Israel remains in the top 10 list of happiest countries in the world, ranking eighth according to an annual global survey, despite the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon. What do you think?
“And isn’t being happy the ultimate land annexation?” Jessica Moschini, Garlic Mincer
“When you love what you do, joy follows.” Bobby Glowe, Necklace Detangler
“I’d hate to know the atrocities the happier countries are committing.” Neil Cornish, Pool Filler
At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate with Trump’s supporters to make it easier to censor speech online.
As reported in The Information (paywalled), several Democratic Senators are teaming up with some of Trump’s strongest Senate allies to repeal Section 230 — the law that both enables content moderation and protects websites from being sued into oblivion for hosting user speech.
They appear to be doing this out of a deep misunderstanding of how the law works combined with an astounding naiveté about how this process will be used by the MAGA faithful.
Blocking Aggressive Scrapers at the EdgeIn Limiting expensive to render nginx endpoints , I describe how to use a few nginx limit_req module to substantially limit the amount of aggressive scraping traffic to my Gitea instance without impacting “normal” “human” behavior.
There’s three layered rate-limiters in here that are applied to only certain URIs:
One does a per-IP limit excluding my Tailscale network and some ASNs I connect from. Each IP can make one costly request per minute, otherwise receive a 503.
One tries to map certain cloud providers in to a single rate-limit key and gives each of these providers 1 RPM on these endpoints. Each group of cloud IPs can make one request per minute, otherwise receive…
Clearview AI is in the midst of a court battle to recover money it paid to a data broker for a collection of arrest records from all 50 U.S. states. Documents shared by 404 Media show that the company has filed a petition for a court order in a bit to recover the $918,000 it paid to Investigative Consultant, Inc. (ICI) President Donald Berlin in July, 2019. In return, Clearview was expecting 690 million arrest records. The records Clearview attempted to purchase included social security numbers, phone numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, home addresses and 390 million photos to add to its facial recognition database, documents filed in court state. Clearview’s database is now…
