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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I cannot confirm, nor deny.

But, I will say, once upon a time, before the days of netflix, if you wanted to watch things, you needed to spend a fuckload of money, to watch it on cable, with commercials every 10 minutes.... or, you drove to a blockbuster. So, you either did that, or you obtained the movie/tv/etc, via a torrent.

Then, netflix came along, gave you a ton of content, at a reasonable price. And- then, there wasn't really much of an advantage to obtaining media via other alternative means. So, netflix took over by storm, and piracy went way down.

Then, everyone wanted a piece of the action. So, then Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO+, ESPN+, (And insert 50 other network-specific streaming services) jumped into the fray. Then, they all made exclusive streaming contracts. So, if you watch a handful of things, you would need a handful of streaming service subscriptions.

And- again, the alternative option of piracy, became the better option, as you can watch whatever the f- you want, WHENever you want, without having to pay for 50 different subscriptions every month, just to watch a TV series, which they decide to cancel after the 2nd season.

Do you justify?

If the fucking scumbags didn't get greedy in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation. But, no, everyone wanted an extremely generous piece of the pie, and now everything has went to shit again. Fuck those guys. Isn't like the actual actors/writers staring in movies gets any of the money anyways.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This shit should be all standardised around [micro|milli|Ø|kilo|tera]

Agree with you there.

joules

But- would instead, suggest using watts instead of joules. In general, its quite well suited to electrical devices.

Have a 1,000w / 1kw device? Its going to draw 1,000wh of energy, or 1kw.

Although, the units are extremely similar. wh/kwh are defined as energy per hour, while a joule, is energy (in watts) per second.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit.

Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

7zip is the way.

Unless, I am working in linux. Then tar+gzip.

Unless, I am doing backups or ZFS. Then, LZO typically, due to speed and minimal overhead.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 25 points 2 years ago

Funny note- the way we actually get things to near absolute zero, is by shooting it with lasers.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Don't laugh too hard. We are the ones paying the bill for it.

ie, Our taxes are now indirectly ended up directly in Elon's pocket. And, I can promise he didn't cut us a deal.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 2 points 2 years ago

I used to have a list, somewhere. But. will, instead summarize it a bit.

External-facing websites (for both myself, and hosted for other clients).

A few discord bots I created, and host.

10-20 containers for home-automation.

10-15 containers for "Media" management.

A handful of containers for document/photo archival / storage / etc.

Containers for managing storage, backups. etc.

Containers for network management (unifi), SMTP, etc.

Containers for monitoring.

Keep in mind, most common "applications" will run at least two containers (one for the app, one for the database), and, occasionally a redis container.

I run services redundantly when possible. Ie- traefik runs as a daemonset, across all of my nodes. As does longhorn storage.

That being said, I'd guess I am only running around 40-60 total applications, but, those 40-60 turns into a couple hundred containers.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 8 points 2 years ago

There is a current PR, which I think has been merged. That being said, next release will likely contain that functionality.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

They do.

But, if they used subscribed, they wouldn't be able to fuss about all of the stuff they don't want to see.

Instead, they just want to look at everything. and then block instances (not communities) showing things they don't want to see.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, vanity plates are pretty commonplace. Most cars still have a dealer's vanity plate on the front because they never removed it, or put something else there.

Front plates are only required in a few states.

flashing tail lights instead of any indicators (we call them blinkers, the orange lights on the corners of cars) was surprising

We don't require dedicated turning signals in the rear of the vehicle. As long as you have a flashing red or amber indicator at the REAR, and amber at the FRONT, that meets the requirements.

Basically- as long as the car behind you can easily, visually determine that you intend to turn.

All of them weren’t registered

All cars MUST have a displayed license plate at the rear of the vehicle. The only exceptions to this- are temporary dealer plates (which are only good for a month), while you get your permanent plates.

Failure to properly display the license plate is a ticketable offence. Not, serious enough to send you to jail, but, you will pay a fine over it. And- enough tickets, and you lose your license.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

OP just needs to visit their local tag office. Will take around 5-10 minutes depending on the line, and everything will/can be solved.

Nothing more is needed.

won’t that make it a criminal travelling interstate to commit a crime, and that be a federal matter?

Unless they are committing federal crimes, motor-vehicle related infractions are regulated by the individual states.

You yanks tend to have a lot less regulation than us, whether it is lack of necessary indicators

All vehicles are required by law to have functional front, and rear turning indicators. (And, a horn. And lights. And seat belts.)

or lack of a need to put number plates at each end of your car.

All vehicles are required to have a rear-mounted license plate. Some states, also requires a front-mounted license plate.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 10 points 2 years ago

Actually, does not sound like a bad thing.

