Spammers are just creating accounts on instances that have no registration verification and creating thousands of posts that ping random people with images. The spam seems to originate from a group of Japanese script kiddies that just wanted to vandalise Misskey and now every instance is getting false-flag spam messages from thousands of accounts over thousands of instances.

The details are actually a bit fuzzy since it's all speculation outside of some discord screenshots and the spam that is actually sent, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Since there's like thousands of tiny instances and nothing stops spammers from just making their own, the only guaranteed solution right now is to make a whitelist of servers that moderate account registration. I made one post on an irrelevant instance earlier and got three of these spam messages from different accounts on different instances.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111953045633249137

There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only https://mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

I just have to point out that all of this is being done by a community of 12-15 year olds because ActivityPub is shit actually . The script to test for open registration nodes is literally this:

export async function isNoCapNoMail(host: string, softwareType: string) {
 if (softwareType !== "misskey") {
   return false;
 }

 const endpoint = `https://${host}/api/meta`;
 try {
   const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
     method: "GET",
     headers: {
       "Content-Type": "application/json",
     },
   });

   const json = await res.json();

   if (json["emailRequiredForSignup"]) {
     return false;
   }

   if (
     json["enableHcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableMcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableRecaptcha"]
   ) {
     return false;
   }

   return true;
 } catch {
   return false;
 }
}

Someone's definitely improved this by now since it does more than just misskey, but you get the point. Just imagine the damage someone could do with an integrated captcha solver. Most ActivityPub software doesn't have any kind of middleware for handling incoming messages and maybe drop them based on filters, but that'll probably change soon.

More rumours elsewhere

I have found some more information on this CPTK, the japbros probably already knew but uhh:

1. They're just skids

2. Most of them are like kids (literal 11-14 year olds)

3. They have done many raids in the past, they DDoS'd 2chan back in 2022 and they've taken legal action against them

4. Their old group imploded due to infighting

5. According to the Karasawa Wiki (yeah that lawyer who got doxxed like 100 times for being a 2chan troll), their leaders have been doxxed, MULTIPLE times. And they're all kids.

Anyway good luck to Bluesky on their fediverse integration lol

NEW - Chinese scientists experimenting with a "mutant coronavirus strain" that is 100 percent lethal in "humanized" mice — Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/SJv5PP9xsZ

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 16, 2024

PrePrint: Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-1 related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(short_3UTR)

Daily Fail

Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic.

Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice.

The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.

Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick.

The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.

r/prepperintel

LipStick Alley lol

I promise this will be my last VIRUS related post until the next time I post one.

Short Primer:

Kagi - Kagi is a company that runs their own niche, paid, search engine by the same name that is pretty popular on orange site and niche nerds who hate Google. They also have their own beta browser called Orion which uses Webkit and can utilize Chrome and Furryfox extension.

Brave - Brave is brave. Browser, search engine, gay crypto shit, probably some other shit. Run by a guy who got ran out of Mozilla years back after being CEO for for a couple of weeks due to donating a couple of grand to anti-LGBT charity or something. If you use Brave you are an anti-LGBT racist chud and your death after Biden is reelected is inevitable.

I'm incredibly disappointed in Kagi's partnership with Brave search. Brave, as you know, is led by Brendan Eich. Mr. Eich is infamous for his unrepentant financial support of California's Prop 8, aka California's gay marriage ban. Mr. Eich's homophobia is so disgusting that he was forced to resign as the leader of Mozilla after a massive outcry from their employees and community members. Since then, Mr. Eich has only defended his homophobia, and has gone on to spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

I refuse to financially support any organization that partners with an organization that tolerates such hate and ignorance. It's a shame, too. Kagi seemed like the right answer for the internet. But your success cannot come at the expense of continued attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and scientific literacy from people like Eich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

As of right now, Kagi is yet another organization that puts money ahead of people, just like Google. If it's too late to back out of your Brave partnership, then please set a date when the partnership will end and refuse to renew it. Then, apologize to the LGBTQ+ community for partnering with an open and notorious homophobe.

What kind of feverous partnership did Kagi and Brave reach? T-they decided to include Brave API search into their own search engine. BIG. FRICKING. DEAL.

You have to draw the line somewhere though. Is it okay to use a search engine built by nazis for nazis as long as the results are good? Braves ceo was also ceo of Mozilla and his vocal anti gay views were enough of an issue for Mozilla to get rid of him. As someone who identifies as queer I want no part in supporting a company ran by a bigot but that's just me.

Admin Response

Our goal is to provide best web results in the world. That means including as many sources of search results.

