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<p>Mostly rants on Government and corporate <a href="https://mastodon.n41.lat/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>surveillance</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.n41.lat/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Australia</span></a>, with a dose of <a href="https://mastodon.n41.lat/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>auspol</span></a>.</p>
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Post #2587302
People mention that the social media #X is a cesspool. Unfortunately, I do not think #Mastodon is doing much better these days. From time to time I dare to look at the Federated Timeline and WTF, it cannot get worse than that. Just garbage to the point that maybe 1 out of 10 posts may have some value. My organic timeline is still mostly fine for the time being, but it requires a decent amount of effort in blocking bots and automated accounts.
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Post #2587301
Can anyone point me at the list of IP blocks used by #TencentCloud? This is something most cloud providers provide, but I have failed to find this one. That will help me block at once (instead or one at a time) all those endless #AI #bots that are constantly hitting my #Mastodon server. Thanks.
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Post #2587300
Pretty excited about this #retro deck of #cards with an #Atari theme that we got yesterday at a bookshop in #Perth.
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Post #2587299
As an experiment, today I setup an instance of #Nepenthes in a #VPS. It is a poisoning #tarpit intended for crawlers that scrape data for #LLMs. It will generate endless linked pages with randomly generated content. Interestingly, just minutes after deployment, the #OpenAI crawler showed up. Since then, it has been happily eating all the crap thrown at it. I know this is a tiny effort against one of the most toxic industries in history, but I love the feeling of fighting back even if it is...
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Post #2587298
#GenAI should be known as the industry pushing multi-billion dollar solutions to solve million-dollar problems.
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Post #2587291
I have written a #blog entry about my experience with running a #tarpit with the intention of boycotting #AI #bots. https://blog.n41.lat/posts/boycotting-ai-crawlers/
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Post #2587282
Since I setup a #tarpit (using #nepenthes) about 3 days ago, the server has been hit more than 1 million times by the likes of #OpenAI and #Meta. Apart from the usual parasitic crawlers. This only proves, how unethical the whole industry is.
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Post #2587281
I had read good reviews about the #GL-iNet #routers so I purchased one of their products around 18 months ago. One of my main motivations was supporting, at some level, #OpenWrt and including tools like #AdGuardHome and #Wireguard. But to be honest, it all has been a bit disappointing. AdGuardHome never worked very well. Apart from being slow, the service would frequently freeze (e.g. whenever I updated the custom filter) and I had to manually restart it. In addition, the system stack was qu...
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Post #2587280
The statistics from #AdGuard are quite shocking. More than 40% of DNS requests in my household are #surveillance related. This is the sad reality of what the Internet has become.
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Post #1748478
Why #Australia is going through so many #CyberAttacks, many resulting in #dataleaks, lately? According to cryptographer Prof. Vanessa Teague from the Australian National University: &#39;We&#39;ve had a decade of anti-security policy. We&#39;ve had laws that required the acquisition of data that didn&#39;t need to be acquired, laws that demand the retention of data that didn&#39;t need to be retained&#39;.