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notlukesky commented on How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?   ipapi.is/geolocation.html... · Posted by u/incolumitas
incolumitas · 2 years ago
I have to scrape the whole IP address space since I offer location information as part of my API.

Also I only need to scrape as many WHOIS records as there are different networks out there. So for example for the IPv4 address space, there are much less networks as there are IPv4 addresses (2^32).

Also, most RIR's provide their WHOIS databases for download.

Therefore, "scraping" is not really the correct word, it's an hybrid approach, but mostly based on publicly available data from the five RIR's.

notlukesky · 2 years ago
What was the easiest and the most frustrating part?
notlukesky commented on Dogs attacked more than 5,300 mail carriers last year, the Postal Service says   npr.org/2023/06/04/118003... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
082349872349872 · 3 years ago
I wonder if the "attacks by breed" distribution is different for mail carriers?
notlukesky · 3 years ago
And if there were any stray dogs.
notlukesky commented on Dogs attacked more than 5,300 mail carriers last year, the Postal Service says   npr.org/2023/06/04/118003... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
notlukesky · 3 years ago
I remember when there was a phrase called “going postal” in the 90s when the postal workers shot up places. Now they are the victims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal

notlukesky commented on Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold   openthemagazine.com/colum... · Posted by u/haltingproblem
throwawayzxx · 3 years ago
I think you are wasting your time. Many Europeans see Churchill as a saviour they don't care about victims from colonies.

It all boils down to the survival of the fittest. Yesterday Europe, today Russia and tomorrow China. No one can stop that

notlukesky · 3 years ago
Your point on many Europeans seeing Churchill as a saviour and not caring about his victims in colonies is just normal by historical (and modern) times. Romans were proud of all the genocides Caesar committed (and proudly self documented). See for example his own account of the Gallic wars and the killing of women and children of tribes from current day Switzerland (the Helvetii). Obama destroyed multiple countries (non-European) and killed and displaced millions and is considered a hero as well in the West like Churchill is. Joe Biden took all the reserves of extremely poor Afghanistan and is starving 40 million people to there to death today. He is considered a hero in the West as well. So like most things it all depends on where you are and who you talk to and their background (European and non-European for example).

Americans in general (and the US mainstream media in their coverage) frame deaths emanating from the US (and it’s close allies) as collateral damage, killed terrorists, eliminated insurecctionists or mistakes or just even ignore it by omissions. From other countries that are not “allies” they are victims or murdered innocents or massacres or genocides etc… Just look at the favorable coverage of Madeleine Albrights death who said in her very own words that she owned to killing 500,000 Iraqi babies and children and said it was well worth it.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bibracte

https://jacobin.com/2022/01/sanctions-financial-assets-afgha...

notlukesky commented on Larry Page Missing as Google Founder Faces Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit   newsweek.com/larry-page-m... · Posted by u/docdeek
klipt · 3 years ago
US institutions are more constrained by notions of due process and human rights than comparable Russian or Chinese institutions. Which is probably a good thing for Americans, in general.
notlukesky · 3 years ago
Due process and “human rights” do not apply when the government has resolve or perceives the transgression to be beyond the pale. The law or constitution does not matter then as well. Just ask Eugene Debs. Or see Julian Assange. Or Korematsu. Or Joseph Nacchio who refused to violate the law and do illegal surveillance on US citizens for the government without a court order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

notlukesky commented on The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever   wired.com/story/the-untol... · Posted by u/SerCe
brabel · 3 years ago
I was watching the news last night, and apparently, not only they're pretty sure it was Russia that bombed the half-Russian pipelines to Europe (NordStream2), but it was Russia (or Russian partisans, whatever they mean) that tried to kill Putin last night with a drone attack as well.

You can accuse Russia of anything you want in the current climate, and everyone will take you seriously regardless of evidence.

notlukesky · 3 years ago
South Park blamed Canada
notlukesky commented on Historians have found little evidence that Manuela Beltrán existed   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/Thevet
boomboomsubban · 3 years ago
As an American, the legends of the "founding fathers" are so embellished and whitewashed that they may as well be complete fabrications.

It's the kind of thing that seems inevitable with such events. I highly doubt Romulus and Remus were actually children raisedby wolves that founded Rome, but that's what the history books will say.

notlukesky · 3 years ago
I find it strange that your comment on the embellishment of history (an incredibly common phenomenon of the past AND the present) is being downvoted.

u/notlukesky

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