It keeps getting better.

Post without context that links to a post in a platform I can't access without login or 3rd party interfaces and whose post links to another post. Hm.

But it does not necessarily suggest that bots of the kind that post on social media have reduced their activity, or that there has been any meaningful result in the amount of misinformation or general posts from such accounts. While some users have reported that they are seeing less of those posts and accounts, that is not necessarily broadly true and may have nothing to do with the attacks on Yandex.

That is because Cloudflare’s “bot” data measures traffic from non-human, automated sources in general. And those kinds of bots can be used for all purposes, both good and bad.

As such, those widely shared charts do not in themselves suggest that there will be any less activity from automated systems that post on social media. And there is nothing necessarily to suggest that the attacks have had any impact in that way at all.

Users report less malicious bot activity, but you know, there's no evidence of less malicious bot activity, because non-malicious bots exist, you see.

What a waste of time the article is

Why are you linking Reddit post instead of original article?

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/russia-bots-offline-facebook-instagram-x-yandex-b3065614.html

Help Ukraine. Already helping? Help more! You see the positive results even if you're far from frontline. A few coins in your country might not be enough to buy a sausage, but can improve the life of Ukrainian soldier, who already helps you! Russia is the source of global problems(yes, in Africa too). Many governments are afraid to raise their voices about fires in the factories and warehouses, sunk ships (Bulgaria, Türkiye?). But if Ukraine lose, you will receive even more frightening problems.

Oh, and Belarus is a pile of shit too. Watch them.

And people will use datacenter stuff. There are already pcie card for the weird smi card interface for the big nvidia server card, same for amd stuff. Small epyc board exist already. Hacker will get every cheap electronic to work.

And miss out on the tax writeoffs when they send the equipment to landfills?

Aww yea, gimme those sweet cheap HDDs.

Agree, plus pent up demand. Like me and everyone else could really use some normally priced components for a change lol

Why though? Won't there be a huge second hand market?

if that's your prerogative. just know that the line you're drawing is very much in the sand while the tide is coming in.

No, I'm not touching fashware.

so selfhost it.

don't disregard a good tool that is selfhostable because the founder is bad.

it's not like he's getting money from users or server admins.

Guess what the political beliefs of the simplex founder are...

use simplex. it's used by neo-nazis for a reason.

Their 25 year history of resistance included multiple instances of server seizures, among other things. A little knowledge of their history would tell you this was hardly the "first sign of any authoritarian action".

The pressure they've stood up to in the past suggests they may have been facing threats this time that go beyond what has been widely publicised.

That's easily said as someone not sanctioned by the US, but consider that they're still humans with lives. You can't expect people to suddenly give up their and their families' abilities to live a normal life to fight a foreign fascist regime. Huge respect if they do. But I haven't done it and presumably neither have you, so we really shouldn't judge.

Wow, that's all it takes now? Being an email provider? European email providers better watch out...

We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones

That's exactly what they were hoping for.

Also the noblogs platform

I missed something. Who are they and why were they targeted as "terrorists" by Trumpistan?

uhhhhhh, that's exactly how Canadian Centre for Child Protection identified the seeded output came from a stored model…
you can't have a modeller without original trained data, otherwise a diffusion wouldn't take place…

child protection organizations frequently give those illegal materials a kind of digital fingerprint – known as a hash – which allows them to track images and videos when they appear online.

In this case, attorneys for the plaintiff stated that the Canadian Centre for Child Protection used images’ fingerprints to identify AI-generated CSAM on X that depicted their client.

Bullshit detected! Those hashes are literally data checksums. So they can't be used to identify anything but the exact same original image!

He denies he was aware of a thing that everyone who even passively follows news knows. Sure.