This #video #presentation was made at the Red Pill Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, August 13, 2023. This is one of the most #shocking pieces of citizen journalism that has ever been produced. Robert Brame, a forensic #arborist (a tree expert who specializes in analyzing forest fires, infestations, and other causes of tree decline or destruction) notices certain unusual features of the extensive forest fires in #California and decides to personally investigate.
They were caused by something that boiled water, melted metal and glass, burned cars and trucks nowhere near anything to set them on fire, burned houses to the ground, and yet left trees standing everywhere.
His conclusion, shocking as it may be, is that the only thing that could create these anomalies, is a directed-energy weapon, like those known to have been developed by the US and Chinese military. Seeing the evidence is believing. This video presentation was made at the Red Pill Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, August 13, 2023.
This is one of the most shocking pieces of citizen journalism that has ever been produced. Robert Brame, a forensic arborist (a tree expert who specializes in analyzing forest fires, infestations, and
#National Guard is the govt -Federalizing the Militia. This was done with the grotesquely unconstitutional federal Dick Act of 1903... People and their federal and state legislators (who had mainlined on Progressivism) went along with federalizing the Militia. This was done with the grotesquely unconstitutional federal Dick Act of 1903. ¹ The Dick Act unlawfully converted the Militia into the National Guard, which is an adjunct of the federal military. That the Dick Act passed shows that Americans of 100 years ago were also ignorant, short-sighted, and foolish.
Hm, ich habe mir mal ein test-Friendica installiert, von hub.docker.com/_/friendica - und bin verwirrt: * Geht die Administration wirklich nur, indem ich mich per docker exec in den Container begebe und dort console verwende? * wie verbinde ich mich mit der Welt? Einen Account habe ich mir gemacht, kann auch Beiträge erstellen, aber wie verinde ich mich mit dem Fediverse? * Wie lege ich einen Admin an? Nach der "Installation" kann ich zwar einen User anlegen, der ist aber scheinbar nicht Admin
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angry.
In the last 60 days, the diaspora* web assets received 11.3 million requests. That equals to 2.19 req/s - which honestly isn't that much. I mean, it's more than your average personal blog, but nothing that my infrastructure shouldn't be able to handle.
However, here's what's grinding my fucking gears. Looking at the top user agent statistics, there are the leaders:
2.78 million requests - or 24.6% of all traffic - is coming from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot).
1.69 million reuqests - 14.9% - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
and the list goes on like this. Summing up the top UA groups, it looks like my server is doing 70% of all its work for these fucking LLM training bots that don't to anything except for crawling the fucking internet over and over again.
Oh, and of course, they don't just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not. They also don't give a single flying fuck about robots.txt, because why should they. And the best thing of all: they crawl the stupidest pages possible. Recently, both ChatGPT and Amazon were - at the same time - crawling the entire edit history of the wiki. And I mean that - they indexed every single diff on every page for every change ever made. Frequently with spikes of more than 10req/s. Of course, this made MediaWiki and my database server very unhappy, causing load spikes, and effective downtime/slowness for the human users.
If you try to rate-limit them, they'll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they'll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.
Just for context, here's how sane bots behave - or, in this case, classic search engine bots:
By Wyatt Reed - Dec 16, 2024Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its corresp…
