CloudFlare check sucks

Maniak · 2023-10-01T19:19:27+00:00

Well there goes the hypothesis that WotB was fine here (for now) because SaidIt was too small for the 'powers-that-be' to attack it.

It seems like the ones who've been going after you for all this time are a different group than those who have been attacking the Reddit version of WotB for pretty much the same timespan, but those were on the content-side, not attacking the infrastructure (since Reddit... well... yeah, that's a much bigger investment to bring that down, outside of starting a blackout which does it for free apparently).

On one hand I'd love for there to be a page showing the amount of attacks every day, just as a reminder of what's being thrown at any remaining places that allow people to express anything, but this would also motivate the 12-year-old-Kevins out there to participate in it even more.

Though we're way past the point of a few kids using their parents' credit cards to pay for a DDOS bot somewhere just because they were told that Mercy is useless and D.va is for virgins. (sorry, using the first game example that popped into my mind, I don't even know if those are still in there)

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T19:15:19+00:00

Nice find

MeganDelacroix · 2023-10-01T19:14:32+00:00

How it's going:

"We want to move to single-subject spending bills. He made that commitment, he broke it," Gaetz said. "If at this time next week, Kevin McCarthy is still Speaker of the House, it will be because the Democrats bailed him out and he can be their Speaker, not mine."

Zapped · 2023-10-01T19:09:12+00:00

The size of the solar bodies are relative to each other and the distances are relative to each other, but the scale of size and distance are not. You would have to shrink the planets and Sun by a factor of 100, or increase the distance by a factor of 100.

EternalSunset · 2023-10-01T19:03:32+00:00

That's a good idea, but we need a lot more manpower, guns and well-organized militias before we are able to do that. Maybe one day, hopefully.

ClassroomPast6178 · 2023-10-01T18:58:05+00:00

Why sir, you’re, you’re, you’re transphobic, omigod I’m literally shaking!

cunninglingus · 2023-10-01T18:58:04+00:00

I wanted to disagree, but there was a spike in DDoS attack volume:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/security-and-attacks

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:52:59+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much how low-income American families feed themselves...

thomastheglassexpert · 2023-10-01T18:52:43+00:00

Good story thanks. I seem to recall reading some years ago about all the animals as pets who have lived past 200 years at the WH and it's an impressive array and number. I have zero problem with that. Some fuckin dog bites me while I am at work = dog is going to be dang sorry for that.

Dregan-yea · 2023-10-01T18:52:09+00:00

Way to jump on a typo like the clown that u are...nerd

You're really shit at shilling cause all your comments are hilarious. Nobody takes u serious or ever will cause you're Lil bitch- 😆

stickdog · 2023-10-01T18:44:34+00:00

Excerpt:

Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the ducts of the GloboCap Ministry of Truth toward the enormous mnemonic incinerator where all official “unstories” go to die. Yesterday, it was an embarrassment. Tomorrow, it will no longer be of interest. By next week, it will have never happened.

So, let’s review it before that happens … and perhaps try to understand why it happened.

What happened was, on the eve of Yom Kippur, members of the Canadian House of Commons and assorted invited dignitaries and diplomats stood up in the Canadian parliament and paid extensive homage to a Nazi. Not a figurative Nazi. A literal Nazi. A member of the Waffen SS.

They did this shamelessly, exuberantly, on camera, in front of the entire world.

The Nazi in question is Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi who emigrated to Canada in the 1950s following his military career as a Nazi in the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary forces, whose members swore allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Here’s Yaroslav (front row center) in what he describes as “the happiest days of his life” …

The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (also known as SS Galizien) was created by the Nazis in 1943. It was comprised of soldiers from the Galicia region who were trained and armed by German SS officers, and is believed to be responsible for war crimes like the Huta Pieniacka massacre in 1944, among other war crimes, mass murders, and so on.

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, and the members of the Canadian parliament and other dignitaries in the House of Commons thanked Yaroslav “for all his service.” They rose to their feet, beaming up at Yaroslav with gratitude and adoration, and clapped like a bunch of trained Nazi seals.

For those who know their post-WWII history, this repulsive Nazi-celebrating spectacle was not as completely shocking as it might sound. As Max Blumenthal reported in the Grayzone, “by celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a hero, Canada’s Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.” Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, just happens to be the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi propagandist. And there are monuments to the Nazis all over Canada. And so on.

Anyway, someone drew attention to Yaroslav Hunka’s Nazi history, and the shit hit the fan on social media. The stink soon spread to the corporate and state media, which had no choice but to get on the bandwagon. They couldn’t get away with ignoring the story, so they were forced to report it, and spin it as a “blunder.”

Yes, it appears, once again, that “mistakes were made.”

The speaker of the House fell on his sword and resigned. Trudeau called the episode “deeply embarrassing,” and implied that the Russians had somehow tricked him and his cronies into cheering for a literal Nazi with their devious “Russian disinformation” operations.

Then, in a particularly Orwellian move, members of the House of Commons tried to erase the whole affair from the official record, so that, once the video had been visibility-filtered into Internet oblivion, there would be no proof that it had ever really happened. But they were too late. The Nazi cat was out of the bag.

Apologies, “fact checks,” and rationalizations ensued.

Dignitary after dignitary explained to the press how they had no idea who was fighting who in the Second World War, and had just assumed that the Nazis were the Russians … or something.

German historians goose-stepped onto Twitter to explain how the question of who exactly was and wasn’t technically a “Nazi” was … well, you know, complicated.

