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elliotkillick
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About elliotkillick
https://elliotonsecurity.com | https://github.com/ElliotKillick | https://twitter.com/ElliotKillick
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Comment #40920434
How did you justify paying $6,000/year for a dedicated IP address? SES will provide you with the same thing for $25/month ( https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/#Amazon_SES_Pricing )…
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Comment #40902535
Email deliverability is no secret. Just send an email to one of many email deliverability testers to find out the spammyness of your email: https://www.mail-tester.com The sender I…
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Comment #40899967
Thanks! In my personal experience, I've had success delivering to the inboxes of Gmail, Outlook, and Zoho Mail with SES. However, my newsletter is entirely opt-in on my website. Wh…
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Comment #40899759
Oh, nice! I recall Reddit did support RSS at one point, I didn't realize they limited it. rss2newsletter is only ~300 lines of code right now and I'd prefer to keep it more on the …
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Comment #40899611
For sure, converting feeds into emails in that direction is something I've seen as a sticking point for a lot of projects. I'm glad I could fill that gap for you.
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Comment #40899366
My pleasure!
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Comment #40898579
Hey, this looks fantastic! I really appreciate minimal software that does what it sets out do well without bloat. I noticed that your GitHub README states "Collect Emails: Create y…
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Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative
Hi all! Excited to share rss2newsletter after completing dev work for the initial release. The idea for this project came out of necessity, as I wanted to share my articles via ema…
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Show HN: Mido – Open Source Microsoft Media Creation Tool
Mido is an open source version of Microsoft's Media Creation Tool for downloading official Windows media (still from the same official Microsoft servers). It works by making the sa…
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Show HN: Mido – The Secure Microsoft Windows Downloader
Mido makes downloading the latest release of Windows from official Microsoft servers a breeze so you can quickly get your VMs (or even physical machines) up & running in no time! I…
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Comment #36840217
This looks like an interesting take on email marketing. I use an open source solution called Listmonk (w/ Amazon SES) for my emailing needs. How does this project compare?
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Comment #28939237
Thank you! I'm glad to hear my project is working well for you on the upcoming Qubes R4.1 (currently untested by myself). To the best of my knowledge, no official QWT build exists …
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Comment #28914229
Any of the Qubes-certified laptops are guaranteed to work great out of the box, they come with Qubes OS preinstalled: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/
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Comment #28913220
I'm not sure the exact details of your hardware problems but you may want to try out Qubes R4.1 when it's released (or the RC1 version now). It will ship with a fully updated base …
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Comment #28913057
Qubes supports VM suspension so if you wanted to you could easily create a simple shell script to suspend and resume upon the Windows VM window becoming minimized and reopened. You…
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Comment #28904176
I also faced this problem with the low selection of resolutions to choose for the Windows desktop with my ultrawide 3440x1440 screen. No worries, it was easily overcome with a simp…
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Comment #28903116
Wow, I was unaware such hardware virtualization extensions currently existed in such mature form for GPUs. Really unfortunate that they've been lost to the avarice of two tech gian…
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Comment #28902979
If you're referring to GPU passthrough, then yes, in practice much better with AMD cards then Nvidia cards.
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Comment #28902857
Thanks! GPU virtualization is a very difficult thing to do securely, I think VirtualBox said it best in their hardware 3D acceleration documentation ( https://docs.oracle.com/en/vi…
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Comment #28902704
My pleasure! That feature is currently in the works (officially speaking) for Windows 10; for Windows 7 it already exists (although it has of course been EOL for some time now). Ho…
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Comment #28902650
By GUI virtualization, I was referring to the way Qubes handles receiving graphical updates (e.g. windows) from the VM and sending events (e.g. mouse clicks) to the VM. The Qubes G…
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Comment #28901920
You're in luck, there exists exactly what you're looking for. It's called the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), see here: https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/
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Comment #28901477
I'm aware hardware support on Qubes has been problematic for some users. Luckily, it's looking to get a lot better with the up-and-coming Qubes R4.1 (currently on it's first releas…
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Comment #28900931
You're starting to get the idea: Qubes OS assumes that it's impossible to ensure every single application you will be running on your computer is secure. Therefore, the best way to…
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Comment #28900129
Hi, HN! This is a small project I developed for Qubes OS that allows you to spin up new Windows qubes quickly, effortlessly and securely. Hope you don't mind the flamboyant title, …