No, but the more people block them, the less up votes and visibility they will receive for their posts.
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Why are we giving this person their stage again? How probable is it that the instance admins of the like 15 instances they have accounts on will all collectively ban him? It's just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You've read that "bio" this person has. Even if they get banned, they'll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.
So, you mean using a proprietary vendor to operate something binds you to that vendor? Congratulations, you've just discovered vendor lock-in.
"Obfuscating the environment" is also an absolutely unhinged claim, what even is that supposed to mean?
And again, Automattic is NOT in the right. What Automattic did was break license terms, attempt to extort, steal code, and light their whole brand, company, ecosystem and community on fire. Matt spit in the faces of his open source community (and open source in general), and every single person dependent on WordPress losing their job because of the shift he's causing will be blood on his hands personally. Even if WP Engine was questionably morally or ethically, they did play by the laws and the license terms. Matt went on a mental breakdown and additionally to his unethical behavior broke several laws on that journey, which is exactly why he is losing the lawsuit. Matt and Automattic are NOT in the right.
To be fair, Matt is providing meltdowns regularly and totally free of charge. 😂
I'd laugh my ass off if WP Engine would lead a hard fork called WP Core. If any WP Engine folks read this, feel free to use the name, I won't sue, I promise.
That whole blog post is so full of salt, that it really hurts to read.
Still going on about the "imbalance of the contributions", well that's open source for you - you don't get to control who contributes how much, all you can do is ask nicely, and provide a good experience for contributors. Acting like a lunatic does not do that.
legal attacks started by WP Engine
Of course they did after the witch-hunt and the absolutely illegal, unethical and plain ridiculous behavior of Automattic. The counter they did, the whole ACF takeover and the slandering are a lawsuit handed on a plate.
The way "community" is quoted in that article for those who dared to disagree.
This legal action diverts significant time and energy that could otherwise be directed toward supporting WordPress’s growth and health.
Yeah, as a developer I also hate when lawsuits are stopping me from working. He had no problem letting go of nearly 10% of his staff with their "alignment offer" to get rid of people who again dared to disagree, but the legal action is diverting resources now.
But the whole "Focused on the Future" paragraph is going full mask off:
Before, they said that resources will be reallocated to "for-profit projects within Automattic", and
We will redirect our energy toward projects that can fortify WordPress for the long term
It's only a matter of time another hostile takeover will take place, and Matt will attempt to go full for-profit on WordPress itself.
We’re excited to return to active contributions to WordPress core, Gutenberg, Playground, Openverse, and WordPress.org when the legal attacks have stopped.
Full on extortion. Stop the lawsuit or we won't contribute.
Honestly, if I'd be dependent on WordPress for my work, I'd not sleep well and start going into something else right fucking now. How are people that stupid, childish and entitled getting into such positions.
Matt never ceases to amaze with his smoothbrain decisions.
The amount of effort this moron puts into his weird personal vendetta against WP engine, even after the court told him that he has nothing, which was actually his last chance to end this kinda gracefully, could've been used for so much better things.
And he's not only successfully kicking himself in the balls, he's willing to throw so many years of community and project time and effort under the bus for it.
Go on Matt, keep telling how much you're only doing this for WordPress.
And where did I say that no one should pay for youtube premium? Where did I say that everything should be 100% free?
If YouTube premium is worth it for you, go for it. In my opinion YouTube is getting worse by the day, and it's monopoly due to its reach and resources suppresses any competition, unfortunately. Even if YouTube Premium would cost 10 cents I won't pay it, because I simply think that YouTube has severely gone wrong. Vote with your wallet.
And before other connoisseurs of boot material chime in - I'm paying for Google one. I'm using drive and mail daily. I bought the new pixel, watch and buds day one, and all of those are amazing Google products I'm very happy to pay for, just as I do for Spotify, HP, Netflix, IntelliJ and any other product that brings me value.
Pay for what you want, and let me do the same.
YouTube is the biggest platform, and the one with the most resources. Whether it's the best one is on another page.
And again, keep bootlicking. Chrome fanboy, goated YouTube, and even MSP, talking about copium. Your poor fucking customers and people working under you.
Yes, the problem are definitely the few percent of people using ad blockers, but absolutely not the corpos spewing out a few cents while watching creators fight against each other and the algorithm ™️ from their second yacht they bought this week.
Keep bootlicking, fool.
Bethesda brought HD texture packs for Skyrim and Fallout, yes. But they are free DLCs and came out several years after release. Bethesda did a paid modding shop.
