So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.

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.”

I also don’t think it’s morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country

They were all Russian, so fuck 'em? That statement is confusing, to say the least.

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?

That comment is pure gold and I am archiving it for future use.

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

https://lemmy.ca/comment/17639579

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

Amazon Prime Video‘s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is moving to the west coast for Season 2 production.

The second season will be filmed in Los Angeles County, sources tell Deadline, with exact production details still being sorted.

Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed the series would be relocating to California on Wednesday while touting the recently approved $750M in funding for the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program. Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was primarily filmed in New York with a few locations in Italy, including Lake Como and the Italian Dolomites.

Though the series was granted an incentive within the last three cycles, it is not clearly listed on the California Film Commission‘s list of approved projects. Sometimes, high-profile productions are listed under different, more discreet names.

Just last week, the commission approved 48 new films for $96M in tax credits.

The state’s production community has been sounding the alarm on runaway production for years. Calls for action reached a fever pitch earlier this year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles fires, which were preceded by a tough few years for the industry from the coronavirus-related production shut downs to the 2023 dual strikes.

California is also competing with other states like New York, which just allocated even more money to its own tax credit program, as well as international territories whose incentives have lured production away from the Golden State.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith‘s relocation is seemingly a win for Newsom and the California film and television industry, because it signals that big budget productions would be interested in shooting in the state with the right incentives in place. It joins Prime Video’s Fallout as two of the highest profile series to move production back to California recently.

While production in California has become more scarce, there is a promising slate of television productions cropping up across the state as of late, including HBO Max’s The Pitt, Hulu’s Paradise, and CBS’ NCIS: Origins.

Created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane, Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith followed two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who have to pose as a married couple as they both begin new careers as spies, taking on new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?

Season 2 will have new leads, played by Mark Eydelshteyn and Sophie Thatcher. Sloane returns as executive producer and showrunner; Glover is back as executive producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.

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Even if it is some miracle breakthrough, most people wouldn’t see benefits of it for 20 years.

Cures aren’t profitable. Stretching out temporary treatments over a lifetime is worth millions.

https://www.mdwfp.com/fishing-boating/fish-id-guide/freshwater-drum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_drum

Wrong community for AI slop.

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I looked into that and the only question I really have is how geographically distributed the samples were. Other than that, It was an oversampled study, so <50% of the people were the control, of sorts. I don’t fully understand how the sampling worked, but there is a substantial chart at the bottom of the study that shows the full distribution of responses. Even with under 1000 people, it seems legit.

There is a place for that. It’s called 4chan.

Well, the administration supposedly made some kind of minerals deal to continue to support Ukraine. (It was just bullshit PR for Trump “making deals”.)

Still, I doubt any partner was surprised by this as the Trump administration is pointlessly unpredictable.

In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.

I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.

You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.