Let me get this straight. They pulled it offline because it was overrun with bots, and legitimate users had no influence.

Their solution was to hand all influence over to a bot.

Genius. /s

The link to his youtube still works, and he’s been posting fortnite videos recently.

There’s a video from 10 months back, and his health doesn’t look great.

Turn the tap off. Ask questions later. Stress test their data centre.

It’s absurd that they think they can just pay for the water they stole and call it square.

Recaptcha has gone from “make sure you’re not a robot” to “make sure you’re not blocking Google’s ad revenue”.

It’s literally called “IPv6 privacy extension”. It’s what it does.

Unless you’re in the middle and fowarding the packets, you won’t stumble across a connectable IPv6 endpoint.

The smallest possible subnet has 18.4 quintillion addresses.

You can’t scan it before encountering the heat death of the universe.

Outgoing connections are made on a different address that does not accept incoming connections. You never disclose your real IP when browsing.

So, no. It can’t be done.

They’re portscanning bots.

I made SSH IPv6-only and it stopped. You can’t scan IPv6 space for open ports.

AI is “taking credit for the work of humans” all the way down.

I’m old enough to understand this reference.

Installed it this week on an old PC. It really is unusable at this point.

I selfhost mail and have no problem receiving. The only problem is spam. However I’ve found that just dropping anything that isn’t over TLS and passes SPF is fine. I don’t use a spam filter.

Fun fact: Australia’s youth social media ban was lobbied by crooked betting agencies so that they could run ads without restriction.

Not the strongest name. Sounds kinda weak.

Maybe “Photographic Image Manipulation Program”?

It’s a GNU program, not a Linux program. It runs on multiple platforms.

Interesting. I’m getting full marks on mxtoolbox but failing the same tests on this one.

We almost had to mention standard cars, which are also half the size.

In GrapheneOS, there’s a new RCS activation setting in “Sandboxed Google Play” -> “Play service permissions”.

I didn’t have RCS for years, and this feature fixed it. The fearure was just added in February.

They didn’t look all that advanced…

I wanted to get involved in a community project around Manhattan. Is there anything good going on?

Yes.