Alice Pea (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@Pikapods@mastodon.social Those are the same #Clankers that performed a multi-month #DDoS attack on my site! Same excuse of 'AI scraping', but they used so many IP addresses, that fail2ban couldn't catch up. Even when I reluctantly deployed Anubis on it, Anubis was struggling to handle all those requests. Yes, it was that bad! It eventually stopped after that. These #AI companies are cybercriminal enterprises. DDoS attacks were illegal last time I checked, and so was the hacking that they did to Huggingface.

@Gina@fosstodon.org @rikviergever@mastodon.social @murena@mastodon.social At least in my country, we can simply do our banking inside the web browser instead. You shouldn't need a dedicated app to access a bank account, you should only need a good web browser. Any bank that doesn't have a webpage for this is already knee deep in some serious #accessibility issues: Too poor for a phone? no banking. Can't see? Obfuscated banking app breaks screen reader. Old or unsupported OS? Tough luck. This artificial exclusion should be illegal.

Jesus christ, these #Clankers don't wanna give up! #AI #Scrapers #DDoS #Botnet

@2legged@mastodon.ie These corrupt idiots will use any excuse to call someone a terrorist. Device has microphone? "must be a terrorist." (some British cop) Doesn't like fascism? "must be a terrorist." (Trump) Is transgender? "must be a terrorist." (Trump) Is holding a blank piece of paper in protest? "must be a terrorist." (Putin) I remember when these kinds of words meant something. I don't want to be defamed as the same maniacs who wants me dead, just for simply having a recording app on my phone.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social That face be giving me them "Bitconnect" vibes rn. 🥀💀

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social This is the same country where a physical object can be accused of a crime, and can stupidly be made to defend itself in court. This is the same country that lost a lawsuit against 29 tonnes of shark fins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_64,695_Pounds_of_Shark_Fins

@2legged@mastodon.ie I just realised that I don't need to manufacture an IKD. (improvised karaoke device) I can just buy a pre-built one from a department store for about 150 dollars or less.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Amazon's AI bots were scraping my site (and others) without permission, and yet they have the audacity to be against anyone who wants to read an Amazon-sold eBook offline on a Linux machine because "piracy". Absolute hypocrites, I tell you!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Yes. I have a Nepenthes-py tarpit on my site, and "Amazonbot" was one of the user agents that showed up in the metrics. I verified their origin by the WHOIS of their addresses. Their official excuse is the training LLMs for their Alexa assistant. I also found other dodgy things, like "meta-externalagent" IPs originating not only from Meta, but from Meta-owned IPs in Dublin, Ireland of all places. How 'American' of them... 🤔

@Tutanota@mastodon.social ID verification via "short video selfies" is stupid, and is now ineffective at it's advertised purpose. It implies that realtime deepfake technology doesn't already exist, SMH... Run a realtime webcam deepfake on a good gaming computer setup, point the phone camera at the screen, and this 'verification' implementation is cooked... This is probably a coverup for yet another data collection scheme. Facebook/Meta is known for those. (remember that "Onavo Protect" app?)

@eff@mastodon.social Oh god, I really hope this isn't an fake #AI image of John Oliver, because if this is real, this gotta be good.

@Gina@fosstodon.org @rikviergever@mastodon.social @murena@mastodon.social I also heard some banking apps refuse to work when "Developer options" is enabled, despite having practically no negative effect on good app security. They should've used the device's secure element instead. I need dev options for accessibility tweaks, and other technical stuff like automation, #Termux, and to bypass the upcoming "developer verification" crap. Meanwhile, both a universal #Morphe patch, and the "Geto" app bypass this. Gotta love #SecurityByObscurity

@burnoutqueen@todon.nl Speaking of lack of consent, this is what these stupid #clanker #AI companies have been doing to my server for the past month. (requests per minute, this chart hasn't changed much) They are wasting my small web server's bandwidth. I have to rate limit it to prevent them DDoSing it. Meta's bots have been scraping from IP addresses that are located in Dublin, Ireland. (according to WHOIS lookup) How "American" of them... GPTBot sucks too, it doesn't even acknowledge robots.txt!

@impermanen_@zirk.us I thank my lucky stars for the fact my parents never cooked with gas indoors. Even the LPG gas heater they had was used as a last resort.

@space_environmentalism@mastodon.social In the case of a constellation of smaller AI satellites, it will be impossible. AI clusters require ultra low latency, and ultra stable interconnects, and a satellite mesh network with multiple orbits will have latency spikes as sats pass each other. Not to mention the latency being limited by the speed of light itself. Not even Starlink can save them, as the bandwidth capacity of each of these interconnects also has to be rather high, as in at least 50Gbps high.

@fatalisticcritic@cyberplace.social @jerry@infosec.exchange They are "ClaudeBot" and "GPTBot" respectively, at least according to my web server's access logs.

@drwhax@infosec.exchange This may be one of the only niche use cases where LLM technology may actually be useful, and it may be what Linus Torvalds was talking about when it comes to AI and the Linux kernel. Directly deploying AI code in the kernel could violate the GPL. But as for auditing existing code for potential vulnerabilities, and the pen-testing stuff, this may be a viable use case. But that's not what the AI companies promote. They promote the AI-powered shovelware development use case instead.

@lobsters@mastodon.social It'd be pretty funny if nobody actually ends up using #Omarchy. These companies would've been wasting millions of dollars on a nothing burger. It takes alot more time to install something in #Arch than it does in other distros, since everything needs to be compiled from source. This is why Arch was a niche distro in the first place, and these stupid #DHH vibecoded shell scripts won't change anything but the initial setup procedure, while the compilation time is still just as long.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social This is simply just yet more corporate money burning on this AI bubble. All omarchy is is a vibe-coded set of install scripts for Arch Linux. This will not take over the world, imcrease stability, or decrease compile times. There's a reason why Arch is a very niche distro. It's the bleeding-edge rolling-release distro where things can and will break. Most people want stability with something that is guaranteed to work, and often settle for a staged release distro like Debian instead.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social The hypocrisy of these AI companies conplaining about other AI companies 'stealing' their model's weights... It wasn't theirs to begin with;

@space_environmentalism@mastodon.social If AI loves water so much, then why don't they build them underground beneath the water table, or underwater beneath lakes and oceans? There is no water in space, and the vacuum of space functions as an ideal heat insulator. The ISS requires massive radiators about as large as it's solar panels, just to keep it's internals and crew from melting. Even the solar panels would have to be colossal to power such a space-based data center, as in multiple rugby fields of area.