Huh. I hate it when people do that. Fake/professional empathy/support. Yet others gobble it up when a machine does that.

The term FUD has been around longer & broader than that. But thanks for the explanation.

Thanks, you saved me a click 😐

Worse actually; in addition to the DDOS the person who runs this archive site also manipulated archived pages. All because they have a hate boner for some blogger.

I just found this code in the archived page:

setInterval(function(){fetch("https://xxxxxxxx.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8)+"/",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},3000000);

(X’d out actual domain)

That’s a DDOS attack. WTF?

Could you at least share the actual link please?

I hope it fails miserably for them.

That’s not how they think about it. It’s 100% automated, running on generic hardware. If even .1% of targeted customers fall for it far enough to create revenue it’s a success. Just keep it spinning. They aren’t interested in the morals of it at all.

The real problem is that whatever country they operate from does not shut them down immediately, then send the owners/creators to jail.

Just to spell out what many comments already hint at:

There are no US-made routers. “Made” here refers to companies, not where the stuff is actually made. Even if the plastic housing happened to be made in the US for one or two products, the components are still from far away.

Those few US companies paid MAGA for this.

This is corruption pure and simple.

“Hey, we got this new invention that kinda works if you don’t stress it too much, so we don’t really know what to do with it, but it’s hype so we must include it somewhere prominently. Ideas?”

Like reinventing the wheel, only it’s “intelligent” now.

“But we already have headlines?”

Of course that does not address the economical/political conspiracies involved here.

AI is a scurge on humanity & our environment, and so is Google. Use other search engines.

They probably have a team of idea finders scouring the fediverse as we speak! Am I joking? Who knows.

From the article:

According to the GEC’s published criteria, printer vendors have three compliance paths. They can avoid firmware changes that disable remanufactured cartridges, offer approved cartridge solutions that maintain device functionality, or make remanufactured options available for purchase through their own channels. Each route is meant to encourage a model in which printing components are reused rather than discarded.

So far, more than 38,000 products remain listed under the older EPEAT 1.0 registry, while only 163 have transitioned to the new 2.0 standard – none of them printers.

It’s not binding. Maybe articles like this one will shame hp into stopping that bs one day ☀️ (only joking)

I tried reading up on this whole thing, and my understanding is that Gyrovague, tired of archive.today bypassing paywalls, decided to dox who the owner of archive.today is.

wdym “tired of”? Their original article from 2023 totally endorses archive.today, and there is no real doxxing happening there. According to the article linked in this post:

The post mentions three names/aliases linked to the site, but all of them had been dug up by previous sleuths and the blog post also concludes that they are all most likely aliases, so as far as “doxxing” goes, this wasn’t terribly effective.

And, having read that older article, I totally agree.

Since many many people use this archive service every day, there’s also justified and legitimate public interest.

I therefore also disagree with any attempt to portray this as some sort of tiff between netizens. No, gyrovague was very clearly attacked because whoever runs the archive got angry, scared, who knows.

And right now, yeah, it’s tainted:

And just like that, archive.today lost all of it’s legitimacy.

From that post:

And just like that, archive.today lost all of it’s legitimacy.

From you:

*diverse needs a tiny push.

And that’s just for one of their domains. I bet it’s even more for .today

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A DMCA takedown, huh? Sounds a lot like what they did with Youtube-dl a few years ago. And ultimately lost. Both youtube-dl and yt-dlp are still (again) on github.

Let me guess: they’re really sorry.

I cannot fathom why such data breaches aren’t prosecuted as crimes of the company as well as the thieves.

This doesn’t happen because the hackers struck like a force of nature, but because the servers aren’t kept secure constantly. Because that would be more expensive.

It’s like a car company getting sued for making insecure cars. It’s not hard to wrap your head around.

Reminds me I didn’t have any for a while. I should make an effort.

Well, your’s isn’t thinly veiled.

Seriously though, a comm with such an open-ended theme will always attract stuff like this. You have choices.

Also, isn’t a shower curtain a sort of thin veil, too?

Nearly half? Sheesh.

Maybe it’s because most Europeans don’t have a strong opinion about X. I really don’t think it’s quite as popular here as in the USA. Which is also the reason many don’t know how unhinged the current admin is.

Please, never work in a hospital!

OK but how do English speakers say Kochwäsche?