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@rysiek@mstdn.social I didn't know that GitLab wanted people to use Forgejo so badly.
Now GitHub are probably going to do something similar, like try to find a way to sell Copilot more than they are already are
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In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange Some doctors like this one would likely rather be paid in food than money
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Isn't the first and won't be the last thing the current US government get cancelled either directly or indirectly
@lzg@mastodon.social No amount of safety notices or signs will prevent human stupidity because there will be at least someone who wonders if the sign really means that and do it anyway 🤪
That was slightly more drama updating to Mastodon v4.5.0 than I wanted.
The OS restarted while the database migration was in progress so I had to restore the database from backups.
Except this took some time because of the size of the database and the fact that the backup software I have for the #PostgreSQL server needs to rewrite the entire database to restore older versions.
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The challenge here is turning this so the school children are not working *against* the security put in place by IT, but are instead working *for* it.
So instead of using the vulnerability for themselves, the pupils do responsible disclosure properly.
So I restarted my Mastodon server and it appears my Sidekiq queue has a problem #MastoAdmin
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@cstross@wandering.shop @hjmiii@wandering.shop
Stealing books doesn't stop at Anthropic though, a lot of AI startups and big tech have been pirating books for training their next LLM (Hi Meta, this was only ~10 months ago)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/