Started a new hard-surface modeling project in MagicaCSG.
By posting works in progress here, I force myself to turn this into something interesting, or I will be unmasked as an impostor, and eternal embarrassment will be my fate. 😅
ClaudeBot is new to me, it’s an AI bot, and it was hitting us fast and hard from 398 IP addresses non-stop for over an hour, completely shutting down our site. Using fail2ban we managed to block it, but WTF is wrong with these people. Claudebot comes from these people: https://www.anthropic.com/
that claim “Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” Probably best if you block them before they get to your sites.
Sorry to go against the current here, but on a fundamental level Elon isnt wrong about #bots
Douchebag no1 is just a bit simple in assuming money is an efficient form of human-verification, and thinking that people won’t turn it against him (Or maybe that’s what he needs for his crew to love him 🤷♂️)
We’re going to need working human-verification systems. #fediverse might be one of them for now, but even here we might sink in artificially intelligent flood eventually
So the rudderless leader of one of the world's biggest bot farms is declaring war on bots by charging new users for the "privilege" of posting on the bot farm and interacting with bots.
#askmastodon#askfedi#bots#botstuff - since i dont see an option for subscribing whole server and i would love to be able to see some random stuff from certain server on my feed, would it be considered malicious if i would have a bot that would boost all post on such server? Or maybe there is more elegant solution apart from persuading all server’s users to use certain hashtags?
Heads up other #mastodon instance admins, the any dot pink #spam#bots have started up again. We've just closed regos here until they pull their heads back in.
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
Spent a little time going over @himawari_wpac 's error-checking after it went down for a bit. Not sure if I fixed everything, but at the very least it should notify me if something goes wrong now. #bots#debugging
Hmm, seems like it crashed again. Back to the drawing board.
These intermittent bugs are a pain to squash, but at least it gets easier with each new bot (and writing more robust and maintainable code gets easier too, as you learn how not to make each successive project implode). #debugging#bots
yoooooo
for the first time, @himawari_wpac recovered from a remote disconnect, relogged and kept on posting. looks like we have a good exception handling framework finally. #bots#debugging