That is probably a last resort and we are far from that point. The way I see it, the root cause is fairly basic ignorance that has been allowed to fester for a bit too long. If they were all-out MAGA, I would say it is willful stupidity and would write them off fairly quick. Otherwise, I am not so quick to toss family out with the rest of the trash. Ignorance can be fixed but stupidity usually can’t.
The last sentence (after your quote ends) was meant to imply that that nobody, even me, is immune to this problem. Without a doubt, I am human and I have my own issues.
Also, anytime I have encountered any issue like this on my own, it has always taken time to resolve as it can be super complicated. Right now, even though I have been sober for a few years, I am still dealing with many false assumptions and beliefs that stemmed from my years of alcoholism so believe me when I say that the mind of an addict is filled with some twisted realities.
Unless you’ve become a being of total rational thought
Admittedly, rational thought is a relatively new concept to me.
And I would normally agree with that approach especially if I had nothing to do with them ever again.
In this situation and as it relates to family, letting this go unchecked is a missed opportunity for a person to learn how this behavior is super weird. To say I haven’t fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time. (Given the nature of this problem, I don’t believe anyone could ever be truly immune to it either.)
Still though, 99.9% of the time your advice is spot-on.
If the shoe fits… turn everyone in a 500ft radius into Hulk.
My general attitude is similar to yours. Let OP figure out that the reporting and blocking is basically just creating more noise that has to gets filtered out and bot supply is basically infinite.
“It’s a learning experience.”
Good luck with that, I suppose. Botnets can have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of infected hosts that will endlessly scan everything on the interwebs. Many of those infected hosts are behind NAT’s and your abuse form would be the equivalent of reporting an entire region for a single scan.
But hey! Change the world, amirite?
I don’t want to go so far as to tell you how to think, but as long as we are talking about how to visualize IP addresses, you may want to check out subnets and subnet masking.
The notation of IP addresses starts to make sense when you think about the early days of TCP/IP when all IP addresses were public and NAT’ing wasn’t really required yet. Basically, there needed to be ways for networks to filter traffic by IP blocks that were applicable. (It was [in part] a precursor to collision avoidance, but absolutely not the full story.) We still use addressing and masking today, but it’s more obvious when it’s local. (Like in data centers, where it’s super practical to mask off a block of addresses for a row or rack of servers.)
To your point, yeah. IP addresses are probably more comparable to the Dewey Decimal System rather than actual numbers and thinking of them as strings is probably easier.
255
Small correction, but an important one: 0 is a number too.
In terms of IP masking and broadcast addresses, the max is 255.255.255.255
For those who are still confused, ping works with 32 bit unsigned integers. While there certainly are more uses, it’s a much more convenient method for storing IP address in a database as it’s easier to sort and index than 4 numbers separated by 4 periods
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/IP2Integer.jsp?ipAddress=1.1.1.1
Look for basic errors. All of the R’s seem to have similar issues but aren’t quite the same. An example:
This same problem happens across more of the text.
The pull cord for a lamp should end at a lamp, not a circle on the ceiling. While it could be replicated with a regular camera, the string shouldn’t blend into the rest of the picture.
And yeah, AI slop sucks ass.
Wrong community for AI slop.
tankiejerk is also acceptable.
Yes. I was able to fake being Irish for a bit to a group of English folk. (It was just an alcohol induced joke at the time, s’all. They were either a few pints in or I did really well. Dunno.)
People are just people and there is probably a word or phrase for “gullible” in most languages.
The Internet would be great if it wasn’t for all the other computers attached to it.
Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment
In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)
Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)
Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.
Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward
Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.
(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)
It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.
If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.
Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.
Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work, so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.
The fan is good, but the orientation seems like it would struggle pushing air between the drives. Maybe a push-pull setup with a second fan?