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revk, 1 month ago to random

It is now at the stage that selling zero [Faikin] in a day is an anomaly...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C2ZYXNYQ

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Remember the EU #Chatcontrol proposal that would have Europol keep a registry of everyone with photos flagged as potential child sexual abuse material? Even false positives? They appear to have lost track of some very personal data: https://www.politico.eu/article/europol-internal-agency-eu-police-agency-engulfed-in-clean-up-over-missing-files/

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Simplomon is almost feature complete. Simple to setup yet advanced availability monitoring. Single binary, single configuration file. Config on the right is all you need. https://github.com/berthubert/simplomon?tab=readme-ov-file#simplomon

addPushoverNotifier {user="XXxxxxXXxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx" , R O SR ARG A0 addEmailNotifier{fron="bertghubertnet.nl", to="ceoghubertnet.nl", server="10.0.0.2", minMinutes=66} -- only alert after 60 minutes of problems Logger("stats.sqlite3") -- write copious stats and records Webserver{address="127.0.0.1:8080", password="secreet”, user="ahu"} LERIVE TR T -- checks on IPv4 and IPv6 automatically & separately, if you have IPv6 https{url="https://berthub.eu/"} -- explicitly check all our backends, check for minimum amount of data https{url="https://berthub.eu/", minBytes=5000, serverIP="86.82.68.237"} https{url="https://berthub.eu/", minBytes=5000, serverIP="217.100.196.174"} https{url="https://berthub.eu/", minBytes=5000, serverIP="2001:41f0:782d::2"} -- report if this file gets too old https{url="https://berthub.eu/nlelec/dutch-stack.svg", maxAgeMinutes=30} ER L i e T rrsig{server="100.25.31.6", nane="berthub.eu", type="TXT"} https{url="https://tweedekamer.nl"} https{url="https://sprind.org"}

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

Still working on simplomon, the availability/performance monitoring solution you can launch with a 3 line config. Although it is simple to use, it boasts powerful features, like measuring HTTPs performance through explicitly configured nameservers (native, google, quad9 etc) & different source addresses.

Graph showing HTTPS response times for various provider/DNS combinations

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

So Americans go crazy that the EU enacts thoughtful legislation full of procedures to reign in dominant social media players. EU bad! And this week US comes out with a law that simply bans TikTok if it is still Chinese owned 180 days from now. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236363592/biden-tiktok-ban

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

An official announcement from the Dutch government: "The Netherlands hosts some of the world's largest internet exchanges. This obliges us to make the best use of these exchanges for our national security. With the Temporary Cyber Act, we will make optimum use of the data carried on our cables to protect The Netherlands against Russian and Chinese hackers" -> background in English https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intelligence-and-security-law/

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

An official announcement from the Dutch government: "The Netherlands hosts some of the world's largest internet exchanges. This obliges us to make the best use of these exchanges for our national security. With the Temporary Cyber Act, we will make optimum use of the data carried on our cables to protect The Netherlands against Russian and Chinese hackers". https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/03/12/inlichtingendiensten-kunnen-sneller-en-beter-optreden-tegen-cyberdreiging

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

Re previous post, if you've ever pined for a specific test that your monitoring platform can't do out of the box, please let me know! I'm looking for things that may currently be "possible to build but hard to do yet high value" and turn that into a single line test. Like the DNS SOA sync test that is already in there -> https://github.com/berthubert/simplomon?tab=readme-ov-file#simplomon

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

How important are bicycles to The Netherlands? For one, the average Dutch person owns more than one. But also, if you want to tell someone you understand the context of what they are saying, you can state "Ah on that bicycle". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/op_die_fiets (photo by Daria Nepriakhina 🇺🇦)

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bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

New post, inspired by both Dutch parliaments giving up on hosting email & moving to the Microsoft cloud. Organizations often dither for years over decisions like these, causing massive frustration for staff & users. Here I write some reasonably obvious words on how to pick what to keep in-house, and what to then quickly get rid of. And vitally, how to treat staff so things end well:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/your-tech-my-tech/

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

Has anyone yet found a self-hosted way to translate Markdown from one language to another? Mixtral LLM delivers excellent language, but turns x into (<x>) somehow. So my goal is that I can take Markdown in Dutch and locally (in my computer) convert that to Markdown in English. Or vice versa. Thank you!

bert_hubert, 2 months ago to random

We often talk about European clouds & their lack of success. Today, think tank Clingendael released a report commissioned by Dutch intelligence/security service AIVD called "Too late to act? Europe’s quest for cloud sovereignty". It references my recent "IKEA Cloud" post. Much recommended: https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/Policy_brief_Cloud_sovereignty.pdf

bert_hubert, 3 months ago to random

So I used to worry about leap seconds causing problems. But with declining programming standards & increasing code brittleness, I wonder what will break this February 29th...