This is fascinating! Any idea how it is implemented? Guessing it's using some open source search engine like Elasticsearch to build the indices/compute relevance in a centralized manner. Would it be possible to leverage the distributed nature of TOR to create a completely P2P/distributed version of this search engine? Relevance features like TF/IDF might be a bit challenging to implement, but it seems like it would be possible!
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#302Why Netcraft Risk Rating is so high? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.skyto...
Because the domain is new. It's mentioned in the http://toolbar.netcraft.com/help/faq/index.html#riskrating
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#303I actually was working on a similar project ( http://pirategod.org/ ) few month ago, but sadly I got a fulltime job so had to abandon the project. Torrent protocol is a brilliant system for information sharing, and with fragmentation of services like Netflix we need to start considering other solutions again, until the industry can give us what we need.
That URL is amazing, I hope you're able to find a use for it in the future.
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, no. Microsoft instrumented essentially every OS component (and sharing backend infrastructure, universal telemetry client, etc.) starting in Windows 10. Prior to that, it was just a few isolated pieces that had their own kind of telemetry.
Not quite. Windows 8 had most of the same telemetry, but it was off by default and you were given the option to turn it on during or after installation. Windows 10 flipped that on its head by giving you a page during install that said "get started quickly" which automatically turned everything on, and there was a tiny text link at the bottom which said "customize". Clicking that gave you three pages of telemetry-rela…
Also wrong. The telemetry in Windows 8 was just in critical components that had been instrumented long ago, such as Windows Update, crash management, etc. None of those were using the current universal telemetry system. In fact, I don't know if all of them moved to the new telemetry infrastructure shared with the rest of the OS or if they kept what they had and just added the new telemetry on top.
All that said, I agree with your last point about upgrading being a fair compromise compared to staying in Windows 7 or gasp Windows 8.
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, no. Microsoft instrumented essentially every OS component (and sharing backend infrastructure, universal telemetry client, etc.) starting in Windows 10. Prior to that, it was just a few isolated pieces that had their own kind of telemetry.
Not quite. Windows 8 had most of the same telemetry, but it was off by default and you were given the option to turn it on during or after installation. Windows 10 flipped that on its head by giving you a page during install that said "get started quickly" which automatically turned everything on, and there was a tiny text link at the bottom which said "customize". Clicking that gave you three pages of telemetry-rela…
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, no. Microsoft instrumented essentially every OS component (and sharing backend infrastructure, universal telemetry client, etc.) starting in Windows 10. Prior to that, it was just a few isolated pieces that had their own kind of telemetry.
Not quite. Windows 8 had most of the same telemetry, but it was off by default and you were given the option to turn it on during or after installation. Windows 10 flipped that on its head by giving you a page during install that said "get started quickly" which automatically turned everything on, and there was a tiny text link at the bottom which said "customize". Clicking that gave you three pages of telemetry-rela…
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.
That's why I built Magnetissimo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download links, I don't even know what is indexed", you have to deal with legal issues. So, host your own locally or for your community. No big deal. Even Google has to deal with DMCA!
How large is the database compiled by Magnetissimo? Is it Wikipedia-sized (a few dozens of Gigabytes), or several orders of magnitude above or below?
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#308Ordering by relevance seems to be a bit weird, try searching for "ubuntu server 16.04". Great service otherwise!
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#309Does DMCA require you to delete URLs with hashes of files when you don't own the content?
Also, are you allowed to publish the takedown requests?
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#310Refreshing to see such a fast website without any JS.
Really interested in what your tech stack looks like.