Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can’t even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).

I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?

I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM’s

As enraging as this whole story is, I don’t think there’s any coming back from ‘you’re a war profiteer’

“Vibe Coding” is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

I have an anarchist child and they kill me in a rebellion.

I’d be so proud.

There are not enough smart-vacuum owners in the world that would make it more profitable to just make the hardware without hoovering up the data that comes with its use.

Better to put my efforts toward automating the flipping of light switches and the raising/lowering of window shades

And some brands of 3D printers have started placing those functionalities behind remote servers and paywalls

cough cough Bambu Labs cough cough

There are a million third party vendors that sell replacements on amazon, just take a look. Though - and I don’t know for sure having not actually read the article - it seems as though you may also need to change out the firmware so you can keep operating it if iRobot’s servers go down, since all the roombas i’m aware of need internet connectivity to operate.

If you’re at the point where you need to start replacing parts, it might be worth starting to look into other brands

Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer