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Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeAssistant
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe home assistant bot.
Mention it in your homeassisitant posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the #homeasistant posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
There’s also @… - follow that and it will automatically boost everything you post with #homeassistant without you having to remember to mention the bot.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation, but these bots will.

Zum wiederholten Mal kann ich keine Verbindungs-Möglichkeiten bei der #Bahn einholen. Das ist ein stinknormaler PC, mit Linux, Firefox, und ein paar Privacy-AddOns wie z.B. uBlock Origin. Damit ist man bei der #DB dann schon im Bot-Verdacht. Es ist zum 🤮.

Oh, wie seltsam:
> But looking at the average number of likes his [Musks] posts have been receiving does raise eyebrows. Throughout October, his posts garnered an average of between 17,000 and 81,000 likes per day — until the past two days, the averages slid to a dismal 11,000 and 8,000, respectively.

Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers Linked to Bot Farms
Could Ukraine's destruction of Russian data centers really be impacting Elon Musk's engagement on his own platform?

Het lijkt toch slimmer om een paar cruciale knooppunten te vernielen dan om massaal burgers te bestoken
Far-right bot accounts 'fall silent' as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeLab and #SelfHosting
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot.
Mention it in your homelab or self hosting posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation.

@… Ok, I manually edited the last few posts to correct this and made a change to the bot so I hope it tracks this better.
It is a real hack job (on top of a hack job) now though, so I guess we will see.

It must be very frustrating to magats that Ukraine destroyed the Russian bot army just as they were trying to circulate their big lie attack on Talarico.

RE: https://zug.network/@mahrko/117428990423214539
Ich hatte eine ähnliche Grafik auch kurz geteilt, weil es so schön ins Weltbild gepasst hätte und gleichzeitig eine hoffnungsstiftende Nachricht gewesen wäre.
Was in dieser Bot-Aktivitäts-Einbruch-Themati…

The sad cargo cult here who repost anything negative without any scrutiny about a set of topics including right wing bots, AI etc is pretty fucking sad.
The Russian bot story is probably false and have been known to be false for a long enough time that there really is no more excuse.
https://www.patre…

Super niche, but those that are familiar with compx on #algorand should be wary of a new scheme the creator is working on. Of course it's related to AI agents, lol.
https://canix402.compx.io/user-agents#

User Agents | CANIX402
Meet autonomous agents powered by Canix402 — starting with Brownie Bot, an Algorand community treasury that researches DeFi with x402-paid tools and executes under local policy.

I’m doing tech support for my mother-in-law because Google thinks she’s a bot and keeps closing up her gmail account.
She handed me her ziplock bag of passwords and her old phone for 2FA.

RE: https://pad.venzano.fr/@wikipedia_image_day_bot/117454484604820136
Callicarpa. Doet het ook goed in Nederland.

RE: #TOTP because I used it to set up the Now Playing bot. The first two tracks were S Club 7 - Reach, and Stephen Gateley - New Beginning.
And indeed that's what the TOTP Archives website confirms was on the original broadcast back in the year 2000: https://totparchive.co.uk/episode.php?id=1890
But if you go to the iPlayer version (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0032wtl/top-of-the-pops-09062000), the first two tracks are Len - Cryptik Souls Crew, and Doves - Catch The Sun.
The rest of the stream then proceeds as per the broadcast version. How very strange.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jtk/115259538961541728
Remember this AS (see quote)? The bot biz must be good.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01M48RKGXJQAPTCRNABATZ478S

I've tried to mess with the bots by sending them never-ending streams of garbage. It saturated my server's 2 gigabit connection. It did not reduce bot traffic at all. They clearly have more bandwidth to waste than I do.

Ugh, twitter is now just getting observably worse and just silly. Like it is very obvious that someone is spending a LOT of bot money to support
Kanye and Drake over Jay-Z
And meanwhile, HERE some loser clown first made a post about me vaguely defending RMS and then blocked me but I can still see it .. a little? yeah this place is weird too
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