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guillem_lefait commented on Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites   yandori.io/news-flow/... · Posted by u/antiochIst
jMyles · 22 days ago
Just tried it, and clicking on the stories doesn't seem to do anything. Console shows "TypeError: can't access property "time", flowData[Math.min(...)] is undefined"

Ubuntu 24.04, Firefox 145.0.1 (64-bit)

guillem_lefait · 22 days ago
same
guillem_lefait commented on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available   koreajoongangdaily.joins.... · Posted by u/ksec
luispauloml · 3 months ago
>So you’re stuck with some shotty local mapping systems that are just bad.

What made you think of them as bad? Could you be more specific? I use them almost daily and I find them very good.

guillem_lefait · 3 months ago
I was there few months ago and I found them to be quite good too, both in coverage (shops, bus/metro networks) and accuracy. Obviously, not the apps I'm used to so & the language but otherwise, it was okay.
guillem_lefait commented on Our European search index goes live   blog.ecosia.org/launching... · Posted by u/maelito
loa_in_ · 4 months ago
It isn't impossible nowadays to enumerate domain names using DNS data and score them based on the content they serve. Isn't that what we really want as users? Scoring based not on proxies for relevance like referral count, but on viewable content?
guillem_lefait · 4 months ago
It's possible indeed as I'm doing it for another reason (monitoring sovereigty).

You can ask Icann [0] access to gTld domain list files (if you have a legitimate reason to do so). Once access you are granted access to a gTld, you can download a compressed csv file with a line per couple <domain, nameserver>.

[0] https://czds.icann.org/home

guillem_lefait commented on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts   it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
marcusb · 5 months ago
The drive enters the cycle again. I use the drives until they show signs of failure (SMART monitoring/testing), or until I need to upgrade for capacity reasons.

I'm using "recertified" (really, used) drives that I've written about here: https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/03/used-hard-drives-from-tech.... They are inexpensive and, so far, have been very reliable. (And, yes, I've done restores from the backup sets.)

guillem_lefait · 5 months ago
Thanks for the reference, it makes sense.
guillem_lefait commented on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts   it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
marcusb · 5 months ago
It's pretty simple: the backup host has the backup disk attached via a usb cradle. There's a file in the root directory of the backup disk file system that gets touched when the drive is rotated. A cron jobs emails me if this file is more than 3 months old. When I rotate the disk, I format the new disk and recreate the restic repos for the remote hosts. I then move the old disk into a fireproof safe. I keep four drives in rotation, so at any given point in time I have the online drive plus three with progressively older backup sets in the safe.
guillem_lefait · 5 months ago
And then, after a year what do you do with the oldest hard drive ? Does it enter the cycle again, do you destruct it or do you use it in a failsafe environnement ? The procedure looks OK and I would like to make it more organised myself, just trying to find the right balance.
guillem_lefait commented on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts   it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
marcusb · 5 months ago
> Ransomware is really clever these days and if you PUSH your backups, it can also encrypt or delete all your backups, because it has access to everything

That depends on how you have access to your backup servers configured. I'm comfortable with append-only backup enforcement for push backups[0] with Borg and Restic via SSH, although I do use offline backup drive rotation as a last line of defense for my local backup set. YMMV.

0 - https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/07/ransomware-resistant-backu...

guillem_lefait · 5 months ago
Could you elaborate on your strategy to rotate your disks ?
guillem_lefait commented on Supply Chain Attacks on Linux Distributions – Fedora Pagure   fenrisk.com/pagure... · Posted by u/akyuu
guillem_lefait · 9 months ago
NoLimitSecu, French cybersecurity podcast, released an episode yesterday with the authors: https://www.nolimitsecu.fr/compromission-de-distributions-li...

It was amazing to hear that they chose the weakest path, argument injection and were able to found a vector in two weeks twice (fedora + opensuse).

guillem_lefait commented on Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet   newyorker.com/news/the-le... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rad_gruchalski · 10 months ago
Great for them, I guess. I live thousands of miles away from Java. You? The point isn’t “there are 1500 active volcanoes on the planet”, the point is is “there are many places not in the proximity of one of 1500 active volcanoes”.
guillem_lefait · 10 months ago
I live in Martinique, in the Caribbean and there is a somewhat inactive [0] volcano. To generate electricity, we are importing oil/biogaz from Europe. Solar is ramping up but it makes sense to use volcano heat if: - the associated risks are low (earthquakes, just got a 4.8 30 minutes ago [1]) - tropical climate does not make maintenance too costly

Even if it's not the cheapest option, if it can provide some backup, that could be an option. Because solar panel and hurricanes are not best friends.

[0] that kills 30k people in 1902 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... [1] https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake....

guillem_lefait commented on Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet   newyorker.com/news/the-le... · Posted by u/pseudolus
dboreham · 10 months ago
So do many populated places.
guillem_lefait · 10 months ago
And often those places are islands, meaning their grid are isolated.
guillem_lefait commented on EU regulations to look out for in 2025   sifted.eu/articles/eu-sta... · Posted by u/belter
guillem_lefait · 10 months ago
The 28th regime will provide interesting insights on whether or not EU members are willing to move on fiscal harmonization.

I live in Martinique, a French outermost region and although we are in the Caribbean, we are also in the EU. This creates some friction as the standard CE norm is usually not available in neighbouring countries, therefore : 1. goods mostly come from EU (specifically France) 2. because goods have to travel across the ocean, prices are higher 3. because prices are higher, specific tax laws are maintained and new ones are introduced with the aim to make prices lower 4. specific tax law introduces another barrier and limit competition 5. because competition is low, prices are high(er)

Harmonization vs the use of specific tax law/rules is a never ending discussion in Martinique.

In the US mad king context, I'm looking forward to it.

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