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I'm Luke Hackworth, developer of this site. It's really difficult to find new websites nowadays. The big players penalize posts that lower engagement outside of their own sites, meaning most people are only exposed to a tiny portion of the real web.

I created Feldot to enable the exact opposite behavior, pushing the user to explore new domains. Instead of a link aggregator like HN or Reddit, it's a domain aggregator, pointing to an entire website.

Because it's tough to find new sites, I also created a tool to help find new sites, Feldot Explore[1]. It's not just a list of domain names; each one was scanned to verify that a web server is running on it, and some basic scans were done to remove a majority(but not all) parked domains. The list was checked a year ago so it's not exactly fresh, but I think the signal-to-noise ratio is still good enough.

I posted this a year ago and it gained no traction, which isn't surprising considering its appearance. I revamped its UI, though it's still very much a work in progress. Any feedback, positive or negative, is very appreciated!

[1] https://feldot.com/explore/

Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP?

Primarily authentication, authorization, and accounting[0]. Setting up a new user account on every single computer that an employee may at some point sit at gets very expensive. Many businesses (if not immediately then eventually) have security concerns that require Administrators have the ability to immediately lock users out of the system or be able to audit recent activity. AD/LDAP facilitates this. It can also automate standard settings like network drives, screen lockout settings, homepages, and all sorts of other settings.

You either figure out how to use the computer they give you, or you don't

Standardization of processes and training can reduce training time considerably. For industries with high turnover, this can make a difference. You've gotta remember, not everyone is a knowledge worker. Tons of people are more like cogs in the machine of the company, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[0] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24130/authentication-a...

I'm a systems administrator for a small MSP. I've used Linux as my primary OS for 9 years, despise using Windows, and I can tell you with 100% confidence that nothing but Windows is ready for prime time, and for one major reason: _ease of administration_.

Think of the growth cycle of the vast majority of businesses. Almost all businesses are started and run by non-IT people. They buy Windows machines because they're simple(don't have to worry about OS installation, chosing a distro, etc), have Microsoft Office, and work with any and all enterprise software they use. This gives them a key advantage for small businesses. Like it or not, Linux is just relatively hard.

Where Windows _really_ shines, though, is when a small business transitions to being a big-small or medium-sized business. If you have a couple dozen computers and a couple dozen users to manage, do you think it would be worth it to have a linux admin spin up an LDAP server with kerberos and all the bells and whistles needed, then be hired to manage that infrastructure? No, they're going to contract someone to spin up a windows server to manage user logins, create a network share, and call it a day. The infrastructure is super-stable, and when the cost of labor is considered, it is considerably cheaper than letting the system be the plaything of a local Linux zealot.

It's only when you consider big and massive businesses that Linux can really be viable, and even then it ain't cheap. Most big businesses grew in a Windows environment, and switching the core of your IT infrastructure sure as hell better be worth it to warrant the massive labor costs, IT fire fighting, and drop in employee productivity that will result.

No, Linux infrastructure and desktops really only make sense for companies that are either highly technical, need absolute control of their hardware, are _extremely_ price sensitive, are (or hope to become) massive, or a combination of these.

Yeah, a single iso can be recovered from multiple disks with different damaged sections using software like ddrescue[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue

I would agree with this if not for my recent experience with duckduckgo. While Google's search result quality has sharply deteriorated in recent months, duckduckgo's results have stayed flat for the most part, to the point where ddg's result quality is more often superior to Google. If it were a matter of SEO manipulation, wouldn't ddg's quality decline too?

Spam: unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as e-mails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places[1]. By that definition, it is spam.

user testing has been done

User testing isn't flawless, and is what got us the ribbon in Microsoft Office for example, an incredibly unintuitive interface.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam

Defaults matter. And currently, Firefox fills their new tab page with spam and self-promotion by default.

I said "Each of those are basically ads for paid products." OneDrive and Office 365 do fully autoinstall, and if it's impossible for a layman to differentiate between an ad and a native app, I consider it at least partially autoinstalled.

I work at a MSP and install Windows almost daily. On most systems, I install Windows Professional version 1903, the latest version. On all of those, Candy crush, Skype, One Drive, Office, and a myriad of other App Store apps autoinstall. Each of those are basically ads for paid products. This is on the small business-oriented "Professional" version of Windows, mind you.

Not only do they install, but they immediately fill the start menu tiles with this spam.

Neat idea. What's the revenue model for this?

For python, check out pygame. It's outdated and only works with 2.7, but I think it can be installed with apt on Ubuntu and will teach the basics like rendering loops, frames, etc.

Technology always leads to new norms and standards of living. We have medicine that cures infections that would have absolutely killed us a hundred years ago. We have machines that can route blood around your heart while doctors replace it with another one. Here we have a technology that has the potential to reduce the occurrence of SIDS(sudden infant death syndrome) at a cheap cost once the tech is commoditized.

