I do really love your website (at least on mobile): your /r link is the perfect elevator pitch. Your main home page is well designed and provides a lot of details without being overwhelming.

I was going to make a blog that could only be read by FTP, my other thought was a sort of "gate" system that would turn on a website but to access the website first you had to submit a file (maybe signed GPG message) to the FTP server and on a connection it would fire up port 80 or allow your IP address on port 80.

However, I've been playing with Masscan and wanting to learn more about that side of the Internet so the tool I built is Lovegood FTP - "Maybe a honeypot?". You could use it to log ip addresses that try to access your FTP. I love the idea of using it to prank your friends. Set it to display a bunch of pirated movies and then have a message for them.

Anyway, if you would like to see for yourself what it does you can connect to FTP at lovecraft-ftp.travis.plus on port 21 with any username/password.

:) If you think this is funny / good / stupid I would love a star. I'm job hunting and apparently they can help and I'll take all the help I can get.

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That's a blow to hegemony that will have lasting consequences.

The US is happy to invade countries and turns a blind eye to Israeli aggression but Russia or China want to do it and they are met with sanctions etc. The last bastion of American exceptionalism was how it’s a free market and values free speech and free competition.

There was a national security threat but the US walked right into it: China is making a move for the top spot as global hegemon. It’s recruiting other countries to say don’t work with the US, work with us instead. The US flinched. Ralph blew the conch and all the kids just installed RedNote .

I also hate DRM. It’s a pain for legitimate users and trivial for someone like me to remove. So I've built Ebook Defender (name a work in progress) a tool to invisibly watermark ebooks without DRM. The watermarks are unnoticeable to readers and don’t affect formatting.

This is a working demo. You can upload an EPUB, add a watermark, and verify it. The full version supports more formats and can scan sites for watermarked copies (this largely uses existing technology, it will follow Usenet, Torrents, and also automatically track sites like mobilism etc).

The reason this isn't a fully featured SaaS or something is honestly, I don't know where to go from here. My background isn't in this space, my contacts within this space don't exactly return my emails, and I don't know what to do with it. Please feel free to break it!

I would love your feedback on any part of this whole thing.

Thanks!

Oh: If you want an epub to test with Gutenburg.org has a lot here's one https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.epub.noimages

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THAT SAID, no person deserves the death penalty and certainly not for stealing money. I also think that she's clearly a talented business woman and she could use those skills she learned embezzling to help the government crack down on corruption. Maybe there's a reason why that's not an option...

I hope she can raise the money to prevent the death penalty because Vietnam didn't deserve to have it's money stolen and she doesn't deserve to die. But if she does I don't think you're going to find many wet eyes here.

I used to run one of the world's largest ebook piracy websites but want to put that life behind me. Recently work came across my desk to create tens of thousands of accounts on a well respected website so they could more easily scrape it.

I just want a traditional job, but I also want to support my family and $4000 for a months work

At least if a third party provides it then it's not really an official copy of the game.

That project is still going but I got sidetracked by the idea that I could just build a program to randomly enable the caplock key every once in a while.

This isn't a program designed to calculate child malnutrition or do anything to stop genocide etc but I was able to do it in a few hours and learn some new tricks.

I hope this isn't too stupid for HN.

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I'm not an Imam but I feel like if someone wanted to justify using a Western created algorithm they could just say "well technically this is just built on our initial work"

Like Upwork where the client rates and reviews the SW but the SW rates and reviews the client. New accounts on either side are treated more skeptically but also the power users are also more easily identified.

When backpages was shut down I spent a few days playing around with it but ultimately between the legal risk (which I'm fine with, generally), the social risk of being the guy who runs a SW website (even though I've never hired a SW before, myself), and the internal debate I had about trafficking (I was pretty convinced my system would protect girls from trafficking but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did actually enable someone to be trafficked.

I think you have a valuable website and I don't think enough people are willing to openly operate in this area.

Honestly, I appreciate @Cabinguy for taking the initative to show people how it works and if the price of admission is some links to his stuff all the better. Furthermore, this is exactly what it is for. I guess in some ways it IS spammy but that's sort of the point is the market your own links. Generally this url then gets put in your instagram / tiktok / whatever bio that only allows one link.

I like that @WizzWizz4 (the greatest of the WizzWizzes in my opinion) was defending the "sanctity" of my site but also probably more importantly to them this site. However, I just don't think it is needed here. As the website was used as exactly it was intended.

:) Maybe no one was wrong.