I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.

Really good article; and demoralizing as hell.

Yup, to counter the new Dem they FINALLY swore in. Can’t have that Epstein papers release happen. They’re gonna run out the clock until they can win that vote.

Worse than nothing… impedes or actively collaborates with efforts against their constituents when it really matters.

How’s that capitulation working out for you, Democratic Party? Sheesh.

Bonespurs’ tongue should have burst into flames, him reading that oath to others is… rich.

God I need to stop reading news these days.

Good point. That definitely disrupts things to some extent – but the government doesn’t literally stop everything, AFAIK. Don’t departments still get their funding throughout, until the new government passes another budget?

… kinda like every other sensible nation ON EARTH. Sigh.

… and there’s talk she’s planning to run for President. Hah.

I heard on a podcast (Pod Save America) this morning that she’s apparently talked to confidants about running for President next election. She’s trying to wash her reputation by suddenly sounding a tad more reasonable.

It’s a trick, get an axe

… and can the police officer who LIED (perjured himself) when saying the sandwich “exploded all over” be privately charged if the court won’t do it themselves?

This. If the ones in power now were sane, they’d take this as an obvious signal that they should engage with their voters in order to re-consider their agendas and policies.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Wait, let me breathe for a moment…

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Yeah, this is just a start, and it’ll take a massive push to force those fascists out following this, since they’ll just double and triple-down until/unless they’re forcefully ejected from all seats of power.

I started to think Garland was a deep mole for the far-right GOP years ago, his inaction was beyond incompetence, it’s almost as if he WANTED to run the clock out for any meaningful prosecutions.

I’d bet some or all of them have been outright destroyed by now, since there’s no respect for procedures or the rule of law in any branch of the US govt any more and whomever has actual physical access is probably a stooge loyal to the regime by this point.

Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…

An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…

Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …

Good questions, and important that we crowdsource verification of this. I saw some other posts on bsky that other people have received these emails, suggesting it is not a single instance. Implication is that it’s a new automated effort, perhaps “by AI”, to intimidate people en masse. But it could be fake, so the more examining it, the better.

EDIT: Link here to a thread, indicating others have received these emails: https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

I was trying to sound the alert that this might be a thing – BUT if it turns out to be fake, please by all means shout to the hilltops that it is bunk.

Credit Unions! At least I hope in your country they exist, and are better than banks which, where I live, they most DEFINITELY are.

There’s a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.