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Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear

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Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear

What a slogan!

https://nsa.gov1.info/surveillance/

This is a parody of nsa.gov and has not been approved, endorsed, or authorized by the National Security Agency or by any other U.S. Government agency.
Much of this content was derived from news media, privacy groups, and government websites. Links to these sites are posted on the left-sidebars of each page.

NSA data collection about ‘population control’ not law enforcement – whistleblower

Big Data, Sh*ts

FBI whistleblower Jesselyn Radack joins RT America’s Simone Del Rosario to discuss thye growing concern that the NSA is collecting so much data that it can no longer be effective in preventing terror. Radack says the terror attacks of 9/11 created a ‘blank check’ wherein the usual constraints on surveillance were removed, including probable cause and the necessity of getting a warrant before conducting domestic data collection.

Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition

Hosting, Sh*ts,

 

So what’s changed in the last 2 years? Besides replacing some servers and network gear, not much. Here’s a top-level list of hardware that runs the sites today (noting what’s different since 2013):

  • 4 Microsoft SQL Servers (new hardware for 2 of them)

  • 11 IIS Web Servers (new hardware)

  • 2 Redis Servers (new hardware)

  • 3 Tag Engine servers (new hardware for 2 of the 3)

  • 3 Elasticsearch servers (same)

  • 4 HAProxy Load Balancers (added 2 to support CloudFlare)

  • 2 Networks (each a Nexus 5596 Core + 2232TM Fabric Extenders, upgraded to 10Gbps everywhere)

  • 2 Fortinet 800C Firewalls (replaced Cisco 5525-X ASAs)

  • 2 Cisco ASR-1001 Routers (replaced Cisco 3945 Routers)

  • 2 Cisco ASR-1001-x Routers (new!)

 


Full article http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/

Moving servers…

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Moving servers….

SERVER ONE http://colo-cation.com/

sent 2390501229464 bytes received 105496736 bytes 6636712.04 bytes/sec
total size is 2424713909072 speedup is 1.01

2.3TB

SERVER TWO http://cavecreek.com/

sent 643673812536 bytes received 25985160 bytes 7483706.60 bytes/sec
total size is 660370847119 speedup is 1.03

643Gb

Dedibox ST12

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st12-2015

RAID 0 offers no redundancy. It improves performance and provides additional storage but has no fault tolerance. If any drive failure occurs, the RAID array will be destroyed, with more drive in the RAID array failure probability is increased.

RAID 5 provides advanced data mirroring. Every drive contain data and a parity section which will be used to reconstuct the array in case of an hardware failure. A single drive can be missing without any data loss.

RAID 6 provides advanced data mirroring, similar to RAID 5 but in a more reliable way. Every drive contain data and a parity section which will be used to reconstuct the array in case of an hardware failure. Two drives can be missing without any data loss.

RAID 6 HERE WE GO!

raids

Notice of Google Search Console Team – European data protection removal from Google Search

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Notice of European data protection removal from Google Search

To: Webmaster of XXXXXXX,

Due to a request under data protection law in Europe, Google can no longer show one or more pages from your site in Google Search results. This only affects responses to some search queries for names or other personal identifiers that might appear on your pages. Only results on European versions of Google are affected. No action is required from you.

What we’d like you to know:

These pages haven’t been blocked entirely from our search results

They’ve only been blocked on certain searches for names on European versions of Google Search. These pages will continue to appear for other searches.
We aren’t disclosing which queries have been affected.
In many cases, affected queries don’t relate to the name of any person mentioned prominently on the page.

For example, the name might only appear in a comment section.
You can notify us of concerns

If you have additional information regarding the content of a page that you believe warrants a reversal, you can notify Google. Please note that while we read all requests, we do not always respond. Only the registered siteowner can access this form.

php & msql – emoji

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While I was trying to add some emojis via CodeIgniter to a MySQL database/table, I got the following error:

Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x94\xE2\x80...' for column '

I had to change the table’s field collation to utf8mb4_general_ci.

 

Every time we make a select on the DB, previously we need to SET NAMES and SET CHARACTER SET – i’v tried to do it on database configurations (application/config/database.php) but it didn’t worked.

$this->db->query("SET NAMES 'utf8mb4'");
$this->db->query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8mb4");

The do the select to the table with the fields that have emojis.
NOTE! if we are displaying the *content* on a html tag that has google webfonts defined on it emojis won’t be displayed.

OK! It should work! 🙂

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