From the guy who said injecting bleach would cure Covid after staring into the sun during a solar eclipse

Edit: to future Internet archivists … YES THAT FUCKING HAPPENED!

Edit 2: of course you don’t believe me because it’s just too goddamn insane to be true, so here’s a fucking picture as proof

No, but there should be a highly regulated filter system.

It’s always the ones you most suspect

Love me some Kate Pulaski

Oh, sweet bunny child… it’s a much wiser and better fortified place.

Sure, it’s not the bright green innocent fields it once was, but that could never last, even then we knew it. And we prepared. We enjoyed it while it lasted, and we moved on. No innocence was lost and while we may mourn for the past, the future comes for all of us.

Whether we like it or not, we must all move on. The future is inevitable.

Is that not the song of life?

Ah that makes perfect sense. LW also gets a ton of hate, as too does PieFed, so I can well imagine trolls going so far as attacking it (obviously that’s my conspiracy theory hat on, but who knows - although “death to the infidels” does seem to me like it may include some light hacking of infidel-owned machines if they can get away with it… - yet it being purely due to AI scraping is unfortunately equally plausible)

Oh… oh, my, this is not at all what I was trying to describe. Wow this is such a vivid and incredibly imaginative narrative, I cannot possibly conceptualize that this could be true. No, I was referring to multiple DDoS attacks and AI bot scrapers overwhelming the server. Nothing so florid or colorful. No, much more mundane. sorry to disappoint you!

Lemmy may be argumentative and adversarial, but outright black hat cyber warfare? Ha ha ha ha… no.

But what a picture you painted! consider writing a sci-fi novel!

Again, this is a very small instance. When it gets overwhelmed with a gigantic amount of traffic suddenly, it doesn’t handle it well, and the admin will take it down to make tweaks before bringing it back online, and sometimes that that will take a little while. but they’re very proactive, and that’s a good thing!

From what I understand, this particular instance has been experiencing a lot of different types of attacks and attempting to mitigate a lot of AI traffic, so it’s been going down a bunch of times recently while the admin has been attempting to do with that sort of thing. Not that it is unstable per se, but the admin has been taking the instance off-line frequently for a few hours at a time in order to update the server and tweak it in order to deal with several extraneous issues.

It’s a much smaller instance than the main piefed instance, piefed.social.

Over the past month, however, it’s up time has been much better. I like this instance.

FWIW, on the weekends, my “Subscribed” feed can jump from ‘8 seconds ago’ to ‘2 years ago’ pretty quickly, so it’s not inconceivable that I might switch to the ‘All’ feed and discover something new and wonderful that I may not understand. (personally, it’s the torrent of trans communities and the onslaught of genz trans anxieties that, as a genx gay man, I try to reconcile with my very 90s experience. I find it extremely fascinating, not only sociologically, but in trying to better understand the extremely vast LGBTQ community that I am a part of). Anyway…

The point I was trying to make is that I was amused by what I was describing, not being critical of it. It’s a sociological wonder, and I found it interesting. I wasn’t trying to be a bitch.

Mmmmyeeaahhh, maybe, but I am a couple decades past trying to read the tea leaves with that guy. If that’s what he really meant, he could’ve come out and just said that – but he didn’t. He was intentionally ambiguous, mostly because I think he’s just tired of dealing with the issue (and an increasingly cunty crowd), and wanted to push the responsibility of making a decision off of himself and back onto the users. I will admit that he is far more composed than I would be in his position.

On one hand, I don’t blame him, but on another hand, I really wish he would’ve taken a stance (prefer preferably anti-AI).

He gave a professional response to a gigantic community because he has a professional responsibility to do so. Personally, I think he gave the only response he could. What does he personally think? Like I said, I’m a couple of decades past trying to read the tea leaves on that guy. But you could be right.

Oh, honey buns— as a piefed.world user…

lol. You don’t know how good you have it. I am sure there our instance admin tries his best, but servers will be servers…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Linus:

I know the alt text is provided for the visually impaired, but that alt text is really no help at all without a huge amount of context, lol

I can just imagine my buddy scrolling through and coming upon this meme and having a screen reader read out the alt text, and my buddy asking “who the fuck is Wesley? Who the fuck is a traveler?“

That again, he’s not a Star Trek fan, so he’s probably not subscribed to this community

Wow, that brings back memories

Loud, screeching memories

pico!

But nano will do ;)

FYI, on Lemmy, we don’t have “subs”— we have communities or “comms”

I’ve been enjoying Soylent for years. Either the ready to drink kind or the powder.

Piefed supports tagging as part of the platform. It runs as part of Lemmy, but the instances use a different software like mbin does

The bootloader has already seen fixes because of issues asahi uncovered.

Oh, I didn’t know that.

You know what they say: a rising tide lifts all boats

Also, Apple was questioned about this when the project started, and they basically said that they wish the project the best of luck and that Apple isn’t going to do anything to stand in their way.

As absurdly proprietary as Apple‘s hardware is, they’ve never explicitly done anything to block others from running different software on it. Yes, it is difficult to do so under certain circumstances, for all sorts of weird proprietary, Apple reasons, but to explicitly go out of their way to block it? Certainly never on their computers.

Although they do completely lock out their EFI and boot controllers, but they say that strictly a matter of preserving system security or whatever, and that’s believable. Inconvenient, but because that is also extremely proprietary, I believe them.

When you pull your pants down, and your pussy comes with it