298 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Rohan Kumar	87f82b70e3	New engine: sengine.info	2022-02-07 20:31:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	df6bb716ec	Forgot to delete a dupe paragraph	2022-02-07 17:50:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	616d91e0a8	Clarify the tradeoffs of closed-source ... - Explain how FLOSS can allow transparency into the development processes - Give examples of proprietary software that's more secure - Make the conclusion just a little more detailed.	2022-02-07 17:23:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	de4a742620	Use <dfn> elements	2022-02-06 22:24:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b0280c058c	Link to SRE frameworks, minor rephrasings	2022-02-06 22:23:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	106b81c428	New search engine: search.marginalia.nu ... Thanks Cadence.	2022-02-05 18:08:45 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2e4e174f0f	Make links to previous posts more prominent	2022-02-04 14:24:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	cf86ee64db	New secondary matrix account	2022-02-04 13:19:47 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e027d82b52	Add more info about fuzzing ... - Add counter-arg about how source improves fuzzing - Add quote from Daniel Stenberg about fuzzing cURL.	2022-02-04 13:01:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	42c87d6970	Add a summarizing statement to conclusion ... Explicity state that security is determined through study, regardless of source model. Also fix some whitespace.	2022-02-04 11:16:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	77d003a640	Incorporate feedback: ME obfusc., static analysis ... Thanks to zdctg on the #security IRC channel at libera.chat, and to X_Cli on lemmy.ml	2022-02-04 00:36:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	10b582e57b	Update information about Qwant	2022-02-03 22:46:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	13ffd6209c	Expand acronym	2022-02-03 22:33:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	65ef073088	Link to oss-security thread on CVE-2022-0185	2022-02-03 22:29:46 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	bbfcef2370	More minor rephrasings	2022-02-03 19:23:12 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	eb6d909539	Minor wording fixes	2022-02-03 18:31:13 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	646b123f57	Fix bad link	2022-02-03 15:21:52 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6ade75e4cd	New post: FLOSS doesn't imply security	2022-02-03 15:21:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fdec7951fe	Fix resume ... Fix some resume details and put its file in a subdir.	2022-01-05 16:02:47 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	82036d0df9	Fix PGP link	2021-12-28 11:26:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	17c3fb568d	Add translation of whatsapp article	2021-12-13 15:26:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4fdc39c7e7	Don't hyperlink my old mxid	2021-12-01 22:03:13 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	385a18bbd9	Link to MOAC in blog post	2021-12-01 22:01:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fb36ad9587	Migrate matrix account, update profile	2021-11-29 22:36:43 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	822cc31d5c	Mention ExactSeek sibling engines	2021-10-21 18:23:41 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d6b40e2f21	Search engines: remove dupe entry	2021-10-14 12:29:42 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb4b3f165b	Search engines: mention Kagi, rm dead link	2021-10-14 12:25:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	37d7f6adba	Petal uses 3p indexes in certain jurisdictions	2021-10-03 18:56:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	69aef63c86	Update whatsapp article with follow-up link @top	2021-10-03 13:38:07 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	77a74d73bf	Search engines: add semi-independent engine Neeva	2021-08-30 15:43:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0d2d25b124	Fix: use HTTPS links where possible	2021-08-16 17:48:36 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4779f2fa60	Update search engines ... - Remove goo.ne.jp since it uses Google - Create "Graveyard" section and move wbsrch to it 🪦 - Restore link to Crawlson since it's back up	2021-08-09 09:27:26 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2d908e688d	Clarify attributions	2021-08-05 00:47:11 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e313cfdc9	Add footer heading	2021-08-05 00:42:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f6413346af	Web best practices: add "security" section ... Add information on restricting site functionality. Add some details on accomodating Tor users.	2021-07-31 17:36:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	9e3a6f328b	Update "about" page: age, anime faves ... According to multiple sources, Seirdy apparently turned 21 a while ago. Also added an entry to anime fave list. Rephrase statement on Matrix availability.	2021-07-14 12:43:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	02dc7822ec	Web best practices: dark themes: Mention OLEDs ... OLED displays use less energy when displaying darker colors.	2021-07-06 09:21:47 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7ccf84f031	Web best practices: async decode + fingerprinting ... - Mention image async decoding - Describe how width-selector use can enable JS-free viewport fingerprinting	2021-07-02 20:37:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	322e7ef575	Search engines: remove dead link to burf.co	2021-06-28 14:52:55 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3ee9f1b90d	Add note about Epic Search going paid-only	2021-06-28 10:41:54 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fd7b59e576	Update homepage	2021-06-27 18:51:25 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	da87f981a2	Web best practices: link to two other places ... Link to the XHTML Club and an article by Bill Dietrich.	