Likely just a tale.

Baking soda is basic, Which would imply that the chemical being used is acidic so that it’s neutralized with baking soda. This also assumes that they mix in such a way that baking soda actually makes contact with enough of that chemical to have any effect.

All of these are pretty big assumptions that are very easily wrong for many number of devices and chemicals.

I assume that the gitea instance itself was being hit directly, which would make sense. It has a whole rendering stack that has to reach out to a database, get data, render the actual webpage through a template…etc

It’s a massive amount of work compared to serving up static files from say Nginx or Caddy. You can stick one of these in front of your servers, and cache http responses (to some degree anyways, that depends on gitea)

Benchmarks like this show what kind of throughput you can expect on say a 4 core VM just serving up cached files: https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-caddy-vs-nginx/#10-000-clients

90-400MB/s derived from the stats here on 4 cores. Enough to saturate a 3Gb/s connection. And caching intentionally polluted sites is crazy easy since you don’t care if it’s stale or not. Put a cloudflair cache on front of it and even easier.

You could dedicate an old Ryzen CPU (Say a 2700x) box to a proxy, and another RAM heavy device for the servers, and saturate 6Gb/s with thousands and thousands of various software instances that feed polluted data.

Hell, if someone made it a deployable utility… Oof just have self hosters dedicate a VM to shitting on LLM crawlers, make it a party.

Even more reason why it should be released as a dump, and not walled in behind a website.

This is assuming aggressively cached, yes.

Also “Just text files” is what every website is sans media. And you can still, EASILY get 10+ MB pages this way between HTML, CSS, JS, and JSON. Which are all text files.

A gitea repo page for example is 400-500KB transferred (1.5-2.5MB decompressed) of almost all text.

A file page is heavier, coming in around 800-1000KB (Additional JS and CSS)

If you have a repo with 150 files, and the scraper isn’t caching assets (many don’t) then you just served up 135MB of HTMl/CSS/JS alongside the actual repository assets.

Fair fair. I missed that

They only have immunity because the laws aren’t enforced.

They don’t actually have immunity under the laws today. ICE are not law enforcement, they do not have the ability or jurisdiction to be law enforcement. Most of their actions are illegal under State and federal laws. However actual law enforcement refuses to enforce the laws in regards to ICE.

I can get a 50Gb/s residential link where I am, and have a whole rack of servers.

Sounds like a good opportunity to crowd fund thousands and thousands of common scrapeable instances that have random poisoning.

Low key win for kink communities.

Yeah but that was before you had billionaires of this size able to manipulate entire markets in this capacity.

I f-ing called it:

https://lemmy.world/comment/21195810

This shit…

Why do they make this so difficult by not providing a raw dump…

As usual, information leaks that are tied to a single source are incredibly easy to squash before distribution…

A raw dump needs to be available for things like this. Unloaded as a torrent, and/or to usenet.

There’s like… 8 people on this list. And there is no way to actually just download the information either for offline processing and analysis.

Yet all reports are saying 4500?

Seems off.

It doesn’t need just a website. It needs a torrent so it’s not centralized.

They’re downloading doesn’t work. It just opens the blank page.

Have that PDF handy?

ICE isn’t law enforcement, they don’t have the legal rights to enforce laws.

Being an illegal immigrant is also not a crime, is a civil offense. Their law given abilities stop there.

Essentially everything they are doing right now is blatantly illegal. It’s no different than an armed milita in that sense.

Controversial opinion’

This is kind of a valid take or use I suppose.

And it’s something I struggle with as well.

I know how to program and I can make games with really shitty assets that no one would want to play because it looks like crap. I’ve tried many times and I don’t seem to have the artistic skill set to make it happen. I’ve tried dozens of times to find and pay people on sites like fiverr, with extremely disappointing results.

And as a hobby I can’t just afford to pay thousands of dollars to have someone make passable art either.

And someone like this as a student obviously doesn’t have the money to pay someone to build all their assets.

So what do??? It seems reasonable to have a desire to finish your passion project in some manner

This is also a strategic way to prevent resistance from Americans against an authoritarian regime.

Drones would be a significant part of that.

Only a matter of time before the catch and release policy omits the release part, or is updated to just “dump the corpse”.

Cause that’s where this is heading

Yeah, it should inflate to 15TB or more I think