Whois still has the DNS record but it doesn’t resolve for me either at this point. I can’t resolve it using dns.leonet.it either so presumably the sanctions have taken effect and their internet service has been cut off.

May I ask why FB, Twitter, etc. get protection from liability from 3rd party content under Section 230 of the Communications Act but these folks don’t? They both have a TOS and reserve the right to refuse service.

I’m not downvoting you btw, I know you’re engaging in good faith. Idk who is.

So they have a TOS like Facebook or any other large platform, and reserve the right to refuse service?

Unless they’re knowingly doing business with a known convicted terrorist, I fail to see how this makes them a terrorist support platform.

Anyways in the US Section 230 of whatever law prevents companies and organizations from being liable for content users post to their websites. How is this any different than FB hosting the breeding grounds for Proud Boys et al, other than them not being a US company and them being leftist-aligned?

I’d argue it doesn’t matter. If they offer e2ee email, they can’t be aware of the content of any messages exchanged.

Unless they were informed one of their email accounts belonged to someone convicted of committing an actual act of domestic terror, they would be completely in the dark about who’s using their email services.

Given its this US state department issuing the statement, I wouldn’t believe any accusation leveled at all without proof. I’d need to see evidence that A/I knowingly provided services to a convicted domestic terrorist for me to believe this is anything other than trying to stamp out E2EE.

https://autistici.org/who/manifesto

Seems pretty great to me. MSFT and friends must be unhappy Europe is slowly moving off US software.

This is conjecture because I can’t access the full paper at this time, but based on:

The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores.

I’m guessing this is an artifact of “students under higher pressure to perform are more likely to use AI more thereby lowering their scores”. Given Chinese patriarchical cultural biases, I’d imagine boys are under higher pressure on average, thereby leading to greater usage.

So perhaps it’s actually the second one, as the abatract is unclear if they’re studying performance relating to usage or not. Without checking methodology, it’s unclear if they’re controlling for usage.

I suspect it’s the second but now that you mention it, it is a bit ambiguous. I’m assuming the study would control for usage to compare outcomes across similar usage metric cohorts.

Given the overlap with “high achievers” and China’s cultural focus on men/male children, I’d imagine it’s an emergent property of widespread gender bias rather than intrinsic to AMAB academic capabilities.

Yeah I just went to a restaurant and only QR, no physical menu. Crazy, I hate it.

It’s not just log files - I was running a bad version of some software and suddenly my VPS was cryptomining and they tried to export common config directories. They got nothing and I cleaned it up but I’m not letting my VPS join a botnet and attack others. If the side effect of that is that Nigerians cannot read my person blog or access my self hosted services with 30 users I think this is ok.

I’ll happily accept your ire as I also wish the internet was generally safer and more open.

Also I’m not selling anything so that EU law wouldn’t apply to my services even if I did host them in the EU or provide services to the EU.

I am not in the US! Nor are my services hosted somewhere where this is relevant.

Tell that to the guy in Lagos I had to report a few years ago for breaching one of my personal services. Nigerian Police have a dedicated Cybercrime division and they didn’t even reply to my report through their official channels. Sorry, but Nigeria went on the geoblocklist! I have a right to not expose myself to undue risk.

The difference is that commercial VPNs are theoretically more beholden to regulatory bodies to shutdown bad traffic/provide subscriber information when so ordered by a court. With a commercial VPN you have a legal recourse against a bad actor. With residential proxies enforcement is much much harder, as traversing beyond the IP hosting the proxy to the TA is often not possible. I also use a VPN to get around content restrictions and have no qualms about their use. Residential proxies are typically bad for everyone except TAs and people who might not have access to traditional VPNs due to their local governments.

Man I’m replying while visiting family in a non-western aligned occupied territory “overseas” to NA. I know. I region block anyways and VPN into Europe/NA when needed, where at least my traffic originates from a VPN’S AS where someone can be made to revoke my access if I abuse it.

Overseas is generally used for “across an ocean”. As this is an NA based publication, “overseas” would likely be Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania.

Malicious traffic frequently originates from at least one place in every one of those continents. We were breached some time ago by a TA using a residential proxy to send traffic from a Ukr AS block that got around our firewall. Blocking all traffic from regions of the world that you have no intention of servicing is a very valid cybersecurity layer. Getting annoyed because someone used the phrase “overseas” to describe areas to be suspicious of I think is rather short sighted from a security point of view.

Very few cyber attacks come from domestic/near domestic sources, except from botnets and residential proxies. The world will not miss residential proxies.

Let me guess, you’ve never tried to host anything public yourself. If you run fail2ban long enough you end up with a blocklist that heavily skews towards a particular set of countries. Residential proxies are regularly used in criminal activity. I’ve personally and professionally been impacted by TAs using residential proxies to get around firewall rules as part of compromises.

If authorities in those countries took action against TAs and scammers more aggressively, perhaps blocking their entire country wouldn’t be seen as a valid defensive approach.

It’s amazing to me that some subset of humanity cannot understand that it is not capable of being smart or stupid, it is a word guessing machine.

Hype squad anthropomorphizes it, which is kind of internally consistent at least. But critiques like “look how dumb the word blender is” anthropomorphizes it to the same degree and I think that’s very interesting.

It has no concept of truth or fiction. It has no concept of anything. You asked it to generate words about Ghandi and Marvel and it did.