@workingclasshistory
Zionists call Palestinians terrorists, for resisting the exact same thing. #FreePalestine

@nixCraft Thats in short legalize stealing.

@nixCraft stop wasting energy on AI mi Amigo I'll make you some Barra's ok?

#Humour #AI #openAI

@nixCraft

Literally a list of things I will absolutely not provide to AI platforms.

@nixCraft the money made it possible

@nixCraft

Do not give out your PII in the first place.

AI is just a shiny thing.

#Ai #Insanity

@nixCraft going to use peoples ID's
for mass surveillance now.

@nixCraft

Maybe AI needs our IDs so they can use it to commit identity theft.

@nixCraft https://jesusvibesdaily.blogspot.com/2025/04/biblical-ufos-ancient-scripture-or.html

@nixCraft

And watch them feed all your identifying data into their plagiarism slop machine.

@nixCraft @dcbikeguy That’s goofy. I’m even amenable to transformative use arguments and the like, but the hypocrisy is truly wild to see

@nixCraft the only thing open is everyone else's works and wallets.

@nixCraft Thieves. All AI should be boycotted except for scientific purposes. It's not intelligent and is based on stealing all our info. Selling it back to us is criminal.

@nixCraft

This might be illegal in Illinois due to the Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Not that OpenAI would mind another lawsuit?

@nixCraft hi

Gffg

@nixCraft It is definitely not about IP theft. It is very much about being able to map your thought processes, vulnerabilities, political positions, etc.

There's a non zero chance this would end up linking your use of Open AI up with the vast apparatus their building with all the stolen federal data and your financial data.

They'll probably sell it by saying it will help you get compensation for your work. A financial incentive will be necessary imo to get the adoption levels they'd want.

@nixCraft Google has been doing the same for decades though? Crawling and indexing the entire web, then restricting access unless you have JavaScript enabled, has a verified phone number and your age verified by adding your credit card. Sure, OpenAI is taking it to the next level, but it's still the same thing except they present the stolen data differently.

@nixCraft LOL,

Alt...

A cartoon picture of the head of Bugs Bunny. He is saying NO in large letters.

@nixCraft OpenAi wanted my phone number for registration in their app. And that's when I uninstalled it.

@nixCraft “to prevent IP theft”? This prevents too many bots, you can still theft whatever you want after identification process.

@nixCraft I can't believe they are self aware, I think they all still be bicamerally operative

@nixCraft Can't they at least rename themselves Closed AI

@nixCraft It's so open, and artificial, and intelligent...

@nixCraft

Not that I am in any way condoning OpenAI, but I fail to find where it states that the purpose is to prevent IP theft? (Unless it's included in the linked policy documents.)

Looks more to me that they are, like any other big tech company, collecting as much data as they can to build a profile of you. The purpose is tracking as many individuals as they can. They have clearly demonstrated how they feel about IP rights.

@nixCraft this worked so well to reduce racism on Facebook. I’m sure there aren’t multiple, competitive black markets for stolen PII that unscrupulous actors will immediately turn to

@nixCraft can I spin up my own LLM, have it create its own verified ID, then provide that...

@nixCraft There are so many objectionable sentences on that page. Tax forms, biometric data? WTAF.

@nixCraft At its best, at its worst, at its most perfunctory, prestidigitary, pathetic, and punk-ass.

@nixCraft This is crazy. How much corporate power is enough for them?

@nixCraft
I love how that company shows again and again how "open" they really are.

@nixCraft I'm using GPT to teach me to code, however you have to be strict with it and enforce the socratic method, otherwise it just doesn't work - it generates half-assed code and I find it more productive to learn the theory and do the code stuff myself, just my 2¢

@nixCraft me seeing the screenshot

Alt...

Austin powers meme with Dr Evil saying “how about no!”

@nixCraft This is some of the most shameless fucking shit I've ever heard of.

Stealing from others to create your own product: Okay
Stealing content produced by OpenAI made with content stolen from others: Not Okay

And now they want all your biometric data. I always thought the big banks and corpos were dystopian, but then OpenAI came along and btfo'd them.

@pes_maravilla Sí soy.

@liw I've used ~/git for many years, but recently set up my new work laptop with ~/code instead. Still kinda undecided on the new long-term choice, though it can't be ~/git since it is no longer the only version control system I use

@liw ~/src would be the sensible location.... In reality of course it's distributed between ~, projects, tmp, misc, nas/Downloads, ~/Downloads, and numerous other places... So "find . - name" is usually the first step.

@liw ~/checkouts

Makes explicit those are mostly not the single source of truth, e.g. for backups. Only local branches are a bit tricky...

@liw Currently using ~/git/project with no checkout, but worktrees in ~/src/project/branchname

@liw ~/Development (similar to the Documents, Pictures etc. folders that my KDE (?) kinda created by default ages ago).