Why?

  1. Lots of opportunities to interrupt the supply chain. There is a LONG distance between NK, and Ukraine. Be a shame if a train full of explosives were to blow up in the middle of nowhere, russia.... disrupting the supply lines between Russia and China/NK.
  2. North korea selling/giving away ammo, doesn't sound like a bad thing either.
  3. Most of Russia's stuff, is defunct due to age/lack of maintenance. NK's stuff, is far worse.
 
 
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Today, is the final day. (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
 

Today, is the final day for all of our wonderful 3rd party apps to work on reddit.

As such, today will be the last day many of us look at reddit.

Enjoy it.

For me- Reddit is Fun. Will forever be missed.

 

We can all go home now.

 

If- y'all have never seen this guys channel- He worked on a lot of interesting things over at Microsoft around the 3.1/95/98/NT days.

 

Note- this applies to state workers, and not everyone....

But still....

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Linkin Park - New Divide (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/music@beehaw.org
 

No music community is complete without Chester.

RIP chester.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSxxIqKNN0

Live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGedjDnQ9cw

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 

See THIS POST

Notice- the 2,000 upvotes?

https://gist.github.com/XtremeOwnageDotCom/19422927a5225228c53517652847a76b

It's mostly bot traffic.

Important Note

The OP of that post did admit, to purposely using bots for that demonstration.

I am not making this post, specifically for that post. Rather- we need to collectively organize, and find a method.

Defederation is a nuke from orbit approach, which WILL cause more harm then good, over the long run.

Having admins proactively monitor their content and communities helps- as does enabling new user approvals, captchas, email verification, etc. But, this does not solve the problem.

The REAL problem

But, the real problem- The fediverse is so open, there is NOTHING stopping dedicated bot owners and spammers from...

  1. Creating new instances for hosting bots, and then federating with other servers. (Everything can be fully automated to completely spin up a new instance, in UNDER 15 seconds)
  2. Hiring kids in africa and india to create accounts for 2 cents an hour. NEWS POST 1 POST TWO
  3. Lemmy is EXTREMELY trusting. For example, go look at the stats for my instance online.... (lemmyonline.com) I can assure you, I don't have 30k users and 1.2 million comments.
  4. There is no built-in "real-time" methods for admins via the UI to identify suspicious activity from their users, I am only able to fetch this data directly from the database. I don't think it is even exposed through the rest api.

What can happen if we don't identify a solution.

We know meta wants to infiltrate the fediverse. We know reddits wants the fediverse to fail.

If, a single user, with limited technical resources can manipulate that content, as was proven above-

What is going to happen when big-corpo wants to swing their fist around?

Edits

  1. Removed most of the images containing instances. Some of those issues have already been taken care of. As well, I don't want to distract from the ACTUAL problem.
  2. Cleaned up post.
 

 

Since, everything done on behalf of your instance is logged, detecting if you have a large number of bots, or invalid users isn't that challenging.

These queries can be executed via docker exec -it, via remoting into the container, via pg query tools, or via pgadmin.

For listing all comments performed by users on your instance (This includes comments made remotely):

SELECT
	p.actor_id
	, p.name
	, c.content as comment
FROM public.comment c 
JOIN public.person p on p.id = c.creator_id
WHERE 
	p.local = 'true'
	AND p.admin = 'false' -- Exclude Admins
;

For listing all posts created, by users, from your instance-

SELECT
	p.actor_id
	, c.name AS title
	, c.body as body
FROM public.post c 
JOIN public.person p on p.id = c.creator_id
WHERE 
	p.local = 'true'
	AND p.admin = 'false' -- Exclude Admins
;

Lastly, here is a query to identify users who consistently upvotes or downvotes the same user over and over.

SELECT
	p.id
	, p.name
	, p.actor_id
	, cr.name as creator
	, count(1)
FROM public.comment_like l
JOIN public.comment c on c.id = l.comment_id
JOIN public.person p on p.id = l.person_id
JOIN public.person cr on cr.id = c.creator_id
WHERE 
	p.id != cr.id
	AND p.local = 'true'
	AND p.admin = 'false' -- Exclude Admins
GROUP BY p.id, p.name, p.actor_id, cr.name
ORDER BY count(1) desc
;

If- anyone has idea of other queries which can be created for detecting suspicious activity, please LMK.

Edit- added where clause to exclude admins. If your admins are spambots, you have bigger issues to worry about.

 

Might- be worth knowing about.....

https://lemmyonline.com/comment/47545

Edit- And... (From beehaw...) https://lemmyonline.com/post/8944

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