2021-06-27 17:37:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	aae653056d	Web best practices: link to ECT	2021-06-27 17:02:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5511b354c4	Web best practices: mention Tor users ... Simple sites should work well with the Tor Browser.	2021-06-27 15:26:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	4effcd52da	Formatting	2021-06-22 22:37:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	ddeeb36248	Correct error about Brave ... New info from Solso on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27596830	2021-06-22 22:31:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	140ea2d319	Add Brave, fix dated info, DDG misconceptions ... - New category: "semi-independent indexes". Contains Brave and Plumb. - Mention that Quor is down - Fix outdated statement on Plumb's hCaptcha - Clarify some misconceptions about DDG	2021-06-22 10:22:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e660a132c2	New engine (Goo) + more engine info ... Thanks N. A. Ferrell for feedback!	2021-06-17 20:17:48 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	99e402f133	Clean up some relative urls again	2021-06-16 12:18:01 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	204600fae3	Fix relative URLs ... - No relative URLs in the RSS feed except plain anchor links - Eliminate the need for excessive "../" in URLs.	2021-06-14 15:31:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	8607612e0a	Add recommendations for dark themes	2021-06-13 18:28:15 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	155d4f7b91	Update FLoC article to reflect changed stance ... Turns out there's a valid reason to use FLoC.	2021-06-11 15:08:29 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	02b2345e83	Update search engines ... - Add ChatNoir, Ninfex - Mark Runnaroo as discontinued	2021-05-29 15:57:12 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0b72929cfd	Clarify IRC networks I'm on	2021-05-29 00:58:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7bfd5a1538	Fix PGP ID name ... Key unchanged, just change the name I gave it.	2021-05-20 23:11:18 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	3cb61af6e7	New search engine: "Infotiger"	2021-05-12 11:27:06 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	5374e18afc	Gemini: Add a link to a Gemini orbit	2021-04-29 12:27:43 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	0d3b978676	Add sentence summarizing privacy impl. of opt-out	2021-04-28 10:34:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	04316a1266	New engine: Burf.co	2021-04-23 02:51:49 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d01bcc1971	Clarification on exclusion from cohort calculation ... Being excluded from cohort calculation doesn't necessarily make users less unique.	2021-04-17 13:20:31 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	2ae6abbd82	Make the post a bit less finger-pointy ... - Mention another time that it's in response to online discussions/comments, not the authors of certain blog posts - Clarify that there's nothing wrong with adding this header to your site if you manage your expectations and DON'T accuse others of complicity or change upstream software	2021-04-17 11:28:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	dba315efce	Add segment about Do Not Track	2021-04-16 22:31:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	28f70689a4	Remove superfluous sentence	2021-04-16 21:25:30 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d868be3da0	Clarify source of misinfo	2021-04-16 21:24:24 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	32181efa19	Clarify what opting out actually entails	2021-04-16 20:51:38 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7429b31fec	Add gemtext version of FLoC article	2021-04-16 20:34:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	1e7f1260d7	Add footnotes with clarifications	2021-04-16 18:50:34 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	30bf11b8ba	Typo: s/server/software/	2021-04-16 18:30:46 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	fb03d7ba4c	New post: Permissions Policy and FLoC misinfo	2021-04-16 18:06:22 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a729dc565c	New engine: Kozmonavt	2021-04-14 12:31:45 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	d6bfdbd388	New engine: go.mail.ru	2021-03-31 13:21:38 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	68dc2da442	New search engine: Yioop	2021-03-29 23:08:28 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	7c39739ed9	Add some info about Plumb ... I contacted Adam from Plumb for more info and updated the section on Plumb search.	2021-03-20 23:09:14 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	864292c7e4	Add "Rationale" and info from Matt ... Matt from Gigablast answered some of my questions; I updated the article with information from him. Some of that information found its way to the "Rationale" section.	2021-03-20 13:28:59 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a65526b887	Add more details about some search engines	2021-03-19 23:25:52 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f83a996318	Add info on relationship between Plumb and Gibiru	2021-03-19 19:10:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f08de57e81	Reword	2021-03-19 17:00:27 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	e9fc43a4ee	New search engine: Plumb	2021-03-19 16:48:23 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	a81e185b7d	CI/Makefile: reduce zopfli compression even more ... 70 iterations seems to be the point at which we hit diminishing returns. The combined size difference of all *.gz files with 70 iterations and 1000 iterations is 65 bytes.	2021-03-17 15:06:08 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b5e8d35373	Clarify alternatives that support limiting by TLD ... In the info for search.tl, clarify that its single-TLD search isn't a unique feature; Google and Bing support a search operator to achieve the same result.	2021-03-17 14:35:13 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	f40862bc89	Add two search engines, minor fixes ... - Two new engines: search.tl and Anoox - Replace some HTTP with HTTPS - Add an <abbr> tag - Spelling/capitalization	2021-03-17 13:38:00 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	bd6d3732a2	New engine: Meorca	2021-03-16 11:15:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	58b64c9a95	Mention ELinks, Netrik ... They're not very actively maintained, but they're still good for testing.	2021-03-15 11:19:50 -07:00