@liw ~/code/

@liw ~/Litterbox
Because.. it's like a sandbox but erm..

@liw I have ~/src for unmodified sources and ~/dev for things I'm working on.

I usually clone into ~/src and use `git worktree add ...` to create myself a working directory under ~/dev.

@liw ~/Developer because on macos, if you name it this way, it will automatically change the icon of the directory to a hammer

@liw ~/git and ~/repositories

@liw ~/source because command completion made three letter acronyms redundant a long, long time ago 😉

@liw
I use ~/src/<forge>/<project>. For example, ~/src/github/alpha/, ~/src/bitbucket/bravo/.

Then ~/.gitconfig can contain common configuration across all forges, and then include forge-specific configurations. This makes using forge-specific features like email privacy easy to do.

<Common stuff across all forges>
[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/github/"
path = ~/src/github/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/gitlab/]
path = ~/src/gitlab/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/bitbucket/"]
path = ~/src/bitbucket/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/workplace/"]
path = ~/src/workplace/.gitconfig

This directory structure eases the hassle when dealing with a lot of projects.

@liw

~/dev for my own projects (and anything I contribute to)

~/src for readonly checkouts of projects that I want to look at

@liw something mostly something like

~/dev/python/3/projectname

from which the general scheme should be apparent.

As I need a place for the Geany IDE to hold its "project" settings files, those all go into

~/dev/Geany/projectname.geany

and the wiki content for each project goes into

~/dev/Wikis/projectname

In retrospect I've no idea why I did "python" as all lowercase but not so for "Geany" - nor why "Wikis" was plural.

@liw ~\work\Pycharm Projects\
😂

@liw I keep my personal projects in ~/dev-git (odd, I know, a hangover from when I used git, svn, baz, and bzr). At work I keep projects in directories named after the project code they are part of. I am strange :D

@liw ~/src if it's local to this machine, or /usr/local/src which I sometimes have setup over nfs

@liw I have purpose-related directories under my home directory rather than all repos under git or the like. Currently:

dev: open source that I contribute to
third-dev: build from source but don't contribute (e.g. neomutt)
business: client repos (proprietary)
sites: personal and side project web apps

So personal stuff that I work on will be in dev or sites.

@liw ~/git

@liw ~/projects/ for working directories.

There's too much OS-generated clutter in ~/ to put much of significance there.

Since things in ~/projects/ are systematically backed up in one of my three regular backup mechanisms this includes things which aren't actually projects as such, such as ~/projects/thunderbird/ for my email and ~/projects/firefox/ for my main Firefox profile.

Being a cantankerous git myself, I don't use git for my own projects. Most projects are backed by directories in ~hg/projects/ (yes, separate Linux user). One, and likely soon more, in ~/fossil/.

@liw
~/repositories

@liw ~/dev for me

@liw ~/things/Project-name/tree-name. Eg ~/things/Dgit/dgit, ~/things/Dgit/debian-tag2upload-keyring

For Rust projects, usually ~/Rustup/Project-name/tree-name because that's slightly more convenient for nailing-cargo. Eg ~/Rustup/Arti/arti.

@liw
~/projects/src for external-only code
~/projects/personal for my own code
~/projects/$DAYJOB for work related code

@liw ~/Projects

@liw for work, ~/w/projname/

@liw ~/projects or ~/playground depending on how serious it is. I reserve ~/src for other people’s source code.

@liw ~/code

@liw ~/code

@liw ~/sourcecode/projectname right now haha

@liw
~/src for anything permenent, ~/tmp for quick scripts or experiments.

@liw glad to see I'm not the only one using ~/dev

@liw

~/Work/GitLab, ~/Work/GitHub, ~Fun/GitLab, ~/Fun/Pagure and, of course, the most important, ~/tmp2/test/new/

What these companies then sell to *their* customers is network access through the devices/PCs that have an app with this SDK installed. They are proud to tell you how you can funnel your (AI) web scraping etc through millions of rotating, residential and mobile IP addresses. Exactly the pattern we see hitting our servers.

https://infatica.io/pricing/

2/8

Alt...

The offer to customers: residential IPs, Static IPs, mobile IPs etc. "We’re offering a set of pricing plans with varying parameters including available traffic, IP address count, and other features – or you can use our flexible pricing option to fine-tune the parameters yourself. "

Alt...

Global Portfolio of Residential IPs Residential IP addresses make web scraping and similar activities much easier: buy proxy IPs from residential zones, your connection is safer and more anonymous. United States 226090 IPs Russia 792251 IPs Ukraine 367600 IPs Germany 116173 IPs India 274277 IPs Poland 305109 IPs China 670301 IPs Turkey 374577 IPs Brazil 1123823 IPs Indonesia 367978 IPs Vietnam 579580 IPs Saudi Arabia 64697 IPs

@jwildeboer feels like mobile apps should have to declare which servers they will access, as part of app permissions. Only very rarely (e.g. browsers) would one then grant a "contact any server" permission.

