dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are for anything that’s E2E encrypted (so that the link isn’t revealed to Meta servers), but for public posts on Facebook, the server does the scraping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they sure that the Meta traffic is AI bots? A lot of people share links on Meta products, which scrape the links to generate a preview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead simple document host?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Install Nginx, add autoindex on; to the default site config, then throw the files into /var/www/html or whatever default folder it uses.

  You could also just share the files via SMB. Easy to use on a PC - you could configure their computers to mount the share as a network drive on boot. Not sure about other phones but the built-in files app on my Galaxy S25 Ultra supports SMB too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0°mg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Plex for music just because they currently have the best app (Plexamp). My Plex server is mostly just music, and TV shows I record off an antenna using HDHomeRun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CGIProxy / PHProxy were definitely very popular when I was in school. Some of the more tech-savvy kids would get free hosting accounts and install a proxy in them and share the URL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have issues with IP blocks, get the AWS equivalent of a VPS (Lightsail). It’s expensive compared to other VPS services - $5/month for only 512MB RAM, 20GB disk and 1TB monthly transfer, when good deals usually have at least 8GB RAM for that price - but it’s difficult for anyone to block Amazon/AWS IPs because so many services use them :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only commercial VPNs? So HTTP proxying, Tor, SSH tunneling, SOCKS tunneling, running your own VPN node, etc are all allowed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 It’s not a real news site unless it has RSS :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pritzker, taking aim at Trump, crypto ‘bros,’ signs laws to regulate digital currency industry, crypto ATMS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  my state seems to be functioning at a better level than the federal government

  As someone who lives in California, this just seems like a normal thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MacOS only has ~10-15% market share (depending on which stats you read) so something breaking in MacOS has much less impact compared to Windows. Apple also control the hardware, so there’s fewer things that can go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Million-Dollar Website That Sold Nothing But Pixels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I completely forgot about the Million Dollar Site. That was only a few years after I got internet access for the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks Steve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but law firms generally subscribe to these databases.

  At least where I live, lawyers can also go to the local law library to use LexisNexis for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about other EVs, but on the BMW iX, a lot of the computer stuff is encrypted now, and has to be signed with BMW’s private key (i.e. they’ve actually implemented encryption correctly). Apps like Bimmercode don’t work on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sponsored by raycon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluetooss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is $879 for an extra 20 horsepower even worth it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m amazed that these lawyers are using things like ChatGPT, when better solutions exist for the legal industry. The big legal databases (like LexisNexis) have their own AI tools that will give you actual useful results, since they’re trained on caselaw from the database, and link to the relevant case so you can verify it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  labeling and tagging each track, and sorting them into a properly named folder structure

  Lidarr will do this for you, mostly automated.

  To rip CDs, I use abcde (“a better CD encoder”) on Linux. It automatically tags the tracks based on CDDB or Musicbrainz data.

  I copy that across to my server, then in Lidarr I add the relevant album then click the button to manually import it, and point it to the right folder. Lidarr will automatically sort it into the right directory structure. I have it configured to use the structure that Plex wants - folders per artist, then folders per album inside those.

  That’s assuming it has data on Musicbrainz. For MP3/FLAC files from albums that aren’t on Musicbrainz, it’s a bit trickier. I sometimes use kid3 (KDE audio tagger) as it can pull from other sources like Discogs and Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy does have a way to view votes, but it’s only visible to admins. I’m not sure why they did it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree that this isn’t ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is there’s some 90s albums I can’t find anywhere - not on Discogs, not on eBay. But they’re on Soulseek. I’m not sure what else to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally impossible to have private upvotes and downvotes with a federated service. Additionally, a lot of other social media sites have public votes/likes, as long as the content is public. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram (if you consider it social media?), and probably some others all have public likes by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Voting is meant to be anonymous (like irl).

  Says who? Voting/likes are public on a lot of social media sites. The only mainstream ones I can think of where it’s not are YouTube and reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe you can go find someone’s vote history just from the normal Lemmy ui

  If you run your own Lemmy server, you can probably just query your own database. Lemmy admins can see upvoters and downvoters for all comments, not just comments on servers they’re an admin on, so that data must be in the database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the 2000s P2P networks still exists today, and still has a pretty decent-sized community using it: Soulseek. It was released a month after KaZaA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ripped CDs to FLAC, put them on a Plex server, and use Plexamp on my computer and phone. Now I’ve got my own personal streaming service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think so. I switched from GNOME to KDE a while back, so haven’t tried it recently. It worked great last time I tried it though, and it works well in KDE too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how much space the whole of Debian takes up. Every package for every supported architecture.

  A bare minimum installation of Debian is probably around 1GB or so? They recommend at least 4GB space for a server install and 10GB for a desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should work as long as you’re using Wayland.