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Shamansana
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FFXIV and JRPG gamer. Avid fantasy novel and manga reader. LVL31 guy from Finland, FIN/ENG. Mostly lurking here.
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r1zmy.bsky.social
Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · Jan 15
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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demoniofleurs.bsky.social
I stumbled upon a thread on the FFXIV subreddit that I encourage everyone who is frustrated with the DDoS’ to read, as it goes over why this is a complicated issue with no real easy solution

www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comm...
Title: Irrational Attackers and you: A (potential) explanation for why you keep getting 90k'd Is this actually a DDOS? Or does SE just have bad servers? There is no reason to believe it is anything other than a ddos attack In the last few weeks FFXIV has been kicking people off NA servers with 90k errors, this is confined to NA, and even if there have been some on EU/OCE/JP, it is orders of magnitude less common. There is no logical reason to assume the server software is different in each region, and since it it possible for both JP and NA to visit OCE, that is vanishingly unlikely. Earlier today, when world first racers were getting 90k's they tried to data center travel to Materia to raid. The 90k errors then stopped on NA, and started on OCE. Once they gave up and returned to NA, so did the 90k's. This is as close to evidence of a ddos attack as anyone who doesnt work for square enix can get. That also means it is provider agnostic, as NTT America does not operate in Australia. So that's the "how", now for the "why" In threat modeling, there are two kinds of attackers, rational, and irrational. Rational attackers are great (well, in terms of prevention), they are easy to understand, and can even be worked with at times, they are typically limited to actual hacking/unauthorized access attacks, but a rational attacker ddos could be "im ddosing you, pay me 3 million in bitcoin and I will stop" This isnt very likely, as typically those demands are public to put pressure on the target company, but it is possible if they just sent SE the ransom directly... but again, unlikely. An irrational attacker is FAR more likely, this doesnt mean somebody who is completely insane and has no reason, but someone who cannot be negotiated with, they just want to break things. If a rational attacker is a burglar breaking into your home, an irrational one is a drunk teenager trying to throw a rock through your attic window. In this case, I think its pretty clear whats going on. It is someone (or a group) that does not care about money, with no public ransom, and enough resources to repeatedly crash isp nodes (often multiple at a time) they are burning money to bring servers down for no gain. They are also willing to risk felony cybercrime charges (which this definitely counts as). Now the big question, how do you stop an irrational attacker? You dont. You hope they get bored or lose interest. There are some over very high profile mmo ddos incidents, with the most recent famous one being the WoW hardcore classic streamer guild "OnlyFangs" Whenever they pulled a raid boss, the wow servers went down, it was 100% predictable, there were no exceptions. This wasnt because their guild was specifically cursed and making the servers crash, there was just.... a guy(s) who wanted their characters dead. This only stopped after the streamers decided to stop playing hardcore, because it was hurting the game for everyone. Possible culprits Literally anyone with money, I suspect based on timing its someone who really wants NA to lose the world race? but it could also just be someone who wants to hurt FFXIV's reputation, and messing up the world race is the easiest way to do it But why is it only ffxiv? It isnt, its just that taking down any game costs a lot of money, so its very rare, even if you are just running a server for a few friends, you could be ddosed, it would just cost them far more to kill the server than it costs you to run it. There are obviously DDOS solutions, but they really only work for website, and the solution for something that needs server connection is an active and ongoing problem, its (part of) why so many competetive games switched to peer-to-peer hosting, if you kill the host it only affects that one game, not the entire server. Some more recent examples of non-ffxiv games taken down by ddos Albion online, basically unplayable for several weeks in early summer last year after a mass ban of rmt accounts World of warcraft earlier this week, im not sure why, but blizzard publicly acknowledged the cause on the launcher League of legends also earlier this week, actually no clue on this one either edit: they forgot to renew client license, they did get hit with one ~3 months ago though that also took down steam None of this is confirmed, I am just a third party with no insights into SE internals, using my experience with devops and cybersecurity to put pieces together
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
shamansana.bsky.social
Nice pet luck at OSRS.
Quetzin
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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lamppu.bsky.social
The only reason I have access to internet is because it's included in my rent 😭

Please help out if you can! Sharing also helps!

More examples in the comments.

#pwywcommissions #commissionsopen #lycahugo #zhongxiao #idolish7
Info about the emergency pay what you want commissions I'm offering. Lycaon and Hugo from Zenless zone zero as bangboos Sketch of Xiao and Zhongli from Genshin Impact Idolish7 chibi group
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
shamansana.bsky.social
Finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 yesterday. 10/10 go play it.
August 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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almakrowan.bsky.social
"Collective Shout may be targeting popular video games that depict children in scenarios where they face distress or harm — even if these depictions are intended to encourage concern and care in the player. From there, the organization may be describing these titles as featuring “child abuse." 💀
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 19
The censorship of 80+ games on Steam this week was apparently the work of Australian antiporn group Collective Shout, which partnered with US evangelicals to pressure Visa and Mastercard.

They claimed, without evidence, that the games involved child abuse.

Great work by @acvalens.net for VICE.
Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims
The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.
www.vice.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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thatfinnishfox.bsky.social
Also people residing within EU, go and sign the stopkillinggames.com petition. Much important. Very beneficial. Wow.
Stop Killing Games
stopkillinggames.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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wrongtypeofhero.bsky.social
I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed.

This ISN'T TWITTER.

Please don't make it into it.
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October 7, 2024 at 7:52 PM
shamansana.bsky.social
Think this is enough frontlines for this week. This week 50% winrate last week only 27%. #FFXIV #PVP #FFXIVPVP
February 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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xavierresists.bsky.social
Good time for a reminder:
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
shamansana.bsky.social
<3
December 13, 2024 at 7:42 PM
shamansana.bsky.social
#OSRS first pet
at 66 mining <3
December 13, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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mochabarion.bsky.social
Things I like for algorithm:
-Xenoblade
-Final Fantasy
-Kingdom Hearts
-Shin Megami Tensei
-Metaphor: ReFantazio
-Pokémon
-Art (not good at it but I’m working on it
-Homebrew
-Tech shit
-the PS3 (specifically)
and I’m legally obligated to tell you to play Shin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS when I can.
October 17, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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songbirdn7.bsky.social
Sorry couldn't resist #Shadowbringers #FFXIV
December 9, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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lamppu.bsky.social
Independence Day 6/12.

I won't say happy, because I feel like it doesnt decipt how many of us feel with the current government, and how things are going.

I am, however, eternally greatful for our veterans for giving us this gift.

Hopefully, future will be brighter.

#lamppuart #watercolours
The Finnish maiden surrounded by a bunch of lily of the valley flowers
December 6, 2024 at 6:14 PM