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Since it's Russian owned, a lot of malicious actors have found .ru to be a safe heaven, this is more of a security thing than anything.

by tn890 4y ago

aaomidi 4y ago
No, it’s security theater.
- tn890 4y ago
  Since .ru hosts a LOT of malware that's running wild, and I don't particularly care to view anything on .ru, we'll just agree to disagree. Good arguments btw.
  - orbital-decay 4y ago
    >and I don't particularly care to view anything on .ru Why complain about it then? Seems like a non-issue.
  - andrepd 4y ago
    You don't particularly care to view anything on .ru, but you're complaining that you can't open a website (which you'd like to view) which is on .ru. What a bizarre thing to say.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  I've found that about 80% of the bullshit my search engine crawler finds is on Russian and Chinese IPs (especially the Alibaba Cloud). Not that there isn't legitimate content, but there seems to be very little effort put toward policing the bad as long as it primarily targets a western demographic. This is not by any means a new development.
  - shakow 4y ago
    Don't forget the Bayes theorem: lot of crap comes from ru/cn domains <=/=> most ru/cn domains are crap.
    - marginalia_nu 4y ago
      If I'm interested in reducing the amount of crap, it's only the left hand of that inequality I care about.
    - MichaelCollins 4y ago
      The majority of English-language ru/cn domains being crap seems like a safe bet. I'm sure lots of legitimate businesses in those countries have such domains, but those websites aren't relevant to an English speaker not living in those countries.
  - MayeulC 4y ago
    Oh wow, I was looking for your search engine a few months back, but couldn't recall the name, and my searching turned up nothing, even here on HN somehow. I just came across the open-sourcing blog post. Thank you for doing this. Search is something I'm quite interested in. Is there a public mailing list somewhere to discuss marginalia-related stuff? I'll probably look into contributing at a later point (I've also always wondered how good sqlite+webtorrent would do fare a search engine, for instance -- not saying I'll make a PR for that, but I'd be curious to investigate stuff like that).
    - marginalia_nu 4y ago
      I'm still working on how best to run this as an open source project. No list or anything just yet. I'm half considering moving onto github from git.marginalia.nu; but still ironing out the details. Also a lot of rough edges to smooth when it comes to contributor experience, running the thing still requires a lot of awkward manual steps. If you want you can pop me an email (see my profile) and I'll let you know when the details are more clear.

Since it's Russian owned, a lot of malicious actors have found .ru to be a safe heaven, this is more of a security thing than anything.

by tn890 4y ago

Since it's Russian owned, a lot of malicious actors have found .ru to be a safe heaven, this is more of a security thing than anything.

aaomidi 4y ago

No, it’s security theater.

tn890 4y ago
Since .ru hosts a LOT of malware that's running wild, and I don't particularly care to view anything on .ru, we'll just agree to disagree. Good arguments btw.
- orbital-decay 4y ago
  >and I don't particularly care to view anything on .ru Why complain about it then? Seems like a non-issue.
- andrepd 4y ago
  You don't particularly care to view anything on .ru, but you're complaining that you can't open a website (which you'd like to view) which is on .ru. What a bizarre thing to say.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
I've found that about 80% of the bullshit my search engine crawler finds is on Russian and Chinese IPs (especially the Alibaba Cloud). Not that there isn't legitimate content, but there seems to be very little effort put toward policing the bad as long as it primarily targets a western demographic. This is not by any means a new development.
- shakow 4y ago
  Don't forget the Bayes theorem: lot of crap comes from ru/cn domains <=/=> most ru/cn domains are crap.
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    If I'm interested in reducing the amount of crap, it's only the left hand of that inequality I care about.
  - MichaelCollins 4y ago
    The majority of English-language ru/cn domains being crap seems like a safe bet. I'm sure lots of legitimate businesses in those countries have such domains, but those websites aren't relevant to an English speaker not living in those countries.
- MayeulC 4y ago
  Oh wow, I was looking for your search engine a few months back, but couldn't recall the name, and my searching turned up nothing, even here on HN somehow. I just came across the open-sourcing blog post. Thank you for doing this. Search is something I'm quite interested in. Is there a public mailing list somewhere to discuss marginalia-related stuff? I'll probably look into contributing at a later point (I've also always wondered how good sqlite+webtorrent would do fare a search engine, for instance -- not saying I'll make a PR for that, but I'd be curious to investigate stuff like that).
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    I'm still working on how best to run this as an open source project. No list or anything just yet. I'm half considering moving onto github from git.marginalia.nu; but still ironing out the details. Also a lot of rough edges to smooth when it comes to contributor experience, running the thing still requires a lot of awkward manual steps. If you want you can pop me an email (see my profile) and I'll let you know when the details are more clear.