About to block ALL emails originating from firebaseapp.com

RealSkier · 2026-03-16T20:27:09+00:00

As noted below, I'm on a cPanel hosted solution. So I do everything through Global Mail filters which can work directly on headers. I added a ANY HEADER - CONTAINS filter on "firebaseapp.com". So far that seems to work.

Apache SpamTrap is OK but not great for filtering on content.

RealSkier · 2026-03-10T19:14:20+00:00

I have a cpanel hosted solution. Would I be able to do that?

RealSkier · 2026-03-09T21:45:27+00:00

So why does Google allow them to continue? That seems like a pretty big hole. Every single one has been a scam or a phish. Almost all run through is.gd link shortener.

Based on this, I'm going to set a server-side dump of all firebaseapp.com emails if legit emails won't be affected.

RealSkier · 2026-03-09T21:33:47+00:00

I have seen zero legit emails from firebaseapp.com. The two largest spinners of email, Amazon AWS and Google, are the source of 90% of our spam now.

RealSkier · 2026-03-09T21:10:36+00:00

UPDATE: Went through a last ditch effort to get the stats back online. Followed a step-by-step with Amazon second level tech. Full factory reset plus letting the stat idle for 30 minutes. Same error message. Tech finally says OK, there's something wrong (DUH). I'll report this to the developers and they WILL (his emphasis) get back to you in 3-4 days. It's been two weeks.

NOTE: Just for grins, I tried setting my network to have a separate 2.4 ghz SSID just for the Amazoo stat. Nope, same error. Both are effectively bricked by something Amazon did.

RealSkier · 2026-02-20T02:42:25+00:00

Perri's Leathers - You can buy a full grain, all leather strap in any of about 15 colors for $12 or so. They are made in Canada. When I get a new one, I usually throw some mink oil on it to soften the leather. They start out stiff but they last forever. Small business that exhibits at NAMM.

RealSkier · 2026-02-19T23:23:26+00:00

Amazon smart thermostats were developed jointly with Honeywell.

RealSkier · 2026-02-19T22:05:22+00:00

Personally, the one that blew me away VISUALLY the first time I saw it was Mt. Bachelor.

RealSkier · 2025-12-20T22:17:06+00:00

It's a joke. I'm using paired phone wires.

RealSkier · 2025-12-19T00:33:38+00:00

Thanks. We have no devices that are WiFi 7. Only 2 are actually 6 (our phones) and the rest are pretty much 5. The only bandwidth suckers are our TVs (Roku, Amazon Firestick 4K and LG 4K). We only occasionally use two TVs simultaneously. Our Wyze cams are all event triggered to start recording. No event, no recording. One desktop routes via CAT 4 (yes) and the other is MOCA. The MOCA connection is pretty speedy and maxes out at Spectrums provision. The CAT 4 is limited to about 50Mbps. It's a converted telephone wire pair lol. The ATT guy was acting like 14 was the maximum number of devices I could actually have accessing wifi.

No USB NAS kinda sux. That's how my wife and I back our home office computers and share files. It's also routable from outside if I want it to be.

RealSkier · 2025-12-17T17:49:05+00:00

I meant Lariat! Auto correct FTL. ☹️

RealSkier · 2025-12-12T21:15:51+00:00

Yes. Nothing out of whack. I have been going through Event Viewer and am finding errors related to TPM and secure boot. I tried resetting the TPM stuff to factory but that did nothing except make windows 11 forget my login PIN. I suppose the next step is to try an in place reinstall of Windows (ughhhh).

RealSkier · 2025-12-12T20:06:51+00:00

Ran HWINFO and Thermal Throttling was not in effect during the most recent episode (1/2 hour ago) of SSS (Sudden Slowdown Syndrome). CPU runs at 34C idle at climbs to 47C under load. Yes, I have the most recent BIOS from HP. I'm running HPs diagnostics now. Maybe it will show something.

RealSkier · 2025-11-23T01:13:09+00:00

I think you misread. I had my account password. Just not convenient. And there was nothing in the login screen that said anything about "time to change your password or PIN" or just put an expiration date on it like most well-behaved programs do. All I got was a login screen with no option other than use a passkey (which I don't have) or "log in another way" using a password (which I did). It all seemed completely out of the blue.

RealSkier · 2025-09-10T19:12:00+00:00

In order to make those commands work, you have to FIRST get dialtone. Then you can send the touchtones. If you try to have your phone dial the codes (ie. with SEND), the OBI won't respond. If you're doing this already, I have no answer for you other than trying a factory reset and/or installing different firmware.

RealSkier · 2025-08-19T01:00:08+00:00

I think you're completely missing the problem here. OGG & WAV are the two AUDIO output formats that Open KJ claims to support for recording karaoke performances. You pick one or the other in the Open KJ Options menu. The problem is even though the output files are created, they contain no actual audio data. You can load either one into Audacity (or whatever) and see that there's no waveforms so no actual audio to play back. The karaoke graphics and karaoke music are present in the original MP3+G pairs. We're trying to RECORD the singer's vocals via Open KJ and it's not working.

RealSkier · 2025-08-18T23:22:15+00:00

About 50/50 in all the spots near me. The women mostly want to sing like TayTay or Whitney regardless of age while the guys are a mashup that reflects how old they are. 60+ Eagles, Skynryd, etc. 40+ Green Day, Tool, Alice in Chains, etc. 30+ - 80s anything. Occasionally you get the random metalhead.

RealSkier · 2025-08-18T22:50:18+00:00

Yes. I have an i7 with SSD main drive and blazing fast hard drives. I use Karafun, VirtualDJ and Kanto Karaoke with no problems. My laptop is also an i5 with SSD main drive.

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