Ist irgendwas im #Internet verhasster als #Captchas? Müssen ja was bringen, denkt man sich, sonst wären wir sie doch längst los. Denkste. #Bots lösen sie schneller und liegen öfter richtig:
Fast immer schneller, immer korrekter: Bots schlagen Menschen bei Captchas
Eigentlich wollte eine Forschungsgruppe ermitteln, wie lange Menschen für Captchas brauchen. Herausgekommen ist, dass Bots damit besser klarkommen.
Hmm, it appears the #NWS#bots I have here that clone #Twitter are finally dead, with the switch for the birdsite to require login to view tweets. There is an extensive list of alternative weather bots that @lckrohjr and myself have running (the IEMBOT). I am going to swap the bots to pull weather stories/etc., but will be some time. BIGGER ISSUE: NWS TORNADO BOT WILL NOT RUN.
Is the best way to run periodic functions, not necessary time-critical, just needs to happen in the correct hour or day, #cronjobs
I am running a #Python bot in a #Docker container, but want weekly or daily things to happen. Adding this to the main loop seems inefficient, because checks will unnecessary be done.
Should I rather use a #Linux image, run the script in the container and then just have cronjobs running in the container, rather than using a Python image.
Storage, memory and processing isn't actually a problem, so using a larger and beefier image is possible.
When the MTA announced discontinuing their live subway alerts due to Twitter's new excessive pricing policy, I took it as an opportunity to set up @mtaupdates.
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
Have you ever noticed an account on here labelled "Automated" or "Bot"?
It means the account is a bot, operating automatically without a human doing the posting.
This might sound odd, but there are many useful and entertaining #bots, for example posting sports results or weather bulletins or public domain art. Other bots run interactive games of chess or D&D campaigns or text adventures.
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!
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."
🐻 @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
So, la semaine dernière l'idée d'un bot pour partager automatiquement a maturé, puis j'ai pensé que je devais faire ça dans une instance, donc j'ai monté une instance
puis j'ai fait le bot ce weekend
Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn
Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new....