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I just published a blog post summing up my most pertinent thoughts about dealing with badly-behaved web-scraping bots:
https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/
It isn't exactly a Hallowe'en-themed article, but today is the 31st and the topic is concerned with pranking people who come knocking on my website's ports, so it's somewhat appropriate.
#infosec #bots #halloween #scrapers #AI #someMoreHashtagsHere
looks like someone reshared my article to Hacker News where someone has (predictably) already commented on the headline without reading the article 😅
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looks like someone reshared my article to Hacker News where someone has (predictably) already commented on the headline without reading the article 😅
it's like reddit if every user was a meth-head tech bro
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looks like someone reshared my article to Hacker News where someone has (predictably) already commented on the headline without reading the article 😅
my system for catching anomalous HTTP traffic just flagged someone sending me an API key as an "x-api-key" header.
that's about what I'd expect from the average HN reader
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it's like reddit if every user was a meth-head tech bro
@ansuz Some of the replies/comments in that thread are just insane!
Scraping is fine, even when there's a robots.txt (and other signs) saying not to, but DDoSing is illegal and you should sue people who do that.
Just ... what ?!?
Some of these people are in a totally different reality.
No, not reality ... the other thing.
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@ansuz Some of the replies/comments in that thread are just insane!
Scraping is fine, even when there's a robots.txt (and other signs) saying not to, but DDoSing is illegal and you should sue people who do that.
Just ... what ?!?
Some of these people are in a totally different reality.
No, not reality ... the other thing.
@ColinTheMathmo oh yea, a lot of them have very clearly had way too much silicon-valley-kool-aid to drink and were basically incoherent.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at a few others, though, I can't help but feel that the more sensible ones might be wasting their time commenting on HN and should just join fedi
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@ColinTheMathmo oh yea, a lot of them have very clearly had way too much silicon-valley-kool-aid to drink and were basically incoherent.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at a few others, though, I can't help but feel that the more sensible ones might be wasting their time commenting on HN and should just join fedi
Definitely a "take the rough with the smooth" thing.
I don't tend to read HN commentary on my stuff. (Sometimes, but not always)
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sysadmins/webmasters of fedi:
I am looking for suggestions of which search engine crawlers I should consider permitting in my robots.txt file.
There can definitely be value in having a site indexed by a search engine, but I would like to deliberately exclude all of those which are using the same data to train LLMs and other genAI. More specifically, I would only like to allow those which have an explicit stance against training on others data in this fashion.
Currently I reject everything other than Marginalia (https://marginalia-search.com/). Are there any others I should consider?
@ansuz If Marginalia is already there then:
https://alpha.mwmbl.org
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@ColinTheMathmo oh yea, a lot of them have very clearly had way too much silicon-valley-kool-aid to drink and were basically incoherent.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at a few others, though, I can't help but feel that the more sensible ones might be wasting their time commenting on HN and should just join fedi
@ansuz @ColinTheMathmo this has been my experience also in the rare cases when my writing gets shared on HN (or lobste.rs or reddit, FWIW): there a bunch of ignorami who are full-in on the corporate propaganda, and a few sane voices that try to highlight how bad that is for everyone. 1/2
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@ansuz @ColinTheMathmo this has been my experience also in the rare cases when my writing gets shared on HN (or lobste.rs or reddit, FWIW): there a bunch of ignorami who are full-in on the corporate propaganda, and a few sane voices that try to highlight how bad that is for everyone. 1/2
On the one hand, I agree that they're mostly wasting their time and would do better to spend it elsewhere; OTOH, I am glad for the work they do, and who knows, maybe their words reach others that can then do better.
2/2
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@ColinTheMathmo oh yea, a lot of them have very clearly had way too much silicon-valley-kool-aid to drink and were basically incoherent.
I was actually pleasantly surprised at a few others, though, I can't help but feel that the more sensible ones might be wasting their time commenting on HN and should just join fedi
@ansuz responding to someone on hacker news that they're too good for HN and should join fedi would be absolutely hilarious to no one but me
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@ansuz responding to someone on hacker news that they're too good for HN and should join fedi would be absolutely hilarious to no one but me
@rune I might have tried it if I had an account there, but then imagine if I was wrong and that was their one good take. fedi equivalent of buyer's remorse
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@mad_panda@mastodon-japan.net そうなんですね…残念です。😭
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@amin it's really nice, and it's a forgiving non-stressful recipe. Takes a while for all the baking steps, but most steps are independent and don't require a lot of attention. It's hard to mess up. And, it's impressed just about everybody I've ever served it to. It punches far above its weight in terms of impressiveness to difficulty. You can even use canned enchilada sauce if you're in a hurry, it turns out fine.
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@hongminhee 無いんじゃね？
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@amin as with all Mexican and Tex-Mex food, sprinkle on some chopped cilantro and spritz with lime juice, and serve with rice and refried beans or black beans. Avocado or guacamole never hurts the situation.
You can add spices to the sweet potatoes, if you like, but if you bake or roast the potatoes with olive oil and salt, they'll be quite rich.
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@amin one of my "impress non-vegetarians" recipes is sweet potato and pecan enchiladas. Mothers Cafe in Austin (a famous, but now-closed vegetarian restaurant) served it seasonally. I never had a written down recipe, but it's just roasted/baked sweet potatoes with pecan pieces mashed in, wrapped in corn tortillas, covered in enchilada sauce and either cashew cream or some white Mexican or jack cheese (cashew cream is better here, honestly, even if you're not vegan), bake.
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@joho babies that aren't fed are never diagnosed with autism. Really makes you think.
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It just checks image alt text for keywords. No AI weirdness.
If it is approved it will be available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uglymug/. I don't plan to submit it to the Chrome extension store but anyone is welcome to copy the code and do so.
Meanwhile if you'd like to try it out before it's approved (trust me bro) you can get the extension from https://we.tl/t-VZw12WGo7q and then unzip the contents into a new folder.
Installation Instructions:
For Chrome:
Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/ Enable "Developer mode" (toggle in top right) Click "Load unpacked" Select the folder where you unzipped the files to.For Firefox:
Open Firefox and navigate to about:debugging Click "This Firefox" Click "Load Temporary Add-on" Select the manifest.json file
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韓国のFedifyの貢献者の方々と一緒に、11月か12月に東京へ行くことになりそうです。日本のソフトウェアエンジニアの方々と交流したいのですが、参加できそうなイベントやおすすめの場所は有りますか？
