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I've helped my Kurdish neighbors that I've barely ever talked to move out of the apartment next to mine. Ten hours of carrying stuff down the stairs, into someone's cousin's GLS delivery van. They asked me over and over, why a German would do that for foreigners that he barely knows. I shrugged. I said nothing. It was all for a warm meal and the privilege of now knowing someone who delivers parcels for GLS and can borrow the van over the weekend.

Compression stockings. Do young people even remember that Gentoo exists?

Okay, good. Now show me the statistics that show that there are actually fewer bots than last week.

Don't get me wrong, I desperately want these news to be true. But so far every single article I've seen links back (directly or indirectly) to that one CloudFlare chart that doesn't say what people think it says. Some point to a few individual posts that didn't get many interactions. But as far as I'm aware nobody has made the effort to check if there is an actual widespread difference and which topics it affects. Right now this all seems like confirmation bias and wishful thinking. And again, I get it. We need good news now more than ever. But the only thing worse than no good news is good news that just isn't true and leads to us letting our guard down.

Which gives exactly no evidence of a decline in social media bots.

If you actually click the source link in the article, you see that the graph shows the bot traffic from "AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLC", not the internet overall. That caption was conveniently cropped. Also, those bots are very likely not the kind that post on twitter but web crawlers. Yandex is a search engine. Of course destroying its data centers stops the web crawlers running in those data centers from indexing sites.

I have yet to see an actual statistic of the amount political social media posts or active users on social media sites changing in any way.

Edit: claiming that this attack has destroyed the bot farms and giving mislabeled graphs as sources is actively harmful because it leads people to believe that everything that is left must be "real people" when it's very likely that pretty much all of the bots are still active.

AI Disclosure (as per https://lemmy.world/post/49320548):

Implementation - Generated

Testing - Generated

Design - Generated

So what is your contribution to that whole project? Clearly not the idea because that was Google.

“Nothing ever happens”? Uhm… what about the stuff that do happens between Editions?

I would even say this is intentional. In Shadowrun, you are not the hero. You are some poor bastard trying to make a bit of cash without getting shot in the head by your Johnson once the job is done. Of course you are very rarely involved in the big changes in the world.

The Dark Eye

• You know more about Aventuria than about the real world
• You like lists and tables
• You have strong opinions about 4th vs. 5th edition
• You have at least considered naming your firstborn Alric
• You are German.

My stepdad is still daily driving my old 2010 13" MacBook Pro and I have a 2012 Mac mini under my desk for when I need to test something on macOS. Those things are so old, they still had spinning HDDs when they came out. I replaced the HDDs with SSDs, added a bit more RAM and with OpenCore Legacy Patcher they both run macOS Sequoia (released in 2024) just fine and even with acceptable performance. Yes, the latest macOS drops Intel CPU support but that's still 14-16 years of that I got out of those machines and six years since the ARM-based Macs were introduced.

My phone is an iPhone 12 Mini which is almost six years old, still gets OS updates directly from Apple and apart from battery health being at 78% still runs exactly as on day one. I plan to use this thing until it falls apart, mainly because there is not a single phone smaller than 6" on the market.

Lacht in Home Office, Deutschlandticket und kein Führerschein

I wish it was flying. I managed to get on the reservation list (not waitlist) and two weeks later I am still waiting for my turn to even order one. Valve seems completely overwhelmed with the demand. Good for them I guess but come on, I haaaate waiting.