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I think I'll keep calling it Turkey. I don't talk about Paree or call Germany Deutschland.

If the article is in English, the name of the country should be in English as well.

English common name for that country -- ok but because of the special characters, the request has something in common with 北京市 (Beijing) or मुम्बई (Mumbai) also

Good! Roblox as a company is a plague and an abomination. The company exploits children and has violated laws. No one needs them.

Somehow this comment is flagged but all the replies are agreeing with it. Downmarseyrs are kitties.

Porn should be banned everywhere too.

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We call ourselves Indian and the country India in English. It would be a bit odd to hear someone refer Bharat in English.

!bharatiya is this true?

When ISPs are instructed to block pirate sites, tampering with their own DNS records is often the weapon of choice. This type of blocking can be circumvented by switching to public DNS offered by companies including Cloudflare and Google. Tests carried on several ISPs in Malaysia this week reveal that requests to Cloudflare and Google public DNS servers are being hijacked and diverted to local ISP DNS servers.

To the average internet user, DNS translates a domain into an IP address to make browsing as simple and unintrusive as possible. Under the hood, DNS does just that and for the majority of people online, that's good enough.

For those who work with DNS and understand how incredibly important (and beautiful) it is, the idea that DNS is something to be tampered with, so that the system effectively tells lies, steps over the line. Yet, thanks to the global site-blocking drive, DNS servers all around the world, in dozens of countries, constantly lie to those who use them.

Site-blocking programs dictate that, when ISP-operated DNS servers are asked to return the IP addresses for tens of thousands of 'pirate' domains, the IP addresses returned by those DNS servers (if any IP addresses are returned at all) will not be the correct ones. This means that the user cannot access the domain; not by this route at least.

Public DNS – Mostly Tamper-Free

Since most blocking measures are implemented by consumer ISPs that operate their own DNS servers, users who switch to public DNS servers operated by Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, and many others, can usually avoid ISP blocking altogether. There are some exceptions depending on country, and since all three of the above have been ordered to block a small number of domains, switching to their DNS servers won't unblock every domain, just the overwhelming majority.

Pressure from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) to introduce pirate site blocking in Malaysia, led to its implementation under Section 263 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Requests to block sites are processed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), which instructs local ISPs to prevent their systems "from being used in, or in relation to, the commission of any offense," including copyright infringement.

MPA reports on Malaysia's site-blocking program have painted a regular picture of success but, in common with other schemes reliant on DNS tampering at ISPs, users eventually discovered that switching to public DNS restores connectivity.

Reports emerging from Malaysia this week, affecting both Cloudflare and Google DNS, are much more concerning than ISP blocking or even blocking measures imposed on public DNS providers.

Public DNS Under Threat and Reportedly Hijacked in Malaysia

The Internet Monitoring Action Project (iMAP) monitors internet interference and restrictions impacting freedom of expression online in Cambodia, Hong Kong (China), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The group uses the detection and reporting systems of the Open Observatory Network Interference (OONI) and this week reported a significant shift in Malaysia's site-blocking program.

"It was detected through automated and manual testing on 5th August, that transparent DNS proxy redirecting of DNS queries to Google and Cloudflare public DNS servers has been implemented by two Malaysian ISPs Maxis and Time," iMAP reports.

"Users that have configured their Internet settings to use alternative DNS servers, would have found that they are now unable to access websites officially blocked by MCMC and [are now] getting a connection timeout error."

A brief technical summary from iMAP reveals what happens when users attempt to access sites using Cloudflare and Google DNS.

• On Maxis, DNS queries to Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) servers are being automatically redirected to Maxis ISP DNS Servers;

• On Time, DNS queries to both Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare Public DNS (1.1.1.1) are being automatically redirected to Time ISP DNS servers. 

"Instead of the intended Google and Cloudflare servers, users are being served results from ISP DNS servers. In addition to MCMC blocked websites, other addresses returned from ISP DNS servers can also differ from those returned by Google and Cloudflare," iMAP warns.

