Blain Smith
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Blain Smith
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Founding Member @limeleaf.coop building @apply.coop and @blueskydirectory.com | Signal: rblgk.13

Software Engineer, Go, Rust, C, Hare, Linux, Networking, Distributed Systems, Databases

Decentralize and self host.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9620
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If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money
January 7, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Not only secure hosting, but that organization running the infra being trustworthy. There have been entirely too many rug pulls over the recent years and the list of orgs I trust to host anything is getting smaller and smaller.
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
In Rust we trust.
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
That's a nice BMW. I love that generation's styling.
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
I hover around 220lbs
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Still no word back from customer support. Time to find another VPS provider and hopefully get into the old VPS to grab some data.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yeah so weird this all happened. Lessons learned I suppose.
December 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
No response from my VPS customer support yet or turning my server back on to let me investigate more. If this drags on I will probably abandon this provider and find a new one. I've had this VPS since 2022 because their datacenter was local until they got bought out and seemingly got enshittified.
December 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It turns out that my VPS provider honors UCEPROTECT's spam scoring system which is, for lack of better terms, horseshit, scamming, and exploitative based on what I read here.

www.inmotionhosting.com/support/news...

Has anyone else had to deal with UCEPROTECT?

#Spam #Mail #UCEPROTECT
The UCEPROTECT RBL Email Scam Explained | InMotion Hosting
Learn how the UCEPROTECT blacklist scam works, why you should ignore their listings, and what to do if you actually have email deliverability issues.
www.inmotionhosting.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM