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Signal without smartphone

A Desktop application to register an account with Signal and link it with Signal Desktop, all without requiring a smartphone.

github.com/almet/signal-withou

Personal anecdote, but I am pretty certain most of the recent CI build failures I have seen in the past few weeks in projects of mine have been due to some breakage in GitHub.
It is more than 50% chance, to the point where I don't really care much about failures. It usually means I need to re-run/retry the build at some later point.

If not GitHub, also often it's something being offline or throwing server errors.

Maybe around 5-10% are real issues.

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Sorry to be a downer but I feel demoralized over how crafts for mastering which I've dedicated a good part of my life have become little more than party tricks thanks to amazing technology and systemic violation of intellectual property of individuals. Corporations have rights - people don't. I am not against progress, bit I am fiercely opposed to mass appropriation of our creative work and selling that back to people who don't care. This isn't new. Print, photography, samplers. We'll survive.

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The day I logged 1 in every 2000 public IPv4: visualizing the AI scraper DDoS

What if you run a few online services for you and your friends, like a small git instance and a grocery list service, but you get absolutely hammered by "AI" scrapers?

I cannot impress upon you, reader, that this is not only an attack that is coordinated, it is an attack that is

osnews.com/story/144851/the-da

#ClownCar

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