But this is a feature that other games just have, that's paid, on a preorder full price AAA game that's already more expensive than other games.
Stop trying to compare, this is a whole new precedent of greed and mtx.
Isn't Ubuntu Pro basically just an extended support for a set of universe packages for their LTS versions and free for private use?
How is making enterprises pay for extended LTS because of corporate no-update-just-insert-coin mentalities even remotely close to ransomware?
Like I get everyone who doesn't like Ubuntu for various reasons, but this sounds completely dumb to me.
NPM allows for code to be executed while you install the package which is different from maven or nuget and allows for easy exploitation paths
This is the winner. Combine that with a vastly bigger group of inexperienced developers (and I'm willing to die on that hill), and you have a lot of people running node / npm as an admin / root user, who have close to zero idea what they are doing, hitting their project with third party dependencies left and right for no particular reason (left-pad, is-number, ansi console and similar useless crap), and then your dependency management allows for code execution. Also, from my personal feeling, it seems that npm simply cannot properly audit the packages due to the sheer mass. From a technical standpoint it's close to trivial to put your malware onto npm, and then you just need to get someone to install your package, which is way simpler than in other package managers
The smallest footprint for an actual scripting probably will be posix sh - since you already have it ready.
A slightly bigger footprint would be Python or Lua.
If you can drop your requirement for actual scripting and are willing to add a compile step, Go and it's ecosystem is pretty dang powerful and it's really easy to learn for small automation tasks.
Personally, with the requirement of not adding too much space for runtimes, I'd write it in go. You don't need a runtime, you can compile it to a really small zero dependency lib and you have clean and readable code that you can extend, test and maintain easily.
I'm very interested to hear what went wrong.
We'll probably never know. Given the impact of this fuck up, the most that crowdstrike will probably publish is a lawyer-corpo-talk how they did an oopsie doopsie, how complicated, unforseen, and absolutely unavoidable this issue has been, and how they are absolutely not responsible for it, but because they are such a great company and such good guys, they will implement measures that this absolutely, never ever again will happen.
If they admit any smallest wrongdoing whatsoever they will be piledrived by more lawyers than even they'd be able to handle. That's a lot of CEO yachts in compensations if they will be held responsible.
It's not surprising per se, but it's something that people should be more aware of. And a lot of this consumption is not providing global services (like the Google search or workspace suite) but the whole AI hype.
I didn't find numbers for Google or Microsoft specifically, but training ChatGPT 4 consumed 50 GWh on its own. The daily estimates for queries are estimated between 1-5 GWh.
Given that the extrapolation is an overestimate and calculating the actual consumption is pretty much impossible, it's still probably a lot of energy wasted for a product that people do not want (e.g. Google AI "search", Bing and Copilot being stuffed into everything).
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Chrome cookies are encrypted, for exactly the reasons stated. If malware gains access to your system and compromises it in a way that DPAPI calls can be replicated in the way Chrome does it, then your sessions will also be compromised. But this is way harder to do, and at least prevents trivial data exfiltration.
Please don't take personal offense, but you have merely a project scaffold with an unrealistic goal that will be blocked and C&D'd into the ground, without any other projects created.
It doesn't matter how hard you're working on your anonymity, this project will be ripped apart by a horde of lawyers in seconds. You're not only doing something questionable or against ToS, you're directly attacking and sabotaging their monetization. This will not be taken lightly by the legal team of reddit.
You want to provide a better, cooler, more robust and other random buzzwords API than the own of reddit. So, you alone, want to provide a better API than the whole team of reddit does for their absolute core product, all by scraping. This is simply not realistic.
While we're at the topic of monetization, scraping, ETL into your own model and providing the API - for the amount of content that reddit has (quantity, not quality) this will be a highly resource intensive task. How do you plan to fund that, since your API will be better than the official one, I can expect at least the same performance as well, right?
And also, most importantly, even if you magically achieve working around all that and get that working - why? Who is your expected user group? Pretty much every software using reddit moved away from reddit or simply has died. AI gen content is rampant, and most discussions seem like bots talking to bots. There is literally nothing to gain from an API to reddit - so why would anyone bother using it?
It's not about being dumb and expecting stuff for free but a general anger towards subscription based models. Fair models exist and are possible, but are a collateral of the general hate.
Then, free alternatives exist, and believe it or not, some people do not have a tiny monthly fee they could spare or do not want to pay for something that a free alternative exists.
Threema tried exactly that, and failed comically.