• Dran@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Me too brother, but I disagree with your assessment on value

    An non-blacklisted residential IP address with reasonable throughput is valuable in and of itself. DDOS botnets, proxies to bypass geo blocks or to obfuscate illicit traffic, etc. Also your gaming PC could be used for distributed compute workloads of compromised, usually crypto mining.

    Any hardware/connection has value if it’s “free”. It’s just a numbers game beyond that.

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      12 hours ago

      You’ve convinced me. They want access to my connection and maybe some processing power; they DON’T want my dungeons and dragons notes.

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        11 hours ago

        When ML training farms run out of new text to train on, “they” may very well want your original writing too…

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          11 hours ago

          Mother of god. They might steal my ‘Brown’ Elemental, that eats excrement and excretes clean, potable water. It will cimb up your ass and kill you if you sleep in the sewers. They definitely are going to steal this, specially.