Mastodawn

PLOT

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31 Followers

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28 Posts

Soft spot for old Ataris, photography and board games.

Home	Lund, Sweden

PLOT May 30, 2023

andreasdotorg May 29, 2023

This is why we can't have nice things.

PLOT May 12, 2023

Alasdair Allan May 12, 2023

Both #ThePiHut and #Pimoroni have the @[email protected] 4, 4GB, in stock right now. Both are based in the UK, but ship worldwide. If you've been looking for a board, here's your first chance. You'll have more and better chances as we move towards Q3. Supply is improving. Both are authorised resellers, so you're buying at RRP. Some restrictions — one per customer, your account in good standing — are in place to avoid scalpers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HrbU2G6fU4

Raspberry Pi Availability Update and Painful decisions (Eben Upton Interview)

YouTube

PLOT May 11, 2023

Inverse Phase May 11, 2023

Please boost for visibility:

If you are #XXY, do you get misgendered on the phone?

Please do not answer the survey if you are not confirmed #47XXY (Klinefelter's Syndrome).

Yes (XXY, and I take HRT)

0%

Yes (XXY, I do not take HRT)

15.4%

No (XXY, I am on HRT)

0%

No (XXY, I am not on HRT)

7.7%

Other (Please Comment)

76.9%

Poll ended at May 14, 2023 at 5:49pm.

PLOT May 6, 2023

@Philsan @saschasegan Hope they can reach a reasonable agreement.

PLOT Apr 30, 2023

The plasma screen of this Ericsson Portable PC has seen better days but the machine boots DOS perfectly and 8-Bit Guy’s Planet X3 seems to working just great as well.

PLOT Apr 23, 2023

Vladimir Savić Apr 20, 2023

Kerim Safa - Factory of Nothing #pixelart #gif

"Factory of Nothing" is a manually-crafted digital animation that depicts an imaginary automated manufacturing system that does not produce anything.

[Source: https://www.kerimsafa.com/factory-of-nothing]

Kerim Safa - Factory of Nothing

1920x1080 pixels, 48 frames, 2 colors, 2023

PLOT Apr 23, 2023

@HopelessDemigod Atari 600XL

PLOT Apr 16, 2023

@empe Ouch, I’ll consider it if it’s half of that

PLOT Apr 16, 2023

@vruz @Philsan Indeed, they could make this a reality very easily by putting an Eclaire XL inside. http://www.64kib.com/eclairexl_itx.html

New XL/XE compatible development progress

PLOT Apr 16, 2023

@benklaasen Nope, never heard of until this link showed up in my twitterfeed today.

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andreasdotorg May 29, 2023

This is why we can't have nice things.

Weird Mustard (offline)May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Am Ende ist es einfach Musks AI Firma. Deswegen ist man ja zb auch nicht mehr auf Twitter, um die Scheiße nicht zu unterstützen.

@andreasdotorg if I were @internetarchive I'd limit the amount of traffic and connections #AWS can make to 1 per IPv4 & 1 per IPv6 @ 64kbit/s and automatically abuse-report and temporarily soft-block the source IPs via #blackholing [like any #DDoS] if not the entire #AWS #AS!

Simon Lucy May 29, 2023

@kkarhan @andreasdotorg @internetarchive

With swarms of serverless harvesters?
In the end you still end up with CIDR blocking.

@simon_lucy @andreasdotorg @internetarchive

Then that's a necessary sacrifice one needs to do.

If #aws doesn't combat #abuse then it's only valid to #DROP [#DontRouteOrPeer] their systems...

And yes, I do yeet hostile networks as an act of self- and mutual ITsec...
https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/blocklists.list.tsv

lists.d/blocklists.list.tsv at main · greyhat-academy/lists.d

List of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Simon Lucy May 29, 2023

@kkarhan @andreasdotorg @internetarchive

The point I was making is that IP specific rules aren't sufficient.

@simon_lucy @andreasdotorg @internetarchive OFC you'd have to block all CIDRs associated to the ASN of AWS...

Which is relatively easy considering that said assignments are public...

Simon Lucy May 29, 2023

@kkarhan @andreasdotorg @internetarchive

Yes, and that negates archive.org, so it's a very temporary mitigation. I imagine AWS knows and have begun limiting the customer.

@simon_lucy @andreasdotorg @internetarchive which they should've done IMHO.

[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD

@andreasdotorg Wonder if there is a way to identify this abusive traffic and respond with garbage data and insults?

Rairii May 29, 2023

@CauseOfBSOD @andreasdotorg why respond with garbage data and insults when you can respond with a seven or eight figure invoice? (recurring monthly, of course)

of course they can afford it, they can afford to waste their money on AWS...

