Jerry

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There are two answers to this depending on what the reason is for asking.

If you are asking because you are concerned about scrapers reading your posts and violating your privacy and your rights, then understand that even if an instance is 100% effective at blocking them, the post is sent all over the place in clear text anyway. It doesn't matter for them which of the federated servers your post is read from. They will read your post many times over. For this case, then, there is little incentive for a server owner to block bots if it's just to protect your posts from ingestion.

If you are asking because you are concerned about scrapers sucking the life out of a server because there are multiple different AI companies trying to read every single post in the database multiple times over for training, which ends up causing gateway timeout errors and poor performance, then admins, for this reason, should take action.

On my PieFed server, feddit.online, as of yesterday, the firewall discarded 99K requests it deemed were for AI scraping while processing the remaining 300K requests. Those 99K requests would have been expensive requests, not just upvotes and such, but requests asking for huge amounts of text, and so the impact on the server and infrastructure would have been much more than a 25% tax on the system.

And if the bots realize your server is not well protected, it gets worse. 3 months ago I peaked at 1.2 million requests in one day, of which over 700K were AI bots. Now it's down to consistently under 100K from bots because many of them have given up, I like to believe.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 2mo ago

Lemmy is t-i-m-eless.

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 4mo ago

He made thousands of dollars a month off MAGA men who believed she was real. But when he tried to create an AI woman for the Democrats, it bombed because they knew it was just AI slop.

Any questions?

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 4mo ago

I think the article basically says current symmetric key encryption, even 128-bit, but especially 256-bit, is safe from quantum computers, maybe forever. It's the asymmetric encryption that's going to be easily broken, and this is what Google says needs to be addressed by 2029.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 5mo ago

We're glad you are here!

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 5mo ago

According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.

And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 6mo ago

You are asking a reasonable question that many ask.

Each account will be a unique and separate account on each instance. Instances do not share accounts.

Although you can, on some applications, authenticate with a federated account, like Google or even a Mastodon account, you still will have an entirely different account on the server.

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 6mo ago

Wine requires Linux knowledge to get the configurations correct. I don't think many Windows users will be able to get any Windows applications running under Wine. And it's the same Wine that any Linux user can install for free.

If Zorin came packaged with Crossover, then maybe it would run Windows apps better because Crossover would manage the Wine configurations and the required Windows infrastructure installs.

Maybe.

But not many old machines will have the capacity to run Linux, Wine, and a Windows application. But Zorin's hype leads one to believe that a 15-year-old machine won't struggle.

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 6mo ago

I tried it about a month ago and found it had nothing more than what you get with an Ubuntu install, save for the look of the screen. I couldn't understand why the media was making a big deal about it. And I saw no reason why anyone should pay for Pro. My conclusions matched what is in the article.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 6mo ago

The headline of this post is technically accurate but purposely provocative. The article's headline is more informative: " Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes".

The point is that 7zip.com is not the official website, and this is where many people are going for it, and getting malware.

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 7mo ago

https://hear-me.social is one possibility. It has the added benefit of a 12,000-character posting size as well, especially nice if the 500-character limit at .social was frustrating.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 8mo ago

They did eat them. That was part of the cycle.

https://backstory.newamericanhistory.org/episodes/another-mans-treasure/3/#:~:text=The%20pigs,literal%20violence.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 8mo ago

I'd ask for a refund.

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 8mo ago

It's very nice to use!

Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 8mo ago

Seems that if the uninvited code never tried doing network scans, it may not have been detected for quite a while. Good thing the hacker was a bit greedy.

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Jerry on PieFed @feddit.online 9mo ago

I read the post and understood the problem. Then I read Dan's reply. And he's fixing it. In fact, he's fixing it in the exact way the blog post says it should be fixed, "... but those filters should be manually triggered and always removable."

Here's Dan's reply:

"... I hear the community: you want text-only posts. We are going to build this as an opt-in feature. If you want microblogging, turn it on. If you prefer the classic media-only experience, nothing changes."

Why was this blog post even written then? Now it's seeming to be personal.