We do this where I work, and we HEAVILY verify all information that comes in from the unsigned/unauthenticated parts of the code. Not only types checks, but regex checks, and other validations. And if there's something there that shouldn't be there our program will kill itself. We don't even show any error prompts or anything just incase.
At least so far according to Cloudflare bots consist of around 1/4 of all internet traffic. But that could be pretty far off depending on how they get those estimates.
The figure I saw most recently was 42%. Weirdly my brain can remember the number but not where I saw it.
But what I'm curious about, whichever number is true, is whether people mean "malicious bots" when they say this, or just any kind of autonomous agent. And also whether they are counting volume of data or simply network requests.
Because if by "bot" they just mean "autonomous agent making a network request" then honestly I'm surprised the number isn't higher, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Every search crawler, every service detector, all the financial bots, every smart device (which is now every device) and a thousand other more or less legitimate uses.
I've got a script for parsing my web logs which removes all the lines which match persistent indexers/bots/scrapers and any obvious automatons. Logs generally shrink to 40-50% of their volume, so I'd at least double CF's estimate.
My problem with Lemmy is that I just can't figure out what happens if server A has a "sub-section" called news, and server B also has an instance called news. Do they get merged into one view? Do both servers now have two different "news" sections? I can't seem to get any solid answers on this and that's why I haven't bothered registering or using it yet.
Communities are namespaced. You'd have news@foo.com and news@bar.com. The local server is an implicit namespace for its own communities, so for local users of foo.com, news@foo.com is presented as simply "news".
There is modern forum software out there, and I for one am not opposed to going back to that model. (I run a forum, and for awhile was a code contributor for one of the modern forum softwares)
A teenage couple in high school (just barely underage) were both charged with possession and production of CSAM because they sent images between each other. As I understand it from the local papers they ended up getting off fairly easy with something like 100 hours of community service. But only because our local prosecutor understood that they were kids, a couple, and sharing between each other, and almost of age to begin with. If we had a prosecutor less understanding they would have been facing at least 5 years in prison each.
Potential solution? Make the bank board and C-suite pay for all the insurance out of their own compensation packages. And the the bank fails it comes direct out of their pockets.
When the bank fails, they end up living on the streets for their mistakes, and will never (hopefully) be able to do it again to another bank.
It's on ours where I work, which is why we use Gitea to clone the various open source projects we use to our own servers. With binary level deduplication the amount of data stored is actually incredibly small. I think the unduplicated storage is like 50GB, and the deduplicated is like 10GB?
Seems based on some of my research that they've completely exited the free side of the business. All of their plans are now paid and the cheapest plan is $64/year
I don't think you know Microsoft.... Maybe they abandoned the phone products, but when it comes to software products and services they support shit way to long in my opinion.
Hell they still technically support that crap that is VB6.
> Hell they still technically support that crap that is VB6
Lot’s of companies - Microsoft included - are happy to support ancient crap if you pay them, and there’s stuff a lot more ancient than VB6 out there. The problem is more with free services - heaps of free services start out great, turn into crap over time, eventually get killed - which is true whether the vendor is Microsoft or Google or Yahoo or whoever. But, I don’t know why we should expect anything different-if you are getting it for free-or even really cheap-should you expect it to last?
Not that I consider Google to be a benchmark in this matter, or relevant to the conversation, but it's not a fair comparison. Android support, at least as it pertains to function and security, lasts a lot more than the average Android device. Network support has abandoned me earlier than the OS. Phones are in many ways rather short-lived.
However several Windows upgrades have left perfectly working computers unsupported. Computers can and do last many years, esp. those dedicated to specific stuff.
Having said that both companies do have a history of abandoning projects, and when it comes to some new web service it's hit and miss with either regarding long term support.
