#Botting
@mike I think a lot of #metrics re #software and espechally #FLOSS are bs.
#LinesOfCode incentivize #messy and convoluted source. (i.e. #IBM)
#PullRequests & #MergeRequests incentivize a shitload of micro-corrections and "code cleanups" that aren't productive. (i.e. #Huawei doing to #Linux)
#Stars incentivize #StarFarming.
#Sponsors incentivize #Smurfing & #Sockpuppeting. with alt accounts.
same with #Contributor Numbers and Number of Contributions.
Frequency of Commits and changes incentivize constantly pushing empty commits as a sort-of-heartbeat.
#Forks doesn't say jack shite (in fact I know companies that do run a git mirror that regularly pulls repos from some public projects of mine.
#Donations and #Funding - if any exists at all - only supports massive projects and orgs and not necessarily key components that they too rely upon!
@anon_opin that's not how it works and like the #monetarization threshold since #AdPocalypse and #Streaming sites like #Spotify will only incentivize #Botting, meaning that everyone who is serious is investing money to #clickfarm and buy #streams, #follows, #plays and so forth...
Look forward to presenting this Friday at the ECF conference „Growing Virtuality“ of the #sfb1567 at @ruhrunibochum. I will talk about the anthropomediality of the practice of using fame-enhancing bots on Instagram. 🤖 #VirtualWorlds #Instagram #botting
https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/growing-virtuality
@gaycookie Nah...
Personally I'd literally block all non-consumer-facing #ISP's to prevent #botting and #Spamming like #BruteForcing #Credentials.
Shure that'll inconvenience some users like you and me but Microsoft doesn"t gove a damn about something >99% of users won't experience ever...
The Announcement of the #Pi5 has kinda seem to stop the constant #botting by #scalpers on @Raspberry_Pi stock, and official #Distributors seem to be able to offer decent quantities in stock, based off @rpilocator 's data and a few checks...
https://rpilocator.com/
@yassie_j exactly...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110918058789885260
For #bots and those operating them, #MachineTime is the cost-creating factor, thus they want to speedrun their shit to maximize #botting effectivity with the least amount of [billable!] computation time [at their hosters!]...
@trashheap @Raspberry_Pi The worse part of this is that #scalpers #botting their #distributors are the problem, and people buying from said #ValueRemoving #rentseekers instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.
@ppatel #Captchas in general should be outlawed as #antiAccessibility features!
AFAIK, @stux combats #botting via verification eMail and rate-limiting registrations...
Anyone have experience using akkoma.py? I couldn't get it work, but it could be because my server doesn't allow it (I'm not sure if it does or does not). This is not for this account.
#api #help #programming #scripting #Mastodon #botting #automating #datascience #question