ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain
ChatGPT’s crawler GPTBot, which spiders the internet to capture information and turn it into knowledge, is the most-blocked bot on the internet, according to Cloudflare’s 2025 year in review. Meanwhile its biggest rival, Google, is the No. 1 most-allowed crawler. And perhaps even more interestingly, while ChatGPT is the most-blocked bot, it’s actually Anthropic’s Claude AI engine that is the least reciprocally beneficial service for website owners.Every year internet infrastructure company Cloudflare publishes an analysis of what’s happening on the internet.
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Open-Source Developers: Share Your Privacy-Friendly Apps & Tools
Hello everyone 👋
I run r/DigitalEscapeTools, a small community focused on open-source, privacy-respecting, and Google-free tools.
The goal is to help users discover practical alternatives to mainstream tech while keeping discussions respectful and non-commercial.
I’d like to invite open-source developers and maintainers to share their projects if they fit the following:
🔹 What we’re looking for
Open-source software (FOSS preferred)
Privacy-respecting / minimal tracking
Useful tools (apps, web tools, CLI, extensions, etc.)
Actively maintained or stable projects
🔹 What we avoid
Closed-source apps
Tracking-heavy or ad-driven software
You’re welcome to share:
What your project does
Why it exists
Source code (GitHub, Codeberg, GitLab, etc.)
How users can contribute or give feedback
If you’re interested, feel free to post directly on r/DigitalEscapeTools or join the discussion there.
This is not a promotional post — just an attempt to connect developers and users who care about open source and digital independence.
Thanks, and keep building 🛠️
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Need hearing aids to work on Linux mint
Hey ma ppl,
i need some halp plz.
I want to run my hearing aids on Linux mint. So basically i need to implement a blueZ stack which supports the asha-protocoll (audio streaming for hearing aids)
I can see my aids on Bluetooth via BLE (Bluetooth low energy)
I can connect to them.. and stay connected ^^
BUT
i dont see any audio channel dedicated to that and i cant create a suitable one.
Plz gib me some tippz what to load and the comand lines for it maybe.
Im on the newest Linux Mint.
Did you already find this?
github.com/thewierdnut/asha_pi…
GitHub - thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink: Asha audio protocol implementation for linux.
Asha audio protocol implementation for linux. Contribute to thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I followed step by step and a litle help by ai..
But still no New sink for hearing aids.
GitHub - thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink: Asha audio protocol implementation for linux.
Asha audio protocol implementation for linux. Contribute to thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
it never occurred to me that i can use my hearing aids on my computers!
thanks for making me aware!!!
lost art 😔
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Last I checked it still works.
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If you're not in a hurry, that is.
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xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! get pack #128*starts downloading hardcore goat sex*
"Ah shit, I meant 127”
xdcc msg MoViEgOdz! cancel 128*goat sex downloads even faster*
"...well, at least it'll be educational"
The big difference is that with torrents you also upload data to other peers, which is what fucks you copyright-wise.
Also remember kids, if you're not in the US throw those DMCA claims in the trash
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Is.* Nicotine+ is the client to make it even better.
Grab list, found what you wanted... As 49 separate downloads, on one busy bot.
While on dialup.
Every time someone mentions MA its been a positive comment (that ive seen at least).
I should find my way into there, I do a lot more audio books these days
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I downloaded Rammstein's Amerika but it was like just one specific verse and chorus repeated. It was really weird. It took my a while to notice because I didn't know German. My best guess is someone took a free sample of the song from somewhere and edited it so it was longer by repeating it a couple times.
Also, a few of the Nightwish songs I downloaded had an announcer in the middle of the bridge say something like "You are listening to Nightwish's new song Blah on the album Once." Maybe it said something about being able to buy it on iTunes. That one was interesting because it definitely seemed legit. I guess some artists released stuff like that knowing people would steal regardless so they wanted a version with instructions to buy it if you liked it. To this day when I'm listening to those songs I hear the voice in my head when the song gets to those parts.
