AudaciousArmadillo

Others mentioned good points but don’t really capture the scale or techniques. A high volume DDoS may even overwhelm the network equipment, so simply saturating the network with garbage traffic. On the smaller scale, a server has limited resources to handle connections. So in the most extreme case, you simple run out of memory to store all the incoming requests. More likely you exhaust a thread pool or run out of connection handles. This “breaks” the server as it may not have resources left to recover to a working state even after the attack has stopped.

As for techniques, DDoS don’t just spam genuine requests. Usually the requests are malformed to have the worst impact on the servers. For example you only send the connection request without completing the full handshake. Now the server has to wait until the connection times out which consumes resources for a potentially long time.

A recent Scott Manly video about radiation in space https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJcbevbBzsc.

Good point. While I knew that this iteration of “AI” would not revolutionise jobs or creative work, it is so scary how society just accepted that everyone would lose their job and everything else. We could just… Not do that. Or at least do it in a better system.

For sure. Especially now that a lot more people understand what LLMs actually are, I feel like the jig is up

Anecdotal, but pretty much all my friends use ChatGPT. So there is definitely some demand, but I doubt any of them would pay for it. They also all realize more and more that it’s a bullshit machine that cannot be trusted.

Debian is what you get if “dad getting off the couch noise” was a Linux distro.

https://socially.drinkingatmy.computer/objects/4df5b6b4-102f-4854-8721-480d56380e0c

Where did you see the mention of personal liability?

I disagree. You are right that through federation and open source you can create your instance if another instance is a nazi bar. But now you open your new bar. Should you buy chairs from the nazis for your bar? Is it not a problem if the nazis are the only ones producing chairs?

That is to me the analogy with lemmy. Yes I don’t have to be on .ml. But I don’t want to sit on the transphobic, genocide denier built chair either.

Technology and society don’t exist in separate spheres and we should always consider them together.

So go with piefed if you can. I haven’t had any complaints since I switched :)

The 900 and 1000 series are the worst for Linux as neither Nouveau nor the new Nvidia drivers will ever properly support the cards…

Debian ships only 550 and it has flickering in all games. But at least for regular desktop work it is fine. Guess I’m stuck with Windows until the “AI” bubble pops

Oh, is that still a problem? I thought my GTX 1070TI was having problems in games because Debian ships quite old drivers. But if that happens on Arch, I guess I’m out of luck with that card for Linux 🥲

Hm TIL, fair enough. Thanks.

But chaining still seems harder than CommandA | ForEach-Object { DoSomethingWith $_ } | CommandB

I take PowerShell ForEach-Object any day over the unholy contraptions of awk, xargs and friends in bash.

Pro tip: Emojis count as multiple characters in bad applications ☺️👌