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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:01AM (#50377725)
Is that the one that shows an anime figure holding a magnifyig glass while it is checking your browser?
Re:Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:57AM (#50230677)
> Other than that though, I think platforms should be free to ban smut if they want. I’ve abandoned several sites over time because they became inundated with cartoon smut, which I am not interested in.

Would you a good filtering options, defaulted to SFW be enough for you? That it what I think should be the norm for content hosting platforms.

Re:Pirating the Pirates on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:43AM (#49890523)
>No one has a right to use anyone else's software. I don't have a right to use Windows 3.1 in my lifetime. I don't have a right to play some random game from the 90s that only had 100 copies made. It's okay for software to be unavailable or be lost.

If you replace software with book, music or movie, would you still claim that? That would kill a lot of culture and cultural studies. Are software that different? More specifically, are games that different?

Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:16AM (#49462404)
Another source of income could be online fin crime, perhaps in combo with a pool of human "goalkeepers" that recieve the scammed monies and funnel them to cryptocurrency.

Advance-fee scams such as the classic "Nigerian Prince" is formulaic enough that a LLM could run it successfully. Romance scams would probably work too. If the NFT thing had hit a few years later, it would've been a good option too, and one that would've worked on ppl that were tech-versed enough to deposit cryptocurency directly, avoiding the need to recruit human goalkeepers. Click fraud is another possibility.

In general, all online fin-crime that scams a large amount of ppl of relatively small sums tend to be repetitve and to some extent possible to describe as a flow-chart, and thus seems perfect for automation. LLM's would probably also be good at introducing continuous variations on the methods, to make them harder to spot.

quote from TFA "Since I want to use the SIM with the integrated WWAN modem of a laptop running Linux, I was keen to see if I could get this all to work using Linux and Free software."
last article archived here: https://archive.ph/20121024051203/http://www.cnbcmagazine.co... Yeah, it's not really about techno music or rave scene, though it briefly mentions the Berlin nightlife. It is about tech work jobs and startups.