I get your point, but what those systems do is they don’t let massively unpopular candidates win by dividing the opposition and they let third parties compete without splitting the vote.

To translate it to American, it’s a similar two party system as yours, and the UK Dems are the ones doing this.

CVNs and a larger navy are only useful if we want to get into the power projection game, and even then, we have some stuff already. I’m sure we could still do something like the Falklands war. The advamtage the US has its also its disadvantage, as we don’t need a fleet to get to the Middle East or Africa.

We have SSBNs enough that makes attacking the EU idiotic for even the US.

We do need strategic stuff like AWACS planes and more satellites though, but what we need most is standardisation, since there are like 11 MBTs in service in the EU right now.

This is why we need common defense and foreign policy. Alone, we’re at best regional powers, at worst, colonies of the US or China.

Together we are a superpower both militarily and economically.

Yeah but it doesn’t matter what the objective of the scraper is, the only thing that matters is that it’s an automated client that is going to send mass requests to you. If it wasn’t, Anubis would not be a problem for it.

The effect is the same, increased hosting costs and less access for legitimate clients. And sites want to defend against it.

That said, it is not mandatory, you can avoid using Anubis as a host. Nobody is forcing you to use it. And as someone who regularly gets locked out of services because I use a VPN, Anubis is one of the least intrusive protection methods out there.

The dotcom bubble’s time still had some US antitrust enforcement, like with Microsoft and its browser dominance. It was an easier time.

I feel this attempt might be more successful.

They will try to fire everyone they can pointing to AI, and keep faking growth using the stock market as competition has been dead for a long time.

It’s not the “sentient computers killing everyone” that is the problem, it’s the psychopaths owning the text generators establishing a fascist regime.

And call the top layers tumbling down “legacy”

AI does not triple traffic. It’s a completely irrational statement to make.

Multiple testimonials from people who host sites say they do. Multiple Lemmy instances also supported this claim.

I would bet that the number of requests per year of s resource by an AI scrapper is on the dozens at most.

You obviously don’t know much about hosting a public server. Try dozens per second.

There is a booming startup industry all over the world training AI, and scraping data to sell to companies training AI. It’s not just Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter doing it, but also Chinese companies trying to compete. Also companies not developing public models, but models for internal use. They all use public cloud IPs, so the traffic is coming from all over incessantly.

Using as much energy as a available per scrapping doesn’t even make physical sense. What does that sentence even mean?

It means that Microsoft buys a server for scraping, they are going to be running it 24/7, with the CPU/network maxed out, maximum power use, to get as much data as they can. If the server can scrape 100 sites per minute, it will scrape 100 sites. If it can scrape 1000, it will scrape 1000, and if it can do 10, it will do 10.

It will not stop scraping ever, as it is the equivalent of shutting down a production line. Everyone always uses their scrapers as much as they can. Ironically, increasing the cost of scraping would result in less energy consumed in total, since it would force companies to work more “smart” and less “hard” at scraping and training AI.

Oh, and it’s S-C-R-A-P-I-N-G, not scrapping. It comes from the word “scrape”, meaning to remove the surface from an object using a sharp instrument, not “scrap”, which means to take something apart for its components.

Yeah it’s called chaos engineering and it can be fun.

Websites were under a constant noise of malicious requests even before AI, but now AI scraping of Lemmy instances usually triples traffic. While some sites can cope with this, this means a three-fold increase in hosting costs in order to essentially fuel investment portfolios.

AI scrapers will already use as much energy as available, so making them use more per site measn less sites being scraped, not more total energy used.

And this is not DDoS, the objective of scrapers is to get the data, not bring the site down, so while the server must reply to all requests, the clients can’t get the data out without doing more work than the server.

But that should be accounted for, otherwise the whole graph is pointless.

BTW Hungary is also off, because the amount of days off depends on your age.

The only real info from this whole map is that everywhere in the world except the US there is a concept of holidays.

And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that’s just given out as 12 more holidays.

The scary part about the ballroom is that he wouldn’t be building it at the WH if he expected to be out of there in 3 years. He’d be building it at Mar-a-Lago or something.

I have a feeling that this might not be the best economic system ever

Australia can still require VPS providers to log IPs. This is the country with the backdooring law, common sense does not apply seemingly.

They would blacklist consumer VPN IPs and block payments to them, not prevent you from logging in to a corp network.

I don’t think world capitalism has seen a crisis like this one yet to be honest. Local ones, sure, the owner class is class conscious in the global sense so they pull each other up and push us down if they can. The US itself however has not seen a crisis at this level ever, and I’m not even talking about Trump, but the Reagan-Thatcher world order collapsing and the current batch of shitheads not being able to set the new one up.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

Not saying Biden wasn’t a war criminal and a mass murderer or anything. More like, Biden had at least some shame at being one.

Sanctioning the ICC for example.