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Healthcare facilities should set the tone when it comes to masking. They should help patients protect themselves from Covid and other threats. Instead they push droplet dogma and put lives at risk.
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We are concerned about about the US being able to switch off or spy on our cloud instances.
But what about payment infrastructure? All payment card companies we use are US based (visa, mastercard, amex). In some European countries like Denmark they have their own system alongside (Dankort). The Dutch sold off all their own card issuers providers long time ago.
epicompany.eu/ is supposed to provide an alternative but haven't seen any updates on that in a while.
Oh cool. I mean, I have this turned off for all users in my gapps domain and I’m not using an admin account here and have no idea how this would even be on my screen but cool, cool cool.
Well let’s click “turn on” and see if it works. I feel like it probably shouldn’t but every day some KPI at the big G depends on little things like “user consent” or “words meaning things” is an adventure so let’s buckle up.
It’s easy, all you need to do is open your Gmail settings, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, find the Data Privacy menu, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, then go into the Google Workplace smart features menu where the smart menu features that should all be forced off per domain policy set in the admin panel are turned on because what does “permission” really mean really if you think about it, and turn them off, then choose “done”.
Organizing the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful unless it’s a choice you might make that we don’t like, in that case we’re going to organize that shit five levels deep in the interface and ignore the choice you made and the settings your admin picked and what words mean because our line is going up and fuck your settings that’s why.
Nothing I can see in the admin console even admits that any of this nonsense happened, and ...I mean, what do you even say.
Options force-pushed to the user that override org policy settings? In a way that is completely invisible to an admin? And hidden four layers down in the user settings? What sort of evening-at-the-infosec-improv amateur hour is this?
If an endpoint can override policy invisibly you don't have a perimeter, you have a wishlist. WTF is going on at the big G these days?
why are you opposed to sombody getting their promotion and their bonus payout?
Think of the poor engineer that wil have to fix that mess at one point and will be skipped promotion because "one doesn't fix problem at Google. They invent them".
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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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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@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.
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.
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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in reply to mhoye • • •How well does it work though? Let’s find out!
Oh. Well, shoutout to @404mediaco, good to know I can trust them at least.
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Cool, cool cool.
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in reply to mhoye • • •Nothing I can see in the admin console even admits that any of this nonsense happened, and ...I mean, what do you even say.
Options force-pushed to the user that override org policy settings? In a way that is completely invisible to an admin? And hidden four layers down in the user settings? What sort of evening-at-the-infosec-improv amateur hour is this?
If an endpoint can override policy invisibly you don't have a perimeter, you have a wishlist. WTF is going on at the big G these days?
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in reply to mhoye • • •why are you opposed to sombody getting their promotion and their bonus payout?
Think of the poor engineer that wil have to fix that mess at one point and will be skipped promotion because "one doesn't fix problem at Google. They invent them".
#sarcasm