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testloopon A Family Who Sold Their Belongings for Bitcoins

Not the parent, but the way in which Bitfinex paid everyone back was extremely dodgy[0]. They also decided to help themselves to 15% of everyone's BCH after the August 1 fork[1]. I don't understand why anyone would trust them.

[0]https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-t...

[1]https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-bitcoin-cash-deposits-with...

testloopon Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

It didn't include the domain no.

I've used digital ocean droplets for some things for a similar $5 a month price, but it hardly seems necessary for a static site. It's much less faffery to just upload some files to S3 and click some buttons in the AWS console to configure everything.

testloopon Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

I also used Hugo for my site - https://testloop.co.uk It's so simple.. and FAST. It's hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront & Route53 so it's not free, but at a cost of around $1.20 per month, it's not far off.

testloopon In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort

I agree... but, your reputation matters. In this city (Manchester), everyone talks. You won't last long as contractor if you're rubbish.

And even if you managed to get in somewhere I imagine you'd be found out and binned pretty quickly.

testloopon Cloudflare bug data leak exposed

"I am not changing any of my passwords. I think the probability that somebody saw something is so low it's not something I am concerned about"

So... just cross your fingers and hope nobody saw anything then? The way they're casually downplaying this incident is outrageous.

testloopon Encrypted email is still a pain

It works seamlessly/automatically between protonmail users and you can also send encrypted mail to non-protonmail users - they receive a link via email that they need a password to access.

You can also export your PGP public key and receive encrypted email from anyone else too.

testloopon Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

This drives me absolutely crazy. If I'm forced towards downloading your app I'll simply go elsewhere. Its ridiculous to expect your users to download a 126MB app (Tripadvisor's current iOS app size) and grant it all sorts of permissions just so they can search for a hotel once a year.