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@remixtures This is what Frank Herbert described in the prologue to his sci-fi epic Dune:
Men turned over their thinking to computers, only to discover the computers were being used against them by other men in pursuit of power.
I think I was wrong. My new understanding of the firewall stuff to persist across reboots of the server:
netfilter-persistent calls all the modules.
iptables-persistent is the module that saves /etc/iptables/rules.v4 and /etc/iptables/rules.v6 with just the rules.
ipset-persistent is the module that saves /etc/iptables/ipsets.
This file is about 1MB and pretty much contains what my ban-cidr contains.
And as it turns out, saving is never automatic.
You need to run netfilter-persistent save manually after running ban-cidr for all the rules and sets to be loaded on a reboot.
I updated https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-01-23-bots-devouring-the-web
I wrote a long and angry article about the bots. I put it on my blog because my single user GoToSocial instance is hosted on the same server as my wikis and everything else, so when one the services is under attack, they all are.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-01-23-bots-devouring-the-web
The current count is 14497 networks banned.
#ButlerianJihad
@pkw It's these little things that got me started on my path towards the #ButlerianJihad, so tread carefully! 
They said we're running out of IPv4 numbers but now that I'm trying to block bots descending like flesh flies on baby bison, it turns out that there are still thousands of networks that need blocking. Holy cow may Baal eat the eyes of all the engineers partaking in this scouring of the web; may all the project managers rot and lose their teeth, their nails, their hair and their sense of smell; let them all suffer these curses until they repent, until they mend their ways and help undo the damage they are wreaking. I have banned 8901 networks, today, and I'm still at it!
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@corbet I keep struggling with this as well. Today I have banned 8901 networks already.
If you want to partake in unsupervised banning with no feedback, no due process, just automatic ban-hammers, take a look at this script full of firewall commands.
Needs ipset and iptables access.
https://alexschroeder.ch/admin/ban-cidr
Updates at the bottom of this page:
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-25-emacs-china
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The bots are at it again, trying to scoop up Emacs Wiki.
I've banned nearly 3000 networks in the last hour or so.
Updates at the bottom of this page:
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-25-emacs-china
If you want to partake in unsupervised banning with no feedback, no due process, just automatic ban-hammers, take a look at this script full of firewall commands.
Needs ipset and iptables access.
https://alexschroeder.ch/admin/ban-cidr
#fluConf2025 will feature a track on Luddism, and we're still looking for submissions.
We want to hear from people that are talking or writing about the deliberate use of technology, resistance to the dominant narratives in tech hype cycles, analysis of the strategies employed by venture capitalists and their distorting effects on society, activism against extractive and exploitative technologies, sabotage of algorithmic systems, and whatever else Luddism means to you.
Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
"Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players of its mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, and from users of its Scaniverse app"
It's time for #Randonautica to add a "Go, Butlerian Jihad" or "No AI BS" badge to our app.
i kinda feel like the emperor needs to be told he is not clothed re: "artificial intelligence", am i seriously being told to "appreciate" AI artwork?
2+2=5!
this is why you can't trust bots, following these directions will lead to neither a bathed ferret nor sashimi!
@nextcloud We don't, and won't, use any so-called "#AI" on our #Nextcloud instance.
@medigoth #ButlerianJihad will come sooner than expected.
@cstross thou shalt not partake of the fruits of the thinking machines! #ButlerianJihad