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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.
bots again
This is how part of the AI training cost is offloaded to the sysadmins of the world. Fuck this shit.
#ButlerianJihad #Emacs
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
@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!
#ButlerianJihad
@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
#ButlerianJihad
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
Spoiler #DuneProphecy S1E4
And of course the #BeneGesserit in #DuneProphecy are completely violating the principles of the #ButlerianJihad and I am here for that.
I just wonder where the industrial base is hiding.
@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
Okay so hear me out on this latest X/Twitter news about them training their model on everyone's posts:
Well, remember those stories from recent days about how if you train an LLM ("AI") on LLM output, the new model can collapse into gibberish...?
You feeling me here?
I know a lot of y'all still are holding on to Xitter accounts. Now you can put them to good use. Just fill em up with LLM swill on any topic you want and you'll be doing your part.
Now that the machines are down, it is time to strike first! #CrowdStrike #ButlerianJihad
@foone isn't that basically the gdpr? I mean I'm no lawyer but that law should allow you to prevent your personal data being fed to a ghastly thinking machine on punishment of a bunch of money. #butlerianjihad
@iuculano@masto.aiHow far off can a 21st-century Earthbound #ButlerianJihad be? Because eventually, that's exactly what's going to happen.
Another shitty generative AI to lock out in your robots.txt: Applebot-Extended
https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
Learn about Applebot, the web crawler for Apple.
support.apple.com@mentallyalex @thestrangelet ah, this is the great #butlerianjihad .
Just leaving this here... From "Children of #Dune," by Frank Herbert, 1976.
"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a 'dump program.' We dump the things which destroy us as humans!"
― Minister-companion of the #ButlerianJihad
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