Google

or Amazon decided to be dicks

Not altogether sure they've ever been anything else.

The biggest worry with the home assistants, which I'll address when I redo the wiring and networking in my flat, is that the echo dot is on the same network as everything else in my flat, so it could be used as a launchpad for an attack if a vulnerability was found (or Amazon decided to be dicks). I should really move it to its own DMZ to partition it off from everything else.

Is that any different to any other device though?

My BT TV box does not need to talk to anything else.
My Echo Dot does not need to talk to anything else.
Guest wireless devices don't need to talk to anything else.

So all of those can be partitioned away individually.

The rest of the devices (computers mainly) need to be able to talk to each other. I don't have anything else that's network enabled.

I've been helping my downstairs neighbours with his Ubiquiti stuff so I guess I'll be heading that way when I eventually get around to the GrandRewire(TM).

I see what you mean now. I thought you meant that the Amazon stuff was the only device of that type.

I should probably do the same at some point. I guess it would involve having two wireless networks.

DREDGE

If I send an email to four variations of an email address that I used to know, but have forgotten the exact format of, do you reckon google will treat it as spam?

I.e.

firstname.lastname.number
firstname.lastnamenumber
firstnamelastname.number
firstnamelastnamenumber@gmail.com

They are all the same.

Periods on the LHS of the email address (left of the @) should be ignored, according to the appropriate RFC document, whose number I can't recall right now.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en-GB

I have no idea but why don't you just send four emails instead?

Wow. I did not know this. Cheers

@Constable_Savage messages long sent, owing to sensitive nature of materials, second transmission attempt not advisable.

Periods on the LHS of the email address (left of the @) should be ignored, according to the appropriate RFC document, whose number I can't recall right now.

No, it's not in any standard, it's just something google (and maybe a few others) do.

If you try it with any other email provider and there's no guarantee that it will go to the same address.

You can also add “+spam” or similar after a gmail address and before the @ to create a unique email address that you can put a rule on or send to spam

(Likewise "plus addressing" is not part of any standard and not guaranteed to work on all mail providers.)

Many websites have cottoned on to it will either disallow a + in the email address entered (which is naughty of them to do) or strip off the plus addressing (for known domains where it is handled, such as google) as it gives a higher chance of the email being read.

(I've run my own mailservers in the past so I get around things like this by using my own version of plus addressing. Since I control the config I could make it so I could use bob<anything>@example.com without needing to use the + symbol, so bobblah@ bobfoo@ bob@ bobwiggle@ would all go to the same address. But, I'm too old/tired/cynical to run my own mailservers any more and the big boys all have a deliverability cartel going so it's easier to just use one of theirs.)

Fucking google arsehats won't let me use my phone number to validate my new work email account. So how the fuck am I meant to create an account then? Fucksake, wanking shit wanks.

Where's a good burner phone source that doesn't involve waiting for a SIM? Is there something that will dictate texts to numbers to text kinda shit?

Is there a way I can set Gmail to auto delete the spam folder?
I tried setting a filter As per
https://silicondales.com/tutorials/g-suite/automatically-delete-spam-email-gmail/
But that just puts the spam in the bin folder instead.
I'd like to delete everything in the spam folder (or the bin) automatically.

I've been signed out of my Google account on my Android phone (it's fine on my ipad and PC).

When I try to sign on again it asks me for password but before I can type anything it cycles back to the you have been signed out of your Google account screen.

Any ideas?

So, Google now want a phone number to recover a gmail address?

Google One seems like a cheap upgrade, £16/year for 100gb and some extra bits and pieces compared to stock 15GB. Anyone using it notice any drawbacks? Anyone bothered to read their terms?

Just started using it a few days ago, purely because I was up at 97% storage and this seemed the path of least resistance. Didn't bother with T&C's, curious about the VPN though.

I just had a skim. It seems same same. They already know everything about me anyway, the dirty email-reading bastards.

I've got 10gb of pics from USA I wanna share with my mates and I want them to dump theirs. They're non-tech so I don't wanna piss about with S3 buckets or something a little odd. Seems like an easy option.

Basic
100 GB
Usually £1.59, now £0/month for 1 month, £1.59 £0/month for 1 month
£15.99/year after. Save 16% with Annual.

I use it as I was running out of storage for photos/email. Seems fine, imagine their terms are no different to what I already had with the 15GB of stock storage but didn't read them.