I understand your hesitance in promoting anything that can exacerbate the anxieties of people unnecessarily(our society is already bad enough at this), but as a parent, that anxiety was already there for me, and I think it's there for most other parents too. I used to wake up and check my daughter in the middle of the night because she hadn't cried in a while. This would have brought me peace of mind.

This seems fun. Any advice on getting started? It's so tough to find new sites. I tried making a website before to find new interesting sites, but it never took off.

This is frightening. I use newpipe and depend on Google for work, email, and data storage. I use Google cloud to host my websites, and Google domains to control their domain names. What's next? Will they suspend an account for using an adblocker on their website while using a browser?

The fact that Google would suspend their account instead of just blocking their access to YouTube is an abuse of their near-monopoly. I'll be taking steps to migrate off the Google stack for this.

Ironic? It makes sense to me that someone who understands the mechanisms of addiction would know how to break the cycle.

It's an ultrasonic vaporizer. Below is a link talking about it.

https://youtu.be/aKhPj7uFD0Y

In that case, "I'm downvoting you because you're wrong" could be condensed to "you're wrong."

WGU graduate here, I received my Bachelor of Science in Information Technology last year, averaging 24 credits per term. WGU has been good for the credential and for seriously strengthening my ability to self-learn, but it hasn't been terribly good for my career. Networking is seriously important and the industry, and it is nearly impossible to do within WGU.

This is Luke Hackworth, founder of this site. Years ago I manually portscanned random IP addresses to find interesting servers, and experienced a tremendous sense of exploration in doing so. Feldot is my attempt to bring that sense of exploration to the general public. The site has tools that make easier the discovery of interesting sites, and it has a front page that brings the most interesting and viral sites to the top.

This site is very much a work-in-progress. I created this in my spare time, making the minimum viable product as quickly as possible. In the future, I hope to add additional features like social feedback for good posts(like Reddit karma), categories, more page ranking options(like top posts per day, week, hour, etc), and other features. If you have any input on how it could be better, please let me know!

That's great, that's fun. What's the business value of using gifs in business discussion though? I thought they were almost exclusively used for emotional expression only.

I'm currently learning Django to do exactly this. How did you handle monetization and marketing, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm making a website aggregator currently on https://feldot.com. Most people are increasingly siloed into small portions of the internet. The idea of this site is to provide tools to a small portion of content creators that make discovery of new websites easier, then have them post on a reddit-like main page to introduce those sites to the masses.

Only the reddit-like portion of the site is ready right now, but there will be new tools released soon that will make the discovery of new sites trivial. It has been really fun to make, and I really look forward to making a Show HN post when it's ready for a growth phase.

Clients?

We use Xabber on our android phones, and I use Pidgin on my laptop. It works well enough, though Xabber is a bit annoying as it leaves a notification on the screen all of the time. Pidgin also doesn't come with OTR natively for some reason.

Thanks for the link! I'll definitely look over it again when I finally decide to set a server up.

It's funny this post is being created now. Google Hangouts was the primary method that my wife and I used to chat. I could talk to my wife while she was at work, even if I had no idea where my phone was. Its shutdown prompted me to look for an alternative. We ended up switching to an XMPP client, and we plan on creating an XMPP server for ourselves on a cloud instance so we know the conversation won't be intercepted by non-state actors.

I don't know if it will ever reach the popularity it once had, but XMPP is useful to us at least.

The question "what is truth?" is as old as time, and so important that we've created a system to analyze it and attempt to come to a consensus[0]. If an idea is untestable, it is logical and good for your sanity to assume that it is false until proven otherwise.

We assume that certain aspects of reality are real because they are testable and repeatable. We say gravity exists because every time we drop something, it falls down towards Earth, and if we apply other assumptions while looking out in the sky, we see other objects falling towards each other. The assumption is logical and testable.

It is impossible to test whether we just materialized, therefore it's safe to assume it did not happen unless repeatable testing indicates otherwise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

Nah, the major parts are automated at this point. Thanks though! Just let me know how it can improve.

Thanks, it is now pruning error 1003 too. Let me know if there is anything else.

I'll start working on one now. edit: Done. It'll take a while, but soon the database will be pruned. It will remove 404s and sites that don't respond in 0.25 seconds. edit2: It will remove status 500 as well. Let me know if there are any other broad groups that should be pruned. edit3: pruning 400 now too

I agree completely that further filtering would improve the site a lot. That kind of filtering would require a lot more than a basic port scanner. I'll probably do it someday.

It's also really fun to find web servers on nonstandard ports, but I worry about the site then being abused to find compromised servers.

I was not aware this was available, thank you! It appears to work on the mobile version of Firefox as well.