Rohan Kumar	b796592848	Typo: s/Runaroo/Runnaroo/g	2021-03-13 21:23:29 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	21f6c0c02a	Add info about wbsrch's per-lang indexes	2021-03-13 13:47:01 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ab92d8ded6	Add Search My Site ... Reader-contributed. Thanks for the suggestion!	2021-03-12 13:07:17 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b93b8ac9c2	Clarify an initialism with <abbr>	2021-03-11 14:46:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	15d84dff38	Add missing heading to gemtext	2021-03-11 14:46:24 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5d425f58ac	Add search engines for the Gemini Space	2021-03-10 18:38:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d75c2877f5	Mention that Gowiki is only available in the US ... Thanks @zudn@theres.life	2021-03-10 15:25:36 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	9d75a5d681	Add mising description	2021-03-10 14:00:08 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	83e6689b83	New article: search engines with their own indexes ... Squashed commit of the following: commit f04ef91062 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 13:47:35 2021 -0800 Final draft commit db25b73460 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 13:37:35 2021 -0800 Add gemtext version commit de8c4f1f28 Author: Rohan Kumar <seirdy@seirdy.one> Date: Wed Mar 10 12:52:20 2021 -0800 New article (draft): search engines	2021-03-10 13:48:19 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5ea5ee72cb	Update some article tags	2021-03-10 12:51:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	09676af2ca	Fix some site headings	2021-03-10 12:50:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0915928e21	Clarify why web components made Pale Moon migrate ... Clarify that WC aren't (strictly speaking) problematic; they're just too complex for them to implement.	2021-03-02 23:19:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2a87923bcc	Update FLOSS-related terminology ... New terminology (with a footnote for more background) reduces confusion and clarifies the difference between different viewpoints in this space. Thanks to RMS for providing feedback.	2021-03-02 23:04:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	2030e221d7	Add more details about image compression ... - Include a sample command - Describe my approach to deciding on the level of compression/cropping	2021-02-28 13:33:24 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7efe60a6bc	Stylistic fixes (minor) ... Nothing new, just re-phrasing and capitalization.	2021-02-28 12:52:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fe12f0dc32	Add link to avifenc	2021-02-28 12:40:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	13db509ea3	Add idea for website testing: site translation	2021-02-28 12:34:59 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	07e19edbaf	Incorporate feedback from TWIM discussion ... This article received some good feedback from #twim:matrix.org in Matrix. Some clarifications I made: - @cos:hacklab.fi mentioned that Element/Synapse are open-source; I opened the article by mentioning that FOSS alone isn't enough and added a note on their complexity to the matrix/element case-study - @sorunome:sorunome.de mentioned that there is no "reference implementation" of Matrix; I rephrased a sentence to state that Element "practically serves as the reference client implementation". - Clarify that Element builds "most of" the spec instead of being in charge of it; the Spec Core Team (SCT) is a different entity but is made mostly of Element employees. - Changed leaving implementations out of decisions to leaving implementation feasibility out of decisions.	2021-02-26 12:54:56 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3f31e90605	Link to follow-up post	2021-02-25 14:36:29 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7077b37976	Small elaboration on Moxie's post + style fixes ... - Give a sentence its own paragraph since it had a different topic from the rest of the paragraph - s/really much/much/ - Add a little to describe Moxie's viewpoint, following some feedback I got on IRC and Lobsters.	2021-02-24 12:32:42 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	e97107e852	Link to primary instead of secondary source ... Thanks shivaram for the feedback	2021-02-23 22:07:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a189305ee4	Indieweb: support legacy microformats v1	2021-02-23 15:12:54 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	9a7d1c1872	Add missing acknowledgement	2021-02-23 15:06:01 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0078cc895e	Gemtext formatting: missing line break	2021-02-23 12:05:11 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	25801afd42	New post: "Keeping platforms open"	2021-02-23 11:55:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4f9250c69e	Add Spanish translation	2021-02-21 17:22:48 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	3d6fd9eb9b	Add new article translation (Romanian) ... Thanks, Licaon_Kter!	2021-02-13 20:14:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c54743e740	Update resume	2021-02-10 19:45:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	727d6cca5e	Add Framablog's French translation ... Thank you so much, Framalang!	2021-02-04 10:49:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b9d9241f3b	Add selected projects to "About" page	2021-02-03 15:33:52 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	93846a469b	Clarify that WhatsApp isn't unique ... The Hacker News discussion revealed that the article implies WhatsApp is unique, when it really isn't. It was simply topical.	2021-01-31 22:16:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	51c84cebf1	Fix some insensitive Americentrism ... Didn't realize my unconscious bias. Thanks to bambax and elif on HN for pointing that out.	2021-01-31 19:17:41 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0caabb4e44	Link to Russian translation ... Thank you so much, Evgeny!	2021-01-30 15:40:57 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	81b9e58942	Add + respond to a good comment from @paulsnar ... Thanks for the feedback	2021-01-29 12:06:41 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	36a95f894a	Update preferred approach to image processing ... - Include AVIF - Include dark/light variants if applicable	2021-01-28 13:10:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	790f7f70ef	Article update: mention brotli ... Brotli support is more prevalent than zstd	2021-01-28 12:20:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	dc4d0dd20e	Fix detail in resume	2021-01-28 12:10:03 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	d3055b270e	Add note on free calls increasing adoption ... Thanks to @ufrafecy@lemmy.ml for pointing that out.	2021-01-28 10:57:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	c0461ebfcb	Fix bullet formatting	2021-01-27 18:25:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	19bcadab01	Add a link to an archived copy of a tweet	2021-01-27 16:37:39 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	5bd359caf2	New article: WhatsApp & the domestication of users	2021-01-27 16:24:23 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ba9e86d3f0	Add resume	2021-01-27 16:12:24 -08:00
earnest ma	280e8f1515	Fix link to music.txt from about page ... Should prevent a 404 to music.txt from the envs mirror at https://envs.net/~seirdy/about.html	2021-01-24 20:21:10 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a078d6a9ee	Reformat markdown with mdfmt	2021-01-24 14:42:40 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f8113605c2	Shorten alt-text to recommended <100 char limit	2021-01-20 15:47:27 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f2d41c1c32	Metadata: Improve microformats + microdata ... - Wrap the <a> in a <span> to make the h-entry expose an author URL (link to homepage). Useful for sending Webmentions. - Switch from schema.org/Article to schema.org/BlogPosting	2021-01-19 22:13:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	10a29a8196	Mention exhaustive key searches	2021-01-17 23:59:09 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	6f610238f7	Explicitly clarify types of passwords ... Explicitly limit the scope of the article to just passwords used in encryption/decryption.	2021-01-17 23:49:12 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4d297de4ea	Allow adding a heading to the endnotes section	2021-01-17 17:18:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4ed4e495f2	Gemtext fixes ... - Add link text - Remove extraneous line break	2021-01-17 13:37:16 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	0085518b41	Re-word statement on not detailing crypto algos	2021-01-17 11:41:34 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f22692d836	Fixed misconception about salting/hashing ... Clarify that salting + hashing isn't reversible by a naive brute-force attack.	2021-01-17 10:47:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	56410531fe	Correct information regarding symmetric keys ... I forgot to add salt. Thanks u/RisenSteam.	2021-01-16 20:51:04 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ec667c9f3e	About page: add Tildes.net account.	2021-01-16 15:44:25 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4c7eaf91f0	More in further reading/acknowledgements (+typo) ... - Add link to a paper by Seth Lloyd to "Further reading" - Add a subheading to "Further reading" concerning approaches accounting for computation speed. - Elaborate on the part of Schneier's blog post that proved helpful. - Revert typo fix in which I erroneously swapped + and -.	2021-01-16 15:41:49 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fd15c33a72	Acknowledgements: link to Schneier's blog	2021-01-14 22:49:21 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	a87410e831	Link to TLDR at the top	2021-01-14 18:40:26 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	ad6d2078fe	Clarify the meaning of being "immune" ... As suggested by u/DragonCalypso on Reddit.	2021-01-14 15:13:02 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	7769286085	Typo + wrong name	2021-01-14 15:11:07 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	fd257cfd7e	Add sample unbreakable passwords	2021-01-13 14:27:44 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f479d03733	Typo	2021-01-13 11:20:55 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	eb1a03f4be	Fix major typo (wrong sign, + -> -)	2021-01-12 23:16:36 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	069bedbb7b	Password strength article: shrink meta description ... A <meta> description should apparently be under 160 chars.	2021-01-12 22:05:05 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	b60b478281	Add link to Bremermann's limit ... Found via goldenkey on Hacker News.	2021-01-12 18:13:45 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	f2d4fe84ca	Fix bad link	2021-01-12 15:59:38 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	4c2c2802ba	New article: password strength	2021-01-12 15:32:35 -08:00
Rohan Kumar	8a1903c85b	Update fav anime in about page ... Let's all love Lain.	2021-01-03 03:21:58 -08:00