Hacker News: madflo

New comment by madflo in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

madflo — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:32:14 +0000

That would be a good one! Count me in!

New comment by madflo in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

madflo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:48:32 +0000

putting my old man cap on and I would like to weigh in on the US admin export control on Mythos.

It does remind me of the mid-1990s when suddenly asymmetric cryptographic tools such as PGP became a reality and a wide usage possible due to the growing base of internet users.

Governments (US, France…) did not understand how to regulate and banned export (and asked users to apply for a licence).

I do see a strong parallel with the situation that we are currently living.

What’s interesting is what’s happened out of the few years where regulations were strong enough to reduce innovation.

Well, open source won for the common and everyday uses, and even more powerful crypto has been developed and used by corporations and governments.

I can certainly imagine LLMs taking a similar path.

New RFC 9989 for DMARC and updated guidance for postmasters

madflo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:29:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dmarctrust.com/blog/dmarcbis-rfc-9989-9990-9991

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369356

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by madflo in "Back from 1 week in SF from Paris"

madflo — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:39:04 +0000

a few notes on what I heard and how I felt about software+products+labs

Back from 1 week in SF from Paris

madflo — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:39:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.poxx.net/weblog/2026/05/back-from-san-francisco-s10e02.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306689

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by madflo in "Migrating to the EU"

madflo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:14:01 +0000

I have been a customer of OVH’s new Zimbra Starter service. It works for my personal and professional needs, CalDAV and ActiveSync are active. I do not use the web interface so no feedback on this.

New comment by madflo in "Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous"

madflo — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:41:37 +0000

To the best of my knowledge opendmarc-reports does not perform a DNS check for external auth, but I might be mistaken.

Major hosts (Google, Zoho, Yahoo, Microsoft) are checking for sure. Japanese hosts are the worst offenders. I will try to do a proper data extraction and report back.

New comment by madflo in "Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous"

madflo — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:58:52 +0000

I do operate DMARC report processing service and I have to agree that outdated reporting addresses living in DNS records (in my case, previous customers of mine still using their reporting addresses) are an issue.

Although the RFC 7.1 section regarding External Domain Validation [1] addresses this topic, I've found that lots of final hosts disregard this step and blast their reports to whatever reporting address is provided.

1: https://www.dmarctrust.com/email-dns/fundamentals/dmarc-dns-...

New comment by madflo in "Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film"

madflo — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:12:43 +0000

ILFORD is still selling photo paper in rolls with the specific chemicals required for regeneration of baths. It does allow a skilled lab operator to use Durst Lambdas or even a 1hour laser-based minilab like a Noritsu QSS or Fuji Frontier to print on real b&w paper!

However, the same skilled operator should be able to calibrate her minilab in order to obtain decent looking b&w prints on color-based paper (RA4 process - used by Noritsu & Fuji).

New comment by madflo in "Gobee.bike pulls out of France due to mass destruction of its bike fleet"

madflo — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:55:51 +0000

I am living in Lille, France, where Gobee.bike begun its French expansion. I am commuting by bike and as a cyclist I do agree with the comment above.

Dockless bikes quickly became a nuisance, a few days after gobee.bike released their fleet. People left those bikes everywhere, including on pedestrian space and bicycle lanes.

On a personal note : there is a well maintained and dock-based bike sharing system provided by the town council in Lille. If bike sharing, as some point, become a part of the town's infrastructure — see: Paris with Velib, Lyon and Lille — I do not see the need nor the space for concurrent offerings from different bike networks.

New comment by madflo in "After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface"

madflo — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:59:32 +0000

New Studies Rely on the Internet for Help Treating Cancer Patients

madflo — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:26:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-studies-rely-on-the-internet-for-help-treating-cancer-patients-1465238017

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11855542

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by madflo in "Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co"

madflo — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:08:25 +0000

Former Evangelist team member for Mailjet here.

Mailjet added an Inbound API called ParseAPI. Even if the name is different they are able to process inbound emails :-)

https://www.mailjet.com/feature/parse-api/

Quite an handy list tho. Great work!

Nothing personal: you’re talented, but you suck.

madflo — Thu, 15 May 2014 18:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/f60f73233656

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7751405

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Successful Developer Evangelists Turn Into Account Managers

madflo — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:00:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.elie.li/blog/2013/10/17/developer-evangelism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481171

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by madflo in "Show HN: Take Off 2014 non-profit tech conference in Europe"

madflo — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:32:57 +0000

We are based in Lille, a close stop from London (90min), Brussels (30min) and Paris (50min).

All the talks are in English and we will have a great selection of Belgian beers :-) (and alcohol free beverages).

More information : https://github.com/robink/take-off-conf-convince-your-boss/b...

Show HN: Take Off 2014 non-profit tech conference in Europe

madflo — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:30:11 +0000

Article URL: http://takeoffconf.com/2014

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7080777

Points: 27

# Comments: 12

Best Web Designs of 2014 Design Conferences

madflo — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:17:31 +0000

Article URL: http://line25.com/articles/the-best-web-designs-of-2014-design-conferences

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7063425

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by madflo in "Introducing AirCall.io, a flexible, scalable customer hotline tool for startups"

madflo — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:43:34 +0000

Is it really built on top of Twilio?

New comment by madflo in "DotScale, the tech conference to supersize your apps in Paris, June 7"

madflo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:36:40 +0000

Amazing lineup, I can't wait to see Salomon of dotCloud on stage.