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stickdog · 2023-10-01T18:41:40+00:00

Pharma's Gilead Sued Over Deadly Remdesivir Side Effects

People died when given Remdesivir even though they requested safer drugs like Ivermectin.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against drug maker Gilead for false advertising and basically not letting people know about serious and deadly side effects such as irreparable kidney damage:

Plaintiffs bring their claims for false advertising, the False Advertising Law (“FAL”), Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17500, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (‘CLRA"), Civil Code §5 1750, et seq, the Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”), Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200, et seq. deceptive promotion, negligent misrepresentation, negligence, negligence per se, unjust enrichment, failure to warn, and equitable and injunctive relief from false advertising and deceptive promotion…

Not only did Gilead downplay serious side effects, the lawsuit asserts, it ommitted some entirely. Here’s a statement from one of the attorneys:

"It's a terrible drug. The nonprofit has thousands of members who have the hospital records, and you can see there's a big difference in the creatinine levels and the blood levels, kidney readings after they get the remdesivir," Bradford Geyer, an attorney with Former Feds Group who is representing the plaintiffs, told The Epoch Times.

You can find victim dossiers on the Former Feds Group website. One, for Carol K. Vaughan, shows that she received the following meditations before her death:

Remdesivir, ceftriaxone, dexamethasone, doxycycline, enoxaparin, famotidine, fentynal, heparin, insulin, midazolam, pantoprazole, sodium chloride, tocilzumab, Vancomycin, vassopressin, vit c

She was put into a 90+ degree room and “cruelly mistreated.” The hospital apparently denied her requests for the far safer drugs Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine:

Mom demanded Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. We have texts on her phone saying so.

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firebreathingbunny · 2023-10-01T18:39:27+00:00

It corrects medical misinformation and wrong English grammar. Problem?

stickdog · 2023-10-01T18:39:16+00:00

Excerpt:

A new scientific study by Nakahara et al. tested COVID-vaccinated people to see if they have “silent” changes in heart muscle function that standard radiology tests could detect. The study shows very unsettling results.

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Scientists measured myocardial 18Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake. F-FDG has molecular similarity to glucose. However, 18F-FDG does not metabolize like glucose. Therefore, PET scans could detect it, and its presence shows the heart muscle’s abnormally high demand for glucose, indicative of abnormal cardiac function. ...

Conclusions: Focal myocardial 18F-FDG uptake seen on oncologic PET/CT indicates a significantly increased risk for multiple myocardial abnormalities.

Indeed, this is what the Nakahara study finds:

Results

The study included 303 nonvaccinated patients (mean age, 52.9 years; 157 females) and 700 vaccinated patients (mean age, 56.8 years; 344 females). Vaccinated patients had overall higher myocardial FDG uptake compared to nonvaccinated patients (median SUVmax, 4.8 vs median SUVmax, 3.3 ; P < .0001). Myocardial SUVmax was higher in vaccinated patients regardless of sex (median range, 4.7-4.9 ) or patient age (median range, 4.7-5.6) compared to corresponding nonvaccinated groups (sex median range, 3.2-3.9; age median range, 3.3-3.3; P range, <.001-.015). Furthermore, increased myocardial FDG uptake was observed in patients imaged 1-30, 31-60, 61-120, and 121-180 days after their second vaccination (median SUVmax range, 4.6-5.1) and increased ipsilateral axillary uptake was observed in patients imaged 1-30, 31-60, 61-120 days after their 2nd vaccination (median SUVmax range, 1.5-2.0) compared to the nonvaccinated patients (P range, <.001-<.001).

This was not supposed to happen! The COVID vaccine is not supposed to affect the heart in any way. It was promised to “stay in the arm.”

The explosive findings of the study are discussed in the editorial that the editor of the magazine, Dr. Bluemke, felt obliged to publish.

Dr. Bluemke’s editorial is somewhat apologetic, and he gives faint praise for COVID vaccines.

The development of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines is a remarkable biotech story. While traditional vaccines took 5-10 years to develop, the COVID-19 vaccines took less than a year. By comparison, the fastest conventional vaccine previously developed was the mumps vaccine, on a timescale of 4 years.

Dr. Bluemke also does not mince words. He explains that the findings are not due to chance:

The main results: asymptomatic patients vaccinated for COVID-19 before PET had about 40% greater radiotracer activity in the myocardium than unvaccinated individuals. The P value was low, less than .0001. This translates to only 1 time out of 10 000 that these results would occur by chance.

The editorial states that there is no rational way to ignore and explain away the negative findings of myocardial inflammation by Takahara et al.:

Vaccine manufacturers are aware of the adverse effects of mRNA vaccines. These adverse effects lead to vaccine hesitancy. The study results by Nakahara et al suggest that mild asymptomatic myocardial inflammation could be more common than we ever expected. This in turn would support a hypothesis of more severe systemic inflammation related to mRNA vaccination in some patients who present with symptoma-c myocarditis.

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Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:39:07+00:00

Man, I hope heaven isn't totally covered in glitter. Every time my kid gets glitter on the floor it takes me like a month to get it all

Super_Soviet_Gundam · 2023-10-01T18:35:21+00:00

contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content

The subtext here is so incredibly devious and brilliant, and we're seeing it implemented everywhere, to subtly deflect blame for the fascism as if the majority of minorities are clamoring for it.

stickdog · 2023-10-01T18:30:52+00:00

Excerpt:

The company that manufactures remdesivir, used across the United States to treat COVID-19, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over allegations it deceptively promoted the drug without disclosing possible side effects.

Two California residents, one of whom is a relative of a person who died after receiving remdesivir, lodged the suit against Gilead Sciences in Shasta County on Sept. 26.

