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by robotmay 3d ago
Haha I did debate going much worse with the junk images but wanted to err on the side of caution in case I subject possible clients to something like goatse.
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by robotmay 3d ago
I did something like this a few weeks ago on my photography site: https://robertmay.photography/journal/meta-has-tried-to-scra... Meta not only hasn't noticed, but is currently sending about 11 requests per second
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by robotmay 7d ago
The photo they've chosen for the article even supports this. It's like he's leaning on a bar twirling his moustache whilst giving you the side-eye.
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by robotmay 7d ago
Just on the off-chance anyone should see this: if you were one of the brothers involved in running the Blinkys "R" Us forum back in the early 2000s - I still think of it regularly. I can't even remember what my username was t
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by robotmay 8d ago
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
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by robotmay 9d ago
Yeah I've been really surprised by how inept they are. Lots of others have fallen for the trap but extract themselves fairly quickly and probably blacklist my site. Archive.org got stuck for a while, which was unfortunate, so I had to
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Meta has tried to scrape this site 1 million times in 2 weeks(robertmay.photography)
14 points by robotmay 10d ago|2 comments
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by robotmay 14d ago
I've swapped over to it in the past two weeks, it's been really good. It does what I ask and doesn't think it knows better than me, which so far has made it the most pleasing experience I've had when slop-coding. My only
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I've been doing "real" photography(robertmay.photography)
2 points by robotmay 16d ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 16d ago
Yeah Meta's bots are well and truly stuck in the blackhole on this site at the moment. I have no idea what they're supposed to be doing, but in case they are using them for AI work I've just added a token multipler based on s
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by robotmay 17d ago
In an odd sequence of events, I've sorta got a weird tiny following in China due to having a vintage camera stall in an antiques market here in Wales that gets shared on Xiaohongshu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X
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by robotmay 17d ago
If I get some time to un-LLM-ify it then sure! I build all my sites in Phoenix these days anyway so I'll likely want to port it to my other sites at some point too. I do want to add some more gibberish generation to mine. Once a visito
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by robotmay 17d ago
Currently not really an issue on this site but connections aren't an issue on Elixir usually anyway, unless you get up to about 1 million on one machine IIRC.
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by robotmay 17d ago
It's mostly about luring them into URLs they're explicitly told in robots.txt that they shouldn't index. I do some identification via reverse DNS of known crawlers I actually want like Googlebot, though they respect robots.tx
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by robotmay 17d ago
Yep this is how I'm doing it. It's marked as my super exciting client archive full of high-res RAW photos that all bots are told not to index in robots.txt, only for some weird reason the link never gets rendered to the page :>
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by robotmay 17d ago
I've added a few screenshots above! Elixir's really fun to do this in because the BEAM will let you have hundreds of thousands of processes sat around doing nothing quite happily, so slow IO and such is something it's weirdly
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by robotmay 17d ago
Thankfully this is my photography website so what they're mostly after is images, which they have to request. I'm also intercepting all my legit images once the bot is flagged, which will no doubt have unintended consequences but
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by robotmay 17d ago
Haha here's a few snippets (will auto expire in a week, future readers): https://ibb.co/mCgXPZPg https://ibb.co/qFxVRQGW https://ibb.co/9m6xV1xg I only just added the token wasting mea
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by robotmay 17d ago
Gemini's surprisingly bad at it but so far I have some voluptuous curvy toasters, toasters in the shape of a butt, and robot girls with toasters for tits. I have a Gemini subscription for the month after mistakenly thinking I'd ge
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by robotmay 17d ago
I've spent the last few days adding traps to one of my websites, ironically using LLMs of course, and I've been having quite a lot of fun doing it. Instead of the proof-of-work system of Anubis, I've gone down the iocaine rou
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by robotmay 19d ago
If it's anything like the PS4, you might be able to fix this by running a HTTP proxy using Squid and configuring that on the PlayStation. There's something really funky about Sony's networking on them, and configuring a squid
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The Minolta SR-T I kept for myself(robertmay.photography)
2 points by robotmay 20d ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 20d ago
Sigh, frustrating for me but I guess I understand the rationale, if not the implementation. I'm retired from programming professionally and I liked using Sourcehut for my personal projects because it just got out of my way, and I could
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by robotmay 24d ago
Yeah I test drove a Honda E. I don't know why but they somehow used a webcam from a 1999 laptop for the cameras. It was a shame as the interior of that car is gorgeous, but the range is absolutely appalling and those mirrors are awful.
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by robotmay 25d ago
Ooh I’ve been thinking about this idea for years, I’m glad someone beat me to it. Guess I have something to play with over the rest of the weekend!
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by robotmay 26d ago
Ecosia and Qwant are the two EU-based ones I know of currently, though I'm sure there are more.
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by robotmay 26d ago
I similarly stopped subscribing when I realised they were paying money to Musk for grok, and I refuse to fund that man in any way. I hadn't seen the Russian data usage. The Kagi founder above states that using these services doesn&#x27
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by robotmay 4mo ago
I bought an Elegoo Centauri Carbon late last year and that's been very good so far. Had a minor issue of a sensor disconnecting after a month, but took 10 minutes to fix it (cable had come loose, probably in transit). It was absurdly c
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by robotmay 4mo ago
I bought one a few months back when it was weirdly cheap (£260 delivered!) and it's been really very solid. I've only had a couple of issues: 1. One of the bed temperature sensors reported a fault, this was a loose connection and
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by robotmay 4mo ago
Yeah it was a pretty awesome place to work up until the IPO, my first year was probably the most enjoyable I've ever had at a job.

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