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Hosting Static Web Sites on IPFS

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Following up from  Georg Greve on Self-Sovereign Identity in Swiss Healthcare , ... I found this video which is quite well explained. There is a DNS "sub-protocol" for IPFS called DNSLink which can be used to redirect a web site lookup to an IPFS gateway. See  Publishing my Website on IPFS Update (2021-03-04): Up until today this blog was running on IPFS, hosted on Pinata, and used GitHub actions to publish updates. Today I switched my blog to be hosted on [Amazon] S3 . I wasn't able to find an easy way of getting SSL certificates installed while redirecting my website through an IPFS Gateway. I'm sure this is possible - and I saw that Cloudfare helps with this - but my website was already setup in AWS Route53, so transitioning to Cloudfare was an additional hurdle. The simplest method was to switch to using S3 to host my static content - and this also hedges against future complexity that I might run into. (I am still a bit of a web developer n00b after all). No h...

Georg Greve on Self-Sovereign Identity in Swiss Healthcare

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See  https://www.vereign.com/ . This made my day.  Somebody understands the problem! Subscribe to FOSSASIA . 

Ivo Zdarsky lives in Lucin, Utah in a hanger, and he invents flying machines

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Professor Unto Laine has a Theory About What Makes The Sounds Reported for Centuries Which Accompany Auroral Displays

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See  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Unto-Laine . Subscribe to PBS Terra .

Juan Browne Test Flying a Cirrus SR Series G7

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It has a "level out" button, and an autopilot that kicks in as soon you exceed some reasonable maximums. I wonder how it handles one wing stalling on take-off, ... Subscribe to Blancolirio .

Defensive Security Podcast, Level1 Links With Friends and Amy Macdonald "Is This What You've Been Waiting For?"

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Shit is just not working like it should! 43:04 on supply-chain attacks on crypto-currency software. Subscribe to Defensive Security Podcast . Subscribe to Level1 Techs . Subscribe to Amy Macdonald .

Spanish and Portuguese Electric Power Distribution Companies Testing Their System Recovery Procedures

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It's the sort of thing you'd want to schedule at midday, and before the Summer holiday influx of Brits and Germans arrives. Subscribe to RTÉ News .  

Laura Pausini - Turista

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Kim Iversen Interview With Christopher Moritz

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He says Newsom is a "product of the Getty family"! His book: Failed State: A Portrait of California in the Twilight of Empire . Kim has moved out of CA! Subscribe to Kim Iversen .