Technical Problems, Technical Solutions

It's worth highlighting the seriousness of these claims. Requests destined for Google and Cloudflare DNS are being rerouted to local ISPs, in a manner that indicates those companies are responsible for users ending up at the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission's IP address (175.139.142.25), rather than the website they requested.

In a nutshell, internet users cannot rely on their ISPs' DNS servers to respond accurately, and can longer rely on third-party DNS to respond accurately either.

But if there's one good thing about such aggressive blocking it's this: like almost all efforts that rely on a technical solution to impose blocking, there is a technical solution to neutralize it.

Details are available from iMAP and apply to anyone wishing to improve their online privacy and security in general, not just those wishing to avoid their DNS requests being hijacked.

"Users that are affected, can configure their browser settings to enable DNS over HTTPS to secure their DNS lookups by using direct encrypted connection to private or public trusted DNS servers. This will also bypass transparent DNS proxy interference and provide warning of interference," iMAP concludes.

Tacit Acceptance of ■■■■■■■■■■

Finally, it's worth mentioning that Malaysia is no stranger to censorship and controlling access to information. Under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, unlicensed use or possession of a printing press is still a crime. Site-blocking measures that go way beyond blocking pirate sites currently target thousands of websites.

The big question is whether asking countries that routinely block access to information, to add even more domains to already large lists, sends the right kind of message.

Worse still, is active participation taken as an endorsement of what some claim is a denial of fundamental human rights? Not to mention being an affront to DNS, the very thing that underpins the right to communication and the free exchange of information and ideas.

Expectations from a new programming language are crazy nowadays.

A new language has to

Have a formatter
Have a linter
Have a build tool
Have a package manager
Have documentation
Have project templates
Have a friendly community
Have a minimal ecosystem of CLI parsers, web…

— Dmitrii Kovanikov (@ChShersh) August 7, 2024

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/windows_crowdstrike_kernel_eu/

The M$ propaganda claim is that they tried to replace security kernel drivers with an API which would have offered all the same functionality as kernel access with far more safety but the mean EU said they couldn't. What really happened is M$ created two apis one for their own security software and one for all third party software:

From the public settlement

Microsoft shall ensure on an ongoing basis and in a Timely Manner that the APIs in the Windows Client PC Operating System and the Windows Server Operating System that are called on by Microsoft Security Software Products are documented and available for use by third-party security software products that run on the Windows Client PC Operating System and/or the Windows Server Operating System.

The settlement never said MS could never implement an API like this just that they needed the api to be open and documented for other anti viruses to use. Despite these apis being apperently so good M$ threw a tantrum as they couldn't have a special API locked all to themselves. They released this security api and if it was so good they could have easily moved their own security software to it and locked down the kernel. But it was dogshit so they had to let everyone back into the kernel despite the instability it caused.

!linuxchads !fosstards !nonchuds M$ has been spreading lies about the crowdstrike incident and EU settlement to turn people against anti trust by blaming their tantrum on the EU. In win10 they also finally made security apis with functions necessary to replace kernel level ones, so again they were never banned from doing this they just threw a tantrum and claimed they were even tho the settlement is public. Frick Dave's Garage

We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war https://t.co/elgT62uDtF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2024

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ellcib/x_owned_by_elon_musk_brings_antitrust_suit/

https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1elmp73/x_owned_by_elon_musk_brings_antitrust_suit/

Apparently he's also suing OpenAI:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/05/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ekxuz1/elon_musk_sues_openai_again_alleging_deceit_of/

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/527143-most-popular-web-browsers-in-south-africa-2.html

And often I don't get a say in what browser to use, cuz fricking public libraries or workstations at work all have Chrome by default, and I can't just always use my personal work laptop whenever I wish.

Lol nobody gives a shit about Edge.

Like I know I've bitched and moaned about how trash Google is, but every time i see something which encapsulates just HOW brokenshit horrifyingly bad shit has become in just 10 years alone. Video is about 26 min, I'll summarize the bullet points - as in each point is horrifying enough to put a bullet into your own head

[1] Even though Google has been proven to be worse than a decade ago through incompetence, beyond that Google ALSO makes their search results ACTIVELY worse and DELIBERATELY worse. Why???

