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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlGuns good
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    5 months ago

    If people are violent against you, you have the right to defend yourself. That guy constantly advocated for violence against trans people, among many other groups.

    Why a trans person have to sit and wait to be beaten up to death for some guy indoctrinated by this guy? They may chose their own life over the ones that are on a path to killing them.










  • Sadly I had to install Windows 10 iot ltsc on a laptop I own.

    I tried to install linux. Several distros. But I always ran into de same issue. I was unable to install nvidia drivers. Which was weird, because that laptop have been on linux a few years prior and I clearly recall installing nvidia drivers without any issues.

    So I dug into the problem. And it seems that some new linux kernel had issues with older nvidia drivers, so most, if not all, distros dropped support for that old driver. Only given solution was to run some old lts distro. But por instance mint lts will end on 2027.

    At the same time everything worked just fine on that version of windows that have support until 2032.

    And, not, the laptop is not that usable with nouveau drivers, as those are incapable of doing hardware acceleration, so everything runs slower, specially games, but it can be noticed even in just the DE.

    So it’s weird. That in order to keep old hardware around I need to use Windows, because linux dropped support for this particular older hardware earlier than windows.

    I know it’s just an exception, and that is mostly Nvidia’s fault. But I had to do what I had to do.

    Still running linux on other of my machines though.




  • Cloudfare have a clear advantage in the sense that can put the door away from the host and can redistribute the attacks between thousands of servers. Also it’s able to analyze attacks from their position of being able to see half the internet so they can develop and implement very efficient block lists.

    I’m the first one who is not fan of cloudfare though. So I use crowdsec which builds community blocklists based on user statistics.

    PoW as a bot detection is not new. It has been around for ages, but it has never been popular because there have always been better ways to achieve the same or even better results. Captcha may be more user intrusive, but it can actually deflect bots completely (even the best AI could be unable to solve a well made captcha), while PoW only introduces a energy penalty expecting to act as deterrent.

    My bet is that invidious is under constant Google attack by obvious reasons. It’s a hard situation to be overall. It’s true that they are a very particular usercase, with both a lot of users and bots interested in their content, a very resource heavy content, and also the target of one of the biggest corporations of the world. I suppose Anubis could act as mitigation there, at the cost of being less user friendly. And if youtube goes a do the same it would really made for a shitty experience.


  • I don’t think is millions. Take into account that a ddos attacker is not going to execute JavaScript code, at least not any competent one, so they are not going to run the PoW.

    In fact the unsolicited and unwarned PoW does not provide more protection than a captcha again ddos.

    The mitigation comes from the smaller and easier requests response by the server, so the number of requests to saturate the service must increase. How much? Depending how demanding the “real” website would be in comparison. I doubt the answer is millions. And they would achieve the exact same result with a captcha without running literal malware on the clients.