Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
OMG that site… 🤮
They could do that right now, but their priority seems to be different. NK controls its people’s Internet use by controlling their devices, in Russia that boat has sailed, 35% of people have a desktop or laptop, 85% have Internet access via uncontrolled devices.
Kind of… but I feel like Russia is more concerned with its plans to completely cut off its national Internet, which would leave all domains like this as either unresolvable, or inaccessible.
In this case, it includes anyone referencing any publications. Like this post right here.
If publishers had their way, then lemmy.ml, and kbin, and you, and me, and all the instances on the Fediverse making an “unauthorized copy” of any part of the content, would have to pay.
Is it though?
The Insider is based in Latvia, and has been labeled as a “foreign agent” by Russia.
Publishers are the evil ones here.
The firm launched this project after European publishers demanded more information about the traffic brought to their websites by Google search as part of the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive.
For the full context:
Oh, the irony:
https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed
I’ve self-funded Bridgy classic for 12 years and Bridgy Fed for 6 years so far, and I can continue indefinitely. I have experience scaling services like these as personal projects. I care about and believe in decentralized social networks
Centralized love for decentralized networks 🙄
Depending on when you tried that, it might’ve been fixed already.
I’m using GA on a Nest Mini, and Gemini on a smartphone. It started being unable to do pretty much anything; right now (Dec 2024) it can do all I ask it for, but still claims to be unable to fully replace GA.
Also have Samsung’s Bixby, which has better integration with phone apps, and returning search results, but fails more than Gemini at summarizing them, or answering general questions… so yeah, YMMV.
I find Gemini “somewhat useful”, on a smartphone. It’s not a game changer, but it can often answer the thing I want even when it misheard it, much better than Google Assistant.
That reads like someone ticking boxes in some software, assembling a reasoning from pre-written sentences in “simple English”. Do they use that kind of tools?
It’s nice of them if they do it like that. That way the reasoning is better exposed. The reasoning is easier to evaluate. It is easier to spot the point where the reasoning breaks down.
You’re thinking of a blacklist: “block NONE except [list]”. I’m speaking of a whitelist: “block ALL except [list]”.
Making a list of IPs registered with, and allowed by the government, is quite easy. China, Russia, Iran, etc. have been making those lists for years at this point.
Inefficient ethnic cleansing proceeding as expected.
Blocking is quite trivial with a whitelist… what isn’t so trivial, is to block while keeping the appearances of not blocking, or block while IT workers at ISPs and hosting providers are morally opposed to blocking.
Keep in mind that Russia has already done the “block it all” experiment in 2019, and keeps practicing it: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/russia-disconnects-several-regions-from-the-global-internet-to-test-its-sovereign-net
All service providers in the EU have to follow a similar abuse report handling procedure.
They usually require a response to abuse tickets within 24h, so better have someone capable of responding at least twice a day. Unless the abuse goes against the provider’s ToS (don’t do that), simply responding to it should make it go away… as in, the provider washes their hands and lets the reporting party and you sort it among yourselves, be it in court or whatever. Russian government agencies are not very likely to win a case in the EU these days, though.
If you don’t want to deal with hosting providers, you can self-host and deal with your ISP.
This varies a lot from one ISP to another, some will cut you off at the first sign of abuse, others will ignore abuse reports like nothing happened, while others will port-filter you so you can’t even host stuff yourself. You will also find that most residential IP ranges are on blacklists used by mail providers.
To increase the likelihood of staying online, use redundancy. For a while, I used to manage a system with two hosting providers, acting as reverse proxies and fallback for a local dual server setup with dual PSUs, dual UPSs, with dual connections to two ISPs via two routers. We used to get close to “six 9s” uptime.
I bet you’re wrong… most people won’t complain, or care 🫤
Once upon a time, between 1945 and 1963, the poorest US taxpayers paid 3% on income, while the richest had to pony up 91%.
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/whole-ball-of-tax-historical-income-tax-rates
Imagine that, instead of the 2024’s current 10% vs 37%…
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-brackets
The MAGA crowd should take a note of what used to “Make America Great”.
Each sanction needs to be spelled out, discussed, and voted.
Countries have a lot of complex relationships between them, sanctioned countries find new ways to circumvent some… so it’s not possible to “do all the sanctions” at once, not for the existing relationships, and definitely not for all circumvention methods a country might come up with in the future.
Then, there are underlying interests, like in sanctioning Gazprom along with most banks… but waiting over two years to sanction Gazpombank, which was still being used to buy gas from Russia.
First, they have a news section, making them a publisher:
https://journalistforbundet.dk/nyheder
Second, the union is:
https://journalistforbundet.dk/dj-english
That also includes publishers.
Google did what they were asked for. With malicious compliance, but what they were asked for. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤷