Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> at my uni students run a network of groups for each assignment. A lot of spam comes from userbots that go into public groups, list all users and search all links to other groups.</p><p>We've seen bot X see al ink and a different boyt joins that group almost immediately :C</p>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDzGG1xNAM
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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sachachua.com/@sacha" class="u-url mention">@<span>sacha</span></a></span> Is it somehow related to the following rather lengthy emacs-devel thread or just a coincidence? </p><p><a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-09/msg00318.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ema</span><span class="invisible">cs-devel/2024-09/msg00318.html</span></a></p>
<p>What I'm listening to today: "Bionic Emphasis", VOUNΔ</p><p>Filipino hyperpop with smooth jungle beats. Music for surviving re-entry</p><p><a href="https://voun.bandcamp.com/track/bionic-emphasis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">voun.bandcamp.com/track/bionic</span><span class="invisible">-emphasis</span></a></p>
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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I also am not sure that I really buy the argument that they need *more* money. They get $510 million from Google in a single year. Even at a $200k salary, that's over 2500 devs that could be working on Firefox (and Thunderbird) development full-time. Surely that's enough? Especially if you don't keep shoveling on ads and AI "features."</p>
<p>A thing that is *deeply* confusing to me about recent Mozilla Discourse is many people going "well, of course they have to get money somehow" in response to Mozilla doing things that have no obvious revenue source attached. There is no disclosed revenue stream from "AI Chatbot" and their claimed future plans for the feature sound actively hard to monetize. "Ad Measurement" is by design not directly monetizable. But these features are widely defended on grounds of the nonexistent revenue stream</p>
<p>(When we're discussing generative AI) Here is $150 billion for your project [ <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=openai+valuation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">google.com/search?q=openai+val</span><span class="invisible">uation</span></a> ], the society will simply give it to you, you will not be required to deliver a working product in exchange, you do not need to have a plan for future revenue</p><p>(When we're discussing a web browser, the most basic and essential piece of software for a computer) Well obviously there's no way to fund a software project other than embedding spyware in it, you must get over your open source naivete</p>
<p>Buy a laptop or tablet from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@starlabssystems" class="u-url mention">@<span>starlabssystems</span></a></span> with elementary OS so that I can pay rent 🙏🏼 <a href="https://starlabs.systems/?rfsn=4227837.e8f025" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">starlabs.systems/?rfsn=4227837</span><span class="invisible">.e8f025</span></a></p>
