Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

When I first started on lemmy during the great exodus and I was still trying to wrap my head around federation, I saw a hexbea(.net) account and straight up thought this dude was using some random email