Deborah Fust, the surviving spouse of Michael Fust, and Edward Pimentel, who says he was injured after receiving remdesivir, are accusing California-based Gilead of failing to mention documented side effects in its promotion of remdesivir.

"It's a terrible drug. The nonprofit has thousands of members who have the hospital records, and you can see there's a big difference in the creatinine levels and the blood levels, kidney readings after they get the remdesivir," Bradford Geyer, an attorney with Former Feds Group who is representing the plaintiffs, told The Epoch Times.

The FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit, has compiled some of the cases on its website.

The suit says that Gilead's press releases and statements to consumers and investigators from Gilead show "a pattern of downplaying or omitting altogether the clinical dangers experienced by patients from remdesivir use, instead emphasizing its supposed benefits, safety, and efficacy."

For example, a website for the drug, also known as veklury, makes no mention of kidney problems. A handout (pdf) given to patients also does not mention the issues.

"Defendant's advertising that remdesivir is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 is false and misleading to a reasonable consumer, including plaintiffs, because defendant in fact knew or should have known, based upon prior studies and data on remdesivir, that it was unsafe and posed a high risk of severe adverse effects and death to plaintiffs and the class," the suit states.

The advertising "misrepresented and/or omitted the true content and nature of the drug," it also says.

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Cancelthis · 2023-10-01T18:30:27+00:00

Shops belonging to Muslims were set on fire, looted and vehicles torched by the Hindutva groups during Ganapati Visarjan processions in Kukshi town of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, September 27.

Allegedly three Hindu groups Shirvi Samaj, Patidar Samaj, and Bhausar Saman belonging to three different localities were carrying out their separate ganapati processions and ended up halting at one junction, Patel Chowk via Bus stand.

Competition between groups wanting to reach the destination first resulted in a stampede-like situation in the main market as it cannot accommodate people in large numbers. This further escalated into a scuffle-like situation between the three respective groups.

Alphix · 2023-10-01T18:26:03+00:00

No, you have bullied me for 3 days and others have joined you into attacking me through some misguided sense of misplaced loyalty while admitting clearly and openly that they have not witnessed the disagreement at all. Then you proceeded into asking me to forget it happened while your crony kept on harassing me. I stand with truth. I will not back down from truth, NO MATTER HOW MUCH PRESSURE is applied, because that is what's wrong with the world today: people will go full lemming because it's easier than to stand for truth. I do not partake in such charades.

I never pretended that you had to have any kind of interest in the topic or that you should even read about it. I simply offered a link in chat for discussion, to see if people might be interested. Then you proceeded to calling the entire topic absolute bullshit, in multiple ways, while admitting you know absolutely nothing about it, AND THEN DEMANDING RESPECT FOR YOUR OPINION.

I started by stating that demanding respect for an opinion which really isn't one but is only outright dismissal of a topic that is thousands of years old and has many books written about it, isn't correct. Again, you can dismiss the topic and even insult the fact I posted a link, for all it's petty and poor form. But to DEMAND THAT THIS BE RESPECTED, that is going too far. When you show utter contempt to your peers in the chatbox, you can't demand respect in return.

Respect simply doesn't work that way.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:25:58+00:00

Huh. We all have our pet peeves, but that one's weird. Like an exotic pet peeve.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:24:13+00:00

Most incels are so depressed they can only occasionally get out of their chair and take a shower.

Maniak · 2023-10-01T18:21:56+00:00

Fair point. A lot is happening under the radar for most people (myself included, I had even forgotten about L3 given how rarely it appears in any news), and it's all about governments and corporations making deals between themselves as to the control over what everybody else on the planet is now using as their most basic communication system (outside of actual speech). Control that and you control everything.

If there's one positive side to the whole profit motive thing, it's that those corporations are not tied to any specific government. They're buying them out, sure, but ultimately they're solely interested in their own profits, so there's still some wiggle-room for regular people to lean on that. For now.

I'm right there with you as to what Internet may very well become in the nearer future than we'd think. Tor may end up having to pick up the slack, but there's work to do on the engagement aspect, and then we get right back to the infrastructure issue because everything is going through that. You can add has many encryption layers as you want, you're still going through fiber connections that are owned by a couple of corporations who don't care about your freedom of expression.

There's constant nudging going on, it's always going in the same direction, and attacks such as today's on Cloudflare are an integral part of it.

Oh well, we'll keep on doing our thing whenever and wherever we're able to, and when we can't anymore, we'll find other ways to keep doing it anyway. As of right now, count this as one grateful for what you've done here.

Good weekend-end, and hopefully tomorrow (or soon after) Cloudflare will have taken control back, until next time :)

makesyoudownvote · 2023-10-01T18:20:56+00:00

I can't seem to get the app or the chat to work.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:20:46+00:00

Example: liberals like to cut children's genitals off after grooming them as trans.

I'd say this is about 5% true and 95% false.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:19:42+00:00

Fun fact: FDR also had a German Shepherd called Major, and at one point, FDR was meeting with the British Prime Minister, and FDR's Major attacked the guy and tore his pants off.

Anyway, Americans doesn't like "we killed the animal" stories, so any pet of a politician will get to live out their life. Joe sent his Major off to live with family friends two years ago, because the White House was too stressful for him.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T18:18:06+00:00

Shouldn't saidit have a little wikipedia article by now? I think one of the qualifications to have a wiki article was having a mention in a mainstream press article, and we've been mentioned in a few

Zommy · 2023-10-01T18:17:50+00:00

You have bullied and harassed users for three days, provoking responses and instigating fights with myself and others, calling people retards and subhuman for not confirming to your all-knowing opinion. It's shitty behaviour and frankly you have offended me time and time again because you expect me to do extensive research into your ball sack to declare that I don't want to retain my fucking semen. You are a sick man.

