ZWQbpkzl

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The FSF is ideologically incapable of implementing bot management strategies because they value internet anonymity. Bot evasion strategies are literally just advanced ways of being anonymous. You can't tell if a person is a bot or not without violating their anonymity or internet freedom.

Anubis is a modest compromise. It checks if you can run JavaScript and blocks those who can't. It's not perfect. It'll block elinks/lynx users or a real person using curl. But it'll also block any bot that doesn't use a browser, which accounts for most of the volume.

The "cryptomining" and "malware" comparisons against Anubis or hyperbolic but sort of true. Proof of Work is the dumbest and most wasteful possible strategy to combat bots. It's not the hashing that stops bots, its the check if they can run JavaScript that does.

Anubis has a new javascriptless metarefresh which uses HTML to refresh the page after a few seconds. This is a much better solution than the computational proof of work, in my opinion. This line from the docs though is perplexing:

This is not enabled by default while this method is tested and its false positive rate is ascertained. Many modern scrapers use headless Google Chrome, so this will have a much higher false positive rate.

The false positive rate will be the same as proof of work minus however many bots run headless browser with JavaScript disabled. Proof of Work doesn't give you positives or negatives, it's a flat tax.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

I always think of that painting whenever someone brings up Juche Necrotracy.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

Real Trees Speaking Vietnamese Hours. Love to see it.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 43 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The Republicans think the constitution was written by god himself and Democrats think they can combat that with American Civil Religion.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

It was clearly trying to be insulting. I don't understand why anyone would try to start a flamewar over flatpaks.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't have to use a meme insulting some side to just start a conversation.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago

Nah he should've fragged his officers.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

IDK why you're being so rage baity. Its easy to avoid flatpaks if you dont like them. Only thing I've ever found as an obstacle was adding the binaries to my PATH so I can launch it with dmenu_run. Otherwise my package manager works well enough.

Bonus points: Write a PKGBUILD that installs flatpaks to /opt and symlink out binaries as needed.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

His fight isn't going to be over once he's mayor. The capitalists won't just roll over. He could be planning on using some of those volunteers in his team instead of consultanting firms. Outisde, they'll probably keep pushing public opinion for his policies. Its hard to tell exactly what he'll need from them now.

None of this is an actual hard guarantee that he won't sell out and go turncoat if that's what you're wondering about. His antizionism is really the guarantee of that. Either he drops that or NYC bourgeoisie drops Zionism before he turncoats. Otherwise it would be the most dramatic case of political suicide.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

As I understand DSA was in the core coalition of the campaign that recruited those volunteers. The most meaningful mechanism to hold him accountable would be to pull that core of volunteers from any reelection campaign.

The local chapter can expell him by vote too but that would really just be a cherry on top. Pulling volunteers is the critical one.

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