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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

Posts by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can an email's Reply-To have a different domain than its From?

Are there any negative effects[1] when sending an email wherein the From header is an email address on my server's domain but the Reply-To header is an email address on a different domain, specific...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Where can I find a simplified Railways of the World map for player reference?

You can use ASCII representations of hexagonal grid maps as shown on Rogue Basin.[1] If doing so feels less tedious than making a picture directly, you could take this map and write a script to bui...

posted 6mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 12d ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group?

Jon Ericson[1] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be Discourse with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small c...

posted 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the most cost effective way to purchase specific, non-rare public domain English books online in the US?

I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pret...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Proper way to create your own TLS certificates

On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found mkcert to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. mkcert war...

posted 3mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you summarize any explanation?

[Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A One cert with many domains, or one domain per cert?

Relevant to you A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on ...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭

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