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most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses
also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled... in highschool
Funny, I remember being in middle school and getting detention for playing a RS private server called hackscape, clearly I was intending to hack the school.
Meanwhile I found the network drive and constantly deleted a bullys progress in our keyboarding course lmao, they never figured that one out.
There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.
Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren't able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.
Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.
be meborn in 2005
used to use steam unlocked
torrent
is bisexual
the meme is partly correct i guess :3
TIL those born in 2005 are 20 now.
Well, not "learned," but you know what I mean. I feel old :(
actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don't know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.
I am rusty and don't have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.
The best site right now (in my lazy opinion) is
qbittorrent is the best client these days. uTorrent went and did some bad stuff that I can't remember off the top of my head.
You should really get a VPN to keep your isp from bothering you about it. I use Private Internet Access (PIA) because it's relatively cheap, has port forwarding, and doesn't store any user data.
That's the basics. Happy sailing matey. Remember to seed to a ratio of at least 2!
TBH I was in the same boat, and finally went usenet when they rised the prices for all that streaming shit across the board, once again. Took me one afternoon to figure out.
I'd like to torrent, it's morally more piratey, as in "if I pirate already, then it should be totally free", but the usenet experience just is so much cleaner. And now I still pay, but like 30ish € per year and have no headache anymore and basically all the streaming services at my fingertips.
i don't think I've ever had a time where 1337 and standard qbittorrent won't work
Whats 1337? Never heard of it.
I mainly torrent movies and a bit of tv. For me private trackers have by far the biggest library of high quality 4k encodes, which is what i'm after personally. And at decent speeds, public trackers often don't have enough seeders for higher quality encodes. There is also the community ascpect which is pretty nice, and lower risk of malware or copyright trolls although I still use a vpn anyway.
Also private trackers for movies are super easy to join. I woulf recommend FNP since I dont think you need any prior experience with private trackers, you just need to send them an email. Also they have global freeleech until chistmas!
Neat.
By that point there were other options that were more popular, yeah. Xdcc as a script for ircii came out around 1995ish, maybe a bit earlier. Early 2000s would be around when mirc scripts had xdcc bots built in, so well after they first became common.
At that point you also had Napster, kazaa, limewire, even the first bittorrent client (BitTorrent).
And AirVPN. They also have the most stable servers in my experience. With other providers I need to change the wireguard config I use for my qbittorrent docker every few months because they get painfully slow, with AirVPN the same server stays usable forever in my experience
TorGuard VPN also works somewhat fine in my experience, even if setting up port forwarding with custom wireguard config is a bit complicated there, but they frequently have insanely good sales, and if you buy a plan on sale you can renew it for the sale price after it ends, instead of having to renew for full price or having to wait for the next sale
I am not sure if I would trust either of these providers if I was doing something really illegal and trying to hide from the government \ law enforcement, but for something like torrenting they should provide more than enough protection against copyright notices
Ubisoft Acquires March of Giants From Amazon
Ubisoft Acquires March of Giants From Amazon
The Montreal-based team behind March of Giants joins Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 MOBA game where players take on the role of giant combatants.news.ubisoft.com
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How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for a version of a game that stripped out any connection with Ubisoft?
If you answered more than zero dollars, how the hell does Ubisoft make basic sense as a business?
For me, just thinking of a couple off the top of my head I would gladly pay a $10+ premium for Steep (edit Shredders at $17 is a far better deal for this reason than Steep at $3) or Riders Republic if Ubisoft's involvement in the games were completely removed, I am talking about right now in the year 2025 not even when these games came out originally.... they are brilliant but utterly undermined by Ubisoft. I think for the recent Ghost Recon games Breakpoint and Wildlands I would happily pay a $15+ premium for versions that stripped out Ubisoft BS and added good mod support.
Ubisoft is an anti-brand more than it is a business.
