Have anyone observed LLM crawlers request
/.well-known/tdmrep.json?
And even better, respect a 'tdm-reservation: 1' setting?
The problem is those of us who want to build a better world never get the chance because we're always having to defend against those who would see it destroyed before it's ever built.
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
https://rngday.com/en/ No more need be said...
@GFD @platinumtulip Incidentally, I have a *very specific* criticism of the "curl | bash" idiom that doesn't specifically have to do with "did you read it": When you curl | bash the executed code is a *one off* transmission, piped into bash and then lost. This means that the server has the potential to serve a *unique* script, never seen before or since. This makes such actions less secure than, say, running a script from a git repo (hashed) or even to some degree copypasting from a SO page.
Very cursed optical illusion.
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...
"this machine is so dangerous, it could kill all of humanity"
"If it's that dangerous, why don't we just unplug it?"
"We couldn't possibly do that ?"
"Why not?"
"Uh... Um... I... Shareholder value!!!!"
The Bulwark did a montage of every time Trump has said he was abut to give Americans a check for a variety of reasons.
You can take a wild guess at how many of these promises turned into cash in American pockets.
@mcc I guess you still need a way to detect how many spare bits there are. AMD already has 52 bit addressing, and Intel is looking at 57 bits.
So many systems have done this pointer tagging cheat in the past. None of them survived to today. I get the feeling it always comes with greater hidden costs.
From today I will enact a zero tolerance policy towards AI crawlers. If I notice even a single request from an AI crawler in my webserver logs, I will immediately block the entire IP range from which it came.
Starting with this one:
ip route add unreachable 74.7.0.0/16🤣
"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.
It's called #MarginaliaSearch.
It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.
What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.
The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.
There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.
It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."