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dietervds

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About dietervds

Belgian, living in The Netherlands, and can often be found in Lefkada, Greece.

Writing a weekly newsletter on infosecurity at https://securitynewsletter.co/.

Feel free to ping me at https://twitter.com/dietervds

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    Very late to the party, but I needed to give Banished a shoutout here, since it hasn't been mentioned before. The music alone is enough to get me to relax.

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    Comment #42397582

    Thanks :-) I have a bunch of news websites bookmarked over the years that I scour through every week. And once and a while I pick something up through social media or friends and c…

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    Comment #42397560

    Thanks! If it helps, I ended up using Curated for hosting and email infrastructure. Been meaning to self-host something for ages but until then I'm happy to use them.

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    Comment #42385240

    I write a newsletter on cybersecurity every week. Usually a summary of interesting articles and a list of known breaches and software issues. It's been going for seven years now I …

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    Comment #37818518

    Eufy has been a pretty great experience for me. Except for the fact that they recently used their notifications (normally used for camera/motion events) to push a marketing message…

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    Comment #20380558

    Thanks! Through sponsorships, there's two slots per issue.

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    Comment #20360428

    Im a bit late to the party, but outside of work I spend most of my professional time on a curated newsletter for infosec news: https://securitynewsletter.co/ . Two years running, j…

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    Comment #20360391

    That’s amazing! Can I subscribe somewhere to stay informed on the project?

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    Comment #16050578

    One rather general suggestion I have is to pick a company to work for that does some of the requested points. It doesn’t have to be non-profit or volunteer work only. A few years a…

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    Comment #15870142

    That's great feedback! I might add a 500 and 1000 threshold too. Thanks!

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    Comment #15851569

    Hi guys, I made this thing because, well, I wanted it and couldn't find an existing service :-) Any feedback or questions welcome.

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    Ask HN: Hackernews daily e-mail based on upvote count?

    Does a solution currently exist where I can say "send me a daily e-mail with all HN stories over x upvotes"? I know about the awesome Hackernewsletter and HNDigest. But I'm looking…

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    Comment #15007069

    Sharing this in case it helps anyone. My wife suffered from CFS for over 10 years. In the final stage she could hardely walk anymore because of the muscle pain, and was on 26 pills…

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    Comment #14095572

    Weekly security news: https://securitynewsletter.co/ (Disclaimer: I started it)

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    Comment #13736456

    Thanks for the feedback! You are right, the filter of what makes news is something that I'm calibrating as I write more issues and learn more. I generally try and share only educat…

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    Comment #13732019

    Thanks for the link. I wouldn't necessarily call them similar though. One is a handy list of RSS feeds, the other a newsletter that summarizes selected articles. Still though, book…

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    Comment #13731613

    I love curated newsletters as a primary source of information, but I couldn't find one about security news that I enjoyed, so I created this one. It's inspired heavily by newslette…

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    Comment #13167484

    Disclaimer: this is a self-post. I started this newsletter a few weeks ago, because I had a hard time finding existing ones that I liked. I thought I'd share it here for those inte…

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    Comment #13006142

    I've recently made a Zapier 'zap' that sends me a daily digest of @newsyc100 by e-mail. I realised that that account was the biggest reason I was still scrolling through my Twitter…

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    Comment #12903246

    Apologies for my very late comment. I'm hoping it still might help someone. I had the exact same question a few years ago. Not really knowing where to look I ended up going to Ange…