The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ first drive: 460 miles on a single charge The Escalade embodies the American luxury car ideal, and now it's gone electric. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/t…
LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos
(EDIT: You do not need to link me to nepenthes, etc. I am aware of those as is sourcehut)
(Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)
SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers.
We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of
mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now.
Something that continues to stand out to me, is how most of this highly abusive traffic originates from the big cloud providers.
If smaller hosting providers originated this much abuse and didn't put effective mitigations in place, they would get cut off from their upstreams without a second thought, and listed on 'abusive networks' toplists.
But apparently it's "fine" if the big cloud companies do it, and there's neither recourse nor consequences.
Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry; Error message previously shown on Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s website amid Trump administration’s DEI purge theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
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Old Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter Using a custom kit to make a budget EV offer some emergency power. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
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I've written a few words lately about trying to shift away from U.S. tech dominance. I want to buy European/Canadian, support independent software over big tech, and move toward a digital life that aligns with my ethics.
This is one I struggle with deeply. I’ve built a career on Microsoft technologies but I feel the tug to rebuild on open source. As Microsoft digs deeper into AI it becomes ever increasingly at odds with my love of nature conservationist tendencies. Which can be said of anything tech. To say nothing of the issues with US tech and how it is evolving especially under the current administration.
I feel like my entire world has become a moral quandary that I can’t solve.
I'm in the midst of transitioning away from as much big tech as possible; it's definitely possible and not nearly as much of a compromise as it might have been a decade ago.
It isn't just an issue of morality, it's an issue of privacy, and an issue of being able to own your data.
Sure, trying to go 100% cold turkey is daunting, but you don't have to do it all at once. Setting up your own homelab or a hobby server outside the US has never been easier. If you can migrate away from even one big tech online service, you're one step closer.
The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Absolutely, I used a lot of open source on Windows for years before I bit the bullet and swapped over to Linux and got rid of MS completely. You don't have to do it all at once.
There's quite a nice site here: alternativeto.net/ that you can find your normal app, search for alternatives and filter for OS and licence etc. It's not always complete, but it's a great start.
@rlounsbury Ah sorry. Yes, I keep trying. I mostly work with Windows OSes and Cisco. Now and again there will be some embedded devices and Linux servers that others are scared to touch that I can play with.
I've tried getting more people at various workplaces to use open source to fix problems, but a lot of people aren't willing to learn, which is annoying as they would have more marketable skills.
Maybe it's because they don't have it as a hobby too 🤷
Your article is an excellent read that personally addresses a few issues I am dealing with. Thanks !
"But the point isn't perfection. The point is intention.
You don’t have to be all or nothing. You don’t have to make every decision a moral battlefield. You don’t have to sever every tie to every compromised system - and you sure as hell don’t have to do it overnight.
You have to engage. You have to stay aware. You have to keep questioning the default."
reminds me of when I considered adding the compressor & tank from an air brakes system to my pickup so that I could run an air horn from a train. Slight overkill. 😜
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When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #DRM
The new memoir about Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg is billed as an exposé – but it feels like a morality tale for our times, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
'In the 78-page document that Wynn-Williams filed to the SEC (and which the Washington Post claims to have seen), it was alleged that Meta had for years been making numerous efforts to get into the biggest market in the world. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… These efforts included: developing a censorship system for China in 2015 that would allow a “chief editor” to decide what content to remove, and the ability to shut down the entire site during “social unrest”; assembling a “China team” in 2014 for a project to develop China-compliant versions of Meta’s services; considering the weakening of privacy protections for Hong Kong users; building a specialised censorship system for China with automatic detection of restricted terms; and restricting the account of Guo Wengui, a Chinese government critic, after a Chinese internet regulator suggested it would improve cooperation. T... show more
'In the 78-page document that Wynn-Williams filed to the SEC (and which the Washington Post claims to have seen), it was alleged that Meta had for years been making numerous efforts to get into the biggest market in the world. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… These efforts included: developing a censorship system for China in 2015 that would allow a “chief editor” to decide what content to remove, and the ability to shut down the entire site during “social unrest”; assembling a “China team” in 2014 for a project to develop China-compliant versions of Meta’s services; considering the weakening of privacy protections for Hong Kong users; building a specialised censorship system for China with automatic detection of restricted terms; and restricting the account of Guo Wengui, a Chinese government critic, after a Chinese internet regulator suggested it would improve cooperation. These corporate efforts only stopped after it became clear that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden viewed China as a strategic threat to the US.'
This account of working life at Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant organisation describes a ‘diabolical cult’ able to swing elections and profit at the expense of the world’s vulnerable
I was at a #bellringing conference at the weekend and got the chance to ring at York Minster! This bell weighs 3 tons, and is twice the weight of a bell I ring regularly, and my heaviest bell to ring so far.
David Erich's *Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful* is a brave, furious book about the long-running plan by America's wealthy and corrupt to "open up the libel laws" so they can destroy their critics:
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"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and viole...
The Federal Court has issued its ruling on the costs in the Voltage - TekSavvy case, a case involving the demand for the names and address of thousands of TekSavvy subscribers by Voltage on copyright infringement grounds.
My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...
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