I decided to start Babylon 5 for the first time a few days ago. It's interesting but disconcerting interacting with a futuristic federation-style space series that isn't Star Trek. #scifi #tv
Ich fände einen ICE-Anschluss für #Chemnitz gut. Aber ich versuche realistisch zu bleiben. zB: Wenn der ICE genauso schnell wie der aktuelle RE3 ist, halte ich einen ICE für sinnfrei. RE 3 braucht 1:00 von C Hbf nach DD Hbf. IC 2270 braucht 0:59 für die Strecke. Für diese Strecke mach eine schnellere Zuggattung daher objektiv wenig Sinn. Macht nur wegen umstiegsfreier Weiterfahrt Sinn.
Darauf will ich halt hinaus. Wir müssen erst die Strecken ertüchtigen, dann können wir da schnellere Züge fahren lassen.
Wenn die Gleise eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung von 120 km/h haben, macht es für die Reisegeschwindigkeit kaum einen Unterschied ob da de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_… (Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 120 km/h) oder de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baure… (Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 320 km/h) fährt.
Rund um Chemnitz gibt es halt noch viele kurvige, langsame und eingleisige Strecken.
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Curl Up 2025 - May 3-4 2025 - Prague: the developers of open source project curl/libcurl will be holding their free, open to all, small conference again in Prague - if you want to learn about curl, libcurl, c programming, networking, or how a successful open source project works please come. github.com/curl/curl-up/wiki/2… to anyone (professors, academia, anyone).
@oktant Sorry, the earlier reply was wrong: You will be able to switch without paying anything extra - unless the sub will be one month longer (don't know the exact date you subscribed), then you'll get a partial invoice for one month only (=€3).
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auch wenn ich das niemals voll ausschöpfen werde , bin ich von eurer Strategie der digitalen Souveränität überzeugt, nehme das Goodie gerne mit und unterstütze das auch weiterhin, damit wir bald auch ein Drive und ein Office in Tuta haben.
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Remember that there is no single or homogeneous "Open Source community". It is an enormously huge, loosely coupled bunch of humans, each with their own goals, ideas and expectations. The few foundations we have don't cover more than just a small fraction of the Open Source done in the world made by millions of humans and some companies.
Don't expect the foundations to necessarily be on your side or view OSS like you do.
@jani oh indeed. The same probably applies to more or less every project too. They are rarely easily scoped teams and people are rarely even binary "in or out" of them.
A good analogy is music and the record labels. While some artists (projects) use a label (foundation) to help record, promote, handle lawsuits or hold concerts (events), you can argue that most music is produced outside of that system.
I would also argue that volunteer experts are not alone capable of making a compelling open source code base. Most of the toil is done by paid workers in successful open source projects.
After the Open source AI shitshow, now the election shitshow... I mean they are at least slightly less bad than the FSF, but urgh OSI.
It seems we are seeing my predictions of the widening gap between Foundations and maintainers in FOSS happen in real time.
I also expect Licenses to slowly die or descend into trolling. We already see it on github and maintainers discourse. The "clarity" period of FOSS is ending.
The mess that copyright is is going to cost us all so much.
@bagder I still remember the number of hands up when I asked people in the FOSDEM "OSS and EU regulation" room to get their hand up if they were paid for their work related to FOSS.
I think I was more or less the only person with my hand down.
Point made.
Note that I have nothing against them or being paid. But definitely not representative of the field.
@bagder +1. My fear is that with the EU CRA in particular a lot of people will be shoveled under foundation umbrellas, because of necessity. I don't see this ending well.
@koen_hufkens @bagder The CRA is honestly not even a problem from my pov. It is mostly a nothingburger that we will ignore. It is so far from the ball that it doesn't matter.
@bagder For small compnaies trying to make a living of software they graciously open source this is certainly not. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
@bagder I might be wrong but the moment money changes hands you change your status under the CRA. You are either an unpaid "amateur" or have to sit under a foundation umbrella for liability reasons. No Patreon, no Buy me a Coffee etc. This impacts more people than you would think, it also splits the community. But it is good to know your position on small and medium sized companies in this space.
@koen_hufkens that's not the common interpretation of the CRA. It needs you to "profit" from the money as well, not just charge. See github.com/orcwg/cra-hub
@bagder That's a matter of scale, not a matter of scope IMO. This would imply that with accounting shenanigans you can avoid the CRA if you work through donations but on (accounting) balance you don't run a profit.
Sadly no, I'm such an affected SME following my strict reading. That's why I'm wondering (worrying) about these things and above all the inconsistencies.
The only thing I know (see) is that there seem obvious ways to punch holes into it (for better or worse).
