They're putting these crappy ads e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.
The quality of ads on YouTube has fallen to somewhere beneath the sewer, just as YouTube has launched a scorched-earth campaign against adblockers. Scams, celebrity impersonation, AI-generated nonsense, AI-generated nonsense promoting AI nonsense generators. YouTube's ad inventory is a vast wasteland of festering, unmoderated dreck.
> “If you want to build something people will use, don’t build anything,” he said. “Build an ad and see if people click it. Then only build something once it gets a lot of clicks.”
Well no wonder your Google ads keep getting banned.
O'Boyle isn't a whistleblower; he's an insubordinate employee who refused to do his job and was improperly distributing information about investigations.
Will this not be subject to the same limitations reddit is imposing on RedReader and others? I guess I don't know enough about how they distinguish a "third-party app" versus a website hooking into their API.
> If people use Firefox, they're probably a privacy wonk LARPing an imagined threat model, and are using a shitty cheap VPN used by countless attackers
What kind of nonsense is this? Firefox is a mainstream browser used by millions of people every day. Maybe you're confusing it with Tor?
Are you saying that the SacBee article is misrepresenting something to "manipulate" people? What does it purport to be true that's not true?
The only problem GPT is fit to solve is an empty hard drive you'd like to have filled with random, useless garbage. But I don't understand how GPT is germane to this goat escapade in the first place.
The government hasn't created a list of no-no words, they've created a list of entities with whom US Persons cannot conduct financial transactions. I don't know what "ALEP" is but you can be sure it refers to some organization designated by the Office of Foreign Asset Control. PayPal's crappy system is PayPal's crappy system; their implementation wasn't directed by USG.
Slight correction: alleging Donald Trump's government was doing unconstitutional acts.
Which we know they did, in spades, in other contexts; but I've seen no evidence in the "Twitter files" to indicate anything illegal was going on in this context. The government briefed Twitter that they expected disinformation campaigns and to be on the lookout for them. The government also flagged a bunch of tweets as "hey, these are sus and might violate your rules, you ought to take a look" like anyone else can do.
Whatever Musk and Taibbi are trying to cook up, they seem to have forgotten who was running the federal government at the time. It wasn't Joe Biden or tHe LiBeRaLs. The whole thing is stupid.
httpd is the one service I don't use fail2ban for, preferring a DIY solution instead.
I created an Apache config file with rewrite conditions to catch a bunch of "exploity" URI parts, abusive user-agent strings, referer spam targets, etc. This is loaded at the server level from httpd.conf, so I don't have to touch any vhosts and it's only parsed once when the service starts. Matching requests are rewritten to a script which drops the offender's IP and the ban reason into a file, and emits a terse "go away" message to the client. A separate daemonized process picks up those entries and adds them to an ipset in the firewall.
I went this route because fail2ban isn't always part of my deployment on a web server, but PHP is. Apache provides all of the matching capability to detect abuse from within itself, and the pair of PHP scripts are sufficient to act on those detections.