Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

Any suggestions for linux? Experienced a windows 11 popup that took over my screen at random after it nearly set my computer on fire.

Does windows 11 show up like demons from DOOM 3 now?
 
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I'm sick of the spread of short form videos on every social media. Normally I ignore them but youtube's been shoving them down my throat. They're either really stupid or they bring out people that seem too dumb to breathe. Sometimes I get shorts recommended by a channel I enjoy and the comment section seems to have a combined IQ of 60.
 
A Nitter instance has shut down.
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What is this:

After almost 3 years, the PussTheCat.org Nitter instance has been shut down permanently.

Why:

On February 9, 2023 a UK non-profit (The Internet Watch Foundation / IWF) discovered some CP being hosted on Twitter (and viewable via our Nitter instance). Note: It wasn't "discovered" per se, it was reported to them by someone.
The UK non-profit AUTOMATICALLY contacted contacted our registry (PIR / .org), our registry then contacted our registrar.
The UK non-profit AUTOMATICALLY contacted the German Federal Criminal Police Office who then contacted our server provider (Netcup), the discovery was made at 10:30, our server was suspended at 14:30, it seems like the Police just passed the information and didn't actually do any investigation themselves.
From the look of it: AT NO POINT WAS A HUMAN INVESTIGATING THE REPORT.
Our server provider, Netcup, instantly suspended the server (for obvious reason, they didn't want the content to be viewable from one of their IP).
Our registrar, Gandi, hasn't done anything, and after receiving our explanation seems to have understood the issue.
Our registry, PIR, gave us 96 days to remove the content, which mean the domain should be fine.
The rare copyright takedown requests were a problem, but were easy to solve, but here it went too far.
The stress and effort spent on Nitter (a service I personally barely use) simply isn't worth it.
The Nitter instance has therefore been shutdown permanently.
 
A Nitter instance has shut down.
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What is this:

After almost 3 years, the PussTheCat.org Nitter instance has been shut down permanently.

Why:

On February 9, 2023 a UK non-profit (The Internet Watch Foundation / IWF) discovered some CP being hosted on Twitter (and viewable via our Nitter instance). Note: It wasn't "discovered" per se, it was reported to them by someone.
The UK non-profit AUTOMATICALLY contacted contacted our registry (PIR / .org), our registry then contacted our registrar.
The UK non-profit AUTOMATICALLY contacted the German Federal Criminal Police Office who then contacted our server provider (Netcup), the discovery was made at 10:30, our server was suspended at 14:30, it seems like the Police just passed the information and didn't actually do any investigation themselves.
From the look of it: AT NO POINT WAS A HUMAN INVESTIGATING THE REPORT.
Our server provider, Netcup, instantly suspended the server (for obvious reason, they didn't want the content to be viewable from one of their IP).
Our registrar, Gandi, hasn't done anything, and after receiving our explanation seems to have understood the issue.
Our registry, PIR, gave us 96 days to remove the content, which mean the domain should be fine.
The rare copyright takedown requests were a problem, but were easy to solve, but here it went too far.
The stress and effort spent on Nitter (a service I personally barely use) simply isn't worth it.
The Nitter instance has therefore been shutdown permanently.
Twitter itself, of course, is doing perfectly fine despite having loads of CP and shitty moderation. Rules are only for the plebes. (:_(
 
Twitter itself, of course, is doing perfectly fine despite having loads of CP and shitty moderation. Rules are only for the plebes. (:_(
The crazy thing is that Nitter does not host any material, it's simply a Twitter front-end to display Twitter. A dumb Bongland company has got nitter.pussthecat.org's servers suspended at the drop of a hat without a human bothering to investigate.
 
The crazy thing is that Nitter does not host any material, it's simply a Twitter front-end to display Twitter. A dumb Bongland company has got nitter.pussthecat.org's servers suspended at the drop of a hat without a human bothering to investigate.
No, nitter mirrors images from Twitter.
 
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So they've told lies?
Maybe it's what they meant with "viewable"?
It could also be possible that you can configure nitter instances to not mirror images.
I only use nitter.net which does mirror all the images from tweets.
 
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Any suggestions for linux? Experienced a windows 11 popup that took over my screen at random after it nearly set my computer on fire.

Does windows 11 show up like demons from DOOM 3 now?
You might enjoy trying Debian stable, or Ubuntu if you're less adventurous. It's fashionable to shit on Ubuntu these days but it's still a pretty decent entry point for folks who want something that "just works".
 
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Maybe it's what they meant with "viewable"?
It could also be possible that you can configure nitter instances to not mirror images.
I only use nitter.net which does mirror all the images from tweets.
Does it actually mirror them (and store them)? Or just proxy them? If so it isn't actually storing anything 'objectionable' permanently.
 
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I don't know nitter's caching policy.
But just having it in RAM would be illegal - and distributing it to clients even more so. So that seems like a moot point.
It would be just as illegal for Twitter. The subhuman faggots at the IWF didn't even try to report the image to the nitter service operator. They should all be killed.
 
I bet having "Puss" in the domain name didn't help matters.

The domain for nitter.it was seized a couple of weeks for "illegal materials" but they got it back pretty quickly and they're still online.
The domain.
They run other web based services not only NItter.
I don't know nitter's caching policy.
But just having it in RAM would be illegal - and distributing it to clients even more so. So that seems like a moot point.
You could theoretically report illegal content hosted on Twitter using every Nitter instance possible, and shut down all the Nitter instances.
 
You could theoretically report illegal content hosted on Twitter using every Nitter instance possible, and shut down all the Nitter instances.
It's not unreasonable to think that US military industrial contractor Elon Musk would do just that.
I bet having "Puss" in the domain name didn't help matters.
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't host my Onlyfans mirror site at cun.nyc?
 
I found this post by an Opera/Vivaldi dev about user agents and the new replacement "Client Hints" to be interesting:

It talks about how sites refuse to send proper content to user agents they don't recognize and something as simple as going from Opera 9 to Opera 10 breaks websites because they're too stupid to recognize an additional digit.
And with the new system (which doesn't really fix this), Chrome deliberately keeps changing their values just so web devs are forced to parse the standard properly but they still fail to do so.

Web devs are really just subhuman.
 
I found this post by an Opera/Vivaldi dev about user agents and the new replacement "Client Hints" to be interesting:

It talks about how sites refuse to send proper content to user agents they don't recognize and something as simple as going from Opera 9 to Opera 10 breaks websites because they're too stupid to recognize an additional digit.
And with the new system (which doesn't really fix this), Chrome deliberately keeps changing their values just so web devs are forced to parse the standard properly but they still fail to do so.

Web devs are really just subhuman.
Reminds me of this classic. It's shitty workaround patches all the way down.
 
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