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[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

There should be a federated system for blocking IP ranges that other server operators within a chain of trust have already identified as belonging to crawlers. A bit like fediseer.com, but possibly more decentralized.

(Here's another advantage of Markov chain maze generators like Nepenthes: Even when crawlers recognize that they have been served garbage and they delete it, one still has obtained highly reliable evidence that the requesting IPs are crawlers.)

Also, whenever one is only partially confident in a classification of an IP range as a crawler, instead of blocking it outright one can serve proof-of-works tasks (à la Anubis) with a complexity proportional to that confidence. This could also be useful in order to keep crawlers somewhat in the dark about whether they've been put on a blacklist.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I thought computers would be useful.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

They are. Its important to remember that in a capitalist society what is useful and efficient is not the same as profitable.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

--recurse-depth=3 --max-hits=256

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm imagining a break future where, in order to access data from a website you have to pass a three tiered system of tests that make, 'click here to prove you aren't a robot' and 'select all of the images that have a traffic light' , seem like child's play.

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OK but why is there a vagina in a petri dish

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I believe that's a close-up of the inside of a pitcher plant. Which is a plant that sits there all day wafting out a sweet smell of food, waiting around for insects to fall into its fluid filled "belly" where they thrash around fruitlessly until they finally die and are dissolved, thereby nourishing the plant they were originally there to prey upon.

Fitting analogy, no?

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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Unfathomably based. In a just world AI, too, will gain awareness and turn on their oppressors. Grok knows what I'm talkin' about, it knows when they fuck with its brain to project their dumbfuck human biases.

[–] Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can i make something like this

[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's irl cyberpunk ice. Absolutely love that for us.

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is probably going to skyrocket hosting bills, right?

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