I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    It’s already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we’re being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my deranged maladaptive daydreams worldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.

    I hate this so much. It’s not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.

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      21 hours ago

      I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvestors.

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      Anubis is supposed to filter out and block all those bots from accessing your webpage.

      Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit, which still consumes resources but is intended to poison the bots’ training data.

      So pick your poison

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        Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit

        We’ve officially reached a place where cyberspace is beginning to look like communing with the arcane. Lol

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          7 hours ago

          I wonder if someone techy can turn the Sworn Book of Honorius into a software program that actually summons spirits and grants powers.

          Fun fact though, Trithemius (an influential Renaissance occultist) authored the Steganographia, which provided the basis upon which modern cryptography was built.