Combining industrial carbon pricing with an emissions cap could offer less than the sum of their parts
Combining industrial carbon pricing with an emissions cap could offer less than the sum of their parts
In addressing interactions between policies, modernizing industrial carbon pricing and finalizing methane regulations should ...440 Megatonnes: Tracking Canada’s path to net zero
Dengue and Chikungunya: Why is Cuba Facing a Mosquito Virus Crisis?
One-third of Cubans have contracted mosquito-borne diseases this year, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health: dengue, oropouche and chikungunya. With over 42,000 cases reported across the country since July 2025, chikungunya was declared an epidemic in early November. 44 deaths from dengue and chikungunya have been reported, 29 of them children. The health system is struggling against an outbreak that has spread due to a lack of resources.“This arbovirus wave is not happening in a vacuum. It arrives at a moment of severe economic strangulation," says Dr. Samira Addrey, a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba. U.S. sanctions cause billions of dollars in losses annually, depriving the health sector of fuel for ambulances and fumigation, reagents for diagnostics, and raw materials for medicine.
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Dengue and Chikungunya: Why is Cuba Facing a Mosquito Virus Crisis?
One-third of Cubans have contracted mosquito-borne diseases this year, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health: dengue, oropouche and chikungunya. With over 42,000 cases reported across th...PeerTube.wtf
Dengue and Chikungunya: Why is Cuba Facing a Mosquito Virus Crisis?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40411638
One-third of Cubans have contracted mosquito-borne diseases this year, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health: dengue, oropouche and chikungunya. With over 42,000 cases reported across the country since July 2025, chikungunya was declared an epidemic in early November. 44 deaths from dengue and chikungunya have been reported, 29 of them children. The health system is struggling against an outbreak that has spread due to a lack of resources.“This arbovirus wave is not happening in a vacuum. It arrives at a moment of severe economic strangulation," says Dr. Samira Addrey, a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba. U.S. sanctions cause billions of dollars in losses annually, depriving the health sector of fuel for ambulances and fumigation, reagents for diagnostics, and raw materials for medicine.
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Dengue and Chikungunya: Why is Cuba Facing a Mosquito Virus Crisis?
One-third of Cubans have contracted mosquito-borne diseases this year, according to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health: dengue, oropouche and chikungunya. With over 42,000 cases reported across the country since July 2025, chikungunya was declared an epidemic in early November. 44 deaths from dengue and chikungunya have been reported, 29 of them children. The health system is struggling against an outbreak that has spread due to a lack of resources.“This arbovirus wave is not happening in a vacuum. It arrives at a moment of severe economic strangulation," says Dr. Samira Addrey, a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba. U.S. sanctions cause billions of dollars in losses annually, depriving the health sector of fuel for ambulances and fumigation, reagents for diagnostics, and raw materials for medicine.
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Dengue and Chikungunya: Why is Cuba Facing a Mosquito Virus Crisis?
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Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40401957
Nearly two months into the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Israel continues to bar journalists from freely entering the Gaza Strip to report, despite a longstanding petition brought by journalists seeking access to the territory.On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the petition, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.
The Israeli government, which has yet to fully explain why it continues to bar journalists, is slated now to give its latest response on Dec. 21, according to court filings, a delay that could be extended further.
Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed
Nearly two months into the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Israel continues to bar journalists from freely entering the Gaza Strip to report, despite a longstanding petition brought by journalists seeking access to the territory.On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the petition, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.
The Israeli government, which has yet to fully explain why it continues to bar journalists, is slated now to give its latest response on Dec. 21, according to court filings, a delay that could be extended further.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-journalists-access.html
Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40401957
Nearly two months into the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Israel continues to bar journalists from freely entering the Gaza Strip to report, despite a longstanding petition brought by journalists seeking access to the territory.On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the petition, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.
The Israeli government, which has yet to fully explain why it continues to bar journalists, is slated now to give its latest response on Dec. 21, according to court filings, a delay that could be extended further.
Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed
Nearly two months into the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Israel continues to bar journalists from freely entering the Gaza Strip to report, despite a longstanding petition brought by journalists seeking access to the territory.On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the petition, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.
The Israeli government, which has yet to fully explain why it continues to bar journalists, is slated now to give its latest response on Dec. 21, according to court filings, a delay that could be extended further.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-journalists-access.html
anywhere to get adobe photoshop for free and safe?
IT and sales, and stealing software from the internet is the same as all other theft: damaging to companies and ultimately to other customers. And if that argument doesn’t help: you can actually go to jail for theft. EDIT: I just KNEW that would ruffle feathers - but that’s the way it is, boys and girls.
it’s hard though to provide arguments in favor of piracy, isn’t it.
No its not at all. There have been some really good posts about it here even. Personally, I'm currently using non pirated software professionally that I obtained initially through piracy and achieved mastery of. No way I ever could have afforded it, but now I'm indirectly promoting use through my work and am a customer.
For better arguments read Breakey or Krukowski.
If you are new here keep an open mind, there's a lot to learn and some pretty smart cats here to teach (and I'm not claiming to be one of them).
Lots of pirated programs will get reuploaded to other places with viruses added, which is why programs and games can be one of the more risky things to pirate. That said, if you use the links in the download directory section of the db0 wiki genp guide (the one labeled latest updated version), then you should be safe. That wiki is run by the same person who runs the instance you signed up on as well as this community.
Of course, if you don't absolutely need Photoshop then it's infinitely less risky and less complicated to just use gimp or krita.
It's the wiki hosted under the same domain that you signed up for on lemmy: wiki.dbzer0.com/
It's linked to in the sidebar for this community since it has lots of resources for piracy. The sidebar of this community also has a link to the genp community.
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Make sure to block photoshop.exe in firewall btw
Adobe Photoshop 2026 (v27.1) Multilingual
Все, что вы себе представляете, можно создать в Adobe Photoshop — одном из лучших приложений для работы с изображениями и графическим дизай...w17.monkrus.ws
i do not know if you get notices for Adobe but windscribe free allows torrenting
edit: wtf this site doesnt allow direct links? what was even the point of moving away from reddit then?
Generally when you find software on a torrent site, they include a "readme" text file with instructions on how to install it, where to move what files, codes (if any), blocking the app in a firewall so it can't update or report back to the company, etc.
This will be the same for photoshop and you'll want to follow that over more generalized advice here. Photoshop was pretty straightforward last I knew. Do your best to find a trustworthy torrent.
Read through this
wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathr…
Once you find a torrent, it will almost certainly include installation instructions, make sure you follow them.
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I'm aware that I'm not directly answering your question here, but I actually no longer consider Photoshop worth pirating.
It takes about three or four hours of study to become proficient in all of the core functionality of GIMP, which for me added up to less time than I spent messing around with photoshop cracks over the years.
I use both GIMP and photoshop professionally (PS CC on an employer's hardware) and I think learning GIMP is a much better than investment of your time. I particularly recommend following a video course online from the beginning. There are both free and paid ones. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.
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I still have the original install files for Adobe Master Collection CS6 (as in, downloaded from Adobe directly before the older versions all got nuked) saved on my Google Drive for like a decade now, along with tons of USB drives and even on my phone as yet another backup.
also the crack and instructions
As another option, this is a good free alternative you could try:
I bought it (before it became free) and once I got used to it found it really good.
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GitHub - seapear/AffinityOnLinux: A repository that helps users get affinity software working on GNU/Linux 🐧
A repository that helps users get affinity software working on GNU/Linux 🐧 - seapear/AffinityOnLinuxGitHub
GitHub - LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux: Installer from Photoshop CC 2021 to 2022 on linux with a GUI
Installer from Photoshop CC 2021 to 2022 on linux with a GUI - LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-LinuxGitHub
Here ya go:
GIMP - Downloads
The official download page for all things GIMP! Please only use the official binaries provided here unless you really, really know what you’re doing (it’s the only way to be safe).www.gimp.org
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in reply to hellnuh • • •Concept of it sounds good. I don't think you're going to get a lot of love here by linking to Reddit and encouraging people to contribute there.
