A question to fellow website owners: are you noticing, like me, an influx of #spam comments from B*nance URLs/email addresses?
One of my most popular websites went from being under attack from brute force attempts (100+ a day) to now receiving lots of spammy comments from addresses associated to crypto. I wonder if you experienced the same thing?
While AI-generated trash content in combination with bot chit-chat poses a challenge to all kinds of platforms and search engines, one major social media network has already been hit particularly hard: Twitter/X.
@coachtony Will Medium allow our writing to be crawled by AI bots? The news about WordPress and Tumbler is bad, and the news about DocuSign is probably worse. Will our copyrighted material posted to Medium be used/abused in the same way? Will you, like WordPress, provide an option to stop our posts from being crawled? #copyright#AI#bots#chatbots
If you enjoy any of the creative bots posting on botsin.space, or any other instance, be sure to show your support and see if the admin of that instance is looking for donation!
In the last few days I've blocked 9 domains on my #selfhost server. Before that I can't actually remember when I last blocked a domain, six months? Maybe even a year ago when I first installed the instance.
Is there any indication why this surge has happened? #MastoAdmin#spam#bots
'it appears that a significant portion of that traffic on X could be fake, according to data provided to Mashable by CHEQ, a leading cybersecurity firm that tracks bots and fake users.
According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake.'
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
After that, the last of the late great dragfyre bots to bring back from the dead would be @laughingman, which tbh is one of my favourites. The problem is, it uses #openCV to detect faces, and I can't run the newest versions of openCV on my potato compy. So that one's going to be considerably more difficult to resurrect. Maybe I'll wait 'til Easter. #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
As the "AI" race heats up, those of us who operate servers are going to be getting hit from more and more bots speed crawling our sites like the bad old days... that never really left.
No American worries about "warm water port". That is directly from russian doctrine (their obsession with obtaining ports in warmer waters, such as Mediterranean). We have toooooo many of them. russian doctrine and mil culture is filled with such references, exactly in that verbiage.