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papower

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Irish data wrangler and maker. @peerside and https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulpower/
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papower··on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
I suspect that will be news to most (97%) of Irelands population :-) Ireland is very much an English speaking country with Irish coming a distant second despite both being 'official' languages and the latter being our traditional tongue.

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

https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressr...

papower··on UK to Ban Disposable Vapes
Ireland (in the EU) are likely to do the same and restrict the use of disposables.It's taking a while to legislate for however. The restrictions are likely to be environment & anti litter focused rather than health related and have industry lobbyists to contend with.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41320234.html

papower··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
Take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnpxmhWRuw - pretty high level but does show the deliveries in action.
papower··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
This is how Manna Aero (1) are doing it in Ireland (2) and soon parts of Texas (3).

1. https://www.manna.aero/

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnpxmhWRuw and https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/drone-regulation-ir...

3. https://dronelife.com/2023/05/08/manna-drone-delivery-flies-...

papower··on Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
Maybe but it's from 2021.

Personally I'd prefer something like "Returned top N of 166,000 results" and easy access to those N results (first/best match, last/worst match, paginate left/right)

papower··on Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
Another Irish resident confirming that this statement is not true.

Most schools teach in English and teach Irish as a second language. Irish is rarely used in normal day to day interactions and never at work unless you work in an Irish language related area or government department that supports Irish as an official language.

There are some niche exceptions:

- "All Irish" schools where you optionally learn through Irish

- "Gaeltachts" which are pockets of Ireland where Irish is promoted and spoken. Even here the locals will happily switch to English if you prefer.

I like Irish and wish it was more widely spoken as an everyday language but in reality you have to make an explicit effort to experience it.

papower··on Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
papower··on Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
Thanks, looks promising.

One of my challanges was understanding the the zoo of tests OpenVAS would run and trying to reliably select which ones to apply. Did you, or anyone here, ever spot a way of outputting all the tests (nmap scripts etc.) that a particular run would trigger (but without actually running them)

papower··on [dead]
https://status.gitlab.com/
papower··on Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
Are you in a position to share that session online or perhaps a blog post on your experience and approach ?

I've looked at it (openvas), got something working, but was never happy with it and ended up returning to a simpler/proven nmap base that I could manage better and add complexity if/when needed.

papower··on Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
The Irish (PSC) Public Services Card is getting close to being a de facto ID card at this point.
papower··on The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
Maybe you're referring to Certificate Transparency Logs ? There's background info at http://www.certificate-transparency.org/what-is-ct

You could implement your own log monitor or use services like crt.sh or certstream to build a candidate list of domains that have registered SSL certs.

papower··on Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table
They have an intro to the myStorm board at https://folknologylabs.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/a-perfect-st...:

"myStorm is the perfect combination of a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, a $1, 32-bit ARM microcontroller and a $5 versatile low power FPGA – an open hardware platform – brought to life with innovative open source software."

papower··on Shan-Zhen: How a Small Irish Town Influenced the Mega-City Shenzhen
May be struggling to make money but less than 3% military traffic. According to the links below approx. 21k flights in 2014 and 550 of those carried US troops and/or weapons.

See: https://www.iaa.ie/docs/default-source/publications/annual-r... http://clareherald.com/2015/09/272-flights-allowed-carry-mun...