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Currently have a botnet spamming my search engine. I've blocked a couple of thousand and things seem to be holding up, but if it goes know you know what happened. Really don't want to have to hide behind cloudflare or something like that. They seem pretty sketchy from a privacy standpoint.
💬 14 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I think this is reasonable: gemini://marginalia.nu/projects/edge/privacy.gmi
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Recurring events in my search engine work: Finding easy optimizations that reduce the requirements by 90%, and finding bugs that drastically improve result qualities based on some like easy list-ordering tweak. I don't know how many times this has happened. They just seem to keep cropping up.
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http://nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/miyazaki_kurosawa_p1.html
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http://www.lileks.com/misc/scifi/index.html
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It turns out you can skew PageRank to heavily bias toward a certain subset of pages. It's even suggested in the original PR article. So I set it to skew toward personal blogs. The result is kinda amazing.
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https://meatfighter.com/castlevania3-password/
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Today's search engine gem: https://www.tim-mann.org/trs80/doc/Guide.txt
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I wonder how many E-presses "O_CREAT" has saved since it was introduced in the posix standard.
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This was a strange and deep rabbit hole. While testing my search engine, I found this. http://www.wild-seven.org/ It linked to this: http://www.zeruda.org/, and this http://ohmydarling.org/, and there's this https://psyche.nu/ ... there's even more if you poke around. It's the first time in a while I've felt like the Internet is gonna be ok.
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http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html
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My landlord has send me several emails and text messages reminding me to fill their anonymous tenant survey. Just... let that scenario marinate for a while and you'll get it.
💬 6 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 2 years ago
You would think my search engine would at least struggle a bit when faced with a HackerNews front-page. You would think.
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Another find. Sometimes it's hard to draw a line between shitposting and art: https://www.floppyswop.co.uk
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gemini://marginalia.nu/projects/edge/top-20.gmi
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Another interesting article: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/
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This was amusing: https://worthdoingbadly.com/nn-adversarial/
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Building a search engine is nothing for an instant gratification junkie. I think I've made huge improvements, but I won't know for certain until the dust settles in about a week.
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You know, when I say link farms a big industry, I don't most people quite get the scope of just how big it is. I blacklisted over 20,000 domains today, from what looks like a single operation. Most of them expensive .com-tlds. That's a quarter million dollars a year in registration fees alone.
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https://search.marginalia.nu/ will be (somewhat) useless the next 12-24 hours. I'm rebuilding the index. Sorry for any inconvenience. It will actually (probably) improve search quality though, so it's for the greater good (tm).
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This was an interesting analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5Xt5pZZZM
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What would it take to make a text-focused mobile web browser, one that renders the most minimal of styling and disregards css and js? Like a w3m for android.
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Removed 2 characters of code and saved myself 600 Gb of disk-writes per day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Just looked at the reddit front page for the first time in a long while. Not signed in. Christ on an actual bike. Every other post is an ad, and what isn;t an ad is hot garbage. What has happened to reddit, and when did this happen? How does it still have users?
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Oops, my capsule is a bit of a hard-to-navigate mess right now. I'm attempting to bridge https://memex.marginalia.nu/ and gemini://marginalia.nu/ in a way where both makes sense. Right now (I think) the HTTP version is better. But I'm working on bringing the gemini version up to speed.
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Hello from my laptop! I installed Debian Bullseye on my HP Spectre x360. After some coaxing with the installer, it works. Like, surprisingly well. I was expecting a lot more hardware jank than I'm seeing. KDE5 deals with HiDPI very well. I honestly even prefer the touchpad behavior over what Windows 10 gave me.
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Hot take: How much do you need to type before the time lost learning DVORAK at 7 WPM is made up for by mastering DVORAK and typing maybe somewhat faster than with QWERTY?
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It's fascinating how some designs follow as a logical conclusion from basic principles. LISP is a great example of this; EMACS is its logical conclusion. Hypertext is another one of those simple designs that have the ability to grow into something incredibly powerful if you let it.
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Been playing around with Floyd-Steinberg dithering using a weird color palette all day for an upcoming project (also because I like the aesthetic). Here's a car I rasterized: gemini://marginalia.nu/pics/volvo-raster.png
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Honestly, I'm pretty impressed with the traffic I'm getting on my gemini server. I'm getting about 50 unique visitors on my gemini server every day. I get that on HTTPs too, but they're almost all bots and scripts.