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Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital and other cities as families were preparing to start their week early Monday, the blasts echoed across Kyiv, setting buildings ablaze and sending people rushing to shelters.

The assaults, which reportedly killed several people, came after a week of massive, coordinated Russian air strikes across the country.

Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine, but videos on social media on Monday, October 17 showed attacks on apartment buildings, schools and restaurants.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said apartment blocks and a non-residential building were on fire in the capital's central Shevchenko district, adding that at least one person was killed and another believed to be trapped under the debris of an apartment block.

People on the streets caught images of some of the drones as they flew into Kyiv.

The drones came in several waves and buzzed overhead with angry hums from their engines.

Videos posted to social media, including one seemingly taken by the body-camera worn by a member of Ukraine's national police force, showed security forces taking aim at the small aircraft from the ground with rifles.

Russia has repeatedly been using the so-called suicide drones in recent weeks to target urban centers and infrastructure, including power stations.

"All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday. "Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine. The enemy can attack our cities but it won't be able to break us."

Monday's blasts seemed to continue what many fear could become more common occurrences in urban centers as Russia enters the 9th month of the war.

This video appears to show the moment of a 'kamikaze drone' attack on central Kyiv.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were several explosions in the Shevchenkivskyi district.

Latest on the war in Ukraine: https://t.co/IORw72vRit pic.twitter.com/1FdDFBWxtB

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 17, 2022

Chaos14:
Done

Chaos14:
Done

Chaos14:
It only deletes the comment from you only

Chaos14:
It doesn't work

ExplorerReturns:
i saw a thread by seun requesting for ideas on how to tackle the menace of tinubu bots. The developer in me will doubt the sincerity of this request because it is not actually a programming nightmare to stop the so called 'bots'.

This is something a developer can easily stop by investigating the source of the problem and writing appropriate functions or 'algorithms' that can curb the menace.

I believe that those responsible for the fake likes are not really sophiscated enough to create programs that automate the process of generating fake likes. So i will assume that they are simply creating multiple accounts that maybe a ten man team sitting in same room uses to like affliated posts.

Moving to the possible scenarios and solution.

1. So assuming that as a not too techy person i want to generate likes. I will
simply create multiple accounts with temp mail or normal gmail and use same password on all for easy
rememberance. Having 500 accounts with different password is a nightmare, so i will definitely use same password or at least same set of passwords.

2. i will simply launch my tor,chrome or microsoft edge browser. open 25 private tabs on each of the browsers. On each of the tabs i will simply log in with a fake account and start liking affliated posts.

If we are just 5 guys in a room operating 25 tabs each on two different browsers we will generate (25*2) * 5 = 250 likes for a single post. imagine we are 10,20 guys? that will be 500 and 1000likes respectively



SOLUTION

i believe that nairaland is already logging the ip addrress of each user during logging. How do i know this? After some failed login attempts you are expected to wait for some minutes before trying to log in again. This same process could have been done with cookies or a session on the users browser, i cant really tell because i have not tried to investigate, so i am just assuming.

The solution lies in the changing the criteria for a user to like a post. Instead of checking
the user name or user id have liked a particular post in the likes table, you can check if thesame
ip address have liked the post. This means instead of just using user id or user name in the likes
table you can use the ip address as the primary identifier.

The problem with using the ip address as an identifier is that many people can be on same wifi router and access nairaland. so limiting same the ip can cause problems for others that are genuine.

You can bypass this by checking the ip address count. If about 20 users are associated with thesame Ip address, then that is likely a red flag.


You can investigate more by saving the including the user agent. The user agent gives you information about the browser making the requests. Writing a function that checks if two ip addresses have same
user agents will obviously expose that such an account is a BOT account. You can use more parameters like screen size, browser name etc to identify unique likes!

STOP FAKE ACCOUNTS FROM LOGGIN

Simply creating a table to track each successful login.

On each logging, store the password,Ip address, user agent and username.

On each logging attempt check if the password,Ip address and user agent already exist on the logging table. If it exists and the username names don't match, this means the logging is coming from same device and address, it is a bot or alternate account. You can simply stop the logging process at this point.

If the above matches and the username are thesame, it is a genuine account that logged out and trying to log in again.

You can set up a cron job or task scheduler that will empty this table after 24hours

Moh247:
I don't give a fvck... Save lame excuses


This is now personal and we will take it further from social media to the street

No that you caused this

Moh247:
Sergio you have slandered me directly accusing me falsely of using bot, directly to Seun who has IP and meta data of all login

I take this as a direct attack and I promise equal appropriate retailiation

Insha Allah

WhatCanIsay:
The simple question is this, why must Tinubu supporters always act like crooks? Why can't they do things the right way? Is corruption, lies, tribalism and fakeness wired naturally into them? Must you spoil this website because you want to feed people with your constant lies and negative narratives?

Check your posts, you hardly talk about any real positive things about Tinubu, never discuss issues on Tinubu, you spend your posts strictly on negativity.

Nigeria has and must outgrow agbero type of politics.

Daalụ.

Emperormartin:
As the topic implies, is there anyone with substantial information?

Angelfrost:
You should get back to your seat boss... This second half is on fire! Both teams have come close to taking the lead.

Meanwhile, Mod just can't accept VAR's decision!

crazygod:
Watch ball. There was a foul on Fabinho in the build up.

Kyase:
Keep consoling yourself

fergie001:
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Everybody come oooooooo

Kyase:
FT
3:1
Fira09
Weldon

yellowgarri2:
no wamz

yellowgarri2:
I might not watch next El clasico, I watched today coz the time is close to united match

yellowgarri2:
You were silent, silence means agreement atimes

yellowgarri2:
Fira09 this is my point

yellowgarri2:
Still your senior man

dfrost:
E fit be Chelsea

yellowgarri2:
no run me street, ano go gree.

Not upto your daily allowance though

Kyase:
You wey Dey always choke me unko

yellowgarri2:
Ano go gree bro, shebi I warn you. Hala Madrid