QueenBread · 2023-10-01T18:17:30+00:00

I once read a comic explaining that this is the "lapdog phase" of humanity. What happened to strong and fierce wolves, once they stopped having to hunt and fight to survive, and were catered to all the time like toddlers? They turned into weak yapping hysterical chihuahuas. Well, I feel this is true, humanity is in the lapdog phase.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:14:36+00:00

I'm trying to think of what it would even look like if the answer were no.

"I'm sorry, sir, that uninformed opinion is contraband and I'm going to have to take it."

"Oh, man, they took my opinion and now all I feel about this subject is apathy!"

Also - you know what the problem with "extensive research" is? Often, it causes fixations and obsessions and distortions. It can cause otherwise intelligent people to believe ridiculous bullshit. Be careful with obsessed people who have done hundreds of hours of research.

Zommy · 2023-10-01T18:12:50+00:00

Is it always ignorance to have an opinion without being an expert?

Alphix · 2023-10-01T18:12:33+00:00

You see, I think it is OK to form an opinion on something without having to experience something first hand. For example, I don't believe eating cow shit is a good idea, I feel this would be detrimental to my physical and mental well-being. I haven't researched this, nor read anecdotal evidence, nor would I ever eat cow shit in my life.

I agree.

On this basis, you consider my opinion bullshit.

Oh are we talking about you and me? No, I don't consider your opinion bullshit on this basis. This is incorrect and a gross oversimplification.

Do you think it is acceptable to verbally abuse people for holding an opinion you disagree with?

Absolutely not.

To be clear, the topic you raised recently was "semen retention". It's a topic you raise quite frequently and I find distasteful, but each to their own. Here is a link to the Reddit topic, a post of yours: https://www.reddit.com/r/Semenretention/comments/16wgmsk/comment/k2x68do/

My alleged post history on another forum should be out of bounds, but fine. Let's say I wrote that. What's wrong with it?

I raised disagreement in ONE SENTENCE by saying that I felt better by not retaining semen before being subjected to three days of abuse from you for having an opinion. Do you believe that a civilised society must condemn and sow hate on a person for not confirming to the religious garbage you spew about jacking off without nutting your load? You are psychotic.

Misdirection, outright lies, fabrications, and yes, this all looks very psychotic. I wonder why. Could it be all the lies, misdirection, fabrications and demented assumptions? Hm... Let's ponder that for a second.

I will refer the court of public opinion to my first comment in this thread. The accuser is misrepresenting the situation in order to make his illogical and flat out wrong side look better.

Zommy, you should know better than to make shit up to slander people. But people in the Semen Retention community report that as your vitality grows through practise, people will attack you and try to bring you down by any means whatsoever. Wait... Yeah dude, you're proving this works! Thanks!

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:11:59+00:00

Perhaps Markle should learn to read a poll. Fully 33% of Americans actively dislike her, especially after that brutal South Park takedown.

She's got about as much chance of becoming a senator as Justin Roiland does.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T18:09:39+00:00

Saidit gets about a third of a million page load requests a month, and probably half of those are fraudulent (originating from malicious DDOS attacks). During a heavy attack day we might have 10x the page load requests of normal, during which probably 98% of the page requests are fraudulent. Cloudflare ensures (most of) those fraudulent connection attempts stop at cloudflare and don't hit our main server, which is how we're able to stay online.

We've been DDOS attacked multiple times daily for 5 years now. As a result we can never turn our DDOS protection off. So someone out there is setting aside resources on the regular to do this. For years.

I remember the day saidit opened to the public, before we had a registration captcha set up, someone used a script to register all the active usernames from the subreddits where I showed people saidit, and then they auto-registered thousands of usernames, and stole everyone's usernames who might've migrated. Just to frustrate migration and growth of this site. They did this literally hours after we opened the website, they had an automated script ready to go.

This place has been under nonstop attack since day 1, via every method possible from hardware attacks to social engineering, it has honestly surprised me how bad it's been over the last 5 years, I would've never guessed it was this bad. Whoever these groups are, they really don't want forums like saidit to exist.

stickdog · 2023-10-01T18:08:06+00:00

Excerpt:

When Joe Biden endorsed the UAW’s demand for a 40% raise, an unprecedented action for an American president, I thought immediately of Shake Shack Bill de Blasio and his presidential campaign in 2019 during which he said he planned to “tax the hell” out of the rich. It was such an obvious pander that not a living soul took it seriously, any more than his burger-and-fries enticement worked to persuade people to get shot, I mean, take The COVID-1984 Clot and Immunosuppressant Shot.

The UAW strike was called about five weeks after the California Public Utilities Commission approved self-driving taxis for the city of San Francisco. Reports vary, but there are apparently four to five-hundred such cars-for-hire operating on the streets of The Golden City now. Not everyone is pleased and some non-violent saboteurs have been immobilizing these cars using traffic cones. Even if such silent resistance is coming from labor activists (are there such people any longer?), there has been absolutely no organized outcry from we-don’t-hang together, disorganized labor.

Just as the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and other unions in France are capable of shutting the country down, but were supine during the COVID tyranny, so the America Labor (Non) Movement has been blind, weak or both in confronting the imminent destruction of the livelihood of workers, whether blue, white or whatever collar. The insidious technological “innovations” that are gradually making increasing numbers of occupations redundant and have been doing so for decades (and in a broader sense, centuries) face no opposition. Why should the UAW oppose self-driving cars while auto plants use workers to make them? I think the answer is obvious. As time goes on fewer and fewer workers are required to build cars and now, no one needs to drive them.