They need people to "suffer", aka spend more time wrestling with the system because that leads to retention of attention - in other words, the longer a user spends on the Google frontpage to search for shit, the longer they can be exposed to advertisements. And it doesn't matter that 100% of dramatards have adblock, 80% of users are turbo boomer normies who don't know any better and/or are willing to tolerate ungodly amounts of spammy ads and and shit.

[2] Both men are aghast the Top Level Leadership of Google is to actively go against the very objective of the Product of Google: where the original intention of Google was to aid people in finding stuff on the internet, and thus it's bad for ad revenue if peeps find stuff IMMEDIATELY.

One man interestingly makes a comment that he cannot think of many industries which deliberately makes a worse product for the goal of greater income, to which his co-host immediately replies that there are many non-software examples: such as the proliferation of Shrinkflation (trying to sell smaller products for the same price, hoping consumers won't notice), or planned obsolescence (the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term, so as to sell more of it to the same targets), and so on. Thus it's unsurprising that Google would follow the same pattern.

[3] From the discussion came that Google deliberately tries to get people to spend time up until page 2 of search results, as that is the maximum target page searchers reach before giving up entirely or using another search engine - the fricks at Google do this for the sake of DOUBLING the potential adverts shown to people.

[4] I knew reddit results shown behind searches increased the likeliness of getting tech or hardware help, but I wasn't aware Google had an active fricking business PARTNERSHIP with reddit which actively promoted reddit's fricking search results.

[5] Google is constantly looking to datascrape "curated" content like reddit subreddits, in order to have databases from which to pull from in their AI models. But it's also small forum sites which Google is pillaging, which in turn could end up being the death of small scale hobby specialist forums or websites.

An example being talked was a metric shitload of AI spam in places like Youtube Shorts, where AI generated crap outnumbers the legitimate content. An example cited between the two men was AI Bloat trash having taken over Gardening Instruction Videos on Youtube and especially Youtube Shorts.

And Yes darmatards I know you high IQ guys probably hate and don't like Youtube Shorts, and I don't either, and I personally don't give a shit about gardening either - but I do care about widescale internet link rot and consolidation, and Gardening Hobbies and other niche shit being fricked over by AI spam will never remain contained.

And apparently many of these smallscale hobbyist channels or sites fricked by AI span were reliant on Youtube Shorts to get a foot in the door of attracting a beginner audience.

Deviant Art has been positively spammed by AI Slop shit - I would scroll cool DA art on my phone and be excited to find my feed clogged up with dogshit uncanny valley bullshit

Thus Google's AI generated bullshit may end up being the death of niche hobbyist websites or communities.

[6] Soooooo much AI spam crap already exists on all corners of the internet, that AI models scraping shit like Deviant Art for example are being polluted by existing AI art - so that they frick up the models, because these new art are not always labelled as AI, and currently AI is too stupid to detect IF art is AI to begin with.

Thus a perpetual incestuous cycle can begin, where the uncanny valley might be increased constantly

And this is also the reason the men are most Doomposting in their talk because AI or Gemini shit replacing tech support search or niche hobby/topic websites would mean future content be perpetually degrading AI swill to support it.

Thoughts dramatards?

Also it's official: what not-chrome alternative is the best, how does Opera GX compare or is it gaymer trash

One pair of founders I talked to today were students at a top US university. I asked what percent of students don't use AI to write their papers for them. They said max 20%. Professors have given up trying to forbid it.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) August 6, 2024

I'm trying to play a minecraft custom map series that I haven't touched since I was a teenager. The creator's website has been down for the past month, and the subreddit's response to all questions since then has been

if you want the heckin dropbox link, join the heckin groomercord uwu

I give up

I AM NOT GOING TO CREATE A GROOMERCORD ACCOUNT JUST TO ACCESS A DROPBOX LINK THAT SHOULD BE IN THE SUBREDDIT'S SIDEBAR

I am so tired of this shit. The internet is dead.

