> A record to an non-elastic IP, and the box gets rebooted
Oh mate, I've seen that happen with a company that was selling security-adjacent services, which were running on servers with just random IPs ffs
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Oh mate, I've seen that happen with a company that was selling security-adjacent services, which were running on servers with just random IPs ffs
What they would have been allowed or forced to do and whether their response could have been the same.
Was it reported by a pentester? (ex-)employee? Facebook itself? How do we know that it goes back to 2012?
I know in the public sector you have to disclose such things to ICO, but does that also apply to private companies? Who is going to hold them accountable?
I want something that will run some code when something happens. In my case that "something" is a specific time of day. The code will spin up a server, connect it to tailscale, run the 3 scraping jobs and then tear down the server and parse the data. Then another pipeline runs that loads the data and refreshes the caches.
Of course I'm also using it for continuously deploying my app across 2 environments, or its monitoring stack, or running terraform etc.
Basically it runs everything for me so that I don't have to.
> I have found that it is best to split the task of scraping and parsing into separate processes. By saving the raw JSON or HTML, you can always go back and apply fixes to your parser.
Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing and it saved me more times than I'd care to admit!
I did consider adding a 3 and 6 month button, but for some reason I decided against it, don't remember why. It wasn't performance because I'm heavily caching everything so it wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe aesthetics?
Either I was lucky or they don't bother, who knows
I haven't thought about monetizing it, because honestly I don't really see anything about it to be monetized in its current form.
Since this is just a side project, if it starts demanding too much of my time too often I'll just stop it and open both the code and the data.
BTW, how could the network request not appear in the network tab?
For me the hardest part is to correlate and compare products across supermarkets
I used this kind of heuristic to check if a scrape was successful by checking that the amount of products scraped today is within ~10% of the average of the last 7 days or so
Having said that, that's definitely something that I could add and it would show when the shrinkflation occured if any.
Lately I've been thinking to bite the bullet and Just Do It, but since it's working I'm a bit reluctant to touch it.
Granted it was around January, and things may have progressed...
(Βut then again why take the easy approach when Ι can waste a few afternoons playing around with string comparisons)
My approach so far has been to first extract the brand names (which are also not written the same way for some fcking reason!), update the strings, and then compare the remaining.
If they have a high similarity (e.g. >95%) then they could be automatically merged, and then anything between 75%-95% can be reviewed manually.
A thorny problem in my case is that the same item is named in 3 different ways between the 3 supermarkets which makes it very hard and annoying to do a proper comparison.
Did you have a similar problem?
If Greece's case is anything to go by, I doubt they'd ever accept that as it may bring to light some... questionable practices.
At some point I need to deduplicate the products and plot the prices across all 3 supermarkets on the same graph as I suspect it will show some interesting trends.
I then started randomising every aspect of the scraping process that I could: The order that I visited the links, the sleep duration between almost every action, etc.
As long as they don't implement a strict fingerprinting technique, that seems to be enough for now
It's even more impossible to satisfy them in a way that's also useful for Google's own business model.
The most obvious and potentially naive way of doing that would be to allow end users to upvote or downvote search results. I know that Google already does that in an automated way to some extend, but the problem is that that signal is then used to determine the quality across all the users which, as I mentioned in the beginning, is impossible to get right.
Instead that metric should only affect each user's own search results and not everyone else's. This could improve the quality of the results, bring more people back, and eventually increase the revenue. It would also help prevent "gaming" the system.
What am I missing here? I can't believe that they're not aware of that. I also can't believe that they don't want to fix it or that they're so focused on ai that internal politics don't allow them to do anything else. So what gives?
If I may offer a small piece of feedback based on your comment here:
Apart from its speed, the single thing I loved about Zed and made it stand out from the likes of vscode, was the built-in language support.
This made for a great first time experience where I didn't have to search and download anything and everything was working out of the box.
In fact it was so good an experience, that when I had to download another thing for terraform support, it struck me as much more annoying than usually
Reading that your plan is to move in the exact opposite direction is disappointing and, I'm sorry to say, I hope it doesn't come to pass.
The good news is that a (strict) CSP can help with that - and they do mention it in their blog post that they don't rewrite anything if there's a CSP header.
It's also worth noting that a (strict) CSP also prevents them from injecting their analytics JS from being injected to your site.
The parliament, i.e. the majority, i.e. these people, are also the ones who appoint the judges of the top courts of the country, which all but ensures their immunity.
Their immunity is also enshrined in the consistution[4, article 86] - only the parliament can take an MP to the courts, but guess who controls the majority
Also, they are in the pockets of the local oligarchic mafia [1]: A few families that control the vast majority of the media AND the big construction companies AND the energy companies. They are also the ones that own big part of the shipping industry in Greece. For their sake, back in 2022 when the EU was considering to ban oil shipments from Russia, Greece vetoed that [2]
Oh, and just to be safe, the oligarch's tax exemptions are written in the constitution[4, article 107]
So, the people in the government have an almost complete immunity from everything, which makes them extremely arrogant.
If you add to that mix the total disregard of public services, even hospitals during the pandemic, you get a very beautiful-to-look-but-terrible-to-live-in failed state.
A state that even the EU can no longer turn a blind eye on[5]
[1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/159252/noor-one-vampire-ship...
[2]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/23/how-greek-companies-and...
[3]: https://rsf.org/en/country/greece
[4]: https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/f3c70a23-7696-49...
[5]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240202IP...
However, the problem is that she is not a politician and she has no public presense whatsoever.
She was chosen by her party, and eventually elected because her last name starts with A which put her near the top of the ballot paper.
It showed you contextual cards based on your upcoming trips/appointments/traveling patterns. E.g. Any tube delays on your way home from work. How early you should leave to catch your flight.
This alongside Google Inbox was among the best and most "futuristic" products.
I was glad to see today Apple implementing something similar to both of these.
Location: UK/Greece
Remote: Yes or Hybrid
Willing to relocate: Yes - to Switzerland
Technologies: AWS, terraform, docker, CI/CD (concourse), prometheus, grafana, python, bash, rust, go
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- Work MPB which I got 2021-12, 99% of the time plugged in because I was WFH, last time I unplugged it to return it to my employer, the battery was at ~95% of max capacity (as reported by MacOS)
- Personal MBP bought 2021-12, only plugging in when battery was low, and 1.5y later the battery was at 80% of max capacity
It was then that I investigated a bit and learned the trick of charging only up to 80%, which is something that MacOS does automatically when it's constantly plugged in which preserves battery life.
Since then, my personal laptop also stays plugged in most of the time, its battery is almost always at 80% and the battery hasn't decayed further.
1. You choose your general location or 2. You don't choose
In the first option you get one less general category to choose from (for example they may not have fresh fish)
As far as I can tell, in both cases the supermarket closest to the delivery address is responsible for filling out your order and usually what happens is that they call you to let you know that they don't have something and suggest substitutions.