In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally ‘Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet’, a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.
This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.
Automatic Mapping
If a user already exists on one or more connected servers, they can log in directly with their existing Jellyfin credentials. Jellyswarrm will automatically create a local user and set up the necessary server mappings.
If the same username and password exist on multiple servers, Jellyswarrm will link those accounts together automatically. This provides a smooth experience, giving the user unified access to all linked servers.
Really should audit the implementation of that feature. So when you first log in it automatically sends you’re credentials to every connected server?
I always thought this would make more sense to implement client side in the media player. But its probably easier to implement this way.
Regarding the specific issues mentioned: Nvidia support is subpar on Linux. There’s many distros that are specifically designed to handle all the graphics support for gaming and Ubuntu isn’t one of them.
Little bit of lore here: When I first started using Linux Nvidia support was better than ATI because they actually bothered to maintain a proprietary Linux driver. There were open source drivers for both but they weren’t performant. The proprietary ATI driver existed but it was maintained by one dude and required a goat sacrifice to install correctly. Since then, however, maybe after AMD bought ATI, they started investing in the open source driver. After that the open source driver just works and competes with the proprietary Nvidia driver. After that I’ve been brand loyal to AMD.
LibreWolf chewing up 3.2Gb is regrettably just normal for a modern browser. Firefox and Chrome will do this too. I’d be genuinely impressed though if Vivaldi has avoided that.
Not much for open source solutions. A simple captcha however would cost scrapers more to crack than Anubis.
But when it comes to “real” bot management solutions: The least invasive solutions will try to match User-Agent and other headers against the TLS fingerprint and block if they don’t match. More invasive solutions will fingerprint your browser and even your GPU, then either block you or issue you a tracking cookie which is often pinned to your IP and user-agent. Both of those solutions require a large base of data to know what real and fake traffic actually looks like. Only large hosting providers like CloudFlare and Akamai have that data and can provide those sorts of solutions.
Costs of solving PoW for Anubis is absolutely not a factor in any AI companies budget. Just the costs of answering one question is millions of times more expensive than running sha256sum for Anubis.
Just in case you’re being glib and mean the businesses will go under regardless of Anubis: most of these are coming from China. China absolutely will keep running these companies at a loss for the sake of strategic development.
Places like cloudflare and akamai are already using machine learning algorithms to detect bot traffic at a network level. You need to use similar machine learning to evade them. And since most of these scrapers are for AI companies I’d expect a lot of the scrapers to be LLM generated.
Here’s one example of a proxy provider offering to pay developers to inject their proxies into their apps. (“100% ethical proxies” because they signed a ToS). Another is BrightData proxies traffic through users of their free HolaVPN.
IOT and smart TVs are also obvious suspects.
Or your TV or IOT devices. Residential proxies are extremely shady businesses.
The problem is primarily the resource drain on the server and tarpitting tactics usually increase that resource burden by maintaining the open connections.
This is what I’ve kept saying about POW being a shit bot management tactic. Its a flat tax across all users, real or fake. The fake users are making money to access your site and will just eat the added expense. You can raise the tax to cost more than what your data is worth to them, but that also affects your real users. Nothing about Anubis even attempts to differentiate between bots and real users.
If the bots take the time, they can set up a pipeline to solve Anubis tokens outside of the browser more efficiently than real users.
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The tariffs on places like Cambodia reveal how little it has to do with domestic industry because Cambodia has basically zero manufacturing. Its exports are almost all raw inputs we’d need to import for manufacturing. Instead, the tariffs are simple imperialistic extortion.
Remote Access Trojan
Yes you literally do when you install the package. You’re thinking of building the package. makepkg -i will prompt for root. pacman -U requires root. Both will execute the install() function of the PKGBUILD as root.
Its just an annoying captcha.
I don’t want to fault people for avoiding Arch’s instability in general but this is a very minor issue.
VLC is not a system critical package. I absolutely understand the mods choice to not put it in the RSS. At most they could put a notice in the pacman logs when it updates.
Interesting read. It sounds like that issue came upstream from Debian not Ubuntu though.
deprecating ffmpeg for half a year
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They probably can just block IPs of foreign DNS but I suspect there’s ways of mirroring around that.