Maybe they fear the future of AI music generation and its hypothetical potential to rob their future earnings.

If that ever did happen, this could be a very smart move.

Advertisers need to be able to fingerprint you based on a combined measurement of the metrics you speak of. They aren’t interested in you per se, but you as a statistic, they are very interested in.

Advertisers are willing to pay more for accurate data.

Removing enough of these metrics to muddle the fingerprinting process would be bad business for everyone, so they all ride the line of privacy vs. profitability hoping we don’t notice.

I mean, that’s what I just came up with in my head in the moment anyways.

Now, off to forget I ever posted this!!

I still think this would be a great way to get a list of people sent to the proper medical care that might not be smart enough to, you know, be allowed to do some things.

Maybe in the future stupidity/gullibility should be treated like mental illnesses. Not to discriminate or put down the questionable people, but to guide and educate them in a way that they can’t severely mess up society just because they outnumber reasonably intelligent people.

It’s really hard to write that thought without it coming across as some sort of discrimination, which it isn’t meant to be.

It should be renamed to “ad media”. At least everything that isn’t in the fediverse. It’s getting harder and harder to find anything you are looking for in any web based service nowadays.

I’m not even that opposed to ad revenue as a supplement for costs. But these companies are so far into the ad revenue game that they seem to have forgotten why people used their service in the first place.

I think it’s best to read the actual docs published by the research when available. News tells some, but I have seen it sensationalized a few times, where it only affects x kernel with y module before update z.

That being said, these are seemingly getting more and more frequent as previously noted.

Still a short term win. Longer term, this will likely kill youth appetite for pursuing dev as a career option.

That other answer on a smaller scale would be going full off-grid, self-sustained, no tech. But that isn’t feasible for most people, so yeah…

Revolution…

Podman is the way.

It sounds to me like you are at the mercy of the bots then unfortunately. I have had literal empty websites up just to see what the bots do and within a few hours the sites are hammered with crazy bot traffic trying everything from MySQL connections, ssh, Wordpress sniffing, xss attacks, you name it. They don’t even seem to care that the site is 403 forbidden or just a blank page.

It’s the World Wide Web we live in nowadays according to my experience.

I try not to expose mine to the internet for this reason. I have it on a central server that WireGuard connects to a vps overseas, then I have it tunneled to my home server through a random port as needed for access from the net, then I block it again. All my machines sync this way with the central server, either through vpn tunnel or directly on my LAN depending on where I am.

Unless you need to showcase your code, I wouldn’t recommend exposing your instance to the internet at all. And if you have to, maybe reverse proxying it and add some monitoring and blocking software to help. Like fail2ban or the like. Good luck.