AI is putting the nails in and around the workforce coffins as the “labor movement” has been dead a long time. Biden’s empty rhetoric is a deft underline. But the crowning glory of union contract negotiations comes in the wake of the “glorious” Hollywood writers’ agreement (as descibed by former WGA president Howard Rodman).

But, wait…from the same Hollywood Reporter piece quoted above:

“If we’re going to regulate AI, this is the right way — putting limits on how and under what circumstances AI can be used and, when it is used, how it’s going to be treated,” notes Marc Guggenheim (Legends of Tomorrow). Ryan stopped short of calling the AI contract language a loss but considers it a “temporary stalemate.” “There are a lot of things around AI where I don’t think this is the final word on it. That area bears watching and diligence going forward,” he says, adding that he also would have liked to have secured “larger pay raises than what the DGA negotiated to help make up for inflation and wage stagnation"

And according to the Wall Street Journal Hollywood Studios Can Train AI Models on Writers’ Work Under Tentative Deal:

Hollywood studios are expected to retain the right to train artificial-intelligence models based on writers’ work under the terms of a tentative labor agreement between the two sides, people familiar with the situation said.

The writers would also walk away with an important win, a guarantee that they will receive credit and compensation for work they do on scripts, even if studios partially rely on AI tools, one of the people said. That provision had been in an earlier offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios, streamers and networks…

So, play it again, Sam, in return for a temporary gain in compensation, the unions have given away the store.

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IkeConn · 2023-10-01T18:03:00+00:00

I do that every time I go to bed and start dreaming. Last night I fucked an 18 year old hot girl in my sleep and it was vivid and in full color. It was like my mind pieced her together from the bests pieces of girls I had fucked in the past. AI couldn't come up with any hotter girl.

Hematomato · 2023-10-01T18:02:24+00:00

Well, that's certainly a subject change, but sure. CO2 isn't "evil." It's just a molecule. It's useful or crucial in some contexts, and disadvantageous or toxic in others. Just like every molecule.

Makes you wonder why trees do not grow taller now that CO2 is thousands of feet in the atmosphere just hanging out.

Because that's not in their genetic blueprint.

I wonder why those trying to use global warming to form world government and a world tax system have not focused on the forced ending of bread, beer, and wine production.

Because it's an absolutely irrelevant amount of CO2, like worrying about a single drop in the ocean.

Look, I'm with you on some of this. Liberals have no reasonable plan to stop climate change, climate change is happening and will continue, and they're using the issue as a cynical power grab.

It doesn't help to deny the science, though. All this carbon used to be in the air, before the Devonian. Back then, atmospheric carbon was about 4000 ppm and the global temperature was about 25C.

And for millions of years, plants sucked the carbon out of the air and then got buried in the ground. As a result, the temperature plummeted. Today, atmospheric carbon is about 416 ppm and the global temperature is about 14C.

So, yes, sucking all the carbon out of the air caused massive climate change. Obviously it didn't cause the end of all life - it paved the way for us to even exist.

It's just that when it happens fast, life can't evolve fast enough to keep up. And more than 99% of everything dies. Which has happened, like, eight times.

So, yeah, most (not all) of us are going to die. There's going to be a huge century-long die-off where we go from like 12 billion people to like 500 million. It will be the one of the most brutal centuries in human history. That's what climate change is almost certainly going to do.

But, yeah, the liberals can't stop it. There's no stopping it. It will happen. We are well past the point of no return.

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T18:00:13+00:00

Imagine that. Rich old juden woman uses her position to get filthy rich.

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T17:59:24+00:00

Id buy some

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T17:59:01+00:00

Bless your heart.

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T17:58:12+00:00

Because they are basically impotent girly men.

bucetao6969 · 2023-10-01T17:57:12+00:00

Thankfully the straights are slowly getting it. I will enjoy when homophobia becomes normalized again.

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T17:56:29+00:00

Yes. Ignorant people always have an opinion.

bucetao6969 · 2023-10-01T17:54:31+00:00

I think they're entitled to it not sure they should go around sharing it though

binaryblob · 2023-10-01T17:54:23+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense that it is automated.

Can you see how big the attack is on your infrastructure (that is, how many requests you would have to handle per second (alternatively, more specific or different metrics like number of bytes per second or number of connections made per second) if it wasn't for CloudFlare)?

I am just wondering how big the hate is against this website.

I knew that the web was broken, but it's disappointing to see it in action.

bucetao6969 · 2023-10-01T17:53:54+00:00

The user above me is a troll ignore him

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T17:53:34+00:00

Given that the Internet infrastructure is being more and more bought by the usual monopolies (MS/Google/Amazon), Internet is becoming less distributed at its root, so less weak points but way more impactful.

Yes I agree in theory. But in practice, the internet backbones are already owned by a small handful of "Tier 1" Internet Network Service Providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_Tier_1_networks

L3 Technologies being the biggest, and has been for a long time. Every backbone cable is owned by these big companies, and they all have government connections and so on.

And it's known companies like AT&T basically have "black rooms" set up at the internet backbone connection points, where the three letter agencies have their own equipment set up to sniff and intercept traffic, and AT&T isn't allowed inside. Read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Anyway, things are bad, but it's not futile. I wouldn't be running saidit if it was futile.

