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  • 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.





  • 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.






  • All of the references you have ascribed to me are wrong.

    So, the data you presented that I attributed to you are incorrect? So, you are saying your own information is wrong? I asked for references as you got data from somewhere.

    I have stated that I am pro or anti anything.

    I am assuming you meant to insert a “not” in that sentence. You missed the point: You can hold any opinion you like, but calling something a “fact” doesn’t make it so.

    I dunno what to think about the rest.

    But yeah, I am calling the account sus. It’s an observation and sorry you took it personally. Even more interesting is how you went from a clear, well worded description of your world economic views into some kind of pseudo-philosophical word salad.