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dalfon DuckDuckGo's Privacy Abuses

You can self-host and use a mobile 4G/5G modem for the outgoing connections from SearXNG: the IP address is going to be shared between different users (at least with IPv4).

dalfon Self-calibrating USB Paper Tape Reader

Some have created "printer" for tapes for music boxes: https://youtu.be/w7nJak1tcmA (Labels are in French but the video is mostly self explanatory).

dalfon Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

SearXNG allows to remove domains: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/d1334beb4fb16beec298...

As far I understand, an improvement is to allows an URL like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h-matsuo/uBlacklist-subscr... in settings.yml, so there is no need to update settings.yml.

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of SearXNG.

dalfon I enforced the AGPL on my code (2020)

For what it's worth, this is what is done for SearXNG (AGPL 3 license, rolling release): https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/version...

It doesn't prevent people to hide / change the information, but at least by default it works even in a fork.

dalfon I enforced the AGPL on my code (2020)

What if the code calls

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref @{upstream}

when the server starts and then provides this link in the web pages?

The link will be updated automatically in the forks.

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About the version, call "git show -s --format='%cs-%h'" to get the current commit.

dalfon Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

Reblochon is seen as Cantal (quite sure).

How huge is the dataset?

dalfon ABit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard (1999)

I used it with Windows 2000 and Linux.

It was imcompatibled with the Alcatel Speed touch USB (ADSL modem): after few minutes, the PC was rebooting. The driver was not SMP compatible. It took some weeks before I could change the modem, "hopefully" a friend in the same school year had the same motherboard and the same issue.

dalfon Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Thank you! To ping, see my profile or @dalf at GitHub

dalfon Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

> I wish there was a possibility to blocklist certain domains

You can do that in this fork: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/e839910f4c4b085463f1...

dalfon Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Did you renew the mobile IP from time to time?

Note: since the version 1.0, searx stops sending request for 1 day when a CAPTCHA is detected which might help a little.

(I'm really interested by the results of your experiment)

dalfon The Road to Self-Reproducing Machines

There are biosafety level laboratories, so why not similar labs for self-reproducing machines? But one mistake is not going to go well...

Another science fiction example: the Replicators.

dalfon Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia

DBPedia extracts data from wikipedia (infoboxes, tables) and other sources (wikidata). The circle is complete

http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/tree/master/...

dalfon Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia

(It requires the birth dates, so it is more than one page)

The HTML structure may change over time: if the request is executed few times over a long period, the scrapper may/will require more maintenance than the SPARQL request.

For example, the same wikipedia page 3 years ago is slightly different: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turing_Award&oldi...

dalfon Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia

About the Turing Award, after some trials and errors, I think this is the request: https://w.wiki/3wmY

Disclaimer: I follow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2i8QpLDnWge8wZGKizVVw / https://www.twitch.tv/belett (mostly in French, sometimes in English).

Without these courses, I wouldn't have been able to write this request.

dalfon Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit

A lot of items don't have a wikipedia page, but all wikipedia, wikitravel, wiki* pages have a wikidata item (see "Wikidata item" link of the left side of the pages).

Some wikipedia infoxes are based on wikidata. I can't find an example, but here some links:

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_infobox_...

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_Infobox

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person/Wikida...

There are lexeme too, and it is not based on wiktionary. Search the prefix "L:" (without quote).

Example:

* https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Acat&search=L...

* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L7

Also, there are a lot of tools on toolforge.org. One is reasonator which produce sentences from a wikidata item: https://reasonator.toolforge.org/?q=Q1339

dalfon Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit

Yes:

* http://www.entitree.com/en/family_tree/Elizabeth_II

* https://family.toolforge.org/ancestors.php?q=Q187114

Tools found on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Visualize_data/...

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Some SPARQL queries: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/...

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Out of topic: I wish wikipedia would provide an API to get the infoboxes (made using Lua or wikidata).

dalfon We can do better than DuckDuckGo

FYI, searx implements the DDG bang searches (1). There is no autocompletion (for now), but at least you can all of them in one meta search engine. The syntax is slightly different: "!!g <text>" instead of "!g <text>".

(1) actually based on https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch/tree/master/bangs

dalfon Wiki.js

XWiki:

* CKEditor: https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/CKEdit...

* Syntax: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide...

Actually any wiki pages can define a Class and how to display this class and / or instances of a Class:

* https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/...

* https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/App%20...

The Script Macro is useful to make some dashboards ( https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Script... )

I've deployed this for the internal documentation inside a company I worked for (MediaWiki was a no-go even with a visual editor).

For each new feature, I was developing inside a clean new wiki, than I exported the changes once I was sure everything was okay. It is way more easy then to upgrade to the new XWiki version.

dalfon Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

From https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-show-gdpr-popup/3433/4 (from https://github.com/whatwg/meta/issues/126 )

Quote:

> This puts browsers in the direct path of legislation in any given country’s demands. Features in browsers should be based only on user needs. Only when a law absolutely targets browsers should they do anything regarding legislation.

[Edit] remove the code block

dalfon Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’

Perhaps an out of topic comment.

I've been working for one of these CORDIS European projects : https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/en

The project was politically driven while most of the slides were selling dreams. As usual in this kind of project

- there was a schedule carved in stone

- the Conway's law gets a beautiful practical example

so the research becomes quickly a joke.

Some people:

- worked on out of topic subjects. At least no harm.

- criticized because of external/past/personal/out of topic reasons.

- criticized the work of others while doing literally nothing. My boss knew it, but since they are well known to wrote nice documents to get the fund for many years.

- worked very hard while being criticized through hidden communication.

- were here because of the data.

- were here to get the technology if by luck it ends up to be working project.

The usual burdens, I guess, but it basically kills the motivation (it is my experience in one specific project). In the end, people went to the different meetings to see Europe.

It seems some other projects are driven in the same way according to what I have heard.

It is only a sum up of experience. YMMV.

I sincerely hope that Gaia-X will be managed in better way.

dalfon Aerogel from fruit biowaste produces ultracapacitors

An article that sums up the idea: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a31114696...

dalfon Key details of Galileo satellite summer failure emerge

So in a way, the Peter principle makes money ?

dalfon Alibaba's Jack Ma says 12-hour work week could be the norm

Previous related posts:

- Alibaba’s Jack Ma Defends China’s 996 Schedule (12 April 2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19645729 (scmp.com)

- Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day(15 April 2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19668671 (bbc.co.uk)

- Alibaba founder Jack Ma says staff should work 12 hours a day, six days a week(16 April 2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19691793 (abc.net.au)

- China’s Grueling Formula for Success: 9-9-6(22 Feb. 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573978 (wsj.com)

dalfon The Simpsons is dubbed into two different versions for French markets

On link talking about the subject: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5239185

dalfon NeverSSL – helping you get online

Previous post (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369038

dalfon HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide

There is the Feature-Policy header too : allow and deny the use of browser features in its own frame. I've seen this header on a bank website.

Example :

  Feature-Policy: accelerometer 'none'; autoplay 'none'; camera 'none'; fullscreen 'none'

Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Feature_Po...

dalfon MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

For reference

The code is here: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/caddyhttp/h...

The paper: https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdf

dalfon Why doesn't Linux apt use HTTPS?

Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958679

dalfon Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file

> Since it lacks relocation information, it is loaded by the operating system at a pre-set address, at offset 0100h immediately following the PSP, where it is executed (hence the limitation of the executable's size): the entry point is fixed at 0100h.