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@drahardja@sfba.social I saved a relevant meme!

@doctormo@floss.social My current hack is I know there's some urls on my website that are dynamic enough the scrapers love searching them, but real people shouldn't be that interested. grep -E "suspicious|url|patterns" /var/log/apache2/access.log | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | asncounter --output-format tsv --top 4000 --no-asn -o /tmp/scum.tsv asncounter groups ip addresses by network so it restricts the trick of using a bunch of proxies on residential networks. Then I wrote a small program to select records out of scum.tsv and feed them to fail to ban like this, fail2ban-client set apache-noscript banip 117.188.0.0/20 1.80.0.0/13 180.72.0.0/14 ... Fail to ban will expire a ban after awhile, and I've got it set to increase the ban time for multiple hits. And then I kept doing that every morning, and some network bans kept getting increased. Just make sure to exclude your administrative ip address. And the AI companies cannot die soon enough.

@gvwilson@mastodon.social So the first time someone told me this joke I totally missed it. And so I looked up how oat milk was invented... and it was in the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat_milk Almond and Soy milk both go back to about 1226 and 1365 respectively.

I have a new challenge. One of my kids friends got banned from Instagram, and apparently tried to create an account on X. I of course said how about mastodon, and kid said "that's just old people". So I'd really like to have an alternative to X to suggest. Is there anything on the fediverse that's decent for teens?

@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io BRB, using this to explain to kid why you should read the terms & conditions.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Because AI is a plot by the oil industry to drive up oil use and roll out mass surveillance to prevent the rest of us from overthrowing them.

@jbowen@mast.hpc.social Well servo successfully rendered your post.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @futurebird@sauropods.win Wait did you somehow miss the commentary on the deranged softbank presentation? that is a real slide from the CEO of softbank who has drunk deep of the AI koolaid. Pivot to ai made some fun of it and added some additional context that the CEO's been misusing the golden goose fable for a while. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Demand money. There are consulting firms already providing "cleaning up your companies failed AI code" services. There's also a long history of science dumping crap low reward jobs on women. And I feel like reviewing and fixing AI generated code is a crap low reward job.

So apparently don't plan on traveling in LA during the LA Olympics. "Hundreds of miles of Southern California freeways and streets will become permit-only “Games Route Network” lanes during the 2028 Olympics, reshaping everyday commutes from L.A. to Orange and San Diego counties." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-05/la-freeways-roads-to-be-closed-to-general-traffic-for-2028-olympics-how-will-it-hit-your-commute #LA28 #Olympics #LosAngeles

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org That's funny & cute and I'm glad it was an easy fix.

@jonny@neuromatch.social I've wondered how "why are you willing to let a corporation tell you what to think?" would play with someone tempted by LLM chatbots.

Stupid AI scraping companies filling up my webservers root disk. These ip address ranges were generating the majority of my servers scraper traffic and I just banned them all. (Sorted by traffic generated) 216.73.216.0/22 comment "block claudebot" 47.82.48.0/21 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.79.192.0/19 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.14.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.8.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.82.12.0/23 "block alibaba scrapers" 47.79.48.0/21 "block alibaba scrapers"

@jbowen@mast.hpc.social @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Servo is a new engine in rust, and they are at least discouraging of AI contributions. https://book.servo.org/contributing/getting-started.html

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Today's weather is really trying to give that mordor feel too, with the "extreme heat warning"

@jonathankoren@sfba.social @drahardja@sfba.social We need a world where the rich get punished for committing crimes.

@donni@mastodon.social Apparently some distant ancestor managed to survive by throwing their poo at danger.

@cwebber@social.coop Oh no! The LLM zombies have infected Christine.

@cstross@wandering.shop for some stupid reason we let a death cult take over the stockpile of doomsday weapons

@tyler@typing.ink @cadey@pony.social I sure hope there's a finite set of severe vulnerabilities.

@mattblaze@federate.social It's always a good idea to be trying to protect your lungs on July 4th. This is pm 2.5 AQI from july 4th 2025 at about 11pm around los angeles. the hole in the center is where the black people live and they tend not to be able to buy expensive air quality sensors. Here's the world level map https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi where you can zoom in and watch the smoke clouds move around

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social People have been predicting Jesus' immanent return since the writing of the apostles. (matthew 16:28) So we're almost at 2,000 years of failure. (the new testament was written around 100 CE, and being generous "some of you will still be alive", is a prediction for Jesus return by 200 CE.) Also here's a helpful curated list of all the other failed predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming So much wrong. For so long. again and again and again. And some people refuse to learn.

