"The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of ..." PEOPLE WHO WRITE IN GIANT FRICKING WALLS OF TEXT.
Seriously, I took one look at the EDT site, got as far as that quote, and thought that no normal/sane human being would want to read that mess ... so I didn't either.
I guess it explains the lack of other comments. EDT people, if you have something to tell the world, maybe consider writing it for an audience of someone besides yourself (and even then ... do you people seriously like writing like this ... really?)
I clicked the link, expecting an impenetrable 25 page tract or something, but instead it's a mere 6 paragraphs and not even contiguous paragraphs at that.
In two comments, a clear illustration of how different the internet has become, when compared to the 90s. People actually read content that was longer than 140 chars. And if it sounded subversive, it would quickly spread worldwide - because that was what we were all there for. Counter-culture, hacktivism, long rants... and yeah, cats, I guess. The common denominator? Well, porn, of course.
Yeah. "Walls of text" that -somehow- fit on three US Letter-sized pages.
In regards to TFA, the story of the Mexican Government's countermeasures is quite neat. Using the poor control of pop-up windows to making using the flooding computer somewhere between extremely annoying and impractical to use is clever.
If only present-day webmasters could do something so simple to disrupt the DDoS bots run in service of the LLM Industry...
"The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of ..." PEOPLE WHO WRITE IN GIANT FRICKING WALLS OF TEXT.
Seriously, I took one look at the EDT site, got as far as that quote, and thought that no normal/sane human being would want to read that mess ... so I didn't either.
I guess it explains the lack of other comments. EDT people, if you have something to tell the world, maybe consider writing it for an audience of someone besides yourself (and even then ... do you people seriously like writing like this ... really?)
I clicked the link, expecting an impenetrable 25 page tract or something, but instead it's a mere 6 paragraphs and not even contiguous paragraphs at that.
Normal people should be able to read 3 pages of text without having a melt down.
Note that this is a document from 28 years ago, not a current movement.
Basically, these were people who were experimenting with DDoS for political change.
In two comments, a clear illustration of how different the internet has become, when compared to the 90s. People actually read content that was longer than 140 chars. And if it sounded subversive, it would quickly spread worldwide - because that was what we were all there for. Counter-culture, hacktivism, long rants... and yeah, cats, I guess. The common denominator? Well, porn, of course.
28 years later, DDoSing modern attention spans with "walls of text"...
Yeah. "Walls of text" that -somehow- fit on three US Letter-sized pages.
In regards to TFA, the story of the Mexican Government's countermeasures is quite neat. Using the poor control of pop-up windows to making using the flooding computer somewhere between extremely annoying and impractical to use is clever.
If only present-day webmasters could do something so simple to disrupt the DDoS bots run in service of the LLM Industry...