M. 🦖

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Backend software developer with a special interest in security.

Wow. There has been a massive spike in #tor clients connecting from Germany in the last week.

Source: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-01-01&end=2023-07-02&country=de&events=off

Users – Tor Metrics

Weeping with laughter at this point

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

Nun geben sich einige bereits die größte Mühe, den Erfolg der #AfD in #Sonneberg und in den Umfragen als harmlose oder gar verständliche Reaktion auf die Ampel kleinzureden. Ich zeichne für sie gern nach, was in der Region die vergangenen Jahre so abging:

Im August 2018 gab es in Chemnitz Demonstrationen, die sich vor allem gegen den immer noch amtierenden sächsischen Ministerpräsidenten Kretscher richteten. Ich war damals für @derfreitag und bento dort: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/konstantin-nowotny/der-blutdrucksenker (1/x)

Porträt Der Blutdrucksenker

Michael Kretschmer will das Ansehen Sachsens wiederherstellen – mit Diplomatie als Drahtseilakt

der Freitag
Don’t kid yourself. “Artificial intelligence“ is just Big Tech’s way of saying “hey, it’s not our fault. It’s the machine’s!“ In point of fact, every malign use of “AI“ is really just some human-composed algorithm doing something that maximizes profit or control at the expense of people. We must not let these companies off the hook. They’re in charge. Not the machine. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
A story from the eyes of a stray cat. #caturday #followfriday #streetphotography #photography