Hey @npub18ul...dcl9 your Europe dashboard is completely unusable with the Gecko engine.

Okay, when did something so fundamentally break on the web between the days of weblogs and RSS 0.90—where the element was the only mandatory field—and today’s social media platforms (like LinkedIn, X and Instagram), where setting an external link is penalized by algorithms?

Honestly, the first social medium on the internet, namely weblogs, were purely link-sharing platforms. People surfed the web and referred to cool websites they had found, usually with a short introduction or comment. But the primary goal was linking.

Today, we mainly peddle content to foreign servers that are operated at the mercy of others, and we are penalized if we dare to set an external link. Today, you can be grateful if the platform allows you to place a link to your website on your profile page.

It’s like a Stockholm syndrome in a hostage situation of a walled garden. Stockholm syndrome, because a bunch of clowns proudly report on how to crawl up these algorithm's backside.

What has gone so terribly wrong with the users of the WWW in the last 26 years? I dare to guess that humanity was and still is not ready for true self-sovereign information exchange. Not yet ready for the real web that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned.

After all, he had intentionally addressed scientists back then. So, intelligent people. Not plebs like us.

We run a few RIPE Atlas probes and anchors - why you should too?

RIPE Atlas is extremely useful service to measure and monitor network events globally. As per their own statistics at https://atlas.ripe.net/statistics/ they cover about 5% of all allocated ASNs (not only RIPE region) and 89% of countries.

This service provides an unprecedented real time view of how the Internet is working. This data is valuable for researchers worldwide and accessible for anyone. It can help you to troubleshoot own network, look at connectivity or improve the Internet (if you are an ISP).

Participation is volunteer, however all operators of both probe or anchor get "credits". They are used for running your own custom measurements and can be shared.

More details on how it works: https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ripe-atlas/how-ripe-atlas-works/

Our probes and anchors: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/public?search=as215467

Only about 19.69% of our customers use our #Tor onion site to manage their services. This was measured as per our nginx access_log (we don't use any kind of JS analytics).

To be honest, I have expected this percentage to be much higher.

Have you ever seen your sshd logs being clean without crowdsec or fail2ban while listening on 22/tcp with public IPv4?

At Skhron, all our customers benefit from our TCP tarpit system that detects global portscan:

Remarkably, this not only helps our customers but makes the entire Internet a bit more safe place - we automatically notify network owner about suspected device infection. This helps detect malware infection to cure it further.