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reti | 6 years ago | on: ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

is Brian Krebs the beneficiary of this $5 million bounty through this investigation?

reti | 6 years ago | on: The “mail is hard” myth

Had been running my own mail server for the last 10 years, doing mail forwarding for a few friends domain names. Finally just moved all those domains to mailgun, and it's been great. 10,000 forwarded emails a day, for free.

To be honest it wasn't that hard doing it myself, but it broke 2-3 times over that number of years when providers changed their delivery requirements (see DKIM, DMARC etc). It was never something I enjoyed troubleshooting.

reti | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

I agree. UI is awful, it's like every page you visit has a different design (compare browsing products to account management pages). Completely different interface again on mobile.

I also find it ridiculous they have some much advertising on it - both buyers and sellers are producing revenue through seller fees and paypal transactions. Why do they need ads as well?

I've tried to use other selling sites but always end up back at ebay as they have far more stuff for sale, and more buyers.

reti | 8 years ago | on: One year of cycling to work

I cycle around 3 times the distance he does daily to and from work in London. I've been doing this for 5 years. It's probably fair to say I take more days off than he does though (I leave the bike at home if going for a drink).

I suppose the same could be said for any form of regular exercise, but it makes such an improvement to how I feel when I get to work, and my general well-being. The pollution in London has always been a bit of a concern, however I hope the exercise outweighs this for the most part. I save around £8 a day by not taking the train.

I wish more people would give it a go. More people riding would result in better and safer infrastructure here. I do however, regularly see people get knocked off bikes and can understand the perceived risk and reluctance from others to try it. I'm envious of cities such as Copenhagen with great safe infrastructure, and where riding is the norm.

reti | 8 years ago | on: Nuclear Test Films Declassified and Uploaded

There's ten minutes on youtube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvnWXf6UZXY. Captures the essence of the film nicely. There's this weird 'end of the world' kind of undertone to the film. Genuinely scary stuff.

reti | 8 years ago | on: Does Crypto = Dotcom?

Why does the chart suggest bitcoin has only been around for a year?

reti | 8 years ago | on: I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds

First it was facebook, then it was reddit, now it's the price of a few cryptocurrencies. I delete the apps due to time wastage, and a week later I have something else to check.

I miss none of the things I used to refresh tirelessly and gave up on, seems to suggest that none of those things made my life any better.