Notices by Evan B🥥ehs (eb@social.coop)

@cwebber @daniel @domo

> is centralization
The unfortunate reality of DDoS protection is it requires vast amounts of compute to absorb, which mandates centralization
> breaks accessibility
How?
> blocks tor
That’s an option for site administrators. Cloudflare *also* has free support for onion routing
> is a MITM attack
How? The admin consented. The admin using *any* service would be MITM under this logic.

So TikTok shuts itself down without being required to by law and without the president saying anything official and then reinstates itself after thanking the guy that has no power to do anything until tomorrow.

I am utterly disgusted by Change Healthcare, who have notified me that my information is in a breach of 4TB of data, including

- Social Security Numbers
- Addresses
- Health care records including medication and provider history
- Insurance information

They said that the breach happened in March. The notification arrived today.

They are offering 2 years of complementary identity theft protection.

Sounds like paradise to me

The #Chevron verdict is a an utter insult and disgrace. Day after day, I am ashamed to be American. Some days, I feel optimistic, but they are slowly and systematically wrenching out whatever hope of a better future I had left. The future is bleak.

A couple years ago, as me and my dad watched the sun set over god’s green earth, the topic of children arose. And, I mean, it just feels irresponsible to rope another soul into a world you aren’t even sure you want to live in yourself

It’s going to affect everything from airbags in peoples’ cars to the quality of the food they feed their families and the water they drink, This decision threatens to return the United States to the 1910s when the government had very limited ability to protect the health, safety, and welfare of America.

— Stephen Hall

Apple: “Privacy”
Also Apple: “We integrated ChatGPT”

Copilot on XCode! Nice! Even more ways to make my program not compile

uh you know now that we see some of the ways that potatoes are developing I wonder if there’s better things to do then the traditional um conceptualization of UBI uh I wonder if the future looks something more like Universal Basic Potato Chips and everybody gets a potato chip bag and they can use it they can resell it they can donate it to somebody for cancer research but but what you get is not dollars but like this potato slice yeah you own like part of the potato

— Sam Altman, 2024

@jasonkoebler's https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and-game-google-with-parasite-seo backs up my assertions about the death of social media in https://boehs.org/node/llms-destroying-internet

Though, he states that reddit won't become an AI hellscape. I disagree. It already is one.

Where do the "high karma" accounts come from? They come from huge subreddits where the bots have begun posting marginally related content that people blindly upvote because "cute animal" or whatever (+voting rings). The quality control is gone. The frontpage is governed by bots.

@jasonkoebler and Reddit has a perverse incentive to turn a blind eye to this. The more content people scroll through, the more ads they show, and the more stuff they can sell back to google. It doesn't need to be good content. It just needs to be good enough that people put up with it.

It would be immensely simple for Twitter to stop the bot problem, or at least reduce it. But then the numbers on the graph would dip down further.

@jasonkoebler In some communities, the moderation is tight. In many of the largest communities with "less defined" focus areas (like "BlackMagicFuckery" and "MadeMeSmile"), there's been a considerable quality degradation — the mods have given up.

This is not surprising, given the largest communities are lead by "power moderators", people who "moderate" a large number of subreddits for clout.

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@jasonkoebler

Third, I would contend that the moderators haven't won out. The protests were entirely unsuccessful. Reddit correctly understood that some people are just attached to the clout and will fill in the holes. I think a lot of the dedicated moderators have left.

But anyway, if you spend a few minutes scrolling through the front page, you can find posts that slightly don't fit, with thousands of upvotes. Quietly, in the comments, one person complains.

@jasonkoebler Remember what I was saying about the dead internet theory? https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413

@briankrebs @alex related: my recent https://boehs.org/node/medicicnes

@briankrebs @alex I’ve received private disclosure of a potential vulnerability that I have independently verified as still active. I would disclose it as we are a whole year past the responsible disclosure period, but it’s the state of Georgia and incompetent governments don’t take too kindly to this: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-governor-department-elementary-secondary-education-ssn-vulnerability-disclosure

If an absolute maximum of 18k fedi servers (probably way less than 10k) making requests 2 requests to your server (so they can download the OG image you decided to make) can bring it down for hours, maybe your server configuration is the problem.

What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly created any shareholder value today

With local software, there is no DDoS
With local software, there is no need to scale your cloud
With local software, there is no XSS
With local software, there is no SQL injection
With local software, there is no SSRF, CORS, and CSRF
With local software, there is no broken authentication
With local software, there is no V8 sandbox escapes