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Have you ever looked at a heron straight-on?
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder #UrbanWilderness
Der naechste Scam von #Musk kollabiert!
#Tesla stellt den Verkauf seiner Solarziegeln ein, fuer deren Produktion sie eine Mrd Steuergelder abgegriffen haben, um sie dann aus #China zu importieren.
Hier 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/080985d0 rolle ich diese Story in Ruhe auf.
Gerne im #Fediverse boosten.
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Ah shit. Been hit with a wave of 37k bot hits on my blog. As much as I'd like to believe that thousands of people in Uzbekistan and Iraq love my posts from 2008, I think I'm being scraped.
Can anyone personally recommend a PHP/WordPress way to block AI scrapers?
(Please don't tell me to use a different blogging platform. I also don't want to use a CDN. Sympathy not required but practical advice welcome.)
@Edent I used to use “Blackhole for Bad Bots” https://perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/, but it seems it doesn't play well with caching, and apparently kinda silently stopped working for me at some point last year.
I just went looking for some tar-pitting options, and found “JTZL's Bot Maze” https://wordpress.org/plugins/jtzl-bot-maze, which I am now trialling. On the surface, it does the trick (fake content, tar-pitting, and outright banning after a while), but we'll see.
It's got a very small user base, which isn't great, but not necessarily a red flag, and the codebase looked ok from a cursory look. I have automated updates disabled for now. We'll see.
@d_rift also this book was clearly written by a big NSA prime number fan so i feel really bad recommending it https://archive.org/details/gdelsproof00nage/page/n133/mode/2up particularly because it made me feel hilbert's bullshit might have been vaguely interesting at one point -- i strongly urge you (when you have the time to devote to it--it's not long at all) to read it in the voice of an NSA crypto head who thinks if they prime number hard enough they can defeat god
especially there is an intrinsic give and take between:
they raise goldbach's conjecture offhand once right after mentioning that the even integers are a group but the odds aren't (i guess evens would be a ring, while the primes are an abelian group). the relationship to goldbach's "every even number can be expressed as the sum of two primes" is just DEEPLY fascinating.
the author makes the point that there is in fact just enough room for godel to add a "mirror" big enough to hold the meta-mathematical statements godel made to defeat hilbert
@hipsterelectron /me adds it to the list...
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the church in the city my great grandfather grew up in
@d_rift idk if you saw but i also found that lattices and ECC are quite literally both two parts of the same method to crack finite-field diffie-hellman from lenstra in 1982-1985. so the reason we're all dealing with these waves of bullshit is because:
@hipsterelectron 🤨 oh dear... I can see I have some catching up to do. (Not least I read a lot slower. And, uh, had mentally cache swapped out all of mathematics after the last few years.)
My partner’s internet recently has been talking about how buddlejas are drought resistant. And this is true, as evidenced by the number in Cambridge that are growing from cracks in pavement and walls.
But, having previously tried to kill a buddleja, I think the fact that they are also largely resistant to weed killer, fire, chainsaws, and exorcism is perhaps more important information.
become ungovernable
@informapirata @politica tutto giusto. Ma ci sono situazioni in cui si forzano i limiti, soprattutto quando gli spazi sono condivisi.
@generalespecifico ma questi casi sono già ampiamente coperti dalle leggi attualmente in vigore. Non c'è bisogno di creare nuove leggi che colpevolizzano il pedone e che colpevolizzano la parte debole
I'm going to get on my usual soap box for a minute here.
Tech giants and their platforms are harmful to kids and everyone else.
Banning kids from them is a bad idea because it requires all of us to give up our privacy, for no gain, as kids will still get on. This has been proven.
But on top of that, our government, again, uses the excuse of "Protecting Children" to ban them from one of the few spaces they have left, harmful as they often may be.
Our profit driven, car dependent world means kids have little to no autonomy, few to none cheap or free activities. They need to ask to be driven anywhere they want to meet their friends. They need money for any activities. Except online.
These fools in govt don't care about kids. But now they use their "protection" to further isolate them.
Are they proposing making public transport free or cheap so they can meet their friends in person instead? No.
Are they supporting bikes or cycle lanes so they can safely move independently? No.
Are they funding clubs, sports, arts, culture, games or other activities they can do instead of chatting or posting on corporate social media? Lol no.
So what are kids supposed to be doing to socialise and spend their free time?
You betcha they'll find ways around this. They have to. They've got almost nothing else.
Not to mention queer and neurodivergent kids whose entire community might be online only. Flawed as platforms may be. What happens with them?
They'll have to find a way around the ban too.
Meanwhile all of us will be forced to show our government mandated ID every time we want to shitpost on our government approved, adult only socials.
There's no benefit for kids, you should know these ghouls don't care about them.
It's about entrenching control and power over all of us, further isolating kids from each other and avoiding regulating those causing the harm for profit.
Fuck that noise.
Stepping off the soap box now.
@pezmico You forgot to mention that the ban is going to create a whole generation that will become creative in breaking the law, or at least circumventing the law. This will lower the barriers for other areas they think they should be able to do. As a result, the Govt is creating a more disobedient population with a lower threshold for criminal offending. That is on top of a fairly significant part of the population that has already arrived at that point.
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Sima Samar, ancienne ministre: «Mes rêves et mes cauchemars gravitent autour de l’Afghanistan»
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New EU-wide product repair rules come into force
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588931-repair-rules/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415621
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France: visite à Paris aux multiples enjeux pour le prince héritier saoudien Mohammed ben Salman
(RFI avec AFP)
L’intégration des Kurdes permettra «de sortir la Syrie de la guerre civile et d'assurer la stabilité du pays»
(RFI)
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