Michael, thank You very much for this message! it came at the right time and it is truly inspiring! I missed that.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 01:59:02AM +0100, Michael De Roover wrote: ! > So, while I am not strictly against regulation, the bottomline question ! > appears to be: how do we manage to get /unbiased skill/ into the ! > decision making process? ! ! When I sent an e-mail to the EU Commission (if memory serves) about the Chips ! Act, I was told that my correspondence traversed several of their departments ! before being added to their internal memos. They also mentioned that I should ! join their "Expert Group", which presumably would've involved representatives ! of various chips manufacturers (ASML and TSMC come to mind). I didn't join and ! consider my email to be somewhat inaccurate in retrospect, but.. oh well. So what You are saying is, it might still work to just talk to these people? In earlier times that was usually my stance when discussing matters in the underground - I might say, why do we not just make a date and actually talk to the concerned people, as basically they're also humans, like you and me? And occasionally things did indeed work out pleasantly that way... But given the development of recent years, I mostly lost my optimism. Like a fellow mystician put it: <Adam Kadmon has been tied up upside down> and it is difficult to cope with sheer madness - I even made it onto the death-list of some activists --- ! > will be not far into the future that safety-critical material ends ! > up there - probably unnoticed until some accident happens. And after ! > the accident the outcry for regulations will be imminent. ! ! Fascinating. Just the other day, I did experience a denial of service attack, ! that turned out to be performed by none other than OpenAI. It was against my ! Gitea server, with OpenAI's crawlers requesting an unreasonable amount of zip ! and bundle archives from it. Those were generated, (presumably) transferred ! and saved to disk. This took down my Gitea instance twice so far, in both ! cases due to storage being depleted. Ah, yeah, I've seen these. I don't think it is intentional DoS, rather just recklessness. I have a cgit public, and I found them there, downloading utterly worthless copies of the Berkeley sources. It seems to work similiar to the California gold rush - they think the more worthless garbage they download from the web, the richer they will get (for whatever rationale I do not understand). So they ignore any robots.txt, and fetch every url they can construct, no matter how useless it might be. I openend a thread here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-valuable-is-the-freebsd-source.96962/ Bottomline so far: I switched my server to IPv6 only, and the spook was gone entirely. So this is not any technologically advanced party, and rather some make-money-fast gangs. Anyway, recklessness has greatly increased nowadays. Gotten rid of this one, I already found the next: somebody is sending thousands and thousands of queries against my named, with randomly created hostnames: 1 | m6nij.f71. in a 1 | ctvwmkxbl25.m0bwykiudf3yozg0u.f75. in a 1 | hvg5s6rr087hjml.55bvzlcm6ctwyy2.fas. in a 1 | 5pagomi84gl.fb. in a 1 | c5eczkjrv.zwm5r3.fb. in a 1 | vunqrps4r.fbc. in a 1 | c3u8ya1dasu.fc. in a 1 | qoo48n.fc. in a 1 | 57lozdnlui3.pzt6dvia7zr.fch. in a 1 | 1k03772f837.fcs. in a This is a public authoritative server, they never get an answer beyond REFUSED. ! The case of radio kill switches is interesting to me. Unlike smartphone radios ! and their proprietary drivers (which I don't think will ever be open source, ! with very few exceptions), radio kill switches are easier to argue for. Not ! only does the technology already exist, it's also easy to make a privacy ! argument here. No matter how technical people are, we want privacy and control ! over who gets to see what. Everyone wants to be able to close their proverbial ! curtains. I think that many people have been desensitized over time, into an ! idea that they can't change this status quo and should therefore simply accept ! it. But that doesn't make the desire go away, it just buries it. I didn't consider that one, just the safety implication of radio waves. But You are right, it is also a possibility to spy and track a given hw MAC address, and a proper kill switch should avoid that. I don't know what happened to the people. Back in the 90s we went to the street because the government wanted to do a census and we were opposing the data collection. So, I still try to figure out what did change, what actually happened to the people, from a sociological rsp. systemic point of view. Just an hour ago, at the supermarket, there was a new cashier, and so he asked if I particpated in the "bonus program" (that is, the "app"). In return I asked him if he isn't ashamed for wanting to sniff out his customers. He had some difficulty figuring the involved association chain (apparently they don't brief their cashiers on their wrongdoings), and in the meantime some guy behind me came to help and commented "sadly, you are right". So, here is the problem: this is not something that is "sad", this is something that needs to be handled. But people don't do anything, anymore. cheerio, PMc -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