By including results from Brave API, we add more results to our pool, and we put users ahead of money because this costs us additional money to provide. We do it anyway as we believe that Kagi users deserve to have the best search results in the world, from a wide range of diverse sources. This ensures that if you can not find something on Kagi, you can not find it anywhere else.

We evaluate APIs only on the basis of merit in the context of providing superior search engine results. Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in this evaluation. Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reason we do not have innovation any more.

We are primarly in the business of search and we'd like to stay focused on that.

This is, of course, genocide.

Close 5 days ago. End of story?

NOPE.

So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.

A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".

This is orange site but everyone is still asleep but here is orange site discussion from a week ago

I'm sure trains and the LGBT nerd community are still up in arms. I'm too lazy to read through Mastodon to be honest or figure out how their convoluted system works.

Just be aware if you are using Brave, the best chromium browser available, you are a chud and you should feel bad.

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38831950

Abe-bros, we're failing him

Been playing around with this today it's pretty neat. It's basically a wrapper around other tools that run local LLMs that makes it easier to set up and interface with.

Afterparty: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327520

Google and Chinese AI companies watching this unfold like

UPDATES

I think this means something

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17yrdsq/mira_murati_interim_ceo_of_openai_has_sided_with?sort=controversial

The Chief Strategy Officer told employees they are confident about bringing everyone back and will have an update tomorrow

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/17yqyme/openais_chief_strategy_officer_jason_kwon_told?sort=controversial

Ilya about to be stebbed?

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/17yt8sl/what_does_this_mean?sort=controversial

Nice to know that even rich tech dorks tweet like high schoolers

I've immediately got told to "shut it down" by the project owner because lol.

Telling them to meow about it got their manager staff to ask people why is their coder making a cheat launcher and eventually trying to get me off their devteam

Who also told them to frick off, causing them to go about it rivaling communists off preddit.

https://forum.spacestation14.io/topic/3094-20231106-dehubbing-of-white-dream

Play space station 13 instead for now, 14 is fricking awful.

The "inflammatory comments":

Majority of drama is here:

You kept posting offtopic comments which added nothing to resolving the issue. So I gave you a seven day ban, hopefully it will teach you a lesson. [-32] (Lemmy dev)

My first comment directly discusses the issue at hand. It wasn't off topic. It's clear you didn't want any feedback on the issue because it makes you look bad. I explicitly talked about how client side scheduling is a bad idea that does not accomplish the goal of scheduling. And then I gave feedback directly concerning the exact issue I was commenting on of how your conduct was unfitting of lead devs of a major software project, where you squabbled in public in a really weird way, and you refused to even think about discussing the topic (closing the issue over and over again when your coworker had opened it and asked for discussion? Really dude?). Then you finally banned me without any warning or discussion of why.

And no, it's not going to teach me any lesson, all it did was teach the entire community you have no clue how to run an open source software project. No warning, no explanation, just juvenile marking of comments as off topic (they weren't), closing of the issue your main dev opened and then boom banned. [+63] (programming.dev owner)

https://programming.dev/comment/4397419

Other highlights:

Lemmy needs a fork, if only to kick the devs into gear with regards to actually working with/listening to the community. At this point a significant number of users have been lost because the devs have been largely unable to capitalize on previous waves on growth due to slow development. It's one thing if it's just a couple of devs working on the project and trying their best, it's an entirely different thing when a couple of devs are shutting out large numbers of contributors (frequently subject matter experts which they desperately need at this point) over relatively trivial issues. This isn't the first time this has happened and it won't be the last. Mbin is reviving Kbin as a project and we need something similar for Lemmy.

https://programming.dev/comment/4433343

I think that you should update your post with information that this ban is only for 7 days.

This:

I will no longer be able to assist with development

suggests that ban is infinite, which is not true.

https://programming.dev/comment/4399056

Dude, who in their right mind would add scheduling infra to a client like that? 😆 I'm going to need these Lemmy devs to have a tad bit more experience before they start being so dismissive, especially to someone who's just trying to help.

This is ridiculously petty from the devs, and does make me seriously wonder about Lemmy's future.

https://programming.dev/comment/4396642

Lemmy is self-destructing.

Part of this is simply replication of Reddit's interface design, which incentivizes bad behavior by users. But the other part is the devs. I trace this back to Eric S. Raymond's essay, Cathedral and the Bazaar, which popularized the notion of emergent software design by devs merely ‘scratching their itch' (personal interest). Raymond argued for design by emergence from Complexity Theory. The presumption of which is evolution toward greater compexity and user utility by populism as a fitness function, which he believed would drive software to best case optimization or death by disuse. In other words, good design will succeed while bad design will be weeded out by its unpopularity. But it doesn't work.