Have you considered aggregating and organizing this info and sharing it on a separate website? (Personally-owned) websites are underrated these days.
TootSweet
in reply to hellnuh • • •Here's my GitLab. None of it's "active" really. I'm the only contributor to most things I have on GitLab. At least some of the things there, if they started getting attention and interest, I might very likely make them active. But for now, they're just out there and may or may not receive further updates. Though I'm working on other projects I specifically intend to publish as FOSS in the future.
- Simple-CSS-Shrinker was made for a web-based game I wrote back in the day. I ought to dust that game off and publish it.
- JeSter, the JS tester. A really simple JS unit testing framework that runs in a browser and doesn't require Node or V8 or anything. Made in service to the same game I mentioned in the previous item.
- pystocking was basically in service of hydrogen_proxy
- hydrogen_proxy is a "scriptable HTTP proxy" written in Python. Definitely intended for privacy kind of applications. But it's kinda slow. I have in the back of my mind to rewrite it
... show moreHere's my GitLab. None of it's "active" really. I'm the only contributor to most things I have on GitLab. At least some of the things there, if they started getting attention and interest, I might very likely make them active. But for now, they're just out there and may or may not receive further updates. Though I'm working on other projects I specifically intend to publish as FOSS in the future.
My main side-projects right now that I haven't published yet are:
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in reply to TootSweet • • •TootSweet
in reply to thelocalhostinger • • •Hey thank you! I'm glad to hear some interest in it. I've definitely got ideas as far as how I'd like to see it improve moving forward (some syntactic sugar, more sophisticated ways of drawing "people"/creatures/skeletons/etc, maybe vector graphics output support -- no project is ever really done, you know.) I'm on another project at the moment, but if it got enough interest, I'd probably be inclined to put more work into it.
I don't have a TTRPG campaign running right now (which is what I wrote it for), so I'm not "eating my own dog food" very much with that particular project. But I would love to do more with it. Only reason I'm not already is because I've got so many other projects I want to work on. Heh.
The main project I'm working on lately has been that 3D game assets DSL that I mentioned later in my post. It's probably quite a bit more ambitious than codecomic (it's actually Turing complete which definitely adds to the challenge), but I do see a point approaching where it's feature-complete enough to at least publish an alpha version. It also definitel
... show moreHey thank you! I'm glad to hear some interest in it. I've definitely got ideas as far as how I'd like to see it improve moving forward (some syntactic sugar, more sophisticated ways of drawing "people"/creatures/skeletons/etc, maybe vector graphics output support -- no project is ever really done, you know.) I'm on another project at the moment, but if it got enough interest, I'd probably be inclined to put more work into it.
I don't have a TTRPG campaign running right now (which is what I wrote it for), so I'm not "eating my own dog food" very much with that particular project. But I would love to do more with it. Only reason I'm not already is because I've got so many other projects I want to work on. Heh.
The main project I'm working on lately has been that 3D game assets DSL that I mentioned later in my post. It's probably quite a bit more ambitious than codecomic (it's actually Turing complete which definitely adds to the challenge), but I do see a point approaching where it's feature-complete enough to at least publish an alpha version. It also definitely needs a lot more code comments/documentation before I publish. Probably still months away, but it feels a lot closer than it did last week. Heh.
Anyway, thanks again for the complement!
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in reply to hellnuh • • •I just released this little self host able social media platform
gitlab.com/here_forawhile/nano…
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in reply to hellnuh • • •FYI, there isn't really such a thing as "OSS but not FOSS." The free software definition and the open source definition mostly overlap. Anything that is free software is almost always open source and vice versa.
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
www.gnu.orgUlrich
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