But in the short term, things will probably continue to consolidate (or remain consolidated) and it makes me honestly question the usefulness of the internet over the next few decades. It may eventually just turn in to TV, where you can't really interact with it in a serious way, it just pushes ideas at you all day. That seems to be the direction it's heading. And the AI bots now flooding every forum with garbage content isn't helping, so even websites that don't want to move in that direction are being forced to by malicious traffic.

But on the main point, I'm sure the current cloudflare thing will be fine over the next few weeks and months. Cloudflare seems competent and motivated. The long-term direction of the internet as a whole is concerning though, to say the least. Thanks for the chat. Have a good one!

hfxB0oyA · 2023-10-01T17:52:13+00:00

Unprecedented for Serbia maybe, but if the US was doing it, it would be just another Wednesday.

ID10T · 2023-10-01T17:51:55+00:00

But there are new trolls on the site that seem to just want to waste your time, argue anything and everything and do the classic gish gallop of answering a single comment with a dozen points, all easily argued individually but pointless to address all at once. And they have no interest in even considering what you’re saying. Simply trying to waste your time. So the term fits.

IkeConn · 2023-10-01T17:50:12+00:00

Republicans don't like nigras these days. They loved them during the Civil War era.

Brewdabier · 2023-10-01T17:45:37+00:00

That Cut is related to the other Cut Angela merkel, yeah she will do well at fucking up the state.

Cancelthis · 2023-10-01T17:44:55+00:00

Obviously.

Not only expel him, but tell him to wait a few decades before coming back.

Maybe about 3 decades.

bucetao6969 · 2023-10-01T17:43:50+00:00

Because if you think "rape culture" is society condoning rape and not punishing those that do so then perhaps you can turn your ire on feminists who are the main proppants of it...

Why are they the main proppants of it?

bucetao6969 · 2023-10-01T17:43:43+00:00

We pissed someone off it seems

GuyWhite · 2023-10-01T17:43:23+00:00

We should refer to troons as “it.”

ID10T · 2023-10-01T17:43:13+00:00

https://saidit.net/s/censorship/comments/bkhh/senior_nhs_surgeon_64_struck_off_over_covid/147i8

Maniak · 2023-10-01T17:39:31+00:00

Yeah, this ties to the whole "Internet should be a public utility" topic, which is being fought by establishments all over the world for obvious reasons.

They want and need it to be private so that all the usual weak points are there to be exploited. And of course whenever something like this happens, they'll only use it as a way to justify more censorship laws for their own interests rather than making it a national utility so that attacks against its proper functioning would be considered a criminal offense.

The fact that we're all governed by ancient corrupt fucks who don't understand anything about any technology that came up within the past half-century isn't helping.

Of course there are cons to the public utility approach, but as far as the power play is concerned, it's the one approach that leans towards actual people having some say vs only a few CEOs to put pressure on.

Given that the Internet infrastructure is being more and more bought by the usual monopolies (MS/Google/Amazon), Internet is becoming less distributed at its root, so less weak points but way more impactful. And companies like Cloudflare whose entire business is about dealing with those weak points... well, they become a weak point themselves.

So hopefully they get over this latest round of attacks and improve enough so that the next one won't hit too hard, because the day they break is the day they disappear, and I'm not aware of many alternatives with a solid enough backbone to deal with such things, unless, of course, you end up falling back on... MS/Google/Amazon, the very same corporations that are owning more and more of the infrastructure being attacked.

In the meantime, we get incessant checkboxes to click in order to be able to post random comments such as this in one of the few remaining places where people can still at least try to discuss anything.

Oh well, if that's the price of still being able to post freely, I'll just keep clicking.

Sorry for the extended rant, can't keep the WotB out of the user it seems :)

hfxB0oyA · 2023-10-01T17:37:37+00:00

Woah.

cunninglingus · 2023-10-01T17:30:25+00:00

All of this was discussed on Saidit long ago, at length. No reasonable person agrees with you.

FrancisIsNotCatholic · 2023-10-01T17:27:27+00:00

You just don't call it Communism. Many if these government has No business getting into . can't wait until these commies turn on you. Hint: commies morph and change terms. This is communism. They will try to change people nicely then come down brutally. BUT ENOUGH TOUGH AMERICANS REMAIN .

zyxzevn · 2023-10-01T17:27:17+00:00

This guy is explaining the complete physics of green house gasses.
video
And indeed, CO2 is not a problem.

I usually send this video to people that are scared of global warming.
More such info on /s/ClimateSkeptics

Compared to history, CO2 is now extremely low 0.04%.
And when it goes down to 0.02% plants and trees will die.
So we should be scared of CO2 disappearing.
More such facts on: http://www.co2coalition.org

MeganDelacroix · 2023-10-01T17:26:48+00:00

You know it's stupid when even Jake Tapper isn't buying it:

I’ll be honest. It doesn’t really make sense to me, his explanation.

AOC doubles down: It was a moment of panic! He was trying to ESCAPE!!!

🤔

GuyWhite · 2023-10-01T17:23:07+00:00

Yes they are. This is how informed folks identify morons and idiots.

UbiquitousCultOfSelf · 2023-10-01T17:20:40+00:00

Uhh okkaaayyy you type like a retard. Break your Latuda tablets in half, moron. You fail to get humor, you sad sack of putrid human waste. Derp derp this one (you) is so pathetically poor at reading comprehension and being anything other than a complete failure, that you don't get anything other than, "migrants good". Retard.
Go back in history and prevent your own birth, it was likely the world's greatest mistake.