As an example, GIMP is one of the results. A mess of poorly documented modules, none of which in aggregate do the task (replacing Photoshop) it was meant to achieve. FOSS advocates (none of whom actually use the software) still promote GIMP as a Photoshop replacement and cannot see how this design philosophy has resulted in continual failure. But among general users, those who recognize the software as terrible in comparison to commercial alternatives, they know and avoid it like the software plague it is. Only those who can't avoid it, Linux users who have no other option, or the very poor who can't afford Affinity on Win or Mac, would bother trying to cram GIMP into their workflow.

The FOSS projects which have succeeded did so at the behest of devs who acted as benevolent dictators, people who are software design savvy and use that deep skill without concern for the interests and desires of incompetent or newly minted devs. Some examples: Richard Stallman (GNU), Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel), Ton Roosendaal (Blender), etc. They develop by Cathedral methods, and therefore their projects succeeded.

Lemmy will go the way of GIMP. A bunch of kids who have no idea why Reddit succeeded, but who think it would be fun to software play. Get BeeHaw off this software and away from these toxic devs. There are better designed FOSS alternatives. Not least of which is HubZilla and Zot. [-9]

https://programming.dev/comment/4408749

To recap on the start of this drama, it all started with me finding a lemmy moment - a chomo instance being promoted as a popular lemmy instance

Eventually, Aevann pinned the post and carp made his own post about the chomo instance

This became the perfect time for the perfect gayop - call lemmy out and see how the lemmings will react (it wasn't all roses, a couple of lemmings thought it was a LGBT harassment campaign, but one did end up changing their mind)

It started with the RedditAlternatives post

Eventually, knowing that will go nowhere in two weeks, I ended up making 3 posts about this and called out the lemmy devs for allowing this instance to be promoted

https://lemmy.ml/post/5894174?scrollToComments=true (contains dev response)

https://lemmy.world/post/6172502?scrollToComments=true (LW admin inside)

https://lemmy.ml/post/5894385?scrollToComments=true ( this post went nowhere)

But how would it end? Would the admin double down? Would they do nothing? Or would they remove it?

Turns out they did indeed remove it in a pull request at everyone's surprise in a win-win-win scenario

Another dramanaut p-do hunting mission accomplished

Funny how this user banned for trolling on multiple instances ended up successfully convincing lemmy devs to remove and defederate from this instance, and not get outed by anyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37660256 (the article from orange site steals your back button for some reason)

tldr:

• A total of 39 of the top 50 emission offset projects, or 78% of them, were categorised as likely junk or worthless due to one or more fundamental failing that undermines its promised emission cuts.

• Eight others (16%) look problematic, with evidence suggesting they may have at least one fundamental failing and are potentially junk, according to the classification system applied.

• The efficacy of the remaining three projects (6%) could not be determined definitively as there was insufficient public, independent information to adequately assess the quality of the credits and/or accuracy of their claimed climate benefits.

• Overall, $1.16bn (£937m) of carbon credits have been traded so far from the projects classified by the investigation as likely junk or worthless; a further $400m of credits bought and sold were potentially junk.

Four carbon markets experts said the findings were based on solid methodology and shine a light on the pitfalls of market-driven climate solutions which can enable polluters to keep polluting instead of transitioning off fossil fuels.

Some examples:

In one case, a giant forest conservation project in Zimbabwe was reported to have had so many exaggerated and inflated claims – and probably shifted emissions elsewhere – that it was described as “having more financial holes than Swiss cheese”.

In the US, the most problematic project is the world's largest carbon capture and storage plant in Wyoming, which has benefited from generous taxpayer subsidies, but where the vast majority of the captured CO2 has been released into the atmosphere or sold to other fossil fuel companies to help extract hard-to-reach oil, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

All 10 hydroelectric dams in the top 50 carbon offsets – including the Teles Pires dam in the Brazilian Amazon and the Karcham Wangtoo plant in the Himalayas, India, which have both faced opposition from tribal communities – were classified as likely junk in our analysis as the climate benefits would have happened anyway, regardless of carbon credits. A number of previous studies have shown that although large dams cut national emissions, they do not lead to new or additional reductions needed for effective carbon credits. In some cases large dams have been associated with land disputes, displacement, increased poverty and environmental damage – including some greenhouse gas emissions emitted from water reservoirs.

