They make money selling faster downloads, so that’s not likely to happen.

I disagree with them. Copy everything and never pay, it’s the high seas for me. 🏴‍☠️

share any shit you make on p2p networks. not even the feds have figured out how to take down a torrent consistently.

y’all really still letting corpos tell you what you can and can’t share?

Hey, if you wanna put your home server out there so the first person who gets pissy at you can DDoS you off the net until your ISP decides to cancel your service, that’s a perfectly acceptable decision to make for yourself.

How do you know you’re running anything securely? How many people have actually audited the code?

PSA: If you use Cloudflare to proxy, you can get a free decade long certificate and not worry about it for awhile.

Bigotry? From a lemmy user? Never seen it before!

If you don’t like what I’m saying, block me and move along. Or report my comments, if you think they’re offensive enough. If I’m breaking a rule or the mods don’t like what I have to say, maybe they’ll remove them, or even ban me from the comm! That’s the limit of your options for getting rid of me though.

How many hobby website admins have load balancing for their small sites? How many have decommissioned hardware? Because if you find me a corporation wiling to accept the liability doing something like this could open them up to, I’ll pay you a million dollars.

I’m just vibing, watching the hysterics you guys get up to.

Well, luckily for them, it’s a pretty simple fix. Congrats on being a part of making them jot down a note to prevent tarpitting when they get around to it. You’ve saved the internet!

And stop pretending like you’re unbiased either. We both have our preconceived notions, and you’re not more likely to be open to change yours than I am. In fact, given the hysterical hyperventilating anti-AI “activists” get to, we both know you’re not ever going to change your mind on AI, and as such you’ll glom onto any small action you think is gonna stick it to the man, no matter whether that action is going to have any practical effect on the push for AI or not.

Hey, you don’t need to convince me, you’ve clearly already committed to bravely sacrificing your own time and money in this valiant fight. Go get ‘em, tiger! I look forward to the articles about AI being stopped coming out any day now.

Hey, you keep fighting the good fight, you’ve got them on the ropes! You and all your many, many friends!

One or two sysadmins using this isn’t going to be noticeable, and even if it was, the solution would be an inline edit to add a depth limit to links. The fix wouldn’t even take thirty seconds to edit your algorithm to completely defeat this.

Not to mention, OpenAI or whatever company that got caught in one of these could sue the site. They might not win, but how many people running hobby sites who are stupid enough to do this are going to have thousands of dollars on hand to fight a lawsuit from a company worth billions with a whole team of lawyers? You gonna start a GoFundMe for them or something?

One or two people using this isn’t going to punish anything, or make enough of a difference to poison the AI. That’s the same phrase all these anti-AI projects for sites and images use, and they forget that, like a vaccine. you have to have the majority of sites using your method in order for it to be effective. And the majority of sysadmins are not going to install what’s basically ICE from Cyberpunk on a production server.

Once again, it’s lofty claims from the anti-AI crowd, and once again it’s much ado about nothing. But I’m sure that won’t stop people from believing that they’re making a difference by costing themselves money out of spite. 😂

If you’re piping ChatGPT into AI scrapers, you’re paying ChatGPT for the privilege. So to defeat the AI… you’re joining the AI. It all sounds like the plot of a bad sci-fi movie.

So instead of the AI wasting your resources and money by ignoring your robots.txt, you’re going to waste your own resources and money by inviting them to increase their load on your server, but make it permanent and nonstop. Brilliant. Hey, even better, you should host your site on something that charges you based on usage, that’ll really show the AI makers who is boss. 🤣

The only thing you need to worry about is turning on battery conservation to protect the battery, or removing the battery entirely if your laptop doesn’t support that. Because if you have it plugged in and the battery is at 100% all the time, it’s going to go bad quickly. Bad batteries can sometimes swell up, which could turn into a fire hazard.

I’ve never had iOS shut my VPN off, and I use a kill switch so I would immediately know.

I don’t think it was Microsoft, in the past few years they’ve been being a little chill towards Linux.

As for being an attack, even if they wanted to, they couldn’t get rid of Linux. Even the US government can’t tell people to stop using it. I mean, they can tell people to stop, but there’s no practical way for them to enforce such a law. Most distros out there also distribute via torrent, so even if you took down the websites for all the distros, you couldn’t stop the distribution of the ISOs. Not to mention, if they outlawed or restricted Linux, I can’t think of anything that would absolutely make the Linux users become very rebellious. Imagine the majority of the hackers, white, gray, and black hat, all of a sudden becoming very angry with the US government. It would be absolute chaos.

Not to mention, there are corporations like Valve and Ubuntu that have invested millions into Linux. I don’t believe for a second they would just lay down and not fight the government outlawing something that has become very lucrative for them.