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I described how these botnets are now being sold in the open, as "Residential IP proxies", where the malware is just a library added to a legitimate app that app developers include because they are promised money. Le sigh.
Part 1: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Blocking-Stealthy-Botnets/
Part 2: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
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Seriously, who cares if Jeff #Bezos is getting married 🥱
I find this mannequin of him floating on the side of a cardboard Amazon box while clutching a wad of cash much more interesting.
Wissen bewahren statt löschen lassen!
Eine großartige Initiative aus Hannover: IT-Profis vom TIB sichern wissenschaftliche Daten, die in den USA aus politischen Gründen gelöscht werden sollen – etwa zur Klimaforschung. Ein wichtiges Zeichen für freie Wissenschaft und den Erhalt von Wissen für kommende Generationen.
#WissenSchützen #FreiheitDerWissenschaft #Datenrettung #TIBHannover #Klimaforschung
Linus Torvalds isn't just really smart, he's also a good person.
@arstechnica It's not necessary to do this. Machines are available that can scan books without damaging them.
As used for these, for example: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-library-collection
The machines aren't cheap, mind, and need careful handling.
I'm afraid that you, like me, need reprogramming in order to reside in the 21st Century.
A bias against destroying things is so, so out of fashion.
To begin your readjustment, write this on the blackboard 535 times:
I MUST MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS.
There, now, don't you feel more... more... more "modern"?
Thanks for speaking out in favor of respect for books (and other things that are investments of human and natural resources).
@oldclumsy_nowmad @arstechnica I'm married to a publisher.
But I was always brought up to respect books. To the extent that the one or two times in my life that I've thrown a book away because it was so crap I didn't want to inflict it on anyone else felt like a very strange thing to do.
@arstechnica
God damn, fuck these people.
(Do not talk to me about how they did what conservators do in preserving content digitally. These people are shite.)
@dandylover1 @arstechnica Have you contacted people who scan books on a large scale, like Carl Malamud's projects?
They have tools that seem to be able to do scanning without destroying the books. And they don't have a lot of money. They are friendly folks who are probably more than happy to share ideas, plans, and know sources for such machines.
@dandylover1 @arstechnica sure but you are one person who only has access to a flatbed scanner.
Industrial scanners exist that can hold a book open at an angle and scan the page while in the book without damaging them. A company with billions in funding can afford that.
@dandylover1 @arstechnica Contrary to quasi-religious belief it‘s absolutely a-ok to destroy a paperback that has many prints in the process of media transformation for accessibility.
It may even save some books from vanishing. I still have tons of obscure, old media that’ll never be made available electronically that I want to transform to save it.
Telling a blind person about destruction free book scanning of paperbacks is misguided.
(Still: make sure to feed your authors and poets!)
@arstechnica I once read this in a science fiction book and thought this was a ridiculous idea by the author.
WTF??
More proof that LLM people are arseholes of the highest order.
@arstechnica Have you read Virnor Vinge's novel "Rainbows End"?
In that book libraries are digitized by shredding the books into pieces and scanning the pieces while they fall through the air immediately after the shredding.
Materials that are overlooked and not scanned fall into a pre-history category and effectively fall out of human knowledge.
Here to fanboy-gush about this book. Soooo good.
@vonxylofon @arstechnica I can't think of any way in which that makes sense.
I mean by that token, it would be ok to commit corporate espionage as long as you make memorize it and destroy the original.
Not in a dicky tone, but isn't this ultimately what AI is about? The creators want all knowledge sifted through their filters. A book is a bomb to their ownership goals. Leaving a paper trail, so to speak, is bad for business.
Having seen many books rot away and be thrown out.
Especially the "useless" ones.
I think the cost of one book being transferred from a physical medium into a digital one is a small price to pay.
And I say that as a book lover.
@n_dimension I have too and I agree with you -- but are these digital books actually made available to anyone?
@arstechnica @Gargron Cutting up ONE copy of a book in order to scan it is not destroying literature and knowledge, y’all.
It’s OK. There are lots and lots of copies of all the books. It’s not 1580 and books aren’t transcribed by hand.
On the plus side, at least the author made a couple of bucks before getting their work stolen.
It's spelled Clod.
I'm torn two fold by this
As someone whose job it once was to digitize books WITHOUT destroying them, I KNOW it's possible to do this non destructively.
But also that job would have been SO much easier if I could have cut the spine off. And TBH, not every book is a one of a kind precious cultural artifact. We can easily sacrifice a copy of nearly every book that's ever been written especially if it means we can archive the contents and make it accessible to more people.
Though whether or not Googles company here is doing the "make it accessible" part for anything other than AI is not known to me.
Shades of Rainbows End. https://bookwyrm.social/book/21939/s/rainbows-end!
From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low rent -- unless you're wearing. Then, they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost a teen. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age. As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope -- the world's only hope -- is that his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr. Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening....
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