In another example, a program in western Kenya provides water filters so households no longer need to boil water with firewood for filters. Though the potential health and sanitation benefits are not questioned, from an emissions perspective it was classified as likely junk in our analysis due to what appeared to be inflated baseline figures on how many households used firewood to heat water, and exaggerated claims in part due to evidence of low uptake of the filters.

Angry malds all over tech subs about GHC conference having a few men in attendance. She is _really_ mad - 6 posts in the last day across /r/GirlsGoneWired and /r/csmajors.

GHC, the "Grace Hopper Celebration" (maybe don't call it a celebration if you want to be taken seriously) is "is the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists." Our heroine finds it ridiculous that evil men are allowed to attend.

Profile

First post

Second post

Third post

Fourth post

Fifth post

Sixth post

I'm seeing entire groups of just men, at a conference that's sole purpose is to give opportunities to WOMEN and non-binary individuals in a male dominated field. I attended last year and did not say any male identitying student attendees. This is genuinely infuriating.

Continues sperging out in the comments -

Men are minorities there aren't they? U gotta be more accepting

Are you stupid ??? The biggest appeal of grace hopper for the actual women / nb there is to be surrounded by other women. Last year, before men fricked that up for us, it was an extremely empowering and wholesome conference. It was the ONLY place we could celebrate women. It was a safe place for us. Men are the reason we needed it. And now you've come there too.

Lmao u have ten other ppl in here trolling why u comin after me? Is it because uk I'm a man and ur discriminating against me based on gender? Considering I work around women that have as much of an impact on me as I them, I'd consider ur scales before pooping all over men. This isn't a woman vs man thing, it's about working in cohesion

I'm mad at all of you. Seriously frick all of you. None of you guys that think this shit is funny know what it's like being the only woman in a class of 50 men. None of you know what it's like being talked down to because you are the only women on your engineering team. None of you understand why we have this conference and why this is upsetting.

The tables are turned as can identify valid enbys on sight

It says women and non-binary

The men I'm complaining about are not non-binary, they have “he/him” as their pronouns. I don't know a single non-binary person that goes by “he/him”. There are some that go by they/them and he/him but never just “he/him.” And for people who are actually part of the 🏳️‍🌈 community, its not very hard to tell. It's of course possible there are non-binary people that happen to look like cis males, however hundreds of people there being nb and coincidentally looking like cis men is statistically extremely unlikely… it's very clear that is not the case.

You just openly admitted you assume peoples sexually by just looking at them... wow

Lots of pooping on OP in this thread, she wants you to know she is very angry

OP is an absolute bigot for assuming that the people posting about it are not non-binary or identifying as women.

Go back to Alabama OP these days everyone can be a women.

Lol they put “he/him” as their only pronouns on their name tags and it's definitely possible that there are some non-binary attendees but not 1/3 of the attendees.

There are plenty of nb people that have he/him as their pronouns rather than making their life even harder than it already is maybe try to lift them up.

That is true but that is not what is happening here and it is very obvious

Educate yourself, sweaty

Follow up question, do you think that men who attend Grace Hopper are more or less likely to agree with the statement "Women are unfairly given extra employment opportunities in tech," when compared to all men in tech?

Kinda seems like voting with their feet to me.

I think they would think that, yes. Because they don't understand the history and personal experience of women in this industry. They don't understand the reason we have this conference / who create it / who it was created for.

You didn't start the conference, you don't run it. Who are you to say who it's for? Seems like they belong there more than you.

Try doing some research about the conference and educate yourself.

More bonus drama

I don't go to this, I don't even live on the same continent, but I do wonder how you are telling which people are non-binary and which are men? because I am a masc-presenting non-binary person and worry you might class me as a man if you saw me there.

edit: Really not sure why I am being downvoted. this sub "welcomes contributions from everyone".

Because it seems you're trying to muddy things for who knows why, possibly a distinctly masculine desire to make every conversation about yourself. Non-binary people are rare, rarer than either of the binary sexes. You see a conference "for women" which is populated distinctly by non-women, it does not make any sense to think "ah, non-binary representation!"

why invite non-binary people then?

That is not the issue here, is it? When there's a room full of people of whom 50% are masc presenting, 98% of those will be men not enbies. Whether any one of them specifically could be misgendered as either male or nonbinary is... well, personally unpleasant, statistically unimportant. It's just not likely to be successful enough to invite enough of the masc enbies but bad enough at inviting women to visibly get the ratio of male seeming people to be very high.

Plenty more drama in those threads, and I wouldn't put it past to continue madposting about it until the "celebration" is over.

