Nitter.net is coming back.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212

■■□□□ ”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

Nepenthes
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.

It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse.
You can take a look at what this looks like, here. (Note: VERY slow page loads!)

WARNING
THIS IS DELIBERATELY MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTENDED TO CAUSE HARMFUL ACTIVITY. DO NOT DEPLOY IF YOU AREN'T FULLY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

ANOTHER WARNING
LLM scrapers are relentless and brutual. You may be able to keep them at bay with this software - but it works by providing them with a neverending stream of exactly what they are looking for. YOU ARE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT CONTINUOUS CPU LOAD, ESPECIALLY WITH THE MARKOV MODULE ENABLED.

YET ANOTHER WARNING
There is not currently a way to differentiate between web crawlers that are indexing sites for search purposes, vs crawlers that are training AI models. ANY SITE THIS SOFTWARE IS APPLIED TO WILL LIKELY DISAPPEAR FROM ALL SEARCH RESULTS.

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

■□□□□ Researcher Outsmarts, Jailbreaks OpenAI's New o3-mini.

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/researcher-jailbreaks-openai-o3-mini

■■□□□ Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-outage-caused-by-botched-blocking-of-phishing-url/

VX Linux - systemd-free Plasma desktop distro - LinuxLinks
https://www.linuxlinks.com/vx-linux-systemd-free-plasma-desktop-distro/

Proof that the GNU project depends on corporations, the FSF must be piling money up its ass, doing nothing to maintain the software, abandoning its own software, not investing in its own developers, spending money promoting internal events!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Gold-Linker-Deprecated

Rust Is Taking Over The World Of NVIDIA GPUs
—> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPbMOj53F_g

T-Mobile dropped $8 million on a Super Bowl ad to reveal that Starlink beta is now open to everyone—on any carrier—free until July.

6G-oyim

SmartTube

Advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

Features
No Ads
Designed for TV screens
Up to 8K video resolution
Login into your account
Cast from the phone
Support tv box remote controller
Support external software keyboard
Support devices without Google Services
Open source

https://smarttubeapp.github.io

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases

WARNING NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE
There are at least 5 proprietary libraries in the app.
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/471

* Crashlytics (/com/crashlytics): Tracking
* Firebase Data Transport (/com/google/android/datatransport): NonFreeNet
* Google Mobile Services (/com/google/android/gms): NonFreeDep
* Firebase (/com/google/firebase): NonFreeNet,NonFreeDep
* Firebase Analytics (/com/google/firebase/analytics): Tracking

IzzySoft:
The 5 offenders are not permitted at F-Droid (and before you ask: I wouldn't take it into my repo either unless at least Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics are removed; 5 non-free libraries is a bit much for free/libre software).

#video #yt #androidtv