@bagder I'll look into the repo and see where I can add with some notes. But I'm afraid I might ask stupid questions rather than clarify things. One of my main gripes has been the word "monetize". Which is poorly defined. Anyway.
“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).
@gbraad we specifically don't have logs so I can't tell exactly where they come from, but I read others' analyses of the problem and from what I hear they are quite hard to block properly. We are fortunate to have Fastly that hosts the site and thus is the one that handles the onslaught
I think users (like GitHub/MS and friends) have a responsibility to push back on the AI companies they lean so heavily on and demand they behave. But I have no expectation they will.
Putting something like that trained on source code behind your robots.txt will save you a lot of CPU (and maybe bandwidth). And if they complain, you can point to the robots.txt.
This is a methodically structured poisoning mechanism designed to feed nonsensical data to persistent bots and aggressive “AI” scrapers that circumvent robots.txt directives.
This is what happens when there is competition where there should be cooperation. AI research and development could be, _should_ be a collaborative project, not owned by anybody and open to everybody, but instead it's a bunch of corporations trying to outrun each other. The Tragedy of the Commons only exists when there is competition instead of cooperation. Competition is how we ruin everything by trying to grab it all before anybody else does. Cooperation is how we can give everybody whatever they need for free and still have enough for all of us. Why train so many machine learning models that aren't all that different, which are owned and run by private enterprises, when we could instead train much fewer models that aren't owned by anybody and can be used for free?
You remember/know in the 2000's thousands+ of DSL routers verified time against a few NTP servers ~ reported as "a thunderclap of traffic on the peak of every hour". So the organisations forced the setup of more local servers for the NTP service?
If the AI engineers where nice people, they could setup one of their laptops as a local relay/ image for your site, and poll it every second **much faster**, so the end-users would get a better service.
honestly I'm surprised no-one has suggested litigation. In the civil avenue the damage is clear. And you could make the case for penal, which would be enough to ID the people behind this. Standard IANAL disclaimer
corporately owned organizations have all bought in the AI marketing, so very little chance they'll do anything about it. But would like to see AI countermeasure developed because this is out of control.
three years ago we were at less than 20TB/month, but there is no clear cut-off date nor do I know exactly what amount of this traffic that is AI bots and not
@skaverat An increase in traffic from 20 TB/month to 80 TB/month in 3 years seems normal to me.
Why would an AI crawl your site more than any search engine would? They all want just one copy of your site once/month or so. If an AI visits your site on demand in real time then that's actually just a visit from a biological human that asked their AI to get current data and not rely on its memory of old data.
Sure, one biological human will cause more traffic than before AI. As expected.
We collected 470K IPv4s from a botnet that was trying to get all the content from our social network; it was behaving in such a way that we could track every single request it made. Since we blocked it, the server has been working much better; it hasn't been running with such a low load for at least a year.
recently had an issue where a service I run for a friend had degraded performance out of the blue at a critical point in time for her. I never could fully nail down the issue since my monitoring still sucks in that department but I am reasonably sure my server was DoS'd, either maliciously because I pissed someone off the day before or accodentially by the evergrowing traffic on my wordpress which is hosted on the same machine... 🤮 I need to build up one of those AI mazes...
Find which bots are the offenders and send them an invoice for the bandwidth. “Your crawler consumed XXTB/month this past month. This is a small project and we can’t sustain this level of access by just one party, so here’s an invoice for the consumed bandwidth. If you don’t stop your crawling we will be forced to keep sending these invoices. Regards” 😆
I now feel less bad about blocking all countries, then allow listing the ones I do business with on most of my sites - seems like that was a sound plan all along.
Hi Daniel, I have read of Anubis lastly, and I guess it would be a potential solution to this.. Even if you make the proof of work very high, normal people would not have a problem waiting some time if the alternative would be to not be able to download from entire countries :)
Also I have iplists of AWS, Huawei Cloud, and other big cloud providers if you are interested, as I am blocking them with my small forgejo instance.
With nginx you can block based on string matching in the requests.. like this I give most bots a 444 directly, and like this I have much less traffic problem. The syntax I can provide you too, if you need it.
That's just uncivilised. Seems like everyone would get a better result if Amazon and others offered free mirror or backup services on their cloud and got the data that way. Or even just free hosting. It's a rounding route in their ai budget.
This probably isn't about collecting data, but more a sustained Denial of Service attack!
I am sure others have said this, but identify the bots and feed them garbage that looks right but is insanely wrong!
These fuckers need to be stopped!
