r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 4h ago

Feels good man Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple Russian data centers.

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u/talltad 4h ago

Is there a way to quantify the impact? I’m super curious to know what the numbers are.

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u/Wide-Cry-9027 4h ago

I want to know too. But I mostly doubt this will likely reduce the bot traffic. Like, is there any measurement of this? Like graph or something to see any drop? Perhaps this thread is also propaganda? I don't know anymore. It's just make make head hurt

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u/shoehornstudent 4h ago

My guess it's multiple people's job to figure that out exactly, or at least within their own scope if were, say, their own network. Those numbers are either going to be public right away and posted on X or something like that, or speculated by security analysts and blasted by the media here very soon

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u/Longjumping-Oven4457 3h ago

Probably just more ram and GPU shortages.

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u/culturedgoat 2h ago

You don’t need a data centre to run bots that post on social media. I think this headline is rather overstated

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u/Any-Expression-7027 4h ago

It's heavy. If they target Russian data centers, ISPs, etc, there will be an immediate huge drop in internet trolls and disinformation.

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 3h ago

The question is about quantifying it. What's heavy mean? 50 lbs? 200 tons?

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 3h ago

Why do you keep using the word heavy? Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravity in the future?

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 3h ago

I used it once because the user I responded to did??

Context is hard.

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u/culturedgoat 2h ago

You mean heavy

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u/Any-Expression-7027 3h ago

That depends. How strong are you?

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u/Any-Expression-7027 3h ago

So you're not confident enough in your strength to tell me how strong you are. It's okay that you are a weakling. But just say that. It's probably less than 50lbs for you, if that helps.