Supermariofan67

@Supermariofan67@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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Supermariofan67,

Because all they’re growing up with is dumbed down corporate black boxes of tech devices, along with a narrative that it’s wrong and evil to build, fix, copy, and be curious

Supermariofan67,

Do not use Kiwi Browser. It’s based on an extremely out of date version of chromium and therefore very vulnerable.

Supermariofan67,

/dev/tty1

Supermariofan67,

At first I thought it was just some edgy troll community, but it didn’t take long for me to find a fairly upvoted comment saying “look, I just don’t like immigrants” or something like that. So yeah, seems like that kind of place over there…

Supermariofan67,

I wonder if it’s an SD card failure.

Mine was up for 200 days or so, basically untouched, before I upgraded the hardware.

Supermariofan67,

There are far more robust methods of fingerprinting to spy on users anyway (adding up all the details of screen size, available fonts, language, os, etc, etc), so I don’t think removing the user agent would have much impact in reducing fingerprinting alone. It’s also useful as a quick and simple way to check the type of device, os, or browser the user is on and serve the correct content (download link for one’s OS) or block troublesome clients (broken bots)

Supermariofan67,

Meta joining the fediverse is like Raytheon joining anti-war protests. They are not there for sincere participation.

Any VPNs comparable to IVPN and Mullvad by privacy, but also have port forwarding?

Since IVPN and Mullvad are both phasing out port forwarding, are there any alternatives? I am not looking for something like NordVPN which is a privacy nightmare. AirVPN is also not private enough considering I’ve seen reports online of ISPs sending out DMCA letters of gold to its users.

Supermariofan67,

It’s refreshing being on Lemmy and being able to see a good discussion on vps with (unlike reddit) no bot comment spam and no users engaging in paid shilling.

Supermariofan67,

I tried to sign into an old Google account I forgot about and hadn’t used in like 5 years. So I then tried to request a Google Takeout and got this error message.

AI-Generated Videos Taking Over YouTube: How Do You Feel About It?

Hey fellow Lemmies! I recently came across a YouTube channel that posts 10 AI-generated videos every day, and it got me thinking. With the exponential growth of AI technology, experts predict that 90% of online content will be generated by AI by 2025. This means that the amount of content on YouTube and other platforms will...

Supermariofan67,

A video I recently saw about this problem: YouTube’s Science Spam Crisis

Spam videos have always been a huge problem just from simple automated scripts that create bulk quantities of useless videos. But now with ai the videos are a bigger problem because they seem real enough at first glance and people are less likely to click away immediately and will have their time wasted more.

Supermariofan67,

She’s a right wing authoritarian.

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If I recall correctly, one of the things that led to it finally being shut down was that having community of people interested in that content inevitably led to them sharing the real thing via dms

Supermariofan67,

This reminds me of the "cylinder" post from askreddit

Supermariofan67,

.ml tends to be one of the most abused top level domains for malware, spam, etc (in terms of ratio of malicious to non malicious domains) similar to .top, .buzz, .club, etc. So, many DNS filters on company networks simply filter all domains of these TLDs (and maybe whitelist a few known good ones) since they tend to be almost certainly malicious.

I filter them on my home network too via pihole (though not .ml)

Supermariofan67,

Reflector is broken now because it's hardcoded to test the community.db file, but that file is now just an empy stub as that repo was merged into extra. Reflector is just a python script so you could edit it to replace mention of community.db with extra.db until the devs fix it.

If you're sad RARBG closed, give the qbitorrent search a try.

I searched for ages for a replacement of something like torrentz, and the rarbg drop made me start the search again. I ended up trying the included search in qbittorrent, and I'm very happy with the results, it scans many public trackers, and I have always found what I wanted....

Supermariofan67,

I've found that the block lists on the net tend to contain extremely outdated information and blocks a lot of legitimate activity, while ultimately being ineffective at actually blocking copyright trolls sufficiently. Best to have a vpn to prevent that. Since I have a vpn, I don't care who downloads from me so long as they aren't abusing my resources. So I manually create a blocklist for IP blocks I've observed malicious activity from. The blocklist file syntax is a note and an IP or IP range (not cidr notation) on each line, separated by a colon. for example, to block 195.154.0.0/16:

Poneytelecom:195.154.0.0-195.154.255.255

(That's an IP range I actually block, belonging to poneytelecom, a very low reputation hosting provider I was getting some weird denial of service looking activity, like 40+ simultaneous connections who wouldn't actually download anything)

Also, if you download torrents popular in China you may come across the Xunlei client, which always reports its progress as 0% and never seeds. Banning these would be impractical game of whack a mole. So instead, simply enable super seeding mode on those torrents. Gone instantly. Might be slower at seeding, but at least now you can seed to legitimate users.

Supermariofan67,

The poneytelecom IPs would just constantly remain connected to me without actually downloading or uploading anything, which is quite unusual because torrent clients normally are supposed to disconnect from peers that they have no use for. And there would be like 15-30 IPs doing the same thing on the same few torrents. They were using Deluge, a legitimate client, which is quite weird, so maybe their shit was just misconfigured accidentally somehow. I looked up one of them on iknowwhatyoudownload.com and it was active on thosands of random torrents (including lots of CP apparently). I also recall in the past another IP from that range repeatedly downloading the same 80 GiB torrent which I am the only seed on, wasting my bandwidth for no apparent reason. So I just banned the entire IP range since clearly it's not doing anything legitimate to me and is just acting strangely in all sorts of ways. It's sort of a mini DDoS attack (intentionally or not) since I have my qBittorrent configured with a max number of connections.

The Xunlei IPs aren't really attackers per se, but the client doesn't follow the BitTorrent protocol standard and seeding to them is useless since they are incapable of seeding to other people. Some people just ban China entirely but I can't do that because there are lots of legitimate Chinese users on the torrents I have and I don't want to cut them off over something other people do

Supermariofan67,

Why the fuck are ads even profitable? Seriously? Who actually sees an ad and thinks "I'm going to buy this product"? When I see an ad I think "fuck you" and I'm less likely to buy their product.

Supermariofan67,

One indication is that they defederate several hundred instances, far more than any other Lemmy instance does, and some for no apparent reason and with nothing at all objectionable.

Supermariofan67,

You can get a list if you export a copy of your data with the gdpr export thing

De-federate from instances with loli

Can we get a consensus on whether our community should de-federate with servers that host loli? I personally think we should block them, and if that ends up not being the consensus here then I'll probably sign up on another server. I hope we can all agree to set that boundary though because I like it here and it seems otherwise...

Supermariofan67,

Please do not. Although I don't personally want to see lolicon stuff, many of the servers willing to host it have communities I want to interact with. For instance, burggit.moe is where the touhou communities went and is otherwise a pretty nice instance aside from loli communities.

It is content which, while understandably offensive to some, harms nobody. All fictional porn, no matter how deviant it is, is ultimately more ethical than real porn can be.

It should be up to users to block or hide instances with content they don't wish to see, and defederation should be reserved for communities that consistently cause interference, not for communities that simply have content which one disagrees with.

Supermariofan67,

mpd/ncmpcpp on desktop. Handles an absolutely massive music collection and very large music queue flawlessly.

Vinyl Music Player on Android. It's not perfect but it gets the job done

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