John Mierau May 29, 2023

...Because society doesn't prohibit bad actors when they have fat wallets?

it's B! Cavello 🐝May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg I haven’t seen info from @internetarchive here on fedi, but on Twitter they shared this update: https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1663001853964189697

Internet Archive on Twitter

“https://t.co/KbdcLkyWhO is back! (and it may not have been an AI company, maybe just an eager user)”

Twitter

it's B! Cavello 🐝May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg @internetarchive direct link to blog: https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/
“Those wanting to use our materials in bulk should start slowly, and ramp up.

Also, if you are starting a large project please contact us at [email protected], we are here to help.

If you find yourself blocked, please don’t just start again, reach out.”

Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down | Internet Archive Blogs

DieMar4 May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Kleinanzeigen wäre vielleicht eine Möglichkei Möglichkeit 🤔

Sebastian Lasse May 29, 2023

@internetarchive
@brewsterkahle
any updates and background appreciated here in this cosy and federated place :)

nocci #GoToSocial May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg

IA vs. AI

IA > AI

Tito Swineflu May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg There will never be valid web traffic coming from an aws-owned IP. I always block them all first thing. Cuts out 99% of the brute force attacks.

Aral Balkan May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Sounds like capitalism working as designed. No doubt another Silicon Valley success story in the making…

sebastian büttrich May 29, 2023

@aral @andreasdotorg

it is not easy having #good #things in the presence of #capitalism.

Marie Belanger May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg too bad there is not a "scowl"button...

Rob Bos May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Oh, man. I have a couple of library archive sites, and I ended up just blocking AWS and Azure entirely because of the constant high-pressure scraping.

Some people just can't keep their scraping down below a reasonable rate limit. Like, I'd be fine if you kept requests under 1000/hour or something but if you're spinning up 50 servers to hoover up thousands of pages each as fast as I can serve them, fuck y'all. Now you get NOTHING.

Rob Bos May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg It's also a little ironic because if they'd just ASKED I could fedex them a hard drive or something.

monoxane May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg AI companies and ruining good things for everyone, name a better duo

Alison Creekside May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg
https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/

Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down | Internet Archive Blogs

Garth Cummings May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg @internetarchive any reason you’re not posting these updates to your Fediverse account?

Carsten May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg It is because some people just overdue some stupid thing without realizing the consequences of data hoarding or data leeching.

enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg maybe someone is trying to archive the archive...

TetsuoYtek 🟦May 29, 2023

Add to the terms and conditions that traffic coming for bots or “non human” interface will be charged based on the traffic generated.
Then send them the bill.

The Doctor May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Wait until they start scraping the Wayback Machine.

IllusionOfMana May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Its stupid how much of this comes from AWS. Amazon really could care less about what happens on its services. My grandfathers HTML only site constantly get blasted with third party scrapers and DDOS. I shouldnt have to pay this much in security for all HTML sites about nature photography.

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 29, 2023

They need to filter out #AWS and other corporate mass-retrievers.
10-20 accesses per day or so.

bigiain May 29, 2023

@HistoPol @andreasdotorg How about as soon as you get past 1000 requests in an hour, you start getting fed back random gibberish instead of actual pages… <smirk>

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 30, 2023

1000 seems way too high fit me still @andreasdotorg

Jaime Herazo May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg
The Librarian gave some details, it went down for a bit after some people hammered it badly twice: https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/

Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down | Internet Archive Blogs

(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Hey @donmelton ⬆️ This could probably use a boost to an audience larger than mine...thanks in advance! #archive

Don Melton May 29, 2023

@jann @andreasdotorg Already boosted. 👍

(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈May 31, 2023

@donmelton @andreasdotorg I should’ve known! 😂

David 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB they/them May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Corporations can take whatever they want but when we do it to them they call it "piracy"

Elias May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg fuck.

Demi Marie Obenour May 29, 2023

@andreasdotorg Has this been reported to AWS?

ari*May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg we can give them hell

https://git.arielaw.ar/arisunz/ir34

ir34

kaboom

ari's coven

potatoxel May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg 3::

pedro 🍉May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg maybe they should have asked the AI how to harvest content in a civilized way?

c0c0bird May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg The account you forgot to tag is:
@internetarchive

Guillaume Rossolini May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg
I've seen people use the Archive as a CDN, in the past 🤷🏼‍♀️

Aviancer May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg Upsetting to see them effectively DoS the service when they’ve could do it in a much more reasonable manner. archive.org is a treasure for so many historical computer resources that aren’t really available anywhere else anymore.

Craig Nicol May 30, 2023

@andreasdotorg so, first cloud services were taken out by cyptominers, and now comment providers are getting taken out by AI? And remember the silicon valley startup wise business model was ddos attacks on restaurants so their app was the only place to get a table?

At which point do we start treating VCs as enablers for this drive-by suffocation?

Martin Be May 31, 2023

@andreasdotorg Nice things by stealing other people's work.

Walker Boh🛡Jul 8, 2023

@andreasdotorg guess elmos not the only one feeling the heat...

Michael Porter Jul 8, 2023

@andreasdotorg @NikaShilobod Too bad they can’t detect the AI scrapers and limit the source material to Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup… Train those young metal brains properly!