I am slowly weaning myself off the internet full stop, offline computing with what I already have is my future! It all works wonderfully, is a pleasure to use, no interruptions, just good quality compute time on my own network 👍
ive had people tell me it's the projects fault for not using github/gitlab for their infra and centralizing it all, like that's a reasonable thing to do in 100% of cases >.>
@SRAZKVT @pearl it also doesn't help. curl for example already hosts its git repositories on GitHub, but we still have a website that gets bogged down by the bots
It's a shame that the only best defense available is to essentially make AI even more resource intensive with the tarpit concept. One of the biggest problems with AI already is how astronomically destructive it is going to be for the environment.
I get a kick out of fighting back against corporate misbehavior.
I've been using track-me-not for a long time. It's a browser extension that at random intervals does garbage search engine queries to poison the data profile that google/bing/yahoo/etc is building up on all of us.
This reminds me so much of when spam took over the SMTP world. Originally, SMTP was an open system, I could even use % in an address to bounce through someone else's server. I don't know if 95% of the world's SMTP traffic is still spam but essentially mass abuse of the system for fractional profit forced us all to fundamentally change how the system worked and accelerated to dominance of Google's Gmail etc.
Linux developers already make great use of PGP keys if they're producing installers and stuff.
Maybe we should all be required to use such a key to retrieve open source code. Keys could gain rep by appropriate use from all forges (whitelisted maybe?). Start out super painful so nobody wants to have to start over with a new key or re-gain rep. Good rep gets you standard use.
Well the web is doomed anyhow from many different aspects. Maybe this is just another nail in the coffin of it. We should now think of what could succeed it before Big-"Tech" comes along with their own, much worse, alternative.
Wow. For a few months, I was wondering why I suddenly have bandwidth issues when activating my camera in MS Teams meetings, so others can't understand me any more.
A look into my #nginx logs seems to clarify. Bots are eagerly fetching my (partially pretty large) #poudriere build logs. 🧐 (#AI "watching shit scroll by"?)
I see GPTBot at least occassionally requests robots.txt, which I don't have so far. Other bots don't seem to be interested. Especially PetalBot is hammering my server. And there are others (bytedance, google, ...)
Now what? Robots.txt would actually *help* well-behaved bots here (I assume build logs aren't valuable for anything). The most pragmatic thing here would be to add some http basic auth in the reverse proxy for all poudriere stuff. It's currently only public because there's no reason to keep it private....
Have to admit I feel inclined to try one of the tarpitting/poisoning approaches, too. 😏
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Krásné středeční #dobréRáno. Už se nám ten týden konečně láma a víkend se blíží. Teď jsem dva víkendy moc nestíhal, ale v pátek už snad vyrazím na kolo.
If the document is in Word, you can use Word's own find feature to search for text of particularly colours (press control+h for find / replace, then alt+m for more, then alt+o for formatting, select font or paragraph etc and choose the formatting to search for. Press control+page down or control+page up to find the next or previous occurance of text with that formatting.
we have been playing around with our ring doorbell today. trying to get the settings to our liking, and testing the recording and downloading of videos. this is very nice and very accessible on android, and the IPhone. not sure about downloading videos on the IPhone, as I don't do that, but at least that part is very accessible on android, and I know where the mp4 video files are.
@jfayre we got the cheapest battery one. I can't remember what it cost, but that is the one we got. it does good enough for us. I was even able to scan the qr code all by myself, and get ours added to the app with no sighted assistance at all.
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Me, years ago: "I don't live next door, I'm going to friggin' bulletproof my parents' network equipment against micro-outages and that house's shitty electric wiring. I'm putting all of this critical equipment on an uninterruptible power supply, so that it's backed up by a big battery. Oh, let's put the file sync server on this too."
One of my parents yesterday during some random Internet outage: *goes into the boiler room and turns off the whole damn UPS*
From the BITS Presentations Committee: Hello BITS Members and Friends,
Please join us for the next Apple Bytes with Herbie Allen.
When: Wednesday March 26, at 8:00 PM Eastern (5:00 PM Pacific). Where: ACB Community..
Join BITS and presenter Herbie Allen, as we take a bite out of the Apple and take a closer look at Apple iOS devices, apps, accessories and peripherals. Herbie will share tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Apple iOS devices, and of course there will be time for questions from participants. This month, Herbie is joined by Dan Tevelde, to discuss all aspects of Braille Displays on iOS devices. Herbie and Dan will address misconceptions about Braille devices, discuss, basic Braille input commands, and take a look at pairing 2 different devices to your iPhone at the same time.
Generational wealth works in both directions. Most people who say they “started from nothing” and "built their business from scratch" also never had to pay for the poverty of their parents who paid for the poverty of theirs, who paid for the poverty of theirs.
Debt and wealth are BOTH generational. "Starting from scratch" means you started two rungs up the ladder already and never even had to claw your way out of the pit.
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