Comment There are solutions (Score 2) 44
There are solutions to both detect spoofing - like the free Galileo OSNMA - and work around it - like using Starlink and/or OneWeb signals.
Submission + - Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases.
“There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it,” stated an update today on Wikipedia’s Archive.today discussion. “There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.”
More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls. “Those in favor of maintaining the status quo rested their arguments primarily on the utility of archive.today for verifiability,” said today’s Wikipedia update. “However, an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced. Several editors started to work out implementation details during this RfC [request for comment] and the community should figure out how to efficiently remove links to archive.today.”
“There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links), and remove all links to it,” stated an update today on Wikipedia’s Archive.today discussion. “There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see WP:ELNO#3). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.”
More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls. “Those in favor of maintaining the status quo rested their arguments primarily on the utility of archive.today for verifiability,” said today’s Wikipedia update. “However, an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced. Several editors started to work out implementation details during this RfC [request for comment] and the community should figure out how to efficiently remove links to archive.today.”
Comment Re:Does this also mean... (Score 1) 23
That would actually be a killer feature! Add a second camera at the bottom of the back of the phone and you get 3D pictures and videos. And it would gently encourage people to stop making vertical videos, what's not to like?
Comment Re:what about banning work places form firing peop (Score 1) 111
Why not ban destruction of unsold food by supermarkets? It's already the case in France and Brussels.
Comment Verifiable integrity (Score 1) 124
Let's hope this is about countering attacks and not about implementing Android Play Protect certification on Linux.
Comment Re:I've been using KDE for two months (Score 3, Interesting) 41
And what about Cinnamon?
Comment Re: Tempest, meet teapot (Score 1) 123
I guess you're a dog person.
Comment Re:ADSB? (Score 1) 34
Weather balloons usually have a radar reflectors so that airplanes can detect them.
They also know their altitude and latitude + longitude, which they transmit to the ground. That could optionally be transmitted to the air control.
Comment Re:Old news? (Score 2) 34
Yes, they really dropped the balloon on this one: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/...
Comment Re:"aims for functional parity" (Score 4, Informative) 84
Exactly, and there's even a graph of the compatibility over time: https://github.com/uutils/core...
Comment Galaxy AI (Score 1) 24
I guess Samsung will stop using Gemini AI for its Galaxy AI.
Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 1) 133
From the summary: "The phones sell for up to $5,000 in China because Chinese network providers do not subscribe to the international blacklist for stolen devices."
I have a difficult time believing that sort of price.
Would you believe $30? https://youtu.be/Kbti-RGSVrg?t...
Comment Re:AI is a infinite wiki (Score 1) 92
Can I assume you've read Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia??
Comment Re:AI for search (Score 1) 92
Your link doesn't start well with "(...) in the race to artificial general intelligence – which looks likely to arrive this decade, maybe this year. Brace.".
But your queries about jokes do work like you say.
What's also kind of funny is that "Tell a joke featuring Jesus.", whereas "tell me a joke about jesus" triggers the filter even if each of them is the first and only query.
Comment Re:Project Torbernite (Score 1) 92
Anubis forces AI crawlers to work to get to the content.
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