Tootfinder

Looking into why amazon[.]com was randomly failing SPF checks, and it turns out the apex for that domain contains so many junk TXT records that it was occasionally being truncated.

If I was as bad at my job as Lindsey Graham is – I would be fired and children would die.
I’m Dr. Annie Andrews – a mom of 3, a pediatrician, and I’m running for US Senate in South Carolina to send far-right Trump apologist Lindsey Graham packing.
If you’re with me, chip in here: https://secure.actblue.c…

OK, a •lot• of replies need this reponse:
Yes, of •course• they will start ignoring robots.txt etc as soon as they think it hurts their business. Of course.
It is important to •force that fight•, rather than just capitulating in advance.

Im Vortrag "Umarme deinen Feind: Datenbestände von Kulturerbeeinrichtungen für AI-Algorithmen öffnen, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren" sagt @… , das System der robots.txt sei tot und für die aktuellen Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf massenhafte Abfragen durch KI-Bots gescheitert.
Das stimmt wohl leider, und der einzige Grund dafür i…

Going with meta noindex for now. My thinking is that this actively tells Google to yank already-crawled content from their index, whereas they might take a robots.txt entry to mean “do not update, but keep showing last fetched.”

Claude says it can't resolve a FQDN to an IP address, because robots.txt forbids it.
#claudeSonnet5 #hallucination

I have just published a new bug fixes minor release for #Diaphora, version 3.4.1.
https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/releases/tag/3.4.1

@… Yeah I see he updated 15.0 as well so I should probably upgrade… again. 😆
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/ChangeLog.txt…

Scientifically speaking, what’s the furthest you could be told to fuck right off? @… https://thereisno.computer/@yhancik/statuses/01KQY75332…

2026 ist schneller zuende als wir dachten!
https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt

@… Are any hosting providers in your hall of fame located in North America? Or do I have to click each one to try to figure it out? https://internet.nl/halloffame/hosters/

You Maniacs! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
<twitching ensues>

RE: https://chaos.social/@txt_file/116503781327794875
@…
NB the issue with FreeBSD-base (currently pinned at <

Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
2/2

Vidar Malware Conceals Payloads in JPEG, TXT Files to Evade Detection
Vidar has evolved from a basic Arkei-based credential stealer into a multi-stage, stealth-focused infostealer that now hides second‑stage payloads within JPEG and TXT files to evade modern defenses.
🔓 https://gbhackers.com/vidar-malware-co

I will also point out that, if you are accessing a system illegally then you have no recourse if someone exploits vulnerabilities in your scraping infrastructure via illegally exfiltrated data.
I do vulnerability research against AI systems for fun, and I use things like robots.txt as a warning. Fail to respect it at your own peril. You have been warned.

https://isitagentready.com/
“Is your site agent ready?”
Looks like I need to add some more to my robot.txt
https://contentsignals.org/

Have you heard the story of the Hell Cats?
In WWI, “Hell Cats” was a name for the first women who joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
They were trailblazers who served with determination and broke barriers before they even had the right to vote.
Now, I’m part of a group of Democratic women veterans who are running to flip red seats blue and win back the House together.
We’re calling ourselves “The Hell Cats” and Politico says we
“could be the answer to Democrats’ tr…

@DNSresolver
paris.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
#Gentoo

Lindsey Graham is getting chauffeured around in cars that cost more than most families make in a year.
-- I drive around town in a SUV that needs to be vacuumed and is full of kids’ sports equipment.
Lindsey Graham is eating fancy dinners with lobbyists and selling out our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-- I cook dinner for my three kids every night.
Lindsey Graham is a career politician and corporate sell out.
-- I’m a pediatrician who got mad enough to run b…

Yesterday I got an alert that my disk space on my Mastodon instance server was running out.
All the media seemed to suddenly be refreshed and at a very fast rate.
It took a while to figure out it was the Meta AI scraper hitting the instance quite a lot.
I finally managed to block it in Caddy abs and robots.txt together with some other AI scraper.
#mastodon

One thing I don't see anyone talking about that we probably should is the proliferation of captcha-busting anubis-busting browser-as-a-service services.
It's not that the big model companies are scraping the web and ignoring robots.txt. (Some are, almost certainly, but there are datasets to train on already and they're not scraping random sites so much)
It's that agent _users_ and the people serving them have a very large demand to access information with semi-automated systems. And they're building whole armies of ways around blocking.

Mein Dialog mit der KI:
Es ist nicht wirklich wichtig. aber ich wollte es verstehen. Ich verstehe es aber nicht.
07:52
Claude hat geantwortet:
Ich auch nicht — und das ist die ehrliche Antwort. Wir haben jeden Layer systematisch ausgeschlossen:
nginx ✅ identisch
Ghost ✅ identisch
Firewall ✅ kein IP-Blocking
robots.txt ✅ identisch
og:image Tags ✅ korrekt und abrufbar
Security-Header ✅ identisch
Ghost-Logs …

@… Chciałbym zobaczyć jak budujesz nowoczesną platforme ecommerce czy elerningową i sprzedajesz ją klientowi na zwykłym pliku txt ;)

Ja wiem, że swojego bloga, to i w gemini mogę pisać, ale reszta świata nie podziela tego minimalizmu.

¡Nueva edición de las Criptored Cyber Talks en la URJC Campus de Fuenlabrada el 18 septiembre!
https://www.criptored.es/criptoredtalks/
¿Quieres dar una charla? CFP abierto:

@DNSresolver
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

@DNSresolver
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT

Ich stelle gerade fest, dass es nicht mehr möglich ist, die RFCs als .txt-Datei aufzurufen/runterzuladen.
Aber erfreulicherweise habe ich bei meiner Linux-Distribution die RFC-Pakete (Stand 2023) entdeckt und gleich installiert. Da ist die Text-Form weiterhin enthalten.
Vor vielen Jahren gab es mal die Idee vom „digitalen Radiergummi im Netz“, aber wieder und wieder finde ich diese Idee blöd. Ich verstehe auch nicht, wie man hier im Fediverse eine Auto-Delete-Funktion nutzen kann. Das Netz löst sich sowieso stückweise von selber auf und man sollte froh über alles, was bleibt, sein.

It’s Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
AZ-06 is a dogfight we can’t afford to lose. That’s why I’m stepping up
to help
Jo Mendoza and her team launch Mendoza Victory fund
so she has the resources she needs to win.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a tight race.
Polling shows this race as a dead-heat again, but I know Jo is ready to step up and win in a race this close.
She’s a retired U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructor who served 3 combat tours in…

@…
montreal.now.weather.dyn.bortzmeyer.fr TXT