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   a very weeny construct 💀 (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:27:16 JST a very weeny construct 💀

   love the pettiness of macos showing windows computers on the lan as old-ass crt monitors displaying a blue screen of death. need more of that energy in my linux

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:27:13 JST 翠星石

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     @raccoon @pho4cexa I don't really use GUIs when it comes to listing information, but if I was to write a GUI that showed computers on a network, it would show macos as fruity toys and windows computers as water closets and of course GNU as GNU.
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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:27:14 JST Trash Panda

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     Mac computers should show up as toys.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:40:17 JST 翠星石

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     @raccoon @pho4cexa Devils, to show the proprietary tricks such proprietary OS's get up to (i.e. just include the "Open"BSD (a spiky pufferfish) and "Free"BSD logo (a demon)).
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     Trash Panda (raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:40:18 JST Trash Panda

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website
     What about bsd?

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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:41:13 JST munir

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     @Suiseiseki @raccoon @pho4cexa my child will use freebsd like a truly free person
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 20:57:06 JST 翠星石

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     @munir @raccoon @pho4cexa Ah yes, some great free software we have here;
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev
     
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev/nvidia/LICENCE.nvidia
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev/nvidia/tegra124_xusb.bin.uu
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev/nvidia/tegra210_xusb.bin.uu
     
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev/otus/otus-license
     https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/sys/contrib/dev/otus/otus-init
     
     Wait, that's a huge amount of proprietary software installed by default in the default "src" repo (how it's uucoded doesn't make a difference, as it denies the users freedom in that state).
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:00:26 JST munir

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     @Suiseiseki @raccoon @pho4cexa sorry I can't see
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:14:22 JST 翠星石

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     @munir @raccoon @pho4cexa I tested it and it worked in my free browser.
     
     Amazing - the "Free"BSD developers actually target the correct filthy proprietary useragents with proprietary malware!
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:17:37 JST 翠星石

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     @munir @pho4cexa @raccoon (By default Canada Anubis is targeted primarily at possibly free browsers (browsers with "Mozilla" in the useragent), but interestingly it does not by default target the useragents of proprietary browsers that LLM scrapers would use (i.e. useragents with chrome in it for iOS, Android, macos, windows etc)).
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:17:56 JST Zergling_man

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     @Suiseiseki @pho4cexa @raccoon @munir UA filtering is still retarded though
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:19:24 JST 翠星石

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     @Zergling_man @munir @raccoon @pho4cexa It isn't retarded if there is heavy scraping and you actually target the useragents that scrapers use.
     
     It is retarded if you target the useragents that free browsers use and don't target the useragents the scrapers use.
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:20:52 JST munir

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     @Zergling_man @Suiseiseki @raccoon @pho4cexa im surprised they dont use browser fingerprints instead
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:21:53 JST 翠星石

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     @munir @raccoon @Zergling_man @pho4cexa They may be using browser fingerprinting, as I was not able to trigger the malware delivery with "Android" or "AppleWebKit" in the useragent with GNU wget.
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:22:38 JST munir

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     @Suiseiseki @raccoon @Zergling_man @pho4cexa gahknew
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:34:55 JST 翠星石

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     @Zergling_man @munir @raccoon @pho4cexa >because scrapers will just reroll their UA whenever they notice
     Generally poorly programmed scrapers will just keep trying with the same useragent and blocking that useragent or the IP or serving a GNU zip bomb works.
     
     You do indeed have not much chance against a properly programmed slow scraper without advanced heuristics.
     
     
     It's fair game to punish chrome, Android and iOS and macos and windows users, but you shouldn't target "Mozilla", as GNU icecat has a useragent that contains that.
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:34:57 JST Zergling_man

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     @Suiseiseki @pho4cexa @raccoon @munir No, it's retarded in any case, because scrapers will just reroll their UA whenever they notice (if I were writing a malicious scraper I would have it hold a list of the 5 most common UAs, plus a random generator, to go through to see if it can beat 400-class responses), and if it happens to coincide with normal use it's annoying. Like, say, the several sites I have come across that block lynx's UA. What the fuck scraper even uses lynx as a base anyway
     
     Actually, I'll grant that just blocking UAs of chrome and firefox and such is a good idea, but I don't actually care if people use terrible software to access my site. I'll just pick on them for JS because it's a danger to themselves to allow it to execute on random websites.
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 21:38:09 JST munir

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     @Suiseiseki @raccoon @Zergling_man @pho4cexa 20 dollars and all your blocks can be bypassed with ease on scale