taubz - Slashdot User

Comment If you still want to try, check out Mail-in-a-Box. (Score 3, Interesting) 217

by taubz on Monday October 19, 2015 @11:44AM (#50758697) Attached to: The Hostile Email Landscape

Try out https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailinabox.email%2F, a project I began a few years ago to make hosting your own mail much easier.

It includes comprehensive diagnostics to ensure everything is configured correctly, including reverse DNS, which is the most common issue that leads to mail not being deliverable / going into spam. This doesn't solve every problem, but lots of people have had good results with this project.

Comment Civic Hacking: Improve the political sphere (Score 1) 252

by taubz on Monday January 19, 2009 @03:04PM (#26518715) Attached to: Tech-Related Volunteer Gigs

There is a whole world of using tech skills to improve government transparency and civic engagement. See:

http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php/OGosh
http://www.impublished.org/wordpress/helptheman/
http://transparencyjobs.com/jobs/
http://sunlightfoundation.com/

Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch 589

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 08, 2009 @06:08PM from the but-the-coupons-have-been-printed-already dept.

gregg writes "Six weeks before the nation's television stations are scheduled to convert to digital transmission, the Obama administration is asking Congress to consider a delay. In the most significant sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV transition, the Obama transition team co-chair John Podesta said the government funds to support the change are 'woefully inadequate' and said that the digital switch date, Feb. 17, should be 'reconsidered and extended.'"

Comment Ways to get involved in civic-technology projects (Score 5, Informative) 182

by taubz on Sunday November 09, 2008 @10:49AM (#25694331) Attached to: How Social Software Can Improve Democracy

There is a growing but now well-established community of techies focusing on this at the federal level, especially for the U.S. Congress. There are open-source projects like my GovTrack.us http://www.govtrack.us/getinvolved.xpd and oGosh!: Open Government Open Source Hacking http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php/OGosh and on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=45606565313.

There's no end to what techies can do to work on improving civic life. I really encourage you to check out any of those links to get involved.

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