@jwildeboer
On that page they mention that they work with #bitdefender . What a disaster that security vendors are just helping this abuse instead of combatting it.

@jwildeboer Thank you, this explains a lot of what I have been seeing. Is there any way to identify which apps are usi by these sdks?

@jwildeboer Hi @404mediaco may a interisting story to research?

@jwildeboer Here’s my question: how do we—the users—figure out which apps are doing this shi…stuff so we can get rid of the apps?

@jwildeboer
not just apps?
i like black boxes e.g. iot things and tv as prime culprits for loading such bandwidth abusing sdk and thanks for being there filling us in letting us know we've all been abused via monitization. again.

@jwildeboer not them having a captcha on the page. What's the matter? Don't like people hitting your site from a wide range of IPs?

Alt...

Captcha asking to verify that I'm human before accessing infatica.io

@jwildeboer Yes. This killed my little hobby website with a basic plan (a cycling fantasy league). Traffic went through the roof in the off-season when there shouldn't be any, and I couldn't afford to invest the time to figure out how to stop them.

@jwildeboer Of freaking course this is a thing... Why use malware to create a botnet if you can just, sell it as a service... :/

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net is there any list of apps known to include this library?

@jwildeboer This is why many folks are deploying https://anubis.techaro.lol -- kernel.org, FFPMEG, FreeBSD, SourceHut, heck /me, and even UNESCO deployed[1] it to lighten that load and get rid of all the AI scrapers but also these botnets through residential IPs.

Yes, constructs with "VPNs" (that share the endpoint of the user that wanted protection) and rackets like libraries, criminals they are, but that is the Advertising&AI world....

[1] = https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-instances

@jwildeboer

Do these scrapers send non-GET requests, by any chance?

I wonder if we should redefine GET as being only for requests that are not only idempotent but also inexpensive.

@jwildeboer @exodus maybe this is something of your interest?

@jwildeboer Are there known C2 servers we could put into pi-hole?

@jwildeboer "we have an IRC botnet at home... literally"

@jwildeboer Well neither Microsoft, Apple nor Google will act, as they all don't care about the web. Walled gardens are so much more profitable than the web.

@jwildeboer I am going to build the tech to destroy this business model.

@exodus do you detect these kind of shits?

Cc @gael @e_mydata @murena

@jwildeboer

@jwildeboer that's certainly part of the puzzle why we see so much scraping traffic. However, your argument gets watered down a bit by the failed login attempts to your mail server. I think this is a different story. You sure that this traffic also originates from the P2P trojan network?

"Es que a los que les votan les da igual que lo que digan sea mentira", ya, pues igual deberíais haber empezado por ahí, por hablar de mentiras.

Pero claro, "posverdad" suena más, ejem, novedoso y rompedor, ya sabes, más clickbait. Pero al final, cuando un fascista dice una mentira y tú no hablas de que ha dicho una mentira, sino de que "se mueve en el terreno de la posverdad", pues lo que pasa es que no le estás llamando mentiroso, que es lo que es.

@Shine_McShine lo mismo que “fake news” que es como los fascistas llaman a la verdad.

@Shine_McShine
La posverdad es la neomentira. La neomierda.

@Shine_McShine Estamos en la peligrosa era de los eufemismos, no llamar las cosas por su nombre no es nuevo, pero ahora ha escalado a niveles que ya rayan con lo absurdo.

@pes_maravilla
YouTube? Metiendo vídeos vía algoritmo.

@pes_maravilla
¿Y hoy es sábado de dolores?
Pues toca Reincidentes o Los Suaves

Estoy pensando que igual la TV siga teniendo muchísima fuerza. Ni idea.

@pes_maravilla Aún recuerdo cuando las caratula de algunos CD llevaban.una pegatas que decía "Anunciado en TV".

@pes_maravilla ¿Nunca te ha saltado un anuncio en YouTube consistente en un videoclip músical completo, los 3 o 4 minutos? A mí sí.

@Shine_McShine "La civilización está colapsando por la falta de natalidad" está incompleto y lo sabe. Como racista que es (y por lo tanto cobarde e ignorante), sabe que la frase completa es "La civilización está colapsando por la falta de natalidad de los blanquitos" porque para él que vayamos ya pasando los 10.000 millones de seres humanos no cuenta ya que la mayoría no entran dentro de la caja de "varón blanco conserva" que es por lo visto la buena.

@Shine_McShine Otro día hablamos del palabro ese de "civilización" que tanto les gusta usar y de por qué apesta cada vez que lo utilizan.

@Shine_McShine la gente: Nah, no creo que Elon Musk tenga un fetiche natalista o algo, suena demasiado surrealista

Elon Musk: