I got an email today from Cloudflare congratulating me on my website getting 10,000 hits. I spent the next hour updating my security rules trying to filter out server farms with a lot of bots
EmDash is actually a very good name for a site filled with slop content.
Interesting ticket that we had today.
User says that downloads in Gmail are not working. He clicks the download button and it does not download. First we refresh, reset permissions and check for updates.
Then I decided to check if just on Gmail or on other tabs as well so I see that the issue is in other tabs as well. Check in ms edge and when downloading it opens file explorer and freezes.
Next logical step is checking file explorer itself, I opened it and it freezes. I restart through task manager and get the same issue. So I removedapped drive to the server and tested again and still no progress. I open disk management and it also freezes, so I opened device manager and under disk drives I see another drive that did not show in file explorer.
So I ask him about it and he says that it is a external hard drive. I ask him to unplug it and right away all issues vanished.
I did a sfc and dism scan for good measure, scheduled a reboot for tonight and the customer was good to go.
Forgot to say that this happened on a span of 5 minutes.
Next I got an emergency call from a new client that left another MSP and he says that he is not getting emails and none of his employees can log in. Issue was that it was still under pax8 from other MSP and was never fully removed so when the other MSP disabled the licenses it stopped working. Had to quickly set up a new billing profile and get the licenses ASAP for them.
BTW this was after the other MSP charged them 2.5k off boarding fee.
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Itâs interesting how a damaged drive freezes up the whole Windows, Iâve had times I was only able to recover files using a Linux system because Windows just freezes when trying to do anything with the drive (or in your case just by being connected)
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Itâs the slopocalypse.
OSINT nerd Harrris0n has created âFirehoundâ. He (or others, I donât know) have begun the daunting task of hunting AI slop in the Apple app store.
They have identified (as of this writing) 198 iOS apps which leak information on users (in some capacity). Unsurprisingly, the top are all related to AI.
The top currently leaking user data is âChat & Ask AI by Codewayâ which has exposed 18M users information including:
- Name
- Creation date
- Messages (sent, received, content, etc)
- Voice chats
⊠anything youâve said to this AI agent is exposed. It is 400,000,000+ messages⊠(Image 1, redacted)
Next up up on the slop-o-meter is âYPT - Study Groupâ which currently exposes over 2M users information including:
- AI tokens
- User ID
- User Key
- Chats (sent, received, content
This is all AI slop for things under education, entertainment, graphic design, health and fitness, âlifestyleâ, social networking, and more.
Some of the stuff is present is absurd. Harrris0n notes the presence of people doing CSAM (child pornography) related things with the AI agents. (tl;dr pedophiles identifying information currently leaking online) ⊠as well as âLooksMaxxingâ stuff (???).
Itâs an infinite blackhole of user personable identifiable information, beside just names, emails, etc, but also their personal conversations with AI agents.
Itâs the slopocalypse.
See for yourself:
Absolutely pathetic.
Hello all !
Hope you are all doing fine. If you are a member of linuxsucks101 thank you for being part of this wonderful community. I wish you all a prosperous new year free from the atrocities and trauma of the linux operating system. It goes without saying that we here keeping aside the troll posters and agressive lurker downvoters are part of a counter culture. A minority amongst the tyranny of linux mainstream propoganda. This has resulted in our sub recieving unwanted attention from these groups who make it a point to infiltrate our subs simply to get banned and then post the ban message as a trophy of some sort of internet vigilantism and victory of free speech.
Not naming any subs but there is a particular one whose sole purpose it to denigrate and defame this sub. While our criticisms of linux is often restricted to linux as an os and the overall behavioral patterns exhibitted by its community while using both psychological and metaphysical approaches to explain why both the os and its community is prone to their stupid behavior and how it is no accident, they on the other hand seem to take it very personal resorting to name calling, strawmanning, personal attacks and even wishing some of us get doxxed. All of this is unnecessary and totally unwarranted.
Personally I am not affected by their panderings since much of the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping the sub clean of loonixers comes down to my other mod whose help is invaluable in retaining the sanity of the sub. I try to do my part too but the constant barrage of these evangelical and âakshuallyâŠâ comments are tiring, boring and taxing on the soul. A honest conversation is simply impossible with a die hard loonixer because fundamentally their values are metaphysically incompatible with yours. Their worldview and understanding of reality is founded upon an unrealistic fantasy, an idealism that does not exist and cannot exist. Let me tell you an imaginary story, a totally hypothetical situation that I think very neatly explains this metaphysical divide.