I honestly don't know what they were thinking with that one lol any normal person should have been able to foresee the backlash. The culture at Google must be cooked.

tl;dr, one of the first HTML5 engines gets ported to C after 14 years.

Code on github is a fun read and it even comes with its own little editor.

DIE GOOGIE DIE

WITHER AWAY AND DIE

"Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," Judge Mehta said in his ruling.

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162545

Archive of article

!chuds what say you?

Here’s Kamala Harris attempting to explain “cloud storage”

Yes, this is real.

No wonder they won’t let her speak off script. pic.twitter.com/1s3Ha5WUbF

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 3, 2024

Security researchers have demonstrated that it's possible to spy on what's visible on your screen by intercepting electromagnetic radiation from video cables with great accuracy, thanks to artificial intelligence. The team from Uruguay's University of the Republic says their AI-powered cable-tapping method is good enough that these attacks are likely already happening.

Back in the analog video era, it was relatively straightforward for hackers to reconstruct what was on a screen by detecting the leakage from video cables. But once digital protocols like HDMI took over, that became much trickier. The data zipping through HDMI is much more complex than old analog signals.

However, those digital signals still leak some electromagnetic radiation as they transmit between your computer and display. By training an AI model on samples of matching original and intercepted HDMI signals, the researchers were able to decode those leaks into readable screen captures.

Their new technique reconstructed text from pilfered HDMI signals with around 70% accuracy. While that's far from perfect, it's good enough for most human readers to accurately decipher. That potentially means it's easy for hackers to monitor things like password entries, financial data, or encrypted communications.

To test their attack, the researchers used text recognition software on the visuals recovered by their AI model. They could then compare the extracted text to the original screen contents. The team says their method improves the error rate for this type of HDMI cable tapping by a whopping 60% compared to previous techniques.

There are a few ways hackers could pull off this HDMI eavesdropping in the real world. They could plant a discreet signal-capturing device inside the target building. Or just hang out nearby with a radio antenna to grab leaked HDMI radiation as it happens.

The researchers say these attacks are already being used against government agencies and sensitive industrial settings. But these types of organizations likely already shield their facilities against electromagnetic leaks, even if it comes at a significant cost.

However, for the average home or office user, the barrier to entry is still pretty high for this HDMI hacking approach. Deploying the AI models and signal-capturing equipment required isn't trivial.

"Governments are worried about this, [but] I wouldn't say that the normal user should be too concerned. But if you really care about your security, whatever your reasons are, this could be a problem," explains lead researcher Federico Larroca.

There's no need to toss your HDMI cables just yet, but perhaps keep an eye out for shady van operations camped across the street next time you log into your crypto wallets.

YEAR OF THE CHUDS

!chuds

More posts on Lemmy:

https://slrpnk.net/post/12014336

https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15011289

Coping and seething:

As someone who just joined and picked .ml because it seemed generally leftist

What the frick?

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10776598

Communists are being pretty explicitly anti-liberal, and they make that a point pretty often.

And is becomes clear eventually as you see their posts and read their comments that these people aren't misunderstanding liberals, they're pretty aware that both in the meaning of the word and in practice, "liberals" generally want people to be free from shackles and free to do most anything. Typically summarized along the lines of "as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, do what you want".

Communists don't agree with liberalism.

Communists want to demand much more of people and permit much less. They have much more in common with Putin's extant but inflated voterbase than they like to admit. Even with Putin not being a communist. [-17]

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10777162

certified .ml moment

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10767995

What the frick is that guy on about???

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10767680

Who is that douche?

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10772104

Context?

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10767693

Based on the additional screenshots in a comment, it looks like this whole thing was bait to create drama. [-15]

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900/10769043

So many things I'd have to look up to understand what's going on and why this is supposedly transphobic.

What bothers me more is private discussions being aired publicly.

Anti Commercial-AI license [-12]

https://lemmy.world/comment/11551366