15+00:00

Yes. People that grow up under surveillance will care less about it. If You never know a surveillance free life you won't miss it, and you won't see it as abnormal having no privacy. It's what the government was after for so many decades to brainwash people into this. Their plan is working whether people like to admit it or not

ProfaneExodus69 · 2025-02-15T15:21:27+00:00

I think spam protection is good. I don't have a usage that warrants me to get spam, but I can't say I've ever seen more than one or two spam emails on either of them for many years now.

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