@vantablack Are those the ones that pretend to be people but everything they post is sort of disjointed?
@amcooper We will just have to see how things go; it's difficult to come up with a response-strategy without really knowing which direction the attack will be from.
If I used my phone to record music and mixed it on inexpensive hardware running free software, would that be cyberpunk? :blobcatthinking:
@amcooper That's what I'm wondering too. It's not yet clear to me what the mechanism of enforcement would be -- or even technically could be, beyond governments blocking access to IP addresses or seizing domain-names.
@openrightsgroup The question in my mind is how this will affect fedi.
I do know that I bloody well will not ever require age verification here on TootCat.
@rnd I'm now thinking of Mork from Ork exclaiming "fly and be free!" as he flings eggs into the air.
@artemis There's a song by Billy Joel which includes two lines I always found very affirming and healing:
I know you're an emotional girl
It took a lot for you to not lose your faith in this world
What I got from that is "it's okay to have strong feelings, to be sensitive -- there's a lot of messed-up stuff out there, so of course you're going to have a reaction to it".
@0xabad1dea Possibly they are updating "trusted" boot signatures? I seem to recall that being a thing...
Welcome to the Instagram Instaban club! I was banned right after posting my first comment on a friend's post in Threads, no actionable reason given, and my appeals (which included the requested photo) were denied.
(This was before the push for ID laws started being a thing.)
@rnd If politicians are proposing bad policy because it seems like an easy political victory, then I call that malicious (in that it puts personal power as a higher priority than making good policy).
The system is in many ways set up to reward such choices, but that doesn't make them not-malicious.
[added] ...but, perhaps more to the point, they're not truly grassroots/populist movements -- they're movements driven by someone who stands to gain by offering a solution that sounds obvious but is actually awful, not by people arriving at that solution on their own and then organizing to push for it.
@Serena Yeah. One of my own servers -- and all the sites on it -- have become hopelessly sluggish as a result, and I'm having to migrate everything onto a larger number of servers to make them usable again.
I don't think CloudFlare is a good way of handling this, though -- especially when it makes the problem worse.
What I want to try (experimental, may not be sufficiently effective): https://wooz.dev/BotID
TFW you can no longer access StackOverflow because the bot-check they put into place to stop LLMs from scraping their content and driving users towards using LLMs instead of actually reading StackOverflow loops endlessly and won't let you in.
Guess I'll have to ask an LLM. :blobcatupsidedown:
@rnd Yeah, but who is pushing those populist movements? Why is "do anything, even if it's stupid" gaining traction over "what are good ways to solve this problem"?
Maybe I'm being naïve about how most people are, but... my sense is that whenever there's a mass movement to do something stupid, there's usually a lot of money which has been spent to clear the path for it.
@rnd To be fair, yeah, there's probably a lot of {not understanding the implications} going on -- though I suspect most of the impetus for the Terrible Ideas™ comes from intentionally malicious (seeking power/profit) motives.
If it came from positive motivations, I expect we'd be seeing expert panels tasked to come up with recommendations, with detailed evidence and justifications behind them, rather than these seemingly arbitrary "do something even if it's stupid" solutions.
@rnd I'll take "real problems used as an excuse for awful solutions that make those problems worse" for $500, Alex.
I think it's simpler -- my default php.ini contains this line:
post_max_size = 8M
(I'm sure I've tweaked that somewhere to enable uploads up to 1G.)