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Didn’t know I’m paying for capacity. Learnt something new today!

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Was AI used to develop this website?

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Clearly zero effort.

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I don’t mind AI. I mind slop. This website is slop. There is so much wrong


Good. What archive.today is doing is illegal


Two wrong don’t make a right.


True, but not relevant.


Relevant because Cloudflare manipulated the DNS using a false reasoning


1.1.1.2 blocks malware, and archive.today performs DDOS. Where's the false reasoning?


It‘s not a C&C/Botnet


It is C&C -- it instructs their site visitors to DOS a specific site.


By this logic, all malicious JavaScript (obvious example is cryptominers I guess, assuming no JS sandbox escape) is C&C, yeah? As it "instructs site visitors" to do something harmful locally?


A C&C controls a botnet, where is the botnet?


The browsers of their site visitors.


If you need to be on the site it’s not a botnet and there is no C&C server coordinating the attack. It‘s just the JS on the site that makes the attack.


> If you need to be on the site it’s not a botnet

Why? I did not visit the site to participate in a DoS attack; yet my machine was coaxed into participating against my will. Whether this is happening in JS or a drive-by download or a browser 0-day is irrelevant.


You did participate in archive.today’s DDoS without visiting the site?

How if it‘s JS code in the site?


Does this mean that the Great Cannon of China is not a botnet because it stops working when you close your browser?


Does the Great Cannon of China coordinate the attacks?

Does archive.today?

Hijacking a software like the browser is something completely different to a simple JS on a website.


>Does the Great Cannon of China coordinate the attacks?

Yes.

>Does archive.today?

Yes.


How does archive.today coordinate the attack?


By telling visitor browsers to DoS the site.


That’s not really coordinating.

It’s just a website with a simple request loop, not C&C server tells when the attacks have to happen.

This doesn’t make your browser a bot

  setInterval(function() {
            fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), {
                referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",
                mode: "no-cors"
            });
        }, 300);


I can not help but think that this is performative AI slop

We get it, you’re against the government and big tech


This is real, we will not comply with authoritarian laws that nobody voted for. Seriously.


You should have a look through the lawbooks for more laws to not comply with. Do the carrying a duck across state lines one next. Maybe a Linux distro that pumps your own gas.


AI slop article

Also no meaningful benchmarking was done


Read the article


The article doesn't address this issue.

Right now, you can install F-Droid from an APK file without rooting the phone or installing a new boot loader. Google is threatening to take that capability away, via another mod. This seems to be part of a comprehensive program to keep the Google boot on the customer's face.

Also, currently, with difficulty, you can initialize a new unlocked Android phone without a Google account. Is that capability going away?

All these are related. This seems to be part of a comprehensive program to keep the Google boot on the customer's face.


“Then came the order. Not a shutdown—something worse. The routers didn't go silent. They screamed.”

This is AI slop


fact: it is possible to be a good and clean person at the same time


Isn’t this a good thing? It forces people to think now before making decisions


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