Europe

So. Just so the internet gets usable again, we need a gofundme-campaign for ongoing long range strikes on data centers.

Not only in Europe, when you look at the tweets of the White House from today, you basically don't see any MAGA replies under them and almost exclusively criticism which is genuinely insane compared to the situation a week ago.

But tankies told me that Russia is a peaceful democratic country, and that Russia has no will whatsoever to act aggressively towards its neighbours, even on the internet.

In fact, tankies told me that westerners are the only people in the world who are ever aggressive, malicious, or evil.

The BBC has debunked the claims in this article.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

Misinformation can come from anywhere.

From the article:

As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks. That means activity from automated, Russian-hosted accounts has been virtually eliminated on social media.

That... is not what that means. The HTTP requests graphed by Cloudflare shown in the Tom's Hardware article are the yandex web crawler. This is traffic from YandexBot, which is their search engine's equivalent to GoogleBot. That drop in traffic doesn't indicate anything whatsoever about russian-hosted accounts on social media, it's about a search engine's bots reading web pages. 🤦

Note that the TomsHardware article graph comes from here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 - this is one of Yandex's AS numbers. In case you doubt that the traffic cloudlfare calls "bot traffic" there is really just the YandexBot, and you really want to believe that maybe Cloudflare is classifying social-media-posting HTTP requests as "bots" in that graph, you can check their graph for YandexBot specifically here https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/yandex and you'll see:

Besides grossly mischaracterizing what the Tom's Hardware article says by implying that the YandexBot web crawler has something to do with the kind of bots they're talking about, this The London Economic article also cites some slightly more plausible sounding evidence for reduced social media activity:

Take Richard Tice for example. Below are three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October. At the time of writing, none of the posts had hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views.

Could British fascists be getting retweets from bot farms in a yandex datacenter? Sure, they're a cloud provider, they're no doubt hosting some stuff like that.

But, does this example actually demonstrate it? No. The first yandex datacenter strike was on October 8; here is a tweet from @TiceRichard from October 6 with only 10 replies and 6 retweets:

If there has actually been a measurable drop in "inauthentic" social media posts (or other retweets or likes or whatever) as a result of the yandex datacenter strikes, I still haven't seen evidence of it.

But But all the tankies are saying it was just web crawler bots. Surely finely honed suckers who shill for putin for free wouldn't lie.

/s

I wonder if that will make any difference in Brazil's runoff round of elections..., hopefully they can stay offline until the 25th, (or even Nov 3 would be nice)?

I bet the new Russian Bots are hosted in the US

I can't wait to see how different the internet is when Israeli data centres get hit.

A master stroke by those who oppose concentration of power in a minority of wannabe fascists and dictators. This exposes how the wannabe fascists and dictators are trying to use fossil fuel revenue to simulate and impersonate a large population of electors, with artificial bots (or is it "super bots" now? 🤣)

let's now bomb the indian, chinese, american, israeli or any other bot farms and data centers and live in an utopia.

I'm a little less concerned about the Russian bots than all the American platforms that have been allowing and tolerating this for decades now.

You motherfuckers rebuilt Europe only to throw it to fascism again 100 years later.

And so the good people of Ukraine continue to not only defend themselves, but a lot more people around the world.
Huzzah!