Wildmimic

Many don’t have the capacity left to make conscious decisions about these things - either they are already living paycheck to paycheck or it is too abstract for them to realize it might bite them and everyone else on a future date. Even if i have ideas for the first group that I have no power to make reality, I don’t have a solution for the second group either.

Yeah, but at least this post is interesting; it shows how godawful humanity as a whole is at detecting bots in the wild.

2 out of 400 bad.

By 2030 my game “Backups” will in playing time surpass my remaining life expectancy lol

I have a very long breath to dive this through.

Just use it to play Minecraft, problem solved lol

I agree. I recently swapped out my aging 2600x6core for a 5950x32core processor and upgraded from an 3070ti to a 5070 (well actually more of a sidegrade - my vram was simply too small). before this, my system had already a few years where there wasn’t much difference regarding gaming - In the current configuration and the glacial speed gaming developed i’d say i have a decade before upgrades are really needed.

First: It’s pirated content. I do not have an issue with playing fast and loose with copyright, but Wikipedia shouldn’t have started linking there, because pirated content of this volume has the side effect of involving authorities pretty fast. Wikipedia has enemies, they are rich and ressourceful, and this is an attack surface they shouldn’t have.

Second: People do not tend to trust others who behave erratically, and when trust is eroded it’s not so easy to fix it again. In reality it’s this way: nobody knows if the content there has been modified, and trust was the only thing holding all this together.

To be fair, your argument has been made by others on the RfC too, comparing the situation with Wikipedia linking to Anna’s Archive.

Truth is, when being honest, Wikipedia should never have started linking there. It probably started out of noble intentions: making sure sources stay available for everyone.

Now a new factor has come into play - that the site is being weaponized. The admin there has surely the ability to modify whatever he wants, create fake articles, change the wording of others and so on, and has now proven - without a single doubt - that he is not trustworthy.

This means that the reliability of all hosted information has to be questioned as well. And here we are.

Using visiting clients for attacking makes the site malicious, and it’s because the owner decided it should be, not because it was hacked or got served “spicy” ads or something.

Since this jarhead has no qualm in weaponizing his site, dragging every visitor into this, and threatening the owner of a small blog with creating a whole category of AI porn just for a blog post from 2 years ago: what if he decides he could use visiting clients for other uses, like crypto mining? If my wiki had 700k links pointing there, i’d think hard about my choices, and would want to reduce my dependency on such a source.

Yeah, i DO like valve, because they are as good as it can get for a company in the tech sector. But my comment was more from a “we need a replacement now”-perspective, where Steam is a top contender for sure (and the content there is actually discoverable which gives an out).

Hopefully the scare and the issue of getting out content of discord makes sure that there is a solution ready for the next time the shit hits the fan.

I would go for something like A - B - A:

• hide the links so the ddos gets migitated, and start replacing the links where possible
• when the malicious code is gone, reinstate the links, deprecate .today, dont stop replacing the links
• when the links in the most commonly requested articles are gone, hide the rest while it waits for replacement.

but i’m no wikipedian, just someone who likes reading talk pages lol

No, the original blogpost did not dox the .today owner, it just unearthed some other alias and the general idea that the owner might sit in russia.

2 years pass.

Now Tucows (the domain registrar for .today) got a demand from the FBI for all data they have on .today, which caused news pieces where the blog post was linked.

The .today owner wanted the blog post not reachable from those news articles, and sent an email to the blog owner with the request to “take the blog post down for a few months” so that the news articles wouldn’t link there anymore. Sadly, that mail went into the spam folder and the blogger didn’t see it.

Because there was no reaction to his mail, the owner of .today put code into his captcha page, DDoS-ing the blog. The blogger and the .today-owner later did mail with each other, but the .today-owner seems to be a pretty unreasonable and rude person.

Wikipedia is now split: on the one side, .today is the actual best archive site, because it doesn’t care about copyright, censorship and employs advanced scraping techniques, which can bypass a lot of paywalls (which the internet archive does not do). This makes it great for citing sources. On the other side it’s not very trustworthy to insert code in your captcha page that makes your computer part of a DDoS attack.

So now there are 3 options for wikipedia.

• a) remove all archive.today links: this would be very,very disruptive since around 700k links on wikipedia would go dead
• b) phase out archive.today, so that no new links are getting added in the future - that implies looking for an alternative, which could even be the wikimedia foundation itself
• c) do nothing

Hope it helps with the confusion!

Well, Valve hasn’t done so for about 20 years now, how long do people have to give a company that has proven again and again that they are not in the game for extracting maximum value out of their client base? I’d love for a FOSS solution to pick up the slack, but none are currently in a state where they can pick up millions of non-technical minded users in a heartbeat. Valve has those users already, so they are able to provide a solution NOW, not in a few years.

Should Valve eventually start enshittifying, which would require going public first, maybe there will be a readily usable FOSS solution. For now, it’s one of the easiest routes out of Discord (and the content on the Steam Forums is scrapeable over the web, so it’s pretty easy to transfer out, not like discord)

I don’t think that Valve has that game plan, as they have proven again and again for about 20 years now. Having no shareholders really keeps them grounded. But you’re right, a completely FOSS solution that is easy to use would be preferable - but in the short term Steam communities might get an upswing.

Or just use Steam - which the average Discord user has already installed. Supports Chats, Groups, Voice Chat, Streaming, Discussion Boards that are discoverable, solid 2FA authentication… only thing missing is Video Calls, which they could implement easily when looking at what is already there.

I would have given Kristi Noem as an example. Fun fact: her full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem

That might be because of the current issue of users creating an account, make one post and then after a short while deleting post and account. It’s often something divisive or clickbaiting.

The discussion has been popping up in a few communities, for example here: https://lemmy.world/post/42127013

I fully agree with you, but there is the issue of robotaxis crashing 3x as often as human drivers - and thats with a human supervisor on board. So if we switched completely to AI cars with the current level of integration, thats 120000 people killed.

There is a difference between standing for your core values and defending them vs crushing civil liberties and fucking up minorities. I would be very much china-friendly if they weren’t so heavy on the censorship - both wiping out a lot of local cultures and suppressing critics, at home and especially abroad - and less biased towards the Han-Chinese population, and to be honest, I don’t think the CCP actually needs those points to keep their power., these are self-serving actions to make sure that only themselves and noone else gets a say, like another communistic party that might do things different. Those points are a no-go for me, so i cannot be pro China.

Russia is not communist, not in the slightest. It’s the embodiment of feudalistic hypercapitalism - no worker has had any power in Russia for a long time. Wars of Aggression aren’t in the interest of the populace either - and it’s not their first - especially when it involves staggering losses that are only second to WW2.

I also didn’t say anything about GETTING power. I do not like the thought of violent uprisings, but i acknowledge that it might be needed for a change like that.

I’m not anti-communist. I’m anti-authoritarian.

Being a communist does not imply supporting Russia, because Russia is not communist in any way, it’s a dictatorship.

Being a communist also does not mean being pro China, because even if China implements parts of communism, communism does not imply eradicating the identity of minorities and censoring whatever the party does not like - i think communism, free speech and a multicultural society do not exclude each other.

It’s the authoritarian part LW disagrees with. I think the .world admins would have long defederated ML, but since the lemmy coders are situated on .ML, thats not such an attractive option. Desalines and Nutomic are hardcore tankies and bigots, which crush any dissenting voice on .ml. Even worse, if you want to support lemmy development, the finances of .ml and development budget are intertwined, so every donation for lemmy also supports tankies. It’s the reason i switched to piefed,

If you want examples of how those two run their digital kingdom, take a look at [email protected] - most posts are about .ml.