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Random thought: if the commercial web has all but devoured the original web, leaving only a fraction of the interesting parts behind and which are no longer really growing in number, isn't this counter to the reason why we decided we needed search engines altogether? Wouldn't it be nice if someone made a modern Yahoo! Directory equivalent for those random olde worlde curios we all pine for? Something like a modern decentralized Geocities


You can try SearchMySite:

"The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites."

https://searchmysite.net/


I could make more or less your exact statement, but substituting 2015 for 2004


Do they even maintain something resembling a backbone? A lot of these CDNs just use public transit for outwards traffic


Yes, they maintain prioritized links between their datacenters, many of which are fully private. However, the Warp free plan simply bounces to the nearest CF datacenter which participates in Warp (not all of their centers do) and then back into the public internet, though it's through their massive pipe. Warp+ uses their Argo routing through their private backbone to get you as close to the origin as possible within the Warp network.


Much easier to get a global view of Internet behaviour when there are only one or two DCs worth of ClickHouse clusters needing tapped

Related question: given this obviously generates logs, what are CloudFlare doing to protect log data in transit within its own network from similar attacks to the Google-NSA episode? ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i... )


What was to stop the NSA funding, creating, acquiring, or controlling CloudFlare so as to be useful for MITM surveillance?


I suspect the 5 eye countries don't have to pay a dime and have complete access to traffic and records on it. Hence everyone pushing encryption to at least make it a bit harder for them.


This survey is the literal definition of leading question. Found about 2 boxes I could tick, before being forced to order a list of the designer's preferences according to how much I agree with them. The only data that can be generated from a survey like this is the data you wanted to find (see also Boston Consulting Group article earlier today). I cannot honestly respond to it

The only question I have is, what grant application(s) is the survey data being used to support?


The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.


Heavily reminiscent of Reddit caving in on /r/jailbait following exposure in the WSJ. Actually not heavily reminiscent, identical


At the price of those things, bake a GPS IC deep into the chip


GPS wont get a signal in many datacenters given the amount of EM radiation


I've seen plenty of racks in my time with stuff like this installed https://www.gpssource.com/products/irms18-gps-integrated-rac...


That product mentions the roof antenna in the description.


GPS is not hard to spoof.


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