FrancisIsNotCatholic · 2023-10-01T17:17:18+00:00

Glad to Ser you're compassionate😅😆✌

FrancisIsNotCatholic · 2023-10-01T17:15:42+00:00

You're not bothering me. You just come onto a hostile group guns blazing. Me, I try to ask questions when I'm on a hostile site. Basically you have no class

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T17:14:11+00:00

Yes, in the long term either cloudflare will improve, or an alternative to cloudflare will arise. But in the short-term there is a cat-and-mouse game going on which is impacting the whole internet.

The DDOSers are too powerful, and nothing is reigning them in. I think attacking public communication lines repeatedly should be a jailable offense. I mean if someone went and cut the internet fiber lines, they'd rightfully go to jail. So why is jamming them with made-up data packets 24/7 so no one else can use them any different?

Anyway, things will probably be back to normal in a day or two, I'd guess. Have a great Sunday!

FrancisIsNotCatholic · 2023-10-01T17:13:28+00:00

Medical experiments cannot be forced on people. I don't understand what's the problem people not understanding this. Except if they don't want to

MeganDelacroix · 2023-10-01T17:08:04+00:00

Thank you for being on that wall.

xoenix · 2023-10-01T17:06:14+00:00

The Satanic Temple taken over by the trans cult? Is nothing sacred?

Woke Christianity and Satanism are becoming the same thing and may as well just merge already.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T17:05:56+00:00

In the future, this means that if cloudflare were to suddenly disappear or go out of business one day, then basically every forum site including saidit would be exposed to endless DDOS and go down forever until a new cloudflare alternative arose and people switched over and got everything set up again. And there just isn't a good cloudflare alternative. They basically have a monopoly. It's a pretty weird and precarious situation. Not great for the future of free speech, or the internet in general. But no one has really made a viable cloudflare alternative, because it requires owning tons of bandwidth which costs a lot of money.

Alphix · 2023-10-01T17:04:17+00:00

Yes, that is absolutely fine.

The problem arises when one admits to having literally zero knowledge about a topic and outright calling it bullshit in multiple ways and then demanding respect for their opinion.

I think that's out of bounds in civilized society. Anybody else?

Maniak · 2023-10-01T17:02:20+00:00

A stress-test for their engineering abilities, hitting on a sunday so the least amount of people are around to deal with it. It would fit.

Given the size of Cloudflare and most importantly the size of their customers (SaidIt being ultra-tiny in comparison) I'd expect them to throw the kitchen sink at it after this.

So a shitty sunday for us (and much worse for you I guess :), but maybe a good thing long-term, because starting tomorrow they'll be highly motivated to make sure that this can be dealt with more easily next time.

NutterButterFlutter · 2023-10-01T16:56:41+00:00

If anyone is experiencing issues today with logging in, posting, commenting - just generally using the site - it's not you and it's not just SaidIt. It's Cloudflare protecting the site (and others) from DDOS: https://saidit.net/s/AskSaidIt/comments/bksz/cloudflare_check_sucks

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:54:03+00:00

Thanks for being patient.

I went looking for more information and was able to find this: https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-users-exposed-to-attacks-launched-from-within-cloudflare-researchers/

Looks like maybe the problem is this recent popularization of a new attack method of generating the DDOS attacks from within cloudflare's trusted network. So cloudflare is having to clamp down to counter this new type of attack, hence all the weird new little authentication stages and whatnot.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:53:25+00:00

Oh gee what a HUGE surprise, a last minute compromise funding bill, who woulda thunk it. I'm so tired of these government assholes jerking us around like this. I'm left leaning and quite liberal, so I was all in favor of this shutdown and hoping it would actually happen this time. I'm always in favor of shutting down the right wing conservative bigots in our government. Shut it all down, as far as I'm concerned - I only hope next time they really go through with it.

hfxB0oyA · 2023-10-01T16:44:09+00:00

Harper was a piece of shit, but at least he was up front about it. Harper was a piece of shit that was out on the floor for all to see. Trudeau is a piece of shit that started out hidden deep up a perfumed asshole.

chakokat · 2023-10-01T16:41:01+00:00

US energy giant General Electric holds a vise grip over Iraqi energy matters. Since the US invasion, Iraq has spent $85 billion on its electricity sector but still faces 12-hour daily power outages. So why is GE still getting contacts it won't fulfill?

Snip

GE’s energy policy in Iraq mirrors the broader approach that has been adopted by the White House towards Baghdad since the tumultuous illegal US-led invasion of 2003.

Origins of Iraq’s energy crisis

The energy conundrum has long been a source of concern for Iraqis. In the wake of the US occupation, corruption proliferated within state institutions, but it is the stranglehold exercised by GE - alongside Germany’s Siemens - over all matters pertaining to Iraqi energy that has exacerbated the situation.

This intricate web of control first emerged in 2003 when Washington assumed complete authority over Iraq. At that juncture, GE assumed responsibility for maintaining Iraq's electricity infrastructure following the decision to privatize this once-government-subsidized sector.

An energy expert who represented the Iraqi government during those negotiations reveals to The Cradle that the initial maintenance contract inked between Baghdad and GE carried a staggering price tag of $5 billion.

More astonishing is that GE had no physical presence in Baghdad at the time: "The Americans were negotiating and signing contracts in Baghdad and then returning to Amman," says the expert.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:39:39+00:00

Thank you, thank god someone gets what I'm saying!

Maniak · 2023-10-01T16:39:36+00:00

So... patience and waiting for it to pass or for more information to come in.

Hey it's the weekend, lots of ways to spend time without worrying about a verification checkbox popping up every couple of reloads :)

It's already good to know that it's a more-than-sitewide issue.

