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Aatube

@ Aatube @kbin.social

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[He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser]Stuped person says stuped things, people boomMaybe migrating to kbin.melroy.org

  • Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024

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  • Don't give them ideas

  • 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

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  • The present report does not seem intended to be an academic publication, although it has already been used as a citation in the article Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

  • Exam Answer

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  • They kinda don't! It'd be trending videos near your IP locations + your watch history for this browser session

  • To buy no longer means anything :(

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  • Are there like hobby Minecraft servers not related to Microsoft? I’m thinking like the Library map and such.

    Maps aren't servers. They're just maps as in any other videogame. You can play maps offline and with local multiplayer.

    Most servers aren't related to Microsoft, but they also use the default server software which requires proper authentication. Now that Mojang account servers are down you can't log in with them anymore. One'd have to use patched server software that completely turns authentication off or uses an alternative authentication server to allow people without Microsoft accounts to join.

  • Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

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  • Consumers can also pay for extended Windows 7 updates, of course. I also don't see why just that (consumers can also pay) part is bad and much worse than a stupid requirement to force users to pay.

  • TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason)

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  • IMDb is user generated, and he stars in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" (?) from 1990.

  • Looking for a script processor that's completely foss and maintained

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  • KIT Scenarist seems good to me, despite its creators ditching it for starc.

    or filled with commercial and AI tools (Story Architect)

    Why not just ignore these tools and use the free ones?

  • Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

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  • In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

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  • Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

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  • SourceHut actually had a really nice UI! I'll consider it. I currently don't have problems with GitLab save for the UI learning curve (and their EE is source-available) but I'll consider what you've said.

  • User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”

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  • Basically, it was a giant uptick in use that was likely made by human beings instead of a DDoS botnet, and they're still investigating where it came from

  • User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”

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  • “After looking into this, it seems you have a hit song on your site,” the email from Netlify customer support reads. “Maan Bou Jan Sang Lou by Teresa Tang. I was not aware of her, but she seems to be a popular Taiwanese singer. This song is 99% of your bandwidth usage over the past 30 days.”

    The letter further explained that a lot of bandwidth was generated from user agents that “are quite ancient using Google Cloud addresses”.

    “This would include devices such as circa 2010 iPads, Windows 98 & Windows 6 computers. So either you have a fanbase with a passion for older technology, or this was likely a DDoS attack. To me, this seems to be the latter,” the email continued and suggested hosting such files on third-party platforms, such as YouTube or SoundCloud.

    After explaining the standard practice of reducing the bill to 20% after such attacks, which would be $20,900 in this case, the Netlify support team offered a better deal.

    “I've currently reduced it to about 5%, which is $5,225. I know this is still a lot of money, and I apologize for the inconvenience. If you like, I can raise this internally to see what else can be done.”

    The user wasn’t happy with that and decided not to pay but post their story on Reddit and Hacker News instead.

    One user on Hacker News with the alias ‘bobfunk’ introduced himself as the Netlify CEO and assured users that the bill would be forgiven. Cybernews was unable to verify the CEO’s identity independently. However, many previous posts from the same user and his bio support the claim of him being Matt Biilmann, the founder of Netlify.

    In another twist, the DDoS attack version of the story is being ruled out

    “Since the user opened a ticket with us this past Sunday, we’ve been actively researching this situation. Initially, we thought it might have resulted from a DDoS attack, which we stated in our first response. After some investigating, it looks as though the spike in traffic was not caused by a DDoS after all,” Dorian Kendal, CMO at Netlify, told Cybernews.

    Instead, now they believe that this was a sustained download event of an mp3 file over a stretch of multiple days.

    “We’re working directly with the user to better understand what’s happening on their end, so we can uncover what caused the dramatic increase in downloads,” Kendal said.

    “We’ve confirmed that the user was notified multiple times about the additional bandwidth that was being consumed on their site, but given their lack of response to these notifications, we believe that we should revisit and improve the messaging and urgency that’s being communicated.”

  • User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”

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  • “After looking into this, it seems you have a hit song on your site,” the email from Netlify customer support reads. “Maan Bou Jan Sang Lou by Teresa Tang. I was not aware of her, but she seems to be a popular Taiwanese singer. This song is 99% of your bandwidth usage over the past 30 days.”

    The letter further explained that a lot of bandwidth was generated from user agents that “are quite ancient using Google Cloud addresses”.

    “This would include devices such as circa 2010 iPads, Windows 98 & Windows 6 computers. So either you have a fanbase with a passion for older technology, or this was likely a DDoS attack. To me, this seems to be the latter,” the email continued and suggested hosting such files on third-party platforms, such as YouTube or SoundCloud.

    After explaining the standard practice of reducing the bill to 20% after such attacks, which would be $20,900 in this case, the Netlify support team offered a better deal.

    “I've currently reduced it to about 5%, which is $5,225. I know this is still a lot of money, and I apologize for the inconvenience. If you like, I can raise this internally to see what else can be done.”

    The user wasn’t happy with that and decided not to pay but post their story on Reddit and Hacker News instead.

  • Threads’ API is coming in June

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  • In June? JUNE?

  • Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

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  • Why does nobody ever recommend GitLab

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • Only if you completely disregard the userland and impound the definition of Linux to the kernel base

  • GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

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  • Why would somebody want to steal my login credentials‽‽

  • Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

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  • Users don't contribute builds. They contribute a specification file for how the build is made, which through the AUR is downloaded and executed. You can see the package source for every AUR package, and most AUR helpers make you look at the specification file by default.