It could be worse, you could be watching grass grow while some people chase a ball around… 😁

All of it.

Mind you, that assumes we find a robust way to archive it and not to be funny, actually archive it, not to mention avoiding the self destruction of humanity either through the climate change catastrophe or the hubris of the self anointed billionaire Emperors and Epstein sycophants.

There’s hardly any cost to a bot operator, malicious , opportunistic or legitimate, to hit your end-point, so once they found a reason to hit it, hitting it a million more times costs cents.

Operators like Meta seem to make it a sport, trying to hit you with multiple parallel requests from multiple sources, across both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, resulting in an effective DDoS for small and medium end point owners and increasing costs significantly for anyone trying fruitlessly to stay ahead of their onslaught.

The malicious traffic by contrast, attempts to sneak in a request with dynamic rate throttling as part of their attempts to stay hidden.

Between these two extremes are the opportunistic operators who hit the same 404 endpoint day after day, hour after hour, minute by minute, for weeks with specific blocks the only remedy.

There are plenty of legitimate bots that quietly go about their business, hitting you every couple of seconds, leaving you alone for long stretches, incrementally crawling, honouring the robots.txt file and generally acting the way a considerate adult might. They’ve been getting lower and lower in numbers over the years.

Source: I have logs.

… and nothing of value was lost …

On the flipside, that’s 90 days more than Epstein’s friends are getting.

A merging of the two 😁

Nothing quite like creating a specific incentive for researchers to seek “alternative” sources of income as payment for their research efforts.

Microsoft tried this … seems to be working out for them … not.

You don’t think that cron and grep is sufficient?

Only if it falls on August 1st.

I was making a point that “protecting the children” is not what this is about, because the “resources” I mentioned are a very low barrier to entry for undesirable and illegal, not to mention obscene and disturbing … “content”.

I worked for a now long defunct company with half a dozen of each, no idea which revision. My job was to crack and re-enable copy protection to create master tapes for bulk duplication.

I was told (as a teenager) that we had agreements with the copyright holders, but I never saw them. We also had an Orange…an Apple ][ clone, a Sinclair QL and a few Commodore and MSX machines.

My own computer was a VIC-20.

😁

So … Google Search and Chat GPT?

I’m surprised that the Spectrum didn’t reset when you put your feet up. 😁

For those not familiar, both the ZX81 and Spectrum were notoriously fickle when it came to power supplies … often resetting when you looked at it funny.

Source: I’m that old.

Also, nice socks!

And despite widespread condemnation, now yet another billionaire is in charge of even more of the global narrative.

Saturday it is then.

Hmm …

https://lemmy.world/post/48061897

I have no evidence that LinkedIn provides work, I attempted to use it for several years to find work and was entirely unsuccessful.

Among the quagmire I left, all I saw was Assumed Intelligence slop and bots attempting to harvest contacts.

There was a time when LinkedIn was useful as a tool to grow and interact with your network, these days it’s Xitter with more characters.

While I understand your point, before I left LinkedIn I spent several years looking for work, nothing changed after leaving, other than not having to deal with the “offers” from “agents” who didn’t reply, let alone look at my experience before making a stupid “job offer” in exchange for my contacts.

Leaving LinkedIn increased my quality of life significantly, even though I’m still looking for work.

You have the option to stop using LinkedIn altogether.

There was a time when it was useful, then it started harvesting data and accessing your contacts without your permission, then Microsoft bought it, then it became an influencer swamp, then it demanded that you turn off 50+ individual permissions hidden away in a deep preferences hierarchy, then it opted you in to feed the Assumed Intelligence black hole, which is where I opted out and stopped using it.

Job search has always been a joke, recommendations absurd, direct applications ignored and non-existent filters to make job search relevant.

In other words, do yourself a favour and leave.