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Quickly add GSuite (Google Apps) MX Records to CloudFlare DNS

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As some people know, I run a web development agency called Cohoda LTD. As part of our service, like most development agencies, we offer web hosting. To keep things as lean as possible, we deliberately don’t try to host email servers ourselves, instead we set up clients with email on Google GSuite (or Office 365 if the client prefers) I always (where possible) use CloudFlare for DNS, and found...

South Western Railway rip off customers by charging premium for First Class tube travel

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I travel from Farnborugh main to Waterloo reasonably regularly, and it works out cheaper for me to buy monthly season tickets, with a Travel Card (allowing travel on the underground and busses) I was recently looking at how much extra a First Class season ticket would be than Standard Class. Turns out, South Western Railway are charging a premium – for the Travel Card portion of the First...

Phishing with internationalised domains

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While on a train this morning, one of my close friends sent me this WhatsApp message: The person who sent it to me is not usually someone to send out scams or spam, but, to me at least, this message, did not look legit. It smelled strongly of a phishing scam. However, it was a link to adidas.com/shoes – so how was this going to phish me? Of course they are not giving away 3000 free pairs of...

Search git branch names using command line

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Looking for a particular branch, and `git branch -a` returns a LOT of branches? If on Windows, you could use the Search feature in cmder (you’re using cmder, right?) Or on mac, cmd+f and then search the outputted text… OR you could use one of these two approaches: 1) git branch takes a `–list` argument , which in turn takes a search arg. Example: git branch -a --list *something*...