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A valid bomb

The initial problem is the aggressiveness of web that don't respect "robots.txt". The first idea that comes to mind is IP . However, web crawlers have circumvented this restriction by using individual IPs via specialized .

Another solution is therefore to exhaust the resources of the harvesters. With a , we attempt to their .

💭 ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb

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@troed @dalai @foone The problem will be that one will have to reimplement the "#API" as #api0 from scratch by running inspectors in browsers all the time...

  • Remember: The platforms that run these are hostile to the very idea of said phat client.

It'll necessitate all api 0 calls to come from the same #IPv4 and/or #IPv6 as the end-user and hide itself with a fake #UserAgent to prevent countermeasures like #RateLimiting and #blocking.

digipres.clubFoone🏳️‍⚧️ (@foone@digipres.club)The basic philosophy of adversarial automation is that the software/website is the enemy.

"#Safari is one of Apple’s most financially successful #products and the highest margin product Apple has ever made."

TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical #restrictions are #blocking other #browser vendors from successfully offering their own #engines to users in the EU.
Apple is not in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding browsers and web apps.

long read - but well worth it!

#dma #apple #europe #market #monopoly

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/app

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Open Web AdvocacyApple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

As site blocks pile up, European Commission issues subtle slapdown to Italy’s Piracy Shield

As numerous Walled Culture posts attest, site blocking is in the vanguard of the actions by copyright companies against sites engaged in the unauthorised sharing of material. Over the past few months, this approach has become even more pervasive, and even more intrusive. For example, in France, the Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was forced to geoblock more than 400 sports […]

#blocking #ccia #cloudflare #DSA #europeanCommission #france #india #laliga #newDelhi #overblocking #piracyShield #redress #spain #US #vercel #vpn

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The #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting?

It took four decades of sleepwalking through #neoliberalism, cultural decay, ecological collapse, and social atomisation, but at last, the #mainstreaming is starting to talk about the #deathcult we’ve been worshipping.

Case in point: Steve Coogan – yes, Alan Partridge – is now publicly accusing Keir Starmer and Labour of “paving the way for Reform UK,” the rising hard-right threat. Here’s the article. It’s not satire, it’s despair. Coogan’s right, and a few years ago, such a […]

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hamishcampbell.comThe #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting? – Hamish Campbell
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@woe2you @James Britt This may come as a surprise to you, but: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. And it has never been only Mastodon. It was neither invented by Eugen Rochko nor exclusively for purist microblogging.

For example, there is also Friendica (https://en.wikipedia.org/Friendica, https://friendi.ca, https://github.com/friendica, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica). It was launched in July, 2010, 15 years ago, five and a half years before Mastodon. It is Facebook-like, but designed to be better than Facebook rather than an all-out clone and to be fully capable of long-form blogging. It has a character limit of 200,000, its culture does not enforce brevity, and it staunchly refuses to ditch its own culture and adopt Mastodon's culture instead. It can also do other things that don't belong into purist microblogging such as bold type, italics, underlines, bullet-point lists and multiple levels of headlines.

Here are lists of Friendica nodes for you to block:

Then there is Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://framagit.org/hubzilla, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla), first launched in March, 2015, ten years ago, ten months before Mastodon. It's based on Friendica with many more features that make it a CMS as well. It has a character limit of over 16.7 million (maximum size of the database field).

I'm commenting from Hubzilla myself right now.

Here are lists of Hubzilla hubs for you to block:

More recently and from the same family, there are (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams) from 2021 and Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte) from 2024. Again, they are Facebook-like, just like Friendica. Their character limit is over 24 million.

Again, here are lists of servers for you to block:

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #Block #Blocking

History has a lot to say on the peasant revolt vs. liberal half-measures

For thousands of years, the demands of the oppressed have remained startlingly consistent: Erase all debts, Burn the records, redistribute the land. These weren’t radical demands. They were and are common sense for those crushed by the weight of extraction, enclosure, and empire.

Compare that to today’s to often #fashionista “leftist” rallying cry of “Tax the rich.” Let’s be honest, this is moderate, half-baked reform in the #KISS sweep of human struggle. “Tax the rich” still […]

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hamishcampbell.comHistory has a lot to say on the peasant revolt vs. liberal half-measures – Hamish Campbell
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When we block thinking, it’s pratish #dotcons behaviour

We’re in a cultural shift space. The #Fediverse, the #openweb, and grassroots tech projects like #OMN exist to challenge the values of the corporate web – not to reproduce them. Yet we keep, seeing people attacked for simply linking to context or history. Linking is native to the open web, attacking people for linking? That’s native to #dotcons.

The example is that this site here keeps being attacked, when the #KISS truth is this site has 20+ years of project history, is not monetized, […]

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hamishcampbell.comWhen we block thinking, it’s pratish #dotcons behaviour – Hamish Campbell
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Maybe it's time to get some blocking mats? 🤔
Sultan cotton poncho FINALLY finished and wet blocking over night. Really happy with the length and the colour distribution. This took one whole sultan kings cake, plus cirka another ¼-⅓ of the second cake. I know a lot of people hate working with yarn that splits but honestly yall, the way this fabric feels on my skin and how good it drapes it worthhh itttt.
#knitting #handmade #wip #poncho #cotton #ombre #greyscale #blocking #finished

A call-out for collective tech with teeth

It’s important to be honest about the landscape we’re working in. Just about every so-called “alternative tech” or #opensocialweb event – especially those run under the #NGO banner – is riddled with institutional parasites. They talk a big game about ethics, governance, and decentralisation, but their main role is to capture energy, not release it. The value in these spaces is minimal, maybe a few decent corridor chats, but structurally, they serve the status quo.

What we’re seeing […]

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hamishcampbell.comA call-out for collective tech with teeth – Hamish Campbell
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