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  • kautau@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWelcome to 2025
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    11 hours ago

    Sure, but to someone running a website out of their house, 100,000 bots trying to hit the site at the same time to scrape it is going to have the same effect. So yes, you’re correct, Anubis has nothing to do with stopping a literal DDoS attack, but it does help smaller websites stay alive by avoiding responding to requests from scrapers or one-off malicious agents.




  • I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.







  • My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

    And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

    She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

    And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

    This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was “less than one percent.”



  • kautau@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOh crap, was that my exit?
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    18 days ago

    I’ve seen that multiple times. I always slow down, get the tag number, and call the cops to report them. They don’t deserve to drive putting lives at risk like that

    Edit: Thanks for the one two downvotes, person people who think losing 10 mins of travel time is worse than human death and suffering due to negligence



  • Yeah in a perfect world an AGI or SGI would aid us and then leave to either our benefit or our demise, leave it up to us.

    I really like this bit

    “You flatter us, Mellanie; we are not omnipotent.”

    “What’s that?”

    “Godlike.”

    “But you are powerful.”

    “Yes. And that is why we must use that power wisely and with restraint—a tenet we have adopted from human philosophy. If we rush to your assistance at every hint of trouble, your culture would become utterly dependent upon us, and we would become your masters. If that were ever to happen, you would rebel and lash out at us, for that is the strongest part of your nature. We do not want that situation to arise.”

    Hamilton, Peter F. (2006-02-28). Judas Unchained (The Commonwealth Saga) (p. 205). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.


  • Not all blankets are towels but all towels are blankets

    A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.






  • kautau@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldLick it
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    24 days ago

    Yeah weirdly (or maybe not) when we get down to it too, every sense is a sense of touch. Your ears touch the vibrations in the air, your nose touches the particles in the air, your eyes feel the touch of the light that hits them, skin is self explanatory, and then your tongue, which is touching on a very miniscule level while checking for all the chemicals and seeing if your nose is confirming that the touch is similar to the particles