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Good take that they're a business, but if they have no physical presence in France there is very little else the French Government can do, other than what they've just done.

Same way. Transfer money in once you're on the website and is not being blocked at bank level. They also take crypto so it's not like the bank can block it either even if France tried to block that.

BTW, I think the site and premis behind Polymarket is shit and nobody should use it, but blocking websites effectively has proven difficult at a technical level. (See PirateBay, still going strong despite everything entire governments and massive lobbying power can throw at it, and 4chan's refusal to be blocked by the UK's OSA) Most governments settle for the political win and blocking people with only a casual interest, which is fair enough. Most serious attempts at blocking specific sites tends just to make lawyers richer.

Depends, but immediately for either case.

A) Mostly likely. The ISP blocks DNS resolution for that domain, directing users to a placeholder site instead. User just uses a DNS resolver other than their ISPs such as Google's or Cloudflare's - easy, quick, free.

B) The ISP also has to block routing to IPs associated with the site. Unlikely, but easily circumvented by using a VPN so that your direct routing goes via elsewhere. Easy, quick, free or paid.

These blocks are common for sites a government deems illegal or undesirable. Nothing new here at a technical level.

I've been playing with computers and writing code since 1981, so have seen a few things change, and the past couple of years have been alarming from a world new stage, but that's not so much about tech as global unrest.

It started with the cookie banners... "We value your privacy" == "Of course, it's worth money to us" The internet has shifted a lot over the past couple of years particularly, and it was inevitable. Just as inevitable is the loss of the small internet (I speak as someone who runs several small websites that get scraped and stolen from constantly), and the attempts of governments to control it. That was all going to happen, and just as inevitable is the impossibility of complete control - it'll just make life harder for the honest person.

We've seen some shitty changes to software too through global business. With hindsight, that was inevitable too - it took a long time for someone to realise just how locked in the likes of vmware's customers were. How cloud and then AI additions were reasons to charge more for features we don't like. There's a lot of fear about global instability for obvious reasons, and that's hard to shake.

But also... People haven't changed. For every big name enshittification, there's people sprouting two more things without such controls. Where we are now - founded largely because of shenanighans at Reddit. You mention Linux - again, most of it free and accessible and those are baked into it. (We'll skip over Redhat here, I think, perhaps the exception that proves the rule). There's a lot of free software projects that are born out of love for the free and open community. A place where respect is more common than rudeness.

So I'm certain there's a balance. Yes, crappy things. But also good things. I'm constantly amazed at new inventions and how tech is genuinely improving life for many people. I grew up in England in the 70s and the quality of life today is better despite what we might think, but it's also far more complicated, and makes us feel helpless and small. Back then, our world was small, we knew people. A disaster on the other side of the world took days to arrive on our newspapers, and we weren't made to feel like we should do something about it.

Perception may be playing a big part in your view here, and you sound both burnt out and depressed. Not uncommon with the bombardment of badness in the news that we can do nothing about. Understanding that, and stepping outside of the doom cycle, definitely helps.

Ultimately, you've got to do what's right for you. If tech is a hobby to you, then it's the same as any other hobby. When it stops being fun, it's time to find something else that you enjoy instead of, or as well as. Hope you find a better balance.

Clearly the best advice is "Build your PC a year ago"

Right answer. In fact, the only viable answer.

Personal view: I'd rather you didn't. One of the benefits of Lemmy over Reddit is that repost bots are at a minimum.

We must be getting popular.

You waited two hours before demanding a reply? Wow. Funnily enough I don't live at the keyboard and was away doing interesting real world stuff.

Your other question wasn't relevant to the subject in my view, so although I wasn't ignoring you, I will now.

I don't want Lemmy to be zero censorship.

In every case I've known, anywhere claiming "zero censorship" either adopts it sooner or later, or disappears - and in every one of those cases, it was a godawful place to be 100% of the time. IME, those who do say they want this tend to be either edgy teenagers, crackpot conspiracy theorists or psychopaths.

Sure, you can say "well, zero censorship except bots" - well that's censorship, isn't it? And given no anti-bot tactic is reliable, you'll be blocking humans. Or you can say, "zero censorship except CSAM, or extreme pornography, or anti-terrorist" and you're either applying societal laws or your own morality on others. You can't use "no censor" and "except" in a sentence without contradiction.

If you want zero censorship, I don't think Lemmy is for you. I don't think the fediverse is for you. But if you disagree, then run your own instance and put it on an onion address, please stop trying to rant at us for not sharing your views.

Stolen? The employees were paid, weren't they?

I'm not American, but CVE's absolutely form the cornerstone of IT security, and are the trusted keystone of industry security globally.

Crayons would have been a much better analogy.

You can't explain it to them. Not even by using toy cars or gobstoppers.

"There's none so deaf as those who will not listen"

But which toilet does it use?!

Already done, along with a bunch of other stuff including cloudflare WAF and rate limiting rules.

I am still annoyed that it took me over a day' of my life to finally (so far) restrict these things. And several other days to offload the problem to Cloudflare pages for sites that I previous self hosted but my rural link couldn't support.

this advice is just for “unintentional” DDoS attacks, not intentionally malicious ones.

And I don't think these high volume AI scrapes are unintentional DDOS attacks. I consider them entirely intentional. Not deliberrately malicious, but negligent to the point of criminality. (Especially in requesting the same pages again so frequently, and all of them ignoring robots.txt)

Surprised at the level of negativity here. Having had my sites repeatedly DDOSed offline by Claudebot and others scraping the same damned thing over and over again, thousands of times a second, I welcome any measures to help.

In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.

the reality is that every Chinese company is ultimately controlled by the CCP.

Yes.

But in the same way that every US company is ultimately controlled by the US Government. And every EU company by them. And every other country by their own government.

Thats's a shame, I always considered brother one of the better makers of paper manglers.

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France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site

France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site

France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site

I’ve hit a wall with tech.

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God ****** dammit, here we go again

How would I build a Lemmy bot that reposts statistically outlier posts from my subscribed communities?

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