Anonymous Telegram Bot. The bot itself acts as a secure wall between other users and yourself, making you anonymous while providing text replies to the other users. The idea behind this bot is for people who own public channels and don't want to expose their private profiles to everybody.

https://github.com/fndh/Anonymous-Telegram-Bot

#privacy

S3 vs HDFS

I am very annoyed that all sorts of big data developers confuse S3 and HDFS systems, assuming that S3 is somehow connected with HDFS.

That's not true.

HDFS is a distributed file system designed to store big data. It runs on physical machines that can run something else. S3 is the storage of AWS objects, it has nothing to do with storing files, all data in S3 is stored as Object Entities to which the key (document name), value (object content) and VersionID are associated. There is nothing else you can do in S3 because it is not a file system. S3 has " presumably" unlimited storage in the cloud, but HDFS does not. S3 performs deletion or modification of the records in a eventually consistent way.

There are many other criteria like cost, SLA, durability, elasticity (you can create a custom lifecycle and version control over objects). But let's not think about it, S3 wins there anyway.

Hadoop and HDFS have made it cheap to store and distribute large amounts of data. But now that everyone is moving to cloud architectures, the benefits of HDFS are minimal and not worth the complexity that it brings. That's why now and in the future organizations will use S3 as a backend for their data storage solutions.

#big_data

Get Google search results, but without advertising, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies or IP tracking. Easily deploy as a one-click Docker application and customize with a single configuration file. Quick and easy to implement as a major replacement for a search engine on both desktop and mobile devices.

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

#privacy

DevOpsy Periodic Table

https://digital.ai/periodic-table-of-devops-tools

#dev

HTTPS Everywhere. This is an extension made by EFF and Tor Project which forces a website to use a version of HTTPS, if available. Many websites use the default version of HTTP or have links inside the site that will lead you to this unprotected site.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

#privacy

Bitwarden is a very easy to use but functional password manager that has clients for all platforms. It can easily compete with giants such as LastPass and 1Password. But unlike them, it has fully open source code and does not ask for money. And Bitwarden uses strong end-to-end encryption, so no one else will have access to passwords. Also Bitwarden offers both a cloud hosted and on-premise version(!), so you can host it yourself.

https://bitwarden.com/

#privacy

Jesus and Statue of Liberty for real

https://www.instagram.com/ganbrood/

Abine Blur. LastPass analogue. In addition to generating passwords, it can be used to disguise your email addresses (which works cool but is not accepted everywhere) to prevent spam and increase privacy.

https://www.abine.com/index.html

#privacy

In this post we are investigating possible ways to keep our application on AWS Lambda up and running under DDoS attack.

https://luminousmen.com/post/aws-lambda-abuse

SecureMail for Gmail extension allows you to send encrypted emails that no one can read but you and the recipient. You just need to compose an email and encrypt it with your password. The recipient will have to use the same password to decrypt the email. The encryption happens on the client side, so even the developers of the extension cannot access the encrypted messages.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/securemail-for-gmail/ankeemighdeapndelnjcjccegnibdknm

#privacy

Amazon has released a Codeguru tool that will check your code using ML

Using machine learning, Codeguru will be able to find places in the code that can be optimized to improve performance. And you can simply add this tool to GitHub as a code reviwer and get recommendations from your virtual colleague every time you commit.

https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/.

#aws

Privacy Possum is Privacy Badger on Steroids. This is an extension made by EFF and Tor Project to block data that companies may use to track you across the Internet. Tracking has gotten way out of hand on today's Internet thanks to a growing list of technologies that companies may use to track users and the financial incentives.

https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum

#privacy

Privacy.com (https://privacy.com/) allows you to create secure virtual credit cards for free. You can create it for each subscription or online purchase and set limits and expiration dates. With this service, you never have to give out your real online card number. Privacy.com also does not sell your details, they earn money directly from card transactions.

#privacy

Continuous Machine Learning (CML): CI/CD for Machine Learning - an open-source library to organize MLOps infrastructure

https://dvc.org/blog/cml-release

#ds #ml

Who wants to remove ads and tracking without any extensions, check out Pi-Hole on Raspberry Pi Zero.

https://youtu.be/KBXTnrD_Zs4

#privacy

Why the Next Big Thing in Tech Will Look Like a Toy

https://youtu.be/dp2gbWsPFgY

#dev

Style gan 2 + Rammstein + cats = awesome

https://youtu.be/RBeZeBLfD_s.

Funny article on the deep learning winter

https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/15/mit-researchers-warn-that-deep-learning-is-approaching-computational-limits/

#ds #ml

On the website of the WindowSwap you can see what people from all over the world can see from their windows. Cool idea!