Episode: 2190
Title: HPR2190: fucking botnets how do they work?
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2190/hpr2190.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-18 15:29:35

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This in HBR episode 2,199 detailed fucking botnets how do they work.
It is hosted by Spaceman and in about 4 minutes long and can in an explicit flag.
The summary is how using botnets for legitimate purposes can be useful.
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Hey, what is the packer you send today?
I just want to talk about a new social bot or just bots in general.
Why would you need one?
Why using a bot at all and what's the purpose of a bot?
Now what's cool with the universe is that nothing has meaning.
It means that you can use anything that you want for any purposes.
And I'm going to talk to you about why I'm using a bot.
But now we have to kind of shift our thinking about bots.
Because we kind of see it in a negative way when you say to someone I have a bot.
They kind of think of it in terms of the media and you're like,
Oh shit, I'm hacking the shit.
Oh yeah, botnets and stuff.
This isn't what I'm talking about.
I'm like really using it for a specific purpose.
And purpose is I am like archiving lots of knowledge archiving.
This fucking accent man.
Anyway, I'm archiving lots of knowledge about free software.
Yes, but also food growing, how to make money, how to live without it,
how to Arduino, how to chip programming, how to generate electricity on your own.
And you know, just the skills that allows you to be more independent and control over your life and all that.
So me being able to have a bot means that every day without internet connection,
I kind of have a file where I put in all of my stuff.
Like I just write like 10 sentence, 20 sentence a day with links that I find.
And then I know that my bot will use one of those sentences during the day.
So every hour one sentence gets picked up and it puts as being put out there on the social network.
And just writing the information once isn't enough because sometimes people just can just oversee it and stuff.
Like might take a while for someone to just see it.
And then what kind of subject does the person is actually attracted to?
I mean, I can talk about software, but most people just don't give a shit.
I can talk about botany, but most people don't give a shit.
Anyway, I think that food is kind of important.
But anyway, the point is, I am reaching out.
I'm always constantly on an hourly basis, spreading knowledge that actually is important, that help people have themselves, basically.
So this is why I'm using a bot.
But then I could see, you know, having a little company and then you set up a new social instance within the company internally.
And then you create an account, server one, for instance.
And then all the inputs and outputs and whatever you want to put it, the reports, then ever seen it by email, you can just follow the server and the server.
He says, I don't know, this space is not at 50% or whatever.
Like this is another use of a bot that, you know, I could actually see myself selling to someone as a solution for your company.
Yeah, so this is pretty much what I want to say here is that you could use a bot for lots of stuff.
And that bot means that it's kind of a system that works on its own, it's kind of a brain that you don't have to be there and it's going to do work for you.
So you could definitely use a use of a bot in any way in your life.
So you can actually run your own new social bot.
You can, I'll leave it in the description.
And if you want to, you know, extend it or you quite don't know how to use it or whatever, you can always contact me on the level or slash basement one happy hacking folks.
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