A new case of 'shit happens', until proven worse.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:39:25+00:00

I can verify they are a moron, and have a history of being called out for it.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:39:04+00:00

You're one of the most scumbag momfucks ever to walk the earth, so I'm still much further ahead of you in the game of life. Hey assfuck, you misspelled the word lunatics. Of course I realize it's hard for your dainty fingers to look up the correct spelling of anything, ya stupid fucktard.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:38:08+00:00

A few years ago we were hosted in Switzerland and our server company there actually forcefully dropped us as a client because the nonstop DDOSes were so bad it was impacting their entire server farm and eating up all their bandwidth. Like we were breaking their whole company.

Running a forum is surprisingly heavy-duty. Saidit is a fortress. And forums that aren't, get destroyed. It's a real problem for free speech

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:36:06+00:00

Between the DDOS and the cloudflare, we are between a rock and a hard place. Like most forums these days. And as the election approaches it will only get worse, as more botnets and shillgroups are paid to do their thing.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:34:53+00:00

Yeah I had the same issue with posting comments returning a 403. Refreshing the page and commenting quickly seems to fix it. They must've added some sort of timeout. They must be having a particularly bad attack, I've not seen some of these limitations before

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:34:51+00:00

Sounds like you are losing in every possible way, especially in the court of what it takes to be a decent human being. Oh well. Your ignorance and scumbaggery are your own undoing. Have a nice life, asswipe!

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:34:06+00:00

It seems to be hitting all forums, and the only ones that can keep their heads above water without cloudflare these days are the forums that have their own massive server farms and nearly unlimited bandwidth like reddit

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:34:01+00:00

Holy fuck, what a stupid prick! Of course I don't expect any intelligent response from people like you who have no intelligence to work with. Have a nice life, scumbag!

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:33:20+00:00

Suck it, you dumbfuck. You can take your reply and stuff it back up your mom's asshole where it came from, the same place your brains came from. Obviously your daddy left the best part of you running down your mom's face after ejaculation. Have a nice life, retard!!

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:32:10+00:00

Uhhh okkkkaaayyy maybe you need to break the lithium tablets in half before you go posting things next time. Candida? There's a country named after a venereal disease? You may not want to face this next bit of truth: somewhere in your family history, your relatives were immigrants from another country. OH yes I do wish they hadn't come here, so that idiots like you would have stayed behind in the third world craphole they're trying to turn our country into. Because I can tell, your immigrant ancestors truly were brainless in every way.

magnora7 · 2023-10-01T16:31:59+00:00

That's a great question, and I wish I had a great answer. Unfortunately as a user I don't think there's much you can do other than to be patient with the cloudflare stuff, and keep an eye out for bad actors. And help others with these things.

The problem is with the fraudulent traffic, and I don't know how an average user could help that. Push for legislation to prosecute DDOSers? Run a new forum website using the saidit open source code? That's all I can think of. If anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears

Maniak · 2023-10-01T16:28:16+00:00

I'm guessing count on Cloudflare to do its job and don't shit on SaidIt for the (ultra) annoying constant connection checks...

Not piling on to this thing that the site has no control over is probably the best, and most, that we can do while waiting for the attack to subside.

Edit: or maybe donate a couple millions bucks to SaidIt so there are many more servers around to take the hit :)

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:26:54+00:00

That's correct, they "no espouse communism." They espouse equality of opportunity, getting education, funding libraries, including and respecting diversity, and sharing of opportunity. Glad to see that you understand what we're all about these days.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:25:28+00:00

Elon Musk is a walking bag of dog excrement because he doesn't understand why "free speech" isn't about spewing hate like you do. And you misspelled "skeptics," most of those vaccine skeptics are now dead of the disease they spread misinformation about. And you're very infantile brain wanting to believe that "trannies keep raping lesbians" is about as true as the idea that white people aren't total bigots and wastes of flesh. You've just proven all my points for me. Way to go. You sir, are not just a coward, you're a scumbag in every possible way. SO stuff your opinions back up your filthy ass where they came from.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:23:09+00:00

So what, this is another extremist right wing site promulgating fascist untruths to further their agenda of violence and hate. Nothing about this is true. And even if it is, it only serves to illustrate how often trans people DO NOT hurt other people, especially in comparison with what white nationalist small brains and conservtards have done - I could compile a universe of information about their hateful anti-black and anti-semitic idiotic murderous behavior AND their child-raping books bans and hate. Don't try to sell me a bucket of horseshit and say that it's ice cream -- being a liberal, I'm smart enough to know the difference.

Mcheetah · 2023-10-01T16:19:21+00:00

Don't blame animals for the consequences of their shitty owners.

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:18:52+00:00

Of course we would. I rejoice every time a mormon asswipe missionary gets killed in action, I rejoice every time a conservative figure in utah or texas or anywhere else dies and I'm having a giant party for the day trump dies and goes to hell for eternity, which he most certaintly will. And I don't apologize for any of it, I've had enough of the vulgarity of conservi-tardism for one lifetime. Keep on dying and making my day!!

Tygerprintz · 2023-10-01T16:17:05+00:00

So have I, although I still believe being gay is really not a minority any longer. And how have I acted that is bothering you? Because that's the information I need to keep doing it.

Mcheetah · 2023-10-01T16:17:03+00:00

What can we do to combat this?

chakokat · 2023-10-01T16:16:02+00:00

Thanks for the update.

Mcheetah · 2023-10-01T16:15:59+00:00

I've used this site twice today, at 9am and at 11pm. It seems to have been happening all day. Keeps interrupting me posting shit.

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