Picture yourself in this scenario - the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in which you find yourselves in some underground bunker. No internet, no tutorials, no wikis. All you have is the data that you have hoarded for yourself. Your friend had cut his hand very badly from the debris of the blast that fell on him and it is upto you whether he gets to keep his hand before it gets infected and loses a lot of blood. You know nothing about an emergency medical procedure like this but you know that you have hell lot of videos of medical procedure stored inside your archives since you are an avid data hoarder. The bunker thankfully has a computer but it boots straight into the bios because the explosion probably had shaken the hdd so bad that its pretty much gone. Luckily you use your drive with all your data and plug it into the sata port. But there is no os to play those mp4 files. While panicking you search the accompanying desks and inside a cardboard box you find two usbs - one named windows 11 ltsc and the other called arch linux.
Now close your eyes and take a deep breath. Keep aside your foss activism and Richard Stallman quotes for a while. Keep Linus Torvaldâs angry reagebaits in the kernel mailing lists aside for a while too. For once in your entire lifetime please try being completely honest with yourself. Lets be real. On one hand you have smooth hyperland window managers, anime girls on your desktop, matrix letters raining on terminals, music visualizers visualizing some unheard song and on the other hand⊠you have your friends life. As a human being with desires I can understand the appeal of the former. However as a human being also in posession of a soul you know deep down that somebody has to save your friend.
You give in to your impulses and plug the arch linux iso into the usb, within 10 seconds you are inside the linux chroot. Your can hear your friend moaning in pain and when you glance over you can see that heâs losing a lot of blood probably having cut an artery. You panick more and turn back to the monitor, hands shaking, sweating profusely as you ask yourself in this low shaking voice : âWas setting the locales the first step or the second one ?â.
In that moment something happened. Something snapped and it caused you to freeze your whole body amidst still hearing your friend crying in pain. In that moment you realized the true depravity of your predicament and it makes you feel such intense shame. You realize that all your life has been a facade, living in the illusion thinking that memorizing fstab arguments signifies true intelligence and self awareness. That regurgitating metaphysical idioms created by somebody else completely disconnected from reality was somehow an act of a God.
The cursor in the monitor is still blinking but it is no longer the focus of your attention. In fact there no longer is a monitor but a mirror that reflects not your body but your soul where you see in 1080p the uncomfortable truth behind your masquerade. You violently pull the arch linux usb from the casing and the monitor goes to black. A sigh of relief washes over you and you put in the windows iso.
That decision saved your friend. He is alive and still has a hand and gets to play osu every friday. But most importantly that decision saved you, it saved your soul from eternal damnation in the worst pits of hell.
If this story does not resonate with you then this sub might not be a place where you want to spend time. I might even politely request you to mute this sub and remove all of its traces from your feed. You can rid yourselves of the knowledge of our existence and move along in blissful ignorance.
Now coming back to business there is some administrative changes happening to the sub as a resolution to manage the evangelists and non friendlies. This includes but is not limited to :
The restriction on the usage of the word linux in post titles and comments. The word shall be replaced by âloonixâ or any of the appropriate synonyms available that gets the term across. Failure to do so will result in the the comment automatically being removed by the automod and repeat offenders being manually permanently banned alltogether from the sub.
I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience this causes to legitimate users who want to just express their traumatic linux experiences but desperate times like these require desperate measures. I believe this method will be effective in weeding out both try hard as well as subtle pretentious linux evangelists.
Thank You.
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That story was so detailed 
And somehow, he booted into Windows, and suddenly his friend was better.
And because he compared Arch to WIndows LTSC, that means that overall Windows is better.
they on the other hand seem to take it very personal resorting to name calling
Thankfully, r/linuxsucks101 doesnât resort to such behaviour.
Theyâre just focused on
overall behavioral patterns exhibitted by its community while using both psychological and metaphysical approaches to explain why both the os and its community is prone to their stupid behavior
And making a rule in a sub that you have to use swap out a word for an arbitrary replacement that you like better, or else your post will be deleted, is totally very normal.
And. And. And
Even with this terrible news, I will still sleep tonight.
The main thing is that his friend recovered and can continue playing games for the rest of his life.