Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation(sr.ericli.tech)
50 pointsby ericlmtna month ago8 comments
  • instagraham25 days ago
    I do want to encourage more BSky use, but a lot of imp OSINT accounts are still on X. Maybe can we have XCancel integration?

    Also to better communicate urgency, a scrolling RSS feed news ticker might slap.

    I can see myself chaining monitors together and having this in my spare bedroom, in the eventuality that I end up in a house with a spare bedroom

    • ericlmtn25 days ago
      I adopted BSky over X's ridiculous rate limits and price... BSky was completely free. Never seen XCancel before but that looks integratable

      RSS is on my list next

      • instagraham24 days ago
        Also, I genuinely look forward to setting up a situation monitor when I shift to a bigger place. I've seen the memes about "monitoring the situation with the lads" and always thought it would actually be quite fun.

        Thanks for making this project!

    • aspect054525 days ago
      Encourage Mastodon use. There’s nothing that stops Bluesky from ending up just like Twitter.
      • idiotsecant25 days ago
        All the federated structure in the world doesn't matter if you don't have users. I think we're better off encouraging bluesky to finish what they're building, mastodon won't ever get there.
      • KyleBerezin25 days ago
        I think the protocol is actually pretty open, and can be hooked into without them. I may be wrong though, I read into how it worked years ago.
        • idiotsecant25 days ago
          In theory it is, but as of now you can't actually use any provider other than bluesky
  • ranger_dangera month ago
    SpiderFoot seems a lot more usable for real OSINT work to me.
    • ericlmtna month ago
      Never heard of this but seems like it's much more powerful. I built this for normies like me that just want to monitor the situation and pretend I'm doing something useful
    • IrishTechiea month ago
      I’ve just Googled SpiderFoot and gone to the top result (spiderfoot.org). I see four banners on-screen promoting VPNs and crypto and a pop-up that reappears every few seconds telling me that a VPN is mandatory to use the site. I’m guessing this is not the right site?
    • NedFa month ago
      [dead]
  • Gysa month ago
    OSINT = open source intelligence

    Had to look it up and might not the only one

  • jaybyrda month ago
    gotta love the subway surfers. beautiful...
    • westmeala month ago
      Absolutely destroyed me
    • ericlmtna month ago
      there's clash royale gameplay as well...
  • macartain25 days ago
    Interesting.. Minor point: it would be good to know what each of the default panels is? not entirely clear to me?

    Intrigued by spiderfoot, but seeing that the last release - from that repo anyway - was in 2022, I assume the action has moved elsewhere, given that this is a very quickly changing field - anyone know?

    Both of these make me realise how out of date my copy of Bazzell's OSINT Techniques is..

  • nine_ka month ago
    (Where's the US involvement when there are actual people being killed by hundreds and thousands when they fight for their liberty?..)
    • poulpy12325 days ago
      The US have been actively undermining and attacking Iran for several decades now. Since the dictator they put in power got overthrown actually. You can say it's a good thing or a bad thing, but you cannot say they do nothing
    • hdgvhicva month ago
      Libya worked out so well.
      • nine_ka month ago
        The intensity of protests and the general experience of the population with living in a saner society were much weaker in Libya, if memory serves.
  • mskogly24 days ago
    You need to test that on mobile
  • poulpy12325 days ago
    It's doomscrolling but OSINT