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sugar_in_your_tea , in Spammers are starting to use email addresses with "renewal" in the address, bypassing junk filters. How do we fight this without blocking legitimate renewal emails?

I just use a separate email for subscriptions and whatnot vs "actual" email. That helps mitigate a lot of it since I can easily dismiss any "business" communications from one and be on my guard with the other.

But the real solution imo is to not use email for such things. If I need to renew something yearly, I set up a reminder on my calendar or wherever yearly.

TheEntity , in A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women

I can't wait for some pope to tell the Africans it's wrong to use these. Again.

tsonfeir ,

It’s going to be every conservative on earth. “It’s your fault you got raped”

Colorcodedresistor ,

Heavy Nestle Breathing

Anon6317 , in China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions

Have loved Huawei tablets and phones for years. There's ways around it, but I thought it was so asinine when they couldn't officially put the Google Play Store on their products (aside from the Honor brand) for the last few years.

match , in A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women
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This seems less effective than the injectable PrEP?

shalafi ,

where travel to clinics for monthly injections is difficult

The every-other-month PrEP injection is just beginning to make its way into Africa, but it is expensive and difficult for people in many areas to access.

So, what's the PrEP treatment about?

Chetzemoka ,
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The most effective medication is the one that actually gets used.

tsonfeir ,

I think it might be a lot easier to convince people to use an std fighting prophylactic than it would be to take an ongoing medication with potential side effects. I’m not arguing against PrEP though, I’m all for it. 

autotldr Bot , in A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Women in a growing number of African countries will soon have access to a vaginal ring to help reduce their risk of acquiring HIV from an infected partner.

It is currently available through recent pilot programs in six African countries: Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

While Western and other governments can purchase the ring, that hasn't happened yet, says Anita Garg, senior director of strategy and commercial relations for The Population Council.

"The evidence is clear that there is no single prevention solution," said Ben Phillips, communications director UNAIDS, in an email interview.

And while early studies of some PrEP products showed women didn't take the pills or use the ring consistently or properly — compliance rates several years ago were as low as 20% — it seems that as understanding of the methods grows, compliance goes up, says Dr. Connie Celum, director of the International Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington.

And adherence rates were moderate to high—more than 50 percent compliance for both daily use of the pills and leaving the ring in place for a month at a time.


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fsxylo , in Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims

You ready to get a montage reel of people pulling their brains out while screaming, straight from a scifi horror movie?

IzzyScissor , in Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims

The only way this should be allowed to move forward is if the board of directors all have the procedure done first.

atkion , in Neuralink Barrels Into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims

Yooo, real life cyberpsychosis just dropped

onlinepersona , in China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions

That anybody believed China wouldn't keep progressing because the oh so mighty U.S of A stopped "giving them tech" is just hilarious.

yogthos OP ,
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I think most people realized that China would catch up eventually, what's shocking is the sheer speed of it. I thought it would at least take 3-4 years before China broke 5nm barrier, but here we are less than a year later.

helenslunch , in Spammers are starting to use email addresses with "renewal" in the address, bypassing junk filters. How do we fight this without blocking legitimate renewal emails?

I've transitioned over the last couple of years to using exclusively aliases. I do not give my actual email address to absolutely anyone.

If someone leaks the alias I gave them to spammers, I write the offending company a strongly-worded email, then disable or spin up a new alias to use.

For your situation, these things happen all the time and your email provider will likely work it out soon enough. It's just a bit cat and mouse game with spam.

You can create a temporary filter to move them to and disable the notification for those emails for now.

Rudee ,

Do you use a service for the relays, or is it possible to self-host?

helenslunch ,

I use Proton/SimpleLogin.

I suppose it's possible but you'd need to buy and maintain several domains. Very easy to use with Proton or AnonAddy or Firefox Relay. And then any of those domains could be tied back to you.

hedgehog ,

Not the same commenter, but I use the SimpleLogin service (and I liked it enough that I’ve been a paid user for a couple years), which is FOSS and can be self-hosted. I have not tested out self-hosting myself but there are detailed instructions in the repo.

markstos , in Spammers are starting to use email addresses with "renewal" in the address, bypassing junk filters. How do we fight this without blocking legitimate renewal emails?

Spam filters rely on many signals besides the from address to decide if a message is spam, because one signal alone is often not reliable enough.

It’s hard to see who deals with spam with the best because when the filters are working well, you don’t notice how much is being blocked.

I can say that both Fastmail and Google work fairly well. Unless things have changed, about 90% of email is spam, with most getting blocked or diverted at different levels. So even if some gets through, it’s possible the systems to block it are still working very well.

lemmyvore , in Spammers are starting to use email addresses with "renewal" in the address, bypassing junk filters. How do we fight this without blocking legitimate renewal emails?

Subscribe to things with personalized individual aliases instead of your main address.

That way you don't get much spam to begin with because they'd have to guess what aliases you use, and you reject anything that's not sent to one of those aliases.

Assuming one of the sites you subscribe to sold you out or was broken into and their alias starts receiving spam, you simply block or disconnect their alias.

If you haven't been doing this, the address you use now (for everything) is undoubtedly on many spamming lists. It's best to get a domain and start moving subscriptions to aliases on that domain.

Nobody should ever know the main account address, it should be reserved for logging in to the account. Even friends and family should be given aliases (because their address books and contact lists inevitably get sold and compromised eventually).

squirmy_wormy , in Google’s best Gemini demo was faked

All tech demos are fake. Always have been. I have no idea why people still believe them.

Touching_Grass ,

These are people that buy games pre release or line up out front of iPhone sales in the middle of the night.

sajran , in Google’s best Gemini demo was faked

We need to remember that there are people making unimaginable amounts of money every time we believe some AI is good enough to replace half of the human workforce.

SparkyTemper , in "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" comic sold for $175K, becoming the most expensive single-panel cartoon ever sold at auction

That was the worst website on mobile ever. Pop-ups and redirects. Fuck you and fuck that.

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