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social It's not in a country style. But https://thecogisdead.bandcamp.com/track/a-i-stole-my-life is about AI stealing the singer's life.

@maddad@mastodon.world @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Why Trump wants to go back to the late 1800s early 1900s. He really hates black people. They're doing everything they can to recreate America's first Jim Crow era. He's old enough to remember the Little Rock Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine And I feel one reason Trump wanted to deploy the national guard in Democratic cities (especially the ones with black mayors) was because the national guard was used to force desegregation in schools.

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Heat pump fans chant Heat pumps! Heat pumps! Install more Heat Pumps!

@veronica@explains.social Is it the toslink cable let you avoid giving the corporate haunted TV network access?

@wikkit@mastodon.social @klausman@mas.to Ahh nooo not a danger pillow

@janvlug@mastodon.social @rockario@kind.social I remember reports about the pinephone having problems with calls, but I think it has a weaker battery, so they needed deeper sleeps. I wasn't sure how much that impacted the purism.

@janvlug@mastodon.social @rockario@kind.social Do you need any software from the android ecosystem? is it reasonably reliable at receiving calls and messages? I wasn't sure how well it handles getting woken up when not in use.

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social I know. I've had these arguments. Me: "We need to do something about global warming" Mom: "No we don't god will return and save us." Me: "God doesn't exist" Mom: "God exists" Me: "This conversation is pointless"

@annaghughes@mastodon.online @pieist@ohai.social I guess, sometimes Mastodon's weak discoverability features turns out to be handy. I also think Zuckerberg was very wrong, and it causes all sorts of social problems to connect everyone to everyone else.

@kevinrns@mstdn.social The western oil executives should be tried along with Putin & MbS for crimes against humanity for blocking decarbonization.

@mwl@io.mwl.io All Hail Carl

@delta@chaos.social Thats neat!

@delta@chaos.social I know of two difficult edge cases for p2p designs. Can two people exchange messages if they are not online at the same time? Can one person receive the same message on more than one device?

@deinol@dice.camp Agents of the new house solve problems with a government that current house was unable to deal with?

@deinol@dice.camp noooo! oh hey look the starfinder core 2 books are out. maybe buying some pdfs would help

@ketan@climatejustice.social Doesn't the UK suffer from serious shortages of gas leading to frequent price spikes?

@shadow53@floss.social Press summary of an ACM study that found that vibe coding introduces a host of maintenance and security issues. https://thenewstack.io/acm-vibe-coding-ai-agent/

@mattblaze@federate.social @20002ist@thepit.social Only their cable works should be a crime.

@guilevi@dragonscave.space That is stressful and I kind of wonder what incompetence led to that happening

@Gyrfalcon@dmv.community @tillybridges@mastodon.social The patriarchal Christians skip that origin story and go for the other version where woman was created later

@Kroc@oldbytes.space thanks tried opting out

@jenn@gardenstate.social Also i think its rarer for ragebait to spread. Only once in a while is there a mastodon main character for the day

@daniel@gultsch.social You should add in cheogram too if you want xmpp statistics

@rockario@kind.social there are many other challenges with using this brick as your daily phone... But it has no AI and a 3.5 mm headphone jack https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ The pinephone https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/ also meets those criteria but it has a weaker CPU and so struggles more with web browsing. (Though it is quite a bit lighter)

@_elena@mastodon.social There's a bunch of people who don't want AI on https://human-emacs.org/ @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org was the one who got it started.

@reesecommabill@gardenstate.social you need to specify the OS you're using. I saw a discussion that on iOS the operating system has no access to the DRM video layer, it can say it goes here, and then some other hardware renders it.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Did they miss the increases in fertitily issues? Many people need IVF to have kids these days. I believe part of the decline in birthrates is due to pollutants that are linked to fertility issues For example https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251108083900.htm

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social One of the servo devs suggested which is a more complete servo bsaed browser than servoshell https://webbeef.org/ It's got some interesting looking p2p demo code in it and I was thinking of trying to compile it and see what its like.