>completely reworks marsey rendering

>adds 13 new marsey effects

>invents an entire new language for representing these effects that is way too complicated for the smoothbrains of rdrama to understand

>creates parser/tokenizer to parse this language

>writes actually helpful PR description

>does all of this without telling anyone what she is doing, including @A

>does this on a project where the average PR looks like this

!codecels, kneel before your GOD, @transb-word

Merge?

haskel bros react. let’s be honest none of the ladies are programming haskel.

— Tron Denver (@trondenver) September 15, 2023

i love this schizo bulgarian grifter so much is unreal, go get that bag kween!

Empress's identity REVEALED as Voksi the Bulgarian! Is it over for piracychads?

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15spn46/shipgraveyardsimulator2readnfoskidrow_response_to/?sort=controversial

Empress's response (Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15ssekk/empress_response_to_skidrow/?sort=controversial

The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn't want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it's not.

Reddit reactions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15m2q0o/moq_a_net_mocking_library_now_ships_with_a?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/15m2lg2/moq_now_ships_with_a_closedsource_obfuscated?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/15ljdcc/does_moq_in_its_latest_version_extract_and_send?sort=controversial

I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂 Hope they get their emails harvested

The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditards are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.

A user asked me the below.

Hey, did you use any guides for setting up your pie hole and/or installing the button?

Was interested in making one of these as well.

Any tips or w/e would be appreciated, thanks!

This was my response. which is probably definitely rslurred but w/e

!codecels roast me

No Guides, but happy to give tips, and follow ups where things are unclear.

Button is pretty cool for sure... but you can do everything you need to do from your computer and phone.

A pihole does not protect you unless you set it up as your DNS on your router.

I would also recommend setting up a vpn to your home network using openvpn that way you can take your protection on the go, itll protect you from getting throttled by your cell phone provider too

Parts

• Get a raspberry pi (here is fine https://www.raspberrypi.com/)

• • get a case/fan if you are so inclined but I would consider it extra
• • will come with an sd card and an sd card reader
• • should come with a power cord

• Button https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KZK8SXQ

• Wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78

• Breadboard https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNH7LYH3

• resistor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GQFVSXK

Config Pi

• Download the Raspberry Pi Imager from here https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

• Install pi lite on the SD card

• • During Install configure the thing for wifi and ssh
• • Set up a user for yourself on there and a password

• Put the SD card into the Pi (contacts towards the board)

• Start up the Pi and ssh into it

• Install Pihole (follow these instructions https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install)

Code

• Look its probably right... but how you set this thing up makes a difference

• Put this on your Pi maybe call it buttonscript.js

• {YOUR USER HERE} needs to be swapped out for the user you created

const fs = require('fs');

const Gpio = require('onoff').Gpio;

const { exec } = require('child_process');

// GPIO pin number

const buttonPin = 17;

const logFilePath = '/home/{YOUR USER HERE}/buttonscript.log';

// Setup the button GPIO as input

const button = new Gpio(buttonPin, 'in', 'falling', { debounceTimeout: 200 });

// Function to disable Pi-hole blocking for 5 minutes

function disablePiHole() {

const timestamp = new Date().toISOString();

const logMessage = [${timestamp}] Button pressed. Disabling Pi-hole for 5 minutes...;

console.log(logMessage);

fs.appendFile(logFilePath, logMessage + '\n', (err) => {

if (err) {

 console.error('Error writing to log file:', err);

}

});

exec('pihole disable 5m');

}

// Add event listener to the button

button.watch(disablePiHole);

// Cleanup GPIO on process exit

process.on('SIGINT', () => {

button.unexport();

process.exit();

});

Service

• This thing needs to start back up when power fails so you need to set it up to do that

• go here cd /etc/systemd/system/

• run this to create it sudo nano buttonscript.service

• save and exit nano

• run this sudo systemctl enable buttonscript.service

• run this sudo systemctl start buttonscript.service

Circuit

• find your pinout, I am showing a 4b there are others

• 3.3 to a rail on the + side of the breadboard at the top using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78

• in that top rail, put the resistor in

• resistor to the left hand side on maybe the top row of the breadboard

• gpio 17 to left side on that row using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78

• button to left side on that row use the breadboard wires there

• other terminal on the button to the right side of the breadboard

• ground to right side on that row using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78

Package to suit, and your done

I have so many funny posts and bait ideas that I don't have the energy to write. Not having a GPT program that can run funny and fricked up stuff actually really sucks. ChatGPT won't even give me OPINIONS any more, even positive ones.

Bing is better but it still uses their framework. Can someone guide me to something?