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As the internet gets more users and more devices connected, the ratio of DDoS volume to a single connections volume will only get larger.
Is there any kind of solution?
The default is to allow all available bandwidth, which presumably should be the case from ISP to consumer (most likely a paid-for service), but why should that be the default at consumer router <-> IoT? What need has your printer for 500Mbps outgoing? Or my fancy toothbrush?
Here's the js anyway:
for(i=10;i--;x.fillStyle=R(i-8||255),x.beginPath(x.fill()))x.arc(960+[45,29,14,8,2,1.5,1,.6,0,0][i]*1e5*S(t/5e3/[165,84,29,12,2,1,.6,.2,1,1][i]),540,[24,25,58,69,3.4,6.4,6,2.4,696,2e3][i],0,7)
Surprisingly the precision used in those encoded values is enough at 1000km per pixel (I checked).
(FWIW I'm atheist, always been.)
Think of a song you know best, one you've listened to hundreds of times: can you sing it or hear it in your head pretty accurately (edit - not accurate intervals, but accurate pitch)? If so, congrats, you have the capacity for perfect pitch. Learn what note it starts on and you're 1/12 of the way there.
I'm afraid my favorite song is on a microtonal scale...
Media has always been a force for controlling popular opinion, but in the age of social media it's going to new extremes. There are forces that try to control how you see the world on all social media platforms and do so to attempt to shape your opinions of the world and modify your actions.
You can visibly see Reddit has been completely taken over by bot, shills, and other controlled accounts. There is no sincere, real human opinion posted on the front page.
Even HN is not immune. "Bad news" has long been forbidden here, and there is a range of topics that, even when heavily upvoted by the community, tend to disappear within minutes.
Such as? Disappear as in getting flagged?
Here's my pelican video: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/sora/
Remember, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas already have similar laws in place in the US, so even a nation with better speech and gun laws is still not immune from the slow descent into technocracy.
Interesting, since when? I'm curious about how it's turned out in practise. For web services I mean. An for anyone hosting a message board or comment section.