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Siguza

1996:
Good, Fast, Cheap: You can only have two.

2024:
Good, Fast, Cheap: You can have none.

5 September at 2:21 | Open on infosec.space
Siguza

If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:

stopkillinggames.com/eci

TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.

Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.

1 year to reach 1 million signatures.

If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:

stopkillinggames.com/eci

TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.

Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.

31 July at 18:53 | Open on infosec.space
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Henna Paasio

@siguza but what if the company falls into bankruptcy?

1 August at 7:59 | Open on tech.lgbt
Mike Taylor 🦕

@siguza I really want to sign this petition, but for some stupid reason I am not an EU citizen. (Yes, I'm British. *sigh*)

1 August at 8:37 | Open on sauropods.win
Bonne
Siguza

Redirecting me to /undefined after login is peak Apple Feedback Assistant...

27 July at 5:21 | Open on infosec.space
Siguza

Search engines should start de-listing pages that don't support IPv6.

4 July at 1:21 | Open on infosec.space
Siguza

People are currently dunking on this post that complains about Mastodon link previews DDoSing their servers - and they deserve every bit of it.

Pulling up this site in a browser with no privacy/sanity plugins installed, it made a total of 3740 requests within 4 minutes, which amounted to 267.22 MB transferred. It has ads left, right, bottom and center, and it has one of those annoying autoplaying videos, which ALSO has a video ad in front of it. The website would not scroll even close to fluently, and I'm doing this on a 24-core M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128 GB RAM. I had to use the `debugger` command in the JS console in order to make the network panel in dev tools stop lagging.

In addition, they quote someone complaining about 114.7 MB being requested from their server over the span of 5 minutes. Not only is that less than half as much as you make a single user download if they don't actively cut into your bloatware crap, it also amounts to a whopping 3.06 Mbit/s that you're complaining about. THREE MEGABITS PER SECOND!

Your website is an insult to the internet.

news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link

People are currently dunking on this post that complains about Mastodon link previews DDoSing their servers - and they deserve every bit of it.

Pulling up this site in a browser with no privacy/sanity plugins installed, it made a total of 3740 requests within 4 minutes, which amounted to 267.22 MB transferred. It has ads left, right, bottom and center, and it has one of those annoying autoplaying videos, which ALSO has a video ad in front of it. The website would not scroll even close to fluently,...

2 May at 2:19 | Open on infosec.space
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Slatian

@siguza Just checked and … having the site open alone causes more requests than what I like to call the Fedi-Hammer on my little site (which I notice in my request statistics, but not on server resources) …

For context: A typical load of my site is 100KB with a cold cache and the html is 10 to 20KB … including a decorative banner image.

Also if one has a >1MB preview image >1000px wide … apology denied.

2 May at 17:06 | Open on pleroma.envs.net
Mathias, a walf ❄️🐺 :pansexual_flag:

@siguza That's not to mention it's loaded with broken scripts that are causing 400s and 403s loading external resources, at least one redirect loop, and so much more. They seem to have at least four ad exchange providers *just from the ones erroring out*. Some Google ad thing is going absolutely nuts.

This really is an unusable abomination. They should be ashamed of it. Even if they had or have a legit problem with thundering herds (which they can solve), there's no excuse for what they are.

2 May at 17:43 | Open on pawb.fun
Stefan H.

@siguza Wait I thought those 114 MB of traffic they talked about was the total mastodon OG image network traffic sent to all mastodon instances. They send 114MB PER REQUEST???? And these guys send 267MB for each page load???

Am I understanding this correctly?

2 May at 18:10 | Open on mastodon.social
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