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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised at the level of negativity here. Having had my sites repeatedly DDOSed offline by Claudebot and others scraping the same damned thing over and over again, thousands of times a second, I welcome any measures to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In unrelated news, hate is down across the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the reality is that every Chinese company is ultimately controlled by the CCP.

  Yes.

  But in the same way that every US company is ultimately controlled by the US Government. And every EU company by them. And every other country by their own government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats’s a shame, I always considered brother one of the better makers of paper manglers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More information: It’s been rolling out to Android 9+ users since November 2024 as a high priority update. Some users are reporting it installs when on battery and off wifi, unlike most apps.

  App description on Play store: SafetyCore is a Google system service for Android 9+ devices. It provides the underlying technology for features like the upcoming Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Google Messages that helps users protect themselves when receiving potentially unwanted content. While SafetyCore started rolling out last year, the Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Google Messages is a separate, optional feature and will begin its gradual rollout in 2025. The processing for the Sensitive Content Warnings feature is done on-device and all of the images or specific results and warnings are private to the user.

  Description by google Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing, and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content. When the feature is enabled, and an image that may contain nudity is about to be sent or forwarded, it also provides a speed bump to remind users of the risks of sending nude imagery and preventing accidental shares. - 9to5google.com/android-safetycore-app-what-is-it/

  So looks like something that sends pictures from your messages (at least initially) to Google for an AI to check whether they’re “sensitive”. The app is 44mb, so too small to contain a useful ai and I don’t think this could happen on-phone, so it must require sending your on-phone data to Google?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t be that simple.

  For starters, you’re assuming t-zero response. It’ll likely be a week before people worry enough that LE isn’t returning before they act. Then they have to find someone else for, possibly, the hundreds or thousands of certs they are responsible for. Set up processes with them. Hope that this new provide is able to cope with the massive, MASSIVE surge in demand without falling over themselves.

  And that’s assuming your company knows all its certs. That they haven’t changed staff and lost knowledge, or outsourced IT (in which case they provider is likely staggering under the weight of all their clients demanding instant attention) and all that goes with that. Automation is actually bad in this situation because people tend to forget how stuff was done until it breaks. It’s very likely that many certs will simply expire because they were forgotten about and the first thing some companies knows is when customers start complaining.

  LetsEncrypt is genuinely brilliant, but we’ve all added a massive single point of failure into our systems by adopting it.

  (Yeah, I’ve written a few disaster plans in my time. Why do you ask?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleeping too well lately? Consider this:

  If LetsEncrypt were to suffer an extended outage - say a month, how much of the internet would break?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bar chart might be more useful if they weighted the source with its number of users. Facebook isn’t 7 times more hateful than Telegram. It has around 3.5 times as many users - but also the two are used very differently. I use Telegram, but only as a free messaging platform for automated alerts.

  Then there’s the algorithms, which tend to feed you what you engage with and from those connections you’ve made on it. The exception recently is X which has a very strong political bias and has turned into something that pushes hate very strongly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Jupiter, You're a real one!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatvely: Eww, Earth, you’re infested. Look at all those little things crawling all over you!