When I open specific commercial social media and read certain threads, I wonder if they’re full of bots or idiots.
I hope it’s the former, but I fear it’s the latter…
@stefano It's been my experience for years now that #instagram and #twitter are mostly populated by #bots.
I avoid #meta platforms as much as possible but in the times I have to log in, only bots and #toxic #algorithms are palpable.
#Reddit is marginally better. While there are (valuable) communities populated by real humans, the signal to noise ratio can be quite low. Unfortunately this isn't limited to bots.
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), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.
![Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents:
# List of blocked countries:
# AE - United Arab Emirates
# AF - Afganistan
# BY - Belarus
# CN - China
# CU - Cuba
# HK - Hong Kong
# HU - Hungary
# IR - Iran
# KP - North Korea
# KW - Kuwait
# PK - Pakistan
# PS - Palestine
# TW - Taiwan
# UA - Ukraine
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \
/usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \
/usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \
/usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
echo "Failed to update countries blacklist"
rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \
/usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
exit 3
fi
# List of blocked cities:
# Moscow
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \
gzip -d | \](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/008/301/480/033/592/original/d5334833be4a13cd.png)
