@nothacking @davidgerard @bigiain Sorry, not sorry. I had to. Here's a handy private key to go with it (this is a valid key, hence the messy bits where the ASN.1 structure requires things like the header for each sequence specifying the modulus, exponent, etc)
Alt text contains the key as ASCII as well
Well, the scraper botnet with no pattern of IP addresses or useragent decided to declare war on my tiny gitbucket instance, so that's another thing I've taken offline.
I think it might be time to arrange an orderly shutdown of this mastodon instance and then just close ports to the outside world.
It was nice making things public while it lasted.
Well, almost time to get ready for Reformation Day drinks!
this goes hard imo
tap tap
OK, that's novel:
My Fuji camera won't charge on the dedicated Samsung charger I keep on my desk but will charge on a crappy USB 2.0 port on a micropc.
Odd.
I think Melbourne just had an earth tremor.
Why in the hell am I expected to install an app to view a delivery attempt photo from Auspost? I'm already logged in with a real browser session.
I gather everyone else is getting a shitload of crappy AI bot signups with a description of "Automated protocol deliverability probe".
Yeah, manual approvals here but I'm sick of all the bounce messages from fake email addresses and having to clear out hundreds of accounts from the admin interface.
So here we go and close things down even more because the entire public facing internet must be dumbed-down to sloperator specifications.
I'm at a festival being badgered to sign a petition to legislate for mandatory on-device AI detection of CSAM. A really good, well-meaning charity has been convinced by an AI company that, through legislation, they can get their third-party commercial model included on every Android and iOS device in the UK. Apparently I'm the bad guy for pointing out that these people are charlatans and the odds of this happening are precisely zero.
Fuck am I getting sick of seeing a captcha or equivalent on every single fucking web page these days.
Perhaps the solution is unauthorised scraping creates a debt repaid in teeth?
First they derecruited the junior engineers, but i did not protest as I was a senior engineer; my LLM handles all the grunt coding now.
Then they derecruited the QA team, but I did not protest as AI can review and test my code much faster.
When they derecruited the artists I cheered, as clearly—unlike my own special skill—drawing is something that can trivially be performed by AI.
When they derecruited the blue team that made perfect sense, as AI had already found all the security issues.
When the architects were let go it was a no-brainer, since a simple prompt now generates a complete design.
When the bubble crashed and tokens were worthless they derecruited me and hired back the juniors as I no longer remembered how to do anything on my own.
Is texlive no longer providing install coverage for Solaris/illumos?
Whenever you hear a politician or police official vilify people who communicate "using encrypted messaging apps", replace it with "in the privacy of their bedroom".
People in power feel entitled to be able to supervise your behaviour, wherever you are, and in whatever form it takes. The concept of privacy offends them.
Righteo, mead on to heat, aaah, Friday.
It really is impressive that this Pope has managed to get atheists, agnostics, Protestants and people of all faiths to eagerly read an encyclical.
The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.
Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.
#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb
Computers were better when they were worse.
#enshittification
Today's joy:
I had a small host handling some minor tasks. Storage was a mirror pair of WD Blue SA510 SATA SSDs, which seemed like a fine choice at the time before there wasn't much I/O and this was sitting in a small form factor Fujitsu.
Both disks went to the shit at the same time. It is only by the good graces of ZFS and seaweed replicas that I'm not sitting on an annoying set of rebuilds.
And yeah, the damage appeared fast enough to completely crunch one drive while leaving checksum errors on the other.
Fortunately I had a spare Dell server that I snagged from @decryption ages ago to just port all the workload over.