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493 karma · joined February 2, 2011

I run an ESP in The Netherlands: https://laposta.nl

I love my work but my attitude towards it is European ;) I have 4 kids and a beautiful wife and I spend a lot of time with them.

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svdr··on Labs.Google
I'm using Chrome on a fast mac but the animations still had hickups.
svdr··on Airbnb is deploying AI to block New Year's Eve bookings that could be parties
That is true, but cities themselves are very slow to regulate (and prevent) this.
svdr··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
Wouldn't web scraping be possible by taking screenshots of the rendered pages and then reading them with OCR?
svdr··on Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service
I did, thanks!
svdr··on Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service
This directive is still only a proposal...
svdr··on TSMC Outlines 2nm Plans: N2P Brings Backside Power Delivery in 2026, N2X Added
America and Europe need to start making these kinds of advanced chips themselves as soon as possible. Taiwan is now the only place where this is possible.
svdr··on Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
The use of touchscreens has made handling devices and machines a lot less pleasant. We will soon see a reverse movement, where physical buttons become more important again. So much more satisfying.

Of course, this can still be combined with plenty of software.

svdr··on Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
Looking good, but I would not underline text if it's not a link.
svdr··on Ask HN: Google spam filter getting worse?
We have the opposite problem. We send lots of newsletters (no spam, mostly government) and have an excellent IP reputation (Senderscore, Microsoft), except for Gmail, where our IP reputation has declined in recent months, for no apparent reason.

I hope they are just tweaking things!

svdr··on Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack
As a Bitcoin OG I would expect him to have more then 200 BTC.
svdr··on US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F
A nice explanation of the working of heat pumps from Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
svdr··on Musk’s Twitter purchase was a leveraged buyout
I don't know much about finance, but why didn't he just pay the 13B? This seems much more expensive.
svdr··on Nightdrive
Is it legal to overtake on the right in the US? It's not in the country where I live (NL).
svdr··on Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?
First, you need to set up the technical side: rDNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, no IPv6, TLS, etc. Lots of guides on the internet for that.

After setting up the technical side (which you can test with a site like https://www.mail-tester.com), you need an IP (v4) without a bad reputation. This is the hardest part, because it's less easy to control.

If your IP has been used to send spam, or sometimes even the neighbouring IP's, you won't get through to a lot of providers.

These are the best places (in my experience) to check IP reputation:

https://talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/lookup https://senderscore.org https://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups/lookup-reputation

And also check for blacklists, for example with https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx.

If your IP is on a blacklist, you can remove is most of the time by requesting it via their (90's looking) websites.

Also, if you send a lot of mail, Microsoft and Google have programs for senders to monitor reputation:

https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/ https://www.gmail.com/postmaster/

But... even with an IP with a neutral reputation, your mails may be sent to the spambox. You need some volume of legitimate email over time to build trust (this is called warming up an IP).

svdr··on Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
I applied in October last year, and at that time the waiting list was zero days, so I received our /24 instantaneously.

Some nice data on the prices of IPv4 addresses: https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

svdr··on Shodan 2000
Another one: https://beta.shodan.io/host/88.102.110.5

Ransomware has become really massive.

svdr··on See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively
This is very well done, but it incorrectly failed validation of multiple DKIM signatures.
svdr··on See how DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work interactively
This is very well done, but it incorrectly failed validation of my DKIM signature.

I often use https://www.mail-tester.com.

svdr··on Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
Avoiding increasing operational complexity is really important, but for pub/sub we are using Redis. While this does add complexity, it is very little, because it is incredibly easy to install and maintain.
svdr··on Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
The offer is here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
svdr··on The 40th anniversary edition of Codex Seraphinianus
Yes, and he says: "I'm very young, I'm only 72, so we'll see." :-)
svdr··on Every pricing page should have GIFs
I like it more when items stay opened, instead of closing again when another item opens (like with an accordion).
svdr··on Japanese Dome House
The Barbapapa family built their house like this in the 70's as well:

https://live.staticflickr.com/1787/42134502335_045815b1ee_b....

svdr··on Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
Also from Xerox: an encoding mechanism for a unique number represented by tiny dots spread over the entire print area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

svdr··on Timeline of the Human Condition
And for what's to come:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

svdr··on We analyzed 425k favicons
I see a lot of repetitions in the map?
svdr··on OVH is down along with its status page
Statuspage is down with https, but not without:

http://status.ovh.com/

svdr··on Sinch to acquire Mailgun
Mailjet has been acquired as well: https://www.mailjet.com/blog/news/sinch-to-acquire-pathwire/
svdr··on Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
This seems to have ended: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57368247
svdr··on Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
I thought one billion was 1000M (and not 100M)?
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