evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

A hacker developed an "infinite maze" to trap web-crawlers/scrapers from AI companies

basically, if the server code detects that a web crawler from an AI firm is trying to scrape the site ...

... the code begins spinning up an infinite, nesting warren of new sham pages, filled with random text

so the crawler gets stuck crawling and scraping endless and meaningless pages

fun @jasonkoebler piece at @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/email/7a39d947-4a4a-42bc-bbcf-3379f112c999/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing: DEIAtruth@opm.gov

Just in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.

To help defenders find their impacted orgs in the Fortigate configuration dump incident, here's all emails mentioned - Ctrl+F for yourself.

Obvious point - not everybody puts their email address in a config file.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GossiTheDog/Monitoring/refs/heads/main/Fortigate-Config-Dump-emails.txt

Damn. It's just hit me, we're half way through the 2020s.

2021 lasted a long time, didn't it.

How many times can a piece of paper be folded in half? (AKA I love ISO 216)

Feel like spending lunchtime at the seaside? I just fixed a couple of local stations in this, so pick your destination, click the radio, and enjoy the sandwich & flask of tea https://vole.wtf/british-seaside/

The only thing I ever want to read about Trump again, is his obit.

#fucktrump #uspol

Yesterday, the thing I hoped wouldn't happen but which I have been working to prepare for happening for three years as part of Trans Rescue, happened. Trump began the process of erasing trans people in the USA.

Where this ends we don't know. But reading the executive orders, they're following a very 1930s path. Remove documentation, make it difficult to work, erase fron society, eliminate. It took several years from Hitler taking power to the Final Solution, and they started like this.

My apologies, if you followed me for random hacks to bits of junk, and pithy tech commentary, you're going to see another side of my life for a while.

If you'd like to help, you can support Trans Rescue here: https://transrescue.org/donations/bis-donation-form

I like to pause code in TV shows, noticed this Youtube ID on Gilfoyle's computer in Silicon Valley, and yeah I don't know what I was expecting

This is a thread for happy, joyful things

Today is going to be rubbish for quite a lot of people, especially in the USA.

Why not share something that makes you feel happy or joyful?

It doesn't have to be deep or artistic. Just something - anything - that makes you smile.

#SpreadingJoy #Joy

Breaking: Matt Gaetz will attend Trump’s inauguration as Washington DC temperatures are now expected to be under 18.

<sysadmin stuff>

The AWS SDK for S3 suddenly stopped working for my non-AWS object stores (DigitalOcean, R2, etc)...and I thought I was losing my mind.

Well, looks like AWS decided to stop allowing others to leverage/freeload their software for use on competing services.

Understandable-ish, but doing it suddenly, know that stuff would break - on top of AWS blatantly making bank on services based on OSS software - well, that makes for some very bad karma.

#DigitalOcean #mastoadmin #aws #cloudflare

“If you're always in bed, how do you get stuff done?”

Well...

Hahaha, just remembered another photo from there. Fun with interesting rocks!

https://things.uk/@eclectech/111804930132099826

Still giggling about HÖNKHALT 😂