I use https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper for this (no affiliation, just saw on HN before). IIRC there are also some open source solutions in the space compatible with Linux/win but I haven't tried them.
From what I'm reading this should only affect systems that use a compromised DNS server or in a MitM attack scenario. Which is serious but not so easily exploitable (I think).
Disclaimer: I have a layman's understanding (at best) of astrophysics.
Couldn't this be explained by an orbiting planet colliding with another body and breaking apart?
Couldn't this satisfy the number of "comets" required for the hypothesis?
Could you please elaborate on how you created the mirror?
I have almost the same setup (Arch, Linode, nginx) and although my VPS has been rock solid so far, I would like to have something like this for testing purposes.
Not necessarily, for example your "Learn python in 10 minutes" post appears as a PR0 page, thus it won't outrank your competitors. Keep in mind that this could be just a temporal glitch and might get fixed automatically if/after your page is assigned a higher PR.
You mentioned that you've set up redirects from the old site to the new one, are you sure that your content doesn't appear twice, using different url's? (ks.net/node/1 and ks.net/tutorials/First)
This will be penalized by Google.
Also your /tutorials url redirects back to the main domain, is this by accident?
Hmm that's quite longer from my past experience, but not unheard of. What troubles me is that your pages haven't disappeared completely from Google's index, e.g. if you enter "site:korokithakis.net" there are 302 results returned.
Perhaps Google has reevaluated your ranking for these keywords, as there are a lot of PR6-7 sites but yours is a PR4 (at least according to the SEO Site Tools extension).
Your best bet is to follow infinity's advice and start blogging more frequently, while targeting specific keywords for your posts.
Hi Stavro, how long has it been since you made the changes?
I've seen a couple of times similar behavior where a site disappeared from google's results for a couple of days, after some content and theme changes but everything was back to normal after that.
In any case καλή τύχη.
What about data persistence? Is it still enforced only through replication?
I really liked MongoDB's philosophy but this was the show stopper for me when I was exploring it. At least for some services I need to be certain that if the DB says it stored some data that really stored and not kept in volatile memory until it decides it's the right time to write them to disk.
It's been a while since I looked at it though, and that may no longer be the case. Are there any improvements in this area?
Stripe looks promising but based on their FAQ they are available only to US based companies/persons for now, so they are not an option I can consider, at least in the near future.
In the post you replied to I said that google could manipulate the search results to change facebook's pagerank, not dropping them entirely. Just so that results from the domain appear on the second or third page.
Seriously. Tweaking your search algorithms to the detriment of some providers and to the benefit of others is one thing (that Google does now, and which they won't be sued for). Deliberately removing a direct competitor with as high a profile (and deep pockets) as Facebook is a different kettle of fish.
Ok, I can understand that. So, what if all results from *.facebook.com were moved after the first few pages of google's results for the relevant search terms?
Would that be enough for an antitrust lawsuit?
As for the target group of users we are discussing, it would have virtually the same results.
When it comes to evilness Google has been posing as the good guy for a long time, while collecting a lot of personal information from their users in the background.
Facebook, on the other hand, is based on the users voluntarily and involuntarily (through friends etc) providing their information and isn't so discreet about it's attempts to leverage this data to profit.
This is known even by non savvy users (personally, I've met a lot of non technical people that were worried about Facebook's collection of data with regards to personal rights/privacy, but haven't once heard about Google's tactics) and has bitten them before, e.g. Beacon.
So I feel that Google won't be stigmatized by such a move, considering it's against an opponent perceived by the public as more evil.
I wonder what would happen if google dropped facebook from their search results in retaliation. At least for tech-savvy users it won't pose a problem, but for the rest it will cause major problems (e.g. the RWW article).
Will it be legal though?
If you find this concept interesting there is a related short story by Jorge Luis Borges called "The Library of Babel" written in 1941.
You can read it here:
It doesn't deal with the generation of all the books/data, but with a fictional scenario where they are available to human beings (plus the universe is practically a giant library). I found it a fun and intriguing thought experiment/narration.
(A long time ago) it was an amazing source to learn CSS, and get design inspiration.