I can’t believe there are so many dumb comments in this thread. All it shows is that crawling from Yandex search engine stopped from one Yandex data center ASN.

No one runs opinion/malicious bots from data center IPs that people mention here.

Did people actually stop thinking?

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treyd 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The bots might be run in the datacenter and proxied through residential IPs as the exit point.

	▲	f311a 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You won't see this kind of stats on the CF page. All it shows is direct traffic against CF infrastructure.

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walrus01 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand there are plenty of datacenter located command/control systems that puppeteer vast fleets of residential proxies (and Russia is by no means the only one doing so), so it will be very telling to see what social media accounts go silent over the coming days and weeks.

> from one Yandex data center ASN

This is only one of two extant Yandex ASN, not an ASN specific to one geographic region/datacenter.

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1751

The other one is this: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/20950

And the 200350 also shows a near complete drop off in bot activity:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as200350?dateRange=7d

	▲	magic_quotes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> command/control systems There is Hetzner for that.

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monday_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are replying to a war propaganda post with a heavily editorialized title. Of course it's swimming in bad faith engagement, that's how these things work.

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walrus01 an hour ago | parent [-]

I'd expect nothing less than a comment such as this, from an account that hasn't posted even once for the last 7 months and has in its post history a claim of being located in Moscow. But hey, thanks for showing up to remind us of how terrible the imperialist war-mongering west is. Very refreshing.

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orbital-decay 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Both comments, his and especially yours, are bad faith interpretations. That's how any discussion is turned into a mud flinging party.

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mattstir an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Not to get sidetracked, and not to argue against anything you've said, but how do you figure that out? For people you disagree with, do you open their profile's comments and start keyword-searching "russia" "china" "moscow" etc in hopes of finding a hit? They mentioned that city once in Jan 2024, halfway down the page and in passing. I'm just curious about how others use this site.

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walrus01 an hour ago | parent [-]

Different people read at different speeds, it took me about 5 seconds when skimming it. If you engage in enough discussion related to Russia online you will quickly learn to identify when inauthentic commenters suddenly show up from a previously idle account to add their 2 cents.

The person in question doesn't exhibit much of it, but one will also learn when skimming to identify certain grammar and sentence structure characteristics that can point to what is the first language of a person, even if they're writing in fluent English.

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kakacik 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

All that expertise (which requires some proper experience in the topic) even before you plug a llm to it, even few years ago they were good enough to identify unique writing styles of people across different accounts on HN.

Anonymity is gone from internet for some time.

	▲	walrus01 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I have seen document-analysis guides with info on how to identify the regional location of anonymous Internet commenters specifically within the US 48 states if you have a sufficiently large corpus of their text, as it relates to how they use certain regional slang, metaphors, colloquialisms, and words to describe things. Think of it as similar to how linguists have made maps showing regional variations in whether people call it "soda" or "coke" or "pop", but extended to all other common forms of North American dialect. https://www.businessinsider.com/soda-vs-pop-map-2012-7

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braiamp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The funny thing is that apparently I'm the only one that flagged it... I don't know why people comment instead of using the tools?