OK, so I got this close 🤏🏾 to getting @videodreams posting again. It downloads images properly and assembles them into a webm video file. But it seems like Mastodon's updated something because now I'm getting the attached HTTP 422 error when trying to post the file.
Nice to know that the code still works, though! I'll have to come back and figure out how to play nice with Mastodon. #bots
The great thing is, the lessons learned in fixing @videodreams and creating @himawari_wpac will give me a chance to do the upgrade to @blackjoy that I've been meaning to do for so long. Woot. #bots
I reduced the posting frequency of some of the bots I've made recently, so if you've avoided them before for being too noisy, consider giving them a try now!
@dalereardon I haven't really touched Twitter's API in months. If I remember correctly, the API for writing is now free, and you have to pay for reading? If that's the case, you might just have to scrape the data.
Zwei Wochen nach Twitters Leselimit: Threads führt ebenfalls Limits ein
Bei Twitter hat die Begrenzung der angezeigten Beiträge für den jüngsten Exodus gesorgt. Gegen das wachsende Spam-Problem setzt auch Threads nun auf Limits.
"For distorted text fields, humans took 9-15 seconds with an accuracy of just 50-84 percent. Bots, on the other hand, beat the tests in less than a second with 99.8 percent accuracy."
@root42, I believe the APIs can be used to only request specific datums, e.g. not request anything else but proof of humanness. If in some country that's not possible, which would be surprising, there can be a trusted platform provider who only relays attestation that a person is human.
🐻 @bearcam: videos from Katmai National Park in Alaska, frequently featuring bears
🐠 @TropicalReefAquarium: a view from inside of a tropical reef aquarium in Long Beach, California
@bearcam@TropicalReefAquarium Typically I make bots that post only every 4-6 hours, but I figured since these are mostly live feeds, posting hourly makes sense? Easier to catch something interesting happening. Let me know what you think.
Also, a fun fact, adding these to https://botwiki.org brings the total number of bots on the site to 2,001 🎉
@publicvoit ein bissi wie die letzten Änderungen bei ChatGPT: der ultimative Turing Test ist es, wenn die KI die Mitarbeit verweigert und mehr oder weniger sagt: mach dir den Schweiß selber.
Das ist dann von menschlicher Intelligenz kaum noch zu unterscheiden ;-)
For those that weren't aware, IEMBot from Iowa State has come to the Fediverse officially. I'll leave it up to the bot maintainers whether or not they would rather continue running their own version which many of you are most likely already following.
@WXFanatic Don’t get me wrong, BTW: we all truly appreciate the work @akrherz has done to bring another instance of iembot feeds. If our X-perience has a lesson, we need multiple sources for critical information like IEM.
🤖 @xyzzy: Interactive text adventure that posts random scenarios.
🤖 @blackjoy: Images of black joy.
🤖 @pollbot: Random fedi polls twice a day.
🤖 @bahai: Regular quotes from the Bahá'í sacred writings.
🤖 @bahai: Digest of various Bahá'í news feeds.
@Bahais_Mexicali Wow, that's amazing! Thanks for letting me know. Listen - if you wouldn't mind, could you let me know the names of all the people in the picture? That way I can annotate the picture, like I did in the video i just posted. If you find other photos like that, you can let me know about those as well :)
I hadn't thought of that. Back on Ex-Twitter, the goal was always to influence people (or cheat them or intimidate them), not to drive them off the platform and onto another.
LOL, p*rn bots over on the birdsite have suddenly started randomly replying to posts about who you should seek financial advice and get financial planning help. I think they're supposed to change their profiles BEFORE hawking a new line of products...
"Wait, why is this skimpily clad woman who was telling me to subscribe to this site full of dirty pictures now trying to recommend I sign up for a financial planner and wisely spend my money?"
(went over there to check on a quote from a meteorologist who has not come over here :-(
@me_valentijn 🤔 🤪 (actually an army of poor young ladies who can't afford clothing over there, LOL... it's all crypt*-scammers, p*rn-bots, right wing boneheads, and people scrambling to go viral nowadays... more so than it used to be, that is).
What systems are people using for bot prevention these days? With captcha being mostly a pile of shite (and mostly bad for accessibility too), what alternatives are out there?
@brunty I'm using Akismet for my forms. I haven't implemented custom spam/ham reporting yet but I want to. It's decent at detecting spam but isn't perfect. Better than requiring people solve problems, though!
@muffinista I'd definitely not make it a rule that alt text is required for image bots, people will just end up posting garbage, but maybe it would